CrowBat.....is it not strange that while social media and key ME specialists who are on social media get the total demise of the SAA since late 2012 western MSM and Obama/Kerry seem to have missed it....
100% of pro-Regime forces killed yesterday near #Al_Eis & documented are foreign fighters: 7 Iraqi, 4 Iranians & 1 Hazara. S. #Aleppo.
BUT then Obama and Kerry push the Iran Deal and then Kerry now in the ME after meeting with Bahrain leaders says "we need to push back on Iran"....it is almost like they are trying to match the Putin "altered state of reality"....OR simply going through the motions to make it appear they are concerned before exiting the WH....
One must truly ask "what planet does Kerry reside on these days"?????
"Good faith"..come on Assad has never been about "good faith" since he took power and helped setup IS.
Even with a CoH Assad completely violated it and WHAT about all that humanitarian aid Kwerry stated at a press conference was going to be immediately delivered....absolutely nothing, nada, zip........
U.S. Embassy Syria Verified account
@USEmbassySyria
.@JohnKerry: The key now will be whether or not Assad is capable of negotiating in good faith, & we have to put that to the test.
REMEMBER Kerry almost used the same exact words after the next to last visit with Putin and his FM......"with some good faith and intent" we might be able to rescind the sanctions against Russia.....
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FSA continues moving forward with their operations.....
@Nrg8000 now ~50km to reach Jarabulus at Euphrates river -then the #IslamicState lost all contact to #Turkey border- but #YPG not happy
50 km but very sparsely populated. No big village btwn Al-Rai and Jarablus, Ghandurah is the biggest but is small
Worth to note that #YPG/#SDF seized Kafr Nasih from Rebels (in February) bordering with #ISIS & didn't attack IS...not a single time did they attack IS...BUT FSA..a total different story.
From a proRussian commenter:
Alexey Khlebnikov
@AleksKhlebnikov
#Russia's MoD reports over 1,000 JAN militants w/7 tanks & 24 armored pickups concentrated in areas north from #Aleppo.Escalation on the way
Alexey Khlebnikov @AleksKhlebnikov
JAN is likely preparing a large-scale offensive in #Aleppo. Number of militants coming there is increasing in recent days,says #Russia's MoD
Alexey Khlebnikov @AleksKhlebnikov
MoD says JAN militants r concentrating in Muheim Handrat, Jandul, Hraitan & Kafr Hamra (to the north from Aleppo)
Alexey Khlebnikov @AleksKhlebnikov
Apr.11: #SyriaTalks to resume
Apr.14: #Syria Parl elections planned
Now: Escalation in #Aleppo-JAN attacks, escalation near Damascus-#ISIS
How in the heck are Parliament elections to occur??????
Charles Lister
@Charles_Lister
Jabhat al-Nusra has *0* presence in N. #Aleppo, so it looks like #Russia is boldly lying & looking for escalation:
After reports #RuAF backed #YPG in #SheikhMaqsood past days vs Rebels, here's the pretext to back #YPG near #Azaz.
FSA take control of #Tasil town in western #Daraa after #IS-offshoots fled
Rebels storming now #Tasil town in western #Daraa to expell #IS-offshhots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43r...ature=youtu.be …
Innovation/adaption..."the mother of invention" hard at work.......wonder just how many more "SAA" actual Syrians will "jump ship" from Assad......
Syria At the moment rebels help #Assad-forces to survive east of #Damascus after #IS stormed the area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33...43839&z=11&m=b …
Hm... please, don't get me wrong now: I certainly do not intend to brag; and, there's no doubt, I do not follow any of 'key ME specialists' on the social media... so feel free to correct me and call me biased too (which I surely am). But, I do not know anybody who is following relevant developments with sufficient care.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Back in 2013 or so, there was one gent (or was it a lady... can't recall any more) on the ISW, who offered some clues in regards of direction in which Assad's military is developing (something like, 'from military to militias'). 'Haven't seen anything even roughly similar published ever since. At least not by anybody else (except in Syrian Conflagration).
But then, nobody else attempted to find out exact extension of defections from the SAA either and thus the legend is still that 'there were not many defections' - although this is simply bollocks.
Unsurprisingly, the situation in regards of monitoring of IRGC's involvement can only be described as 'tragic': except for one article on Soleimani from back in early 2014, and my book, I do not know any other source detailling this to anything like similar levels (see: organization of the entire 'business', involved commanders, units, decision-making processes and reasoning, outcomes of various battles, lessons learned etc.)
Now, I assume - or at least I very much hope - US, British, French, Israeli intel services (for example) have a much better total view of the situation. But, something tells me this is not the case: unless there would be a clear... 'incentive' (?) to find out (like, say, Oblabla or Plapp...erm...Cameron ordering their services to find out - but why should they do that if they're not interested in getting involved?).... there's simply no reason for them to work on this topic.
(And, hand on heart: 'penetrating' the IRGC is not really that problematic - if for no other reason then because they are so eager to brag about their achievements. But, it takes years of experience - otherwise one ends having plenty of sources each of which is feeding bits only, and the total sum of these tends to reimnd one of certain surrealist paintings...)
Anyway... I'm definitely bamboozled by Israeli silence in regards of all of this: it's as if they are keen to get themselves entirely new quality of an 'existential threat'.
Cited in part (rest is above):CrowBat...maybe it was the 6B a year that Obama promised for the Iran Deal and the Iron Dome/David Sling AD systems that the US also paid for....
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US shipped 3,000+ tons of weapons from #Bulgaria to #FSA rebels in #Syria since November 2015.
Michael Weiss
✔ @michaeldweiss Interesting. Rebels were always a bit "meh" about the TOW but raved about the Fagot:
http://www.janes.com/article/59374/u...E0TX6g.twitter …
Reports of a huge explosion in the Port of #Latakia 1 hour ago, smoke still rising.
Panama Papers could help Syrian opposition go after Assad's wealth
http://bv.ms/1Nbi2ph
All across #Syria, protests against extremists (#Assad, #ISIS, #Nusra) also this Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUiUcM5z-Hw …
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Russian air force strikes on the last access area to #Aleppo city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hFiaqi2VO0 …
Saraqib in #Idlib: The #RussianArmy stopped their "ISIS-only" weeks and now hits rebel-held cities again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XubIvh7oII …
Syrian rebels have now DOUBLED their territory north of #Aleppo since the start of the "ceasefire" Feb 27.
While Russia announced a major withdrawal in Syria, the opposite appears to have taken place
http://aje.io/zuam
German MSM BILd Editor in Chief is now in the field with FSA inside Syrian..virtually the only MSM reporter to venture into FSA zones and the fighting.....
Claas Weinmann
@Claas_Weinmann
Proud to have an E-i-C who still loves being in the field. @jreichelt reports from #Syria:
https://www.facebook.com/julian.reic...3384545242016/ …
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Damascus After regimeTV #SANA claim all 300 workers of Badia cement factory dead- #IS released them
Rebels captured #Afgan milita from #Shiite Qdus Brigade in #Handarat.
FSA costs #ISIL great losses on international #Damascus-#Baghdad highway
#RFS correspondent: Ahmad Zakariya
https://rfsmediaoffice.com/en/2016/0.../#.Vwea2xN969Y …
Rebels claim destroyed regime tank with TOW in #Aleppo's northern Handarat
Rebels regain control of entire factories area in northern Handarat after battles with #Assad-forces
6 airstrikes on #Damascus' Dumayr suburb- #IS still try to storm rebel held town & regime airbase http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33...07211&z=14&m=b …
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CrowBat.....something up your area..........
So at least 3 Mi-28s, 4 Ka-52s and 3 Mi-24/35s at Shayrat airbase via @JeremyBinnie
Aleppo #IS bring reinforcements to villages south of al-Rai to counter #FSA
Aleppo #FSA move into Ka'ibah south of al-Rai
& clashes with #IS in this area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...17631&z=14&m=b …
Hawar Kilis Operation has taken Kaeebeh,beginning its south advance on Al-Bab,and Outflanking ISIS at Sawran and Dabiq
Russia'n general declare airstrike support for kurdish #YPG militia in northern #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUIF3ltOl08 …
AND naturally he is stating it is JaN....
Kurds, rebels in rat race to seize #ISIS territory
http://mme.cm/N5AW00 via @NOW_eng
AhrarSham & #FSA have reversed all of Liwa Shuhada Yarmouk's recent gains in SW #Daraa countryside
Total recall: #Hezbollah may well want what #Syria had in #Lebanon
http://mme.cm/K5AW00 via @NOW_eng
Rebels convoys now #Tasil town in western #Daraa after #IS-offshoots fled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGEFZS-xNx8 …
Jabhat al-Nusra handed over regime Su-22 pilot to Ahrar al-Sham after confirmed the warplane downed with MANPAD.
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CrowBat.........
Hama Defection of #Assad-forces near Kafr Nabudah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRkIMVvS1uk …
Highly reliable source confirms this suicide operation in Damascus province, killing around 50 regime soldiers Was executed by Dutch IS-fighter Abū Mujāhid al-Hūlandī, aka Anis Zerguit, brother of the killed Soufyan aka FightingJournalist, who was Killed in the battle of Koban late 2014. Another killed Dutch IS-fighter, leaving behind 3 spouses
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister
Wow.
US citizen Kevin Dawes has been released in #Syria [by #Assad regime], held since '12
http://wpo.st/w34T1
Assad trying to now "play nice" so the US will work with him?????
Russia arrests U.S. citizen in #Syria, takes him to #Russia - is #Syria formally a Russian colony now?
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/718494962338435072 …
BREAKING: Russian Foreign Ministry says U.S. citizen was arrested in Syria for illegal entry and other breaches of law
MORE: U.S. citizen freed in Syria has been taken to Moscow, handed to U.S. embassy and has left Russia: Russian Foreign Ministry
Not a spy @finriswolf
One of #KevinDawes conversations with me on the risk of capture in #Syria before his eventual capture
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Issam Al Reis @south_front_sy
Following advances yesterday #FSA #Southern_Front also fully liberated the town of Tseel today in south west #Daraa from #Daesh affiliates
Mar 23: Coalition strike on ISIS vehicle near Kabibah Oil Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkgRft0xAQ4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...7414&z=19&m=bh …
There goes Sykes-Picot: a coalition airstrike in Iraq labelled by @CJTFOIR as "near Al Hawl, Syria"
Situation in North Aleppo. All Handarat points rebel controlled have been regained
YPG Kurdish militia playing a very dangerous game in co with Russia/Assad in Aleppo. This will not end well for them
Fighter of kurdish well equipped #FSA brigade in northern #Aleppo:
"I will fight against #YPG"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PO8-xVb2pM …
Rebels captured #Isis member in #alRai,he was hungry, injured and even asked for cigarettes 😂
#ALeppo cs #Syria APR7
Aftermath several airstrikes on #Altareb, destroying what left of civilian houses & School
#Aleppo cs #Syria APR 8
Rebels destroyed #SAA terrorists a cannon 23' in #Tel_Mayasat moments ago
#Aleppo cs #Syria APRIL 8
MASSACRE; 3Martyrs including a child & several wounded victims of Airstrikes on #alSheikh_Ahmed & #alTalihy villages
#Idlib cs #Syria APRIL8
Rebels just destroyed #SAA terrorists Rocket Launcher at #Nayrab airbase, was targeting Rebels at #Handarat fronts
#Aleppo cs #Syria APRIL 8
SAA terrorists dropped barrel bombs over #alHamidiyah neighborhood, this time ASSad genocidal barrels didn't explode
#DeirEzzor #Syria APR8
Martyrs and several wounded including children, victims of #SAA terrorists barrel bombs over #alTakeiyah Street
#DeirEzzor #Syria APRIL 8
Several airstrikes targeted #alSanae neighborhood
#DeirEzzor #Syria APRIL 8
SAA helicopters dropped barrel bombs over #alQiyasat village - #Ariha, minutes ago
#Idlib cs #Syria APRIL 8
SAA terrorists positioned at #Turkmen_mount #Latakia, fired #RUSSIA balistic missiles targeting #Jisr_alShghour
#Idlib cs #Syria APRIL 8
SAA terrorists helicopters dropped barrel bombs over #Handarat .
#Aleppo cs #Syria APRIL 8
SAA terrorists dropped barrel bombs over #Deir_Foul moments ago
#Homs cs #Syria APRIL 8
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