Syria in 2016 (April-June)

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BREAKING: US officials say agreement reached with Russia on extending Syria truce to Aleppo, although clashes persist.

BUT WAIT...how can this be when since the Feb 2016 agreements the CoH applied to all parts of Syria thus a ceasefire was actually supposedly in effect also for Aleppo...BUT then when Russia stated certain areas had an "extra regime of silence" from 24-72 hours suddenly Aleppo was "forgotten" then now we have Russia stating the 24 hour silence regime for Aleppo is off...BUT then today we have also a US statement stating it is on for the very first time.

Exactly what altered states of reality are the US and Russia in right now....??

Assad & #Putin game in #Aleppo : Launch sudden crushing attacks on rebels then propose cease fire when rebels begin counter attack

Already hearing calls from the recently revived Jaish al-Fath to ignore any ceasefire deals and continue fighting

Putin/#Assad killed around 300 civilians in #Aleppo in 2 weeks and #UN and western nations crying: "We need another non existing ceasefire"

PERFECT EXAMPLE of the Kerry failures in fully understanding the Russian negotiation tactics.....he urgently and badly "wants" to be seen as this great negotiator ego wise but in reality he is played time and time and time....

THIS are was suppose to be under the first ceasefire called a CoH, then excluded then included as the area of "regime of silence for 48 hours...BUT THEN this occurs which Kerry should now finally see is a failure of the Russians to hold to anything they state....

Just as they have utterly failed in implementing a single point of the 11 points of Minsk 2 and we are going into a full year on that agreement...

So when will Kerry finally admit he really is a poor negotiator????

Assad army air and artillery attacks on Khan Tuman and al-Eis villages south #Aleppo spite the 48 hrs ceasefire started this morning.

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The drone filming the #Aleppo tunnel bomb also had a close shave with a passing #IRAM

Night clashes with #ISIL outside Mare village north Aleppo -

Regime tried attacking near Handrat, Aleppo but were repelled losing 15 fighters

Many regime army soldiers killed by rebels in a failed attack on Dair al-Asafir #EastGhouta #Damascus

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Under the rubric of "to much vodka".....

MFA Russia
✔ ‎@mfa_russia #Lavrov: The actions of Turkey as the main instigator of “security zones” talks betray its expansionist motives not only as regards Syria


BUT WAIT...and the Russian military annexation of Crimea and their invasion of eastern Ukraine is under exactly what rubric????..."expansionist motives"....??

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CrowBat...something for you ...confirms your previous comments on the fact that the USAF is actually doing little to nothing in Turkey...definitively not attacking identified IS positions.....


Turkish Army: U.S refused to attack #ISIL positions targeting Turkey inside Syria

BUT WAIT did not the Us state there will be a HIMARS positioned along the Turkish border in May?????

Both a serious and at the same time interesting question..why are both the US and Putin so not wanting to attack IS in Syria???

It is like you must drag them into a fight with IS.....??

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IslamicState killed #SAA Brigade General Qusai Ibrahim at Shaer gas/oil fields NW of #Palmyra

Aleppo Kurdish #YPG forces shelling #Azaz with Anti-Aircraft guns last night

30 Alawite militiamen from Alzahra neighborhood in Homs have been killed in Shaer gas field clashes

The Still acts of theft and looting. Sustained by the elements #Assad and his militia in #Palmyra #Syria

FSA launched new assault on #IS-offshoots in south western #Daraa province https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83wxAIl6tdM …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=32...14907&z=14&m=b …

BREAKING: Syrian military confirms 48-hour cease-fire in northern city of Aleppo after U.S.-Russian agreement - AP

BUT WAIT Aleppo was suppose to be as well as the rest of Syria covered under the previous US/Russian cessation of hostilities agreement in Geneva 2??????

So why did not Assad and Putin hold to it?????

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CrowBat........any ideas as to this comment....??

Turkey unable/unwilling to stop daily rocket attacks by #IslamicState across #Syria'n boder on #Kilis town

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CrowBat...something for you ...confirms your previous comments on the fact that the USAF is actually doing little to nothing in Turkey...definitively not attacking identified IS positions.....

Col. Warren, spokesman for the CTJF-OIR, just explained that they have not provided 'technology to provide targets to the CTJF-OIR' to the insurgents in Azaz Pocket. His explanation are 'recent probelms between the rebels and the SDF in Northern Aleppo'.

Sorry, but BS reason: insurgents were there - and fighting Daesh - long before the USA moved the SDF from Ayn al-Arab/Kobane to Afrin enclave.

Overall, the CENTCOM is back to 'daily discussions on deconflicting airspace' (over Syria) with Russians, and that's it: Putler's heroes are free to keep on killing civilians and bombing the FSyA, just like the JAN is free to keep on growing and flourishing.

Everybody is free, just the Syrians - not.

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Totally under the rubric of "too much vodka"....

Moscow suggest that "Nusra" is the one who attacked the IDP camp in rural #Idlib killed 30 ppl 2 days ago.

BUT WAIT..the last time I checked neither Nusra/AQ, nor IS nor for that matter the FSA.......NONE of them have an AF......sure a couple of drones but nothing capable of dropping 250/500 lb bombs......

NICE Russian flown SU24 bombs an IDP camp with a precision air strike THEN "false flags" it as Nusra/AQ.....

AND outside of the initial US response nothing more was said was it.....

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Finally the USAF drops a bomb on an IS target in support of FSA.....

US-warplane took out #IS vehicle bomb before reach target near #Dudiyan in northern #Aleppo

Footage shows airstrike hitting Kamouna refugee camp as rescuers try to help survivors of previous attack.

MUST based on Moscow....MUST have been that Nusra/AQ AF again in action.......

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PERFECT EXAMPLE of the Kerry failures in fully understanding the Russian negotiation tactics.....he urgently and badly "wants" to be seen as this great negotiator ego wise but in reality he is played time and time and time....

THIS are was suppose to be under the first ceasefire called a CoH, then excluded then included as the area of "regime of silence for 48 hours...BUT THEN this occurs which Kerry should now finally see is a failure of the Russians to hold to anything they state....

Just as they have utterly failed in implementing a single point of the 11 points of Minsk 2 and we are going into a full year on that agreement...

So when will Kerry finally admit he really is a poor negotiator????

Assad army air and artillery attacks on Khan Tuman and al-Eis villages south #Aleppo spite the 48 hrs ceasefire started this morning.

BUT WAIT has not Kerry and the Russian FM announced the 24 hour so called ceasefire for Aleppo......

Seems to not be occurring BUT who would have thought otherwise....certainly not Kerry.....who is in it for the travel at taxpayers expense and the 5 star hotels and that is about it....

Assad regime helicopters have dropped several barrel bombs on outskirts of Tawman & southern al-Rashideen in Aleppo.


From what I see,rebels in #Aleppo have enough of the UN, Geneva 1,2,3, "cessation of hostilities" & "silence regimes"...
Fighting continues.

Assad never stopped his attacks.
They have been the stupids so many times by not launching preemptive offensives & so on.
Not this time.

HOW is it that a bunch of rebels fighting for the rule of law, transparency, and good governance dodging IS/YPG/Iranian ground attacks and Assad and Russian air strikes fully understands Assad and Putin's every move BUT the so call US Sec of State who is living in 5 star hotels and traveling at the US taxpayers expense SEEMS to be hard pressed to understand anything Putin says and or does BUT WAIT just maybe he and Obama actually do support the Russian foreign policy as something to emulate.....

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BUT WAIT....did not Russian verify to both the US and the UNSC that Assad regime was CW free....then just how does Putin explain this.....?????


Report that Assad regime used CWs against ISIS, likely Sarin. Would be first time Sarin was used since '13 massacre
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.717294 …

APPARENTLY Putin lied to both the US and the UNSC...but what the heck it is just IS....so that is OK....so the Russian lie does not count does it...???

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Footage
#Assad choppers over #Houla today
No attacks so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvFnwboKU2Q …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLA8VYj5aY …

Rebels lost Khirbat Tel Sha‘īr, Khalfatli, Baghidin, the gas plant, Qarah Mazr'ah, Qarah Kubri, Dalhah and Al-Mazra'ah as-Suda since yday.

Situation for rebels along the Syr-Tur border is catastrophic.
Map shows #ISIS gains during last 24 hours.

NOT a single effort by both Turkey and the US to assist FSA in pushing back against a strong IS counter offensive.....high number of IS targets are available BUT it appears that Turkey and especially the US is not interested in damaging IS....

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FSA D-30 artillery fire vs. #ISIS in S-W #Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf3AHk9ViS8 …

Rebel mortars and #Assad air strikes west of #Aleppo (picture).
Unclear if today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2wRLark-c …

#News
2 civ got killed by #Assad artillery while traveling in their car west of #Aleppo.
Happened 8 hrs after "regime of silence" started.


The inhabitants of #Kilis protest the #ISIS rocket attacks last night.
http://tv.sozcu.com.tr/2016/haber/vi...paign=tv_haber …

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Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
Re #pt: not exactly clear which Asala (Authenticity and Development Front) unit is operating in western Aleppo. Suggestions welcome.

Kyle W. Orton ‎@KyleWOrton
#Syria: Looks fairly clear now that the Jabhat al-Nusra-led offensive (under the Jaysh al-Fatah banner) is underway in southern #Aleppo.

Rebels piling on the Jaysh al-Fatah offensive: Asala attacking #Assad's forces in Zahra, Western Aleppo city.

Ajnad al-Sham (the Salafi Jaysh al-Fatah-north one, not the Sufi one in East Ghouta) confirms ops begun in S #Aleppo

Note: al-Qaeda built this power-base in southern Aleppo during #Russia's intervention, which bombed hospitals in the north instead.

Insurgents started on Khan Tuman, seems moderates pushing out from city as Nusra-led forces approach from the south.

Syria: Looks fairly clear now that the Jabhat al-Nusra-led offensive (under the Jaysh al-Fatah banner) is underway in southern #Aleppo.

Al-Qaeda appears to be beginning its offensive in southern #Aleppo. Jund al-Aqsa and #TIP (both dependent on AQ) have been seen moving in.

Jund al-Aqsa pops up again today -- in southern Aleppo

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How is it possible that Is fully understands exactly where to attack Assad and Putin in order to completely resupply themselves.....there is literally no need for IS for any outside resupply efforts.....they attack and simply rearm themselves via Assad when they need to......

JUST how is that possible....WITHOUT prior planning between the two????

al-Sha'er,IS claims to capture:
20 T55/T62s
9 122/130 howitzers
1 57mm AA
Konkurs/Kornet missiles and launchers
Lots of ammo/weapons

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BUT WAIT has not Kerry and the Russian FM announced the 24 hour so called ceasefire for Aleppo......

Seems to not be occurring BUT who would have thought otherwise....certainly not Kerry.....who is in it for the travel at taxpayers expense and the 5 star hotels and that is about it....

Assad regime helicopters have dropped several barrel bombs on outskirts of Tawman & southern al-Rashideen in Aleppo.


From what I see,rebels in #Aleppo have enough of the UN, Geneva 1,2,3, "cessation of hostilities" & "silence regimes"...
Fighting continues.

Assad never stopped his attacks.
They have been the stupids so many times by not launching preemptive offensives & so on.
Not this time.

HOW is it that a bunch of rebels fighting for the rule of law, transparency, and good governance dodging IS/YPG/Iranian ground attacks and Assad and Russian air strikes fully understands Assad and Putin's every move BUT the so call US Sec of State who is living in 5 star hotels and traveling at the US taxpayers expense SEEMS to be hard pressed to understand anything Putin says and or does BUT WAIT just maybe he and Obama actually do support the Russian foreign policy as something to emulate.....

Aleppo: #Assad regime attacking #Aleppo City with barrel bombs now.

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Ajnad al-Sham artillery "before the battle" today -- note the nasty sky
http://www.mgm.gov.tr/en-us/forecast-sds.aspx …