If the YPG had fought Assad, Iran, Russia, NDF, Hezbollah for 5yrs, they’d appear as-difficult-to-justify an investment as the FSA.
Syria’s mainstream opposition is undoubtedly a complex movement, but to deny their capabilities over 5yrs of conflict is just naïve.
Backing the FSA vs. terrorism in Syria brings short-term risks.
Backing the YPG vs. terrorism brings serious long-term risks.
Syria-based filmmaker targeted in drone strike (in S. #Aleppo)?
He's worked for several major Western news orgs.
SO who fired at him and is using drones in Syria??????
"Did Jabhat al-Nusra assassinate #Syria activist Khaled al-Issa?”
[Many Syrians think so…]
http://mme.cm/9EBW00
US filmmaker @BilalKareem has been targeted x4 times in 3wks in N. #Syria.
He’s worked for CNN, BBC, ITV & more.
http://cage.ngo/press-release/cage-d...list-in-syria/ …
Despite #Nasrallah speech, #Hezbollah sources *allegedly* claim troops are resisting expansion of #Aleppo battle:
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister
I'm told - though can't confirm - #Hezbollah has refused to expand deployment to #Aleppo city after insisting it cannot be fully recaptured.
CIA
@CIA
CIA director says Iran must do more in fight against ISIS
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cia-d...in_fcc.twitter …
via @NewsHour
Kyle W. Orton @KyleWOrton
"I have a dream"
BUT WAIT...Kerry stated Iran has been helpful in many ways.......
didn't even caveat with "except for torture + sectarian expulsion"
Drone #footage
#Kinsabba after its capture by Syrian rebels from pro-#Assad regime forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix74F1394BI …
What the heck is this....??
After Rebels repelled pro-Regime offensive in #Khaldiya, reports that #YPG is now simultaneously attacking Rebels there w/ Regime, #Aleppo.
For the second time this week, regime forces fails to advance in Bani Zeid neighborhood and suffer heavy casualties. #Aleppo
In 1 week Jaish Islam claimed downed in E. #Damascus:
- 1 helicopter (hit)
- 1 Mig-29 (no visual proof)
- 1 Mig-23
Yarmouk Battle: Jaish Fateh took strategic Kinsabba (lost mid. Feb.) & surroundings, seized 6 tanks/BMP. N. #Latakia
JaishIslam has reportedly shot down an #SyAAF Su-22 over Jayroud in #Damascus countryside then they said MiG23
SyAAF Maj. Noures Hassan who ejected from the jet was captured acc to Opp sources
Some are saying it was a possible MiG21...still unconfirmed as to what type was shot down....
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Frontline verification south of #Kinsabba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNiON60UGw …
Arms arms arms - Ahrar al-Sham with regime and its allies booty in #Kinsabba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-jgual26Lk …
UP to 6 tanks and or BMPs were captured intact.......
Rebels where the #RussianArmy and #Assad's troops toured #Kinsabba w/ journalists on the 1st of March.
Rebels captured multiple weapons in #Kinsabba.
Imo JaF offered ard 80% of the ground troops.
Other groups supported.
Syrian rebels captured five locations in #Latakia prov. incl. the strategically important town of #Kinsabba
BIG #NEWS
A Syrian rebel coalition has recaptured the town of #Kinsabba overnight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQX6D-9JIo …
The #FSA hit a pro-#Assad position in southern #Aleppo with the "Fagot" ATGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImgzQZOTw2s …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 11:02 AM.
Can anymore crazy statements like this come out of the Obama/Rhodes WH...
First they cannot determine who has been conducting precision night time air strikes on Syrian hospitals when only the US coalition and the Russian AF has the ability..SO was the US by accident if not the Russians... someone in the Obama WH is playing cover up.....WHY??????
NOW this....come on US MSM just how much more lying by the Obama Wh and DoD will you allow..there are tens of cluster munition and incendiary munition attacks on Syrian civilians both day and night time COMPLETE with Russian Today info war video footage and tens of dud Russian cluster and incendiary sub munitions.....
AND yet this...can anyone in their right mind explain this??????
State Department spox:"United States is not in a position to confirm the allegations by Syrian opposition of Russia using cluster munitions"
BUT WAIT they do know BUT are unwilling to call Russian use out in the UNSC...wonder WHY?????Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
State Department spox: "Russia and Assad need to be more careful about distinguishing between terrorists, civilians and parties to the CoH."
Jaish al Islam in battle against Daesh in eastern Qalamoun
https://youtu.be/5emiJiFLVKs
Footage of #FSA Central Division after took over Kinsabba in #Latakia mountains & their booty
https://youtu.be/SvhzEBVmLck
The "Fagot Program", parallel to #TOW, started in January. ~8% known stockpiles fired so far by Rebels (an increase)
Main targets (83x Regime, 5x #ISIS & 1x #YPG/#SDF) are armor (24%), machine guns (26%) & infantry (16%).
Rebels fired at least 89 #ATGM in June (+33%), mainly in #Aleppo province (76%)
Jaish Al-Fateh defeated in #Kinsabba Sahel factions, highly motivated militias linked to Assad personality cult.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 11:17 AM.
18 civilians killed including (7children & 4women) after SSM's targeted civilian homes in Otaya-DamascusCountryside.
Russian extremists are flocking in their thousands to join ISIS
http://dailym.ai/29ab1gV
Footage: why #Kinsabba is important to secure Rebel locations on N. & E. flanks, N. #Latakia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmXGusfMTw …
"al-Masdar news quoted army commander as saying: "Areas seized...by militants are empty and eventually has no strategic significance." THEN why did they fight so hard to keep this empty space?????
Footage
"Ground to ground" missile hits #Huraytan, north of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI3VV_pHVw …
Jaish al-Islam now says,it downed the jet,which was a Sukhoi Su-22.
Guess,the #Gecko was back in action!
Meaning s.o. supplies them w/ ammo.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 12:50 PM.
Istanbul airport bombers were ...
http://reut.rs/296uhrO .
Worth reading @LaurinaviciusM on FSB/GRU links to ISIS
http://academia.edu/11302740/Do_tr …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 04:43 PM.
Comment from a proAssad pro Putin supporter....
JN #AQ and allies managed to recover in less than a day what #Russia and allies struggle to recover in months.
And delivering on mosques & civilians around #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xDcOVy2aGw …
50+ strikes PER DAY
BREAKING PHOTO: Official spokesperson for Jaysh al-Islam posts a photo of the Syrian pilot they captured, executed.
MORE: They say that the pilot was executed by Jabhat al-Nusra and not by Jaish al-Islam.
Assad air forces basically a 'criminal enterprise' and his pilots are nothing but war criminals.
http://sabahdai.ly/ZXHDqs
Suspected #Russian Su-24 over #Idlib on its way to bomb #Aleppo province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2mtQz46bvw …
Rare clear #footage of bomb (type), dropped on #Huraytan north of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5vwngcF0no …
Another captured arms storage in the city with 3 BMP-1, not seen before.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 05:02 PM.
Assad accuses the West for having double morals: publicly blaming him while cutting deals behind closed doors
Assad states that the West is secretly cooperating with him against rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mi...-idUSKCN0ZG28G …
Confirming what we all already knew.
Daraya today.
Never-ending #terror by #Assad vs. the civilian population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afISzqZFVjo …
Death toll is now 25 civilians killed in Assad airforce attacks on Tariq al-Bab area east #Aleppo.
Opposition factions advancing again in North #Latakia and took control of Wadi Basour, Qarmil and Ayn Ghazal villages.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-01-2016 at 05:37 PM.
25+ dead after airstrikes on market in #Aleppo' s
Helwaniyah district
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...97990&z=16&m=b …
Aleppo Gathering of Al Quds brigade in Baath Center of Nayrab Palestinian Camp
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...21100&z=17&m=b …
http://www.dailysabah.com/syrian-cri...-us-envoy-says
Syria's Assad air forces basically a 'criminal enterprise', US envoy says
Syria's Bashar al-Assad air force is a 'criminal enterprise' that attacks Syrian civilians, President Barack Obama's envoy to the anti-Daesh coalition charged Tuesday.
"The regime air force, as far as we can tell, is basically a criminal enterprise dropping barrel bombs and attacking civilians under the pretext of attacking Nusra," Brett McGurk said during congressional testimony referring to the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
"So long as this is going on it's a petri dish for extremist organizations," he added during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing.
The U.S. has been trying to buoy a fragile cessation of hostilities agreement that was brokered in February. Under the accord, Syria's warring parties are to refrain from military action, but Nusra and Daesh are excluded from its protections.
Assad and his principal military ally, Russia, have maintained that their efforts are targeting terrorists, including Nusra and the groups that work with it.
But critics, including the U.S., have alleged that the real targets are Syrian rebels fighting Assad's forces.
McGurk added that Iran has recently surpassed Russia in its influence with the Syrian government, and questioned whether Moscow has a long-term strategy for the war-stricken country.
"I frankly don't think they [Russia] have one," he said. "They came in to try to bulk up the Assad regime, and then I thought they could find the glide-path out of Syria, but that's really not proven to be the case."
McGurk maintained that the only way to end the conflict is to achieve a political transition.
But Russian and Iranian battlefield support for Assad has strengthened his hand at the negotiating table, complicating diplomatic efforts to see him removed from power.
The U.S. is leading more than 60 nations in an international campaign to defeat Daesh in Iraq and Syria.
In Syria, an ongoing offensive to retake the strategic city of Manbij, which the coalition is supporting with airpower and advisors, is intended to isolate Daesh's self-proclaimed Syrian capital, Raqqa, McGurk said.
"The Manbij operation is going on right now. It's hard fighting," he said. "Once that is done that sets the conditions for Raqqa."
Yarmouk Battle: more spoils from #Kinsabba: 3 BMPs, ammo, ATGM, rocket launcher... #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7ksibMxqs …
Sahel factions: pro-Assad highly motivated but ignorant of who they fight (captured told "I love Baghdadi") #Latakia
Reports more locations falling into Jaish Al-Fateh hands after #Kinsabba's seizure, esp. S. & along M-4. N. #Latakia
Opposition factions advancing again in North #Latakia and took control of Wadi Basour, Qarmil and Ayn Ghazal villages.
Jaish al-Islam interview regime army Su22 pilot crashed in East Qalamoun.
https://youtu.be/jPNsqctYLqY
Thwart al-Reqqa Brigade part of SDF claim discovered 800 meter #IS tunnel under grain silos in Manbij
Does the Obama/Rhodes WH really know what they are doing at all any more???? Or in the drive to achieve some kind of peace in Syria for his legacy they have simply lost their minds along the way......
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d=ss_tw-bottom
U.S. offers to share Syria intelligence on terrorists with Russia
By Karen DeYoung June 30 at 6:48 PM
The Obama administration has offered to help Russia improve its targeting of terrorist groups in Syria if Moscow will stop bombing civilians and opposition fighters who have signed on to a cease-fire and use its influence to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to do the same.
The offer early this week of what one administration official called “enhanced information sharing” does not include joint military planning, targeting or coordination with U.S. airstrikes or other operations in Syria.
But it would expand cooperation beyond the “deconfliction” talks the U.S. and Russian militaries began last year to ensure their planes do not run into each other in Syria’s increasingly crowded airspace.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, who has long opposed any additional cooperation, said Thursday that if Russia would “do the right thing in Syria — that’s an important condition — as in all cases with Russia, we’re willing to work with them.”
“The Russians got off on the wrong foot in Syria,” Carter said. The stated purpose of airstrikes Russia began last fall was “to fight ISIL and . . . assist the political transition in Syria towards a post-Assad government.”
“They haven’t done either of those things,” he said. ISIL, along with ISIS and Daesh, is an alternative term for the Islamic State.
Senior administration officials declined to discuss details of the proposal, saying that publicizing the content of diplomatic talks would undermine their possible success.
“We’ve made no bones about the fact that if the Russians, with their military presence in Syria, proved to be willing to focus those efforts against Daesh, then that’s a conversation we would be willing to have,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
“There have been proposals offered by multiple parties,” he said. “We’re certainly not going to start laying those out publicly.”
The United States and Russia, while backing opposing sides in Syria’s civil war, co-chair an international task force that agreed early this year — along with Assad and the opposition — to support a “cessation of hostilities” and begin negotiations for a political solution that would allow the international community to turn its full attention to the fight against the Islamic State.
More than 400,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which has also displaced half the population, with millions fleeing to neighboring countries and beyond.
The Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, are not parties to the truce. The administration has charged that Russia and Assad’s forces have violated it by continuing to launch airstrikes and other attacks on the anti-Assad opposition and civilians, under the guise of targeting the terrorist groups.
“What has prevented us from being able to more effectively coordinate militarily is that what the Russians have been militarily doing is propping up Assad and not going after ISIL,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Russia has defended its actions, and those of Assad, by saying that U.S.-backed opposition fighters are interwoven with Jabhat al-Nusra forces, especially around the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.
While violations of the truce have escalated throughout Syria’s populated western third, Aleppo has become the epicenter of fighting. Jabhat al-Nusra forces are principally massed to the south of the city. While the administration has acknowledged some overlap in opposition-held areas to the north, officials charge that Russia’s principal interest in bombing there is to help Assad’s forces close rebel and humanitarian supply lines across the nearby Turkish border.
The advance of Islamic State fighters to areas close to Aleppo and other populated areas has also brought U.S. and Russian aircraft into closer proximity over the complicated Syrian battlefield. The Islamic State has rarely clashed with Assad.
In early May, as the cease-fire and U.N.-shepherded peace talks headed toward collapse, Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to send senior military officers to “sit at the same table” in Geneva, where they set up a center to monitor violations.
Weeks later Russia — which has long sought more coordination with the West in Syria — proposed joint airstrikes against Jabhat-al-Nusra with the U.S.-led coalition that is bombing Islamic State positions.
Although U.S. officials were dismissive, the proposal unsettled U.S.-backed opposition representatives, who feared a backroom U.S.-Russia deal. They have said they will not return to the negotiating table until the violence abates.
Kerry and other U.S. officials have remained in close contact with their Russian counterparts, trying out a series of possible initiatives to revitalize the cease-fire, including the new offer of increased intelligence sharing on terrorist positions. Kerry is “fixated” on the Syria issue, “and he will stay so,” Kirby said.
Kerry has long advocated a more robust U.S. strategy to help the anti-Assad opposition, including additional weapons systems and the possible bombing of Assad’s military assets. Internal unhappiness with the current strategy, and the humanitarian disaster the war has brought to Syria, led 51 U.S. diplomats last month to write an internal “dissent channel” appeal for U.S. military action.
While President Obama has steadily increased U.S. attacks against the Islamic State in Syria, he has rejected entreaties for more direct involvement in the civil war, saying that he does not see how it would improve the situation.
But Obama has blessed efforts to persuade Russia to change its policies, including the intelligence offer.
Administration officials believe that the Russians have no deep attachment to Assad himself but fear his removal would spark a collapse of Syrian institutions and allow terrorist expansion — something the Obama administration has said will happen if Assad remains.
In an address Thursday to Russian ambassadors gathered in Moscow from across the world, President Vladi#mir Putin said that he was “prepared to work with any future president” and was interested in closer cooperation with the United States in international affairs.
“However, we consider unacceptable the approach on the part of the American establishment, which believes that they can decide in what issues they will cooperate with us,” Putin said.
Iranian 107mm rockets seized from Assad's loyalists in #Latakia #Syria
Russian Air Force back in action in Latakia after Syrian rebels advance. Turkey-Russia ties not totally thawed yet https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...urkish-border/ …
15 years old Gholam A. Amiri, Afghan immigrant living in Iran and Fatemiyojn Div. fighter, killed in combat in Syria.http://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/11421...B1%DA%86%DA%A9 …
US DoD's train & equip program in #Syria: trained 100 since Jan, not able to fight SAA
http://wpo.st/1_mj1
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