Death toll rises to 4 martyrs, including a child, several wounded victims of #RUSSIA airstrikes on #alHass village
#IDLIB CS #SYRIA APRIL 9
Ever wondered how a child feels when forced to flee home? This is Mustafa’s story SYRIA
https://amp.twimg.com/v/e83b07c6-41d...3-7f31278bc99e … …
SAA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #alSOKHNA town
#HOMS cs #SYRIA APRIL 9
SAA terrorists shelling with Tanks targeted #alSALOR village of #TURKMEN_MOUNT
#LATAKIA cs #SYRIA APRIL 9
REBELS captured a number of "leftovers" of #ISIS hidden nearby #KIHEEL town
#DARAA cs #SYRIA APRIL 9
Heavy clashes now between #REBELS & #SAA terrorists in BALLA fronts
#DAMASCUS CS #SYRIA APRIL 9
RUSSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #KANSAFRA village of #ARIHA
#IDLIB CS #SYRIA APRIL 9
RUSSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #KAFR_OWEiD village of #MAARAT_alNOUMAN
#IDLIB CS #SYRIA APRIL 9
6 Children,1woman killed & several wounded victims of #ISIS landmine explosion in #Darb_alHassan village of #Tel_Abyad
#Raqqa #Syria APRIL 9
SSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Kafranbel
#IDLIB cs #SYRIA APRIL 9
4 airstrikes so far targeting #alHass village, casualties reported
#Idlib cs #Syria APRIL 9
This is something the Assad shia mercenary army does not do with their POWs which are largely tortured and killed immediately...........
Allegedly the captured ISIS militant in Al Rai requested a cigarette from FSA and got it. Surreal.
Was actually video recorded....
Yup, there are first videos/photos of them around the internet too.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Actually, four days ago (5 April), the YPG in Sheikh Maqssood District (northern Aleppo City), and the PFLP-GC's Liwa al-Qods (they consider themselves 'commandos') attempted a simultaneous attack on Castello Road. Mind: the YPG is no part of the UN-negotiated cease-fire, but it had a cease-fire agreement with Fateh Halab (Aleppo Operations Room) - a coalition of FSyA and AAS units holding eastern and southern Aleppo City. This was stipulating that Kurds would stop attacking Castello Road - the last supply line for insurgent-held eastern and southern Aleppo City.Aleppo Rebels regain control of entire factories area in northern Handarat after battles with #Assad-forces
After backing with artillery #YPG attempts to cut Castillo Road in #Aleppo, pro-Regime forces tried today to reach it from North (#Handarat)
Palestinians attacked Hindarat Camps (Palestinian refugee camps, held by the FSyA) on the northern side of the road, Kurds the southern side. This attack - apparently the first-ever assault by the PFLP-GC on any FSyA-held positions (so far they always fought the Daesh in central Syria, usually acting as a 'tail' of the BPM's Tiger Force) - was beaten back with quite serious loss. Worse yet, it seems the FSyA then launched a counterattack that collapsed PFLP-GC's positions in Hindarat and gained quite a lots of ground.
The YPG didn't fare any better. Suqour al-Jabal FSyA TOWed four of their technicals plus a 107mm recoilless rifle. Meanwhile, infantry of the Ahrar ash-Sham, the Levant Front, Northern Division FSyA (the latter is including the Sultan Murad Brigade, Sultan Fatih Group, Fastaqam Kama Umrit Brigade, 13th Brigade, 116th Brigade and 1st Regiment), Noureddin az-Zenghi Movement, and Abu Amrah Brigades - advanced deep into Sheikh Maqsood District, supported by at least one T-72AV and one BMP-1. Under this pressure, Kurds then began crying about civilian casualties, about attacks with chemical weapons, and that they are 'fighting al-Qaida' (aka JAN) - although no CWs were used against them, and there is absolutely no JAN in that part of Syria.
Finally, when one of Ahrar's COs ordered his BM-21 battery to plaster Sheikh Maqsood, he was publicly reprimanded by Aloush, who prohibited the use of such weapons against build-up areas full of civilians.
The RT then jumped the train by declaring that Aloush - though his intervention against the use of BM-21s - actually prohibited the use of chemical weapons against Kurds...
PRBS-warfare of the finest.
Anyway, Russians eventually appeared on the scene: during the night from 7 to 8 April, they flew about a dozen of air strikes on Castello Road (note: VKS is now operating exclusively over the night - at least over the Aleppo-Idlib-enclaves held by FSyA and Ahrar, because of the MANPAD threat). These hit nothing at all (at least none of their intended targets: they might have killed a few Kurds though), but they did have the effect of forcing insurgents to disperse and stop their assault on Sheik Maqsood. Six other strikes were 'much more effective': they killed about a dozen of civilians in Atarib (3 times) and Sarqib (3 times), both of which are held by insurgents...
And overall, this Russian intervention came much too late: not only is the YPG's position in Sheikh Maqsood much weakened, but the Castello Road is safe again.
That aside, their air strikes are a blatant breach of cease-fire: insurgents were not fighting the regime' (say: NDF, of which there is none in this part of Syria, if at all), but the YPG (which is no part of the cease-fire), and the PFLP-GC (which is an IRGC-surrogate, and no part of the cease-fire either).
Of course, I doubt anybody is going to complain...
An extremely dangerous development which is also being recreated in the ME as well by Russia...these Russian A2/AD bubbles are so designed to greatly restrict NATO air movements including inside NATO air space.....
Looks like Baltic encirclement of Russian A2/AD draws near completion
https://twitter.com/joergforbrig/sta...86303497932800 …
Interestingly Russia info war propaganda media Sputnik International carried this FSA interview.....a not so subtle signal maybe towards Assad?????/
Turkmen Leader Tells Sputnik Why Capture of Daesh-Held Border Town Matters: The Free Syrian Army won back the ...
http://bit.ly/1SlOSoZ
CrowBat...if and when you have time and could find a video of them...would be much appreciated.........Yup, there are first videos/photos of them around the internet too.
Actually, four days ago (5 April), the YPG in Sheikh Maqssood District (northern Aleppo City), and the PFLP-GC's Liwa al-Qods (they consider themselves 'commandos') attempted a simultaneous attack on Castello Road. Mind: the YPG is no part of the UN-negotiated cease-fire, but it had a cease-fire agreement with Fateh Halab (Aleppo Operations Room) - a coalition of FSyA and AAS units holding eastern and southern Aleppo City. This was stipulating that Kurds would stop attacking Castello Road - the last supply line for insurgent-held eastern and southern Aleppo City.
Palestinians attacked Hindarat Camps (Palestinian refugee camps, held by the FSyA) on the northern side of the road, Kurds the southern side. This attack - apparently the first-ever assault by the PFLP-GC on any FSyA-held positions (so far they always fought the Daesh in central Syria, usually acting as a 'tail' of the BPM's Tiger Force) - was beaten back with quite serious loss. Worse yet, it seems the FSyA then launched a counterattack that collapsed PFLP-GC's positions in Hindarat and gained quite a lots of ground.
The YPG didn't fare any better. Suqour al-Jabal FSyA TOWed four of their technicals plus a 107mm recoilless rifle. Meanwhile, infantry of the Ahrar ash-Sham, the Levant Front, Northern Division FSyA (the latter is including the Sultan Murad Brigade, Sultan Fatih Group, Fastaqam Kama Umrit Brigade, 13th Brigade, 116th Brigade and 1st Regiment), Noureddin az-Zenghi Movement, and Abu Amrah Brigades - advanced deep into Sheikh Maqsood District, supported by at least one T-72AV and one BMP-1. Under this pressure, Kurds then began crying about civilian casualties, about attacks with chemical weapons, and that they are 'fighting al-Qaida' (aka JAN) - although no CWs were used against them, and there is absolutely no JAN in that part of Syria.
Finally, when one of Ahrar's COs ordered his BM-21 battery to plaster Sheikh Maqsood, he was publicly reprimanded by Aloush, who prohibited the use of such weapons against build-up areas full of civilians.
The RT then jumped the train by declaring that Aloush - though his intervention against the use of BM-21s - actually prohibited the use of chemical weapons against Kurds...
PRBS-warfare of the finest.
Anyway, Russians eventually appeared on the scene: during the night from 7 to 8 April, they flew about a dozen of air strikes on Castello Road (note: VKS is now operating exclusively over the night - at least over the Aleppo-Idlib-enclaves held by FSyA and Ahrar, because of the MANPAD threat). These hit nothing at all (at least none of their intended targets: they might have killed a few Kurds though), but they did have the effect of forcing insurgents to disperse and stop their assault on Sheik Maqsood. Six other strikes were 'much more effective': they killed about a dozen of civilians in Atarib (3 times) and Sarqib (3 times), both of which are held by insurgents...
And overall, this Russian intervention came much too late: not only is the YPG's position in Sheikh Maqsood much weakened, but the Castello Road is safe again.
That aside, their air strikes are a blatant breach of cease-fire: insurgents were not fighting the regime' (say: NDF, of which there is none in this part of Syria, if at all), but the YPG (which is no part of the cease-fire), and the PFLP-GC (which is an IRGC-surrogate, and no part of the cease-fire either).
Of course, I doubt anybody is going to complain...
CrowBat...under the rubric ...of what the heck is going on with the Assad and Putin appears as if they are trying hard to coop the FSA now as fighters for the Assad regime??
First we have a somewhat major interview of a FSA commander on the importance of the capture of the Turkish border area from IS amazingly unusual for Sputnik International a major Russian propaganda outlet AND now this from the Assad side......
Remarkable shift in pro-#Assad "al-Masdar News" reporting.
From "Nusra-led terrorists" to a detailed pic of rebels in their fighting to regain the border areas.....
They even gave JaN a "nice shout out for their efforts"........
Footage
Fighting continues in #SheikhMaqsoud between rebels (Levant Front) and #YPG forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJsjvDPzLqo …
Footage
"Men of God" rebel brigade joins the "Homs Liberation Movement" and thus the #FSA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-D0k71PXRg …
CrowBat.....just my observations at work......but it does appears that the various and multitude of various FSA fighting groups are gradually merging into a structured single combat force allowing for greater fleixiblity and better command and control??
Russian Syrian Express on the move again.....
FLOT's cargo ship Vologda50 (Ex-Dadalı) crossing the Bosphorus southbound towards Syria. 11 containers on top deck.
Video of yesterday's pass of Minsk and LST Otrakovsky
https://youtu.be/0mm1wP6Quqg
The Iranian Nuclear Deal Keeps Getting Worse | World Affairs Journal
http://ln.is/org/gbSGE
THIS is on top of the extremely heavy Iranian military involvement in the Syrian fighting in support of Assad......and in Yemen as well and in Iraq as well....
Although focused on Ukraine..it equally applies to Putin's actions in Syria as well........well worth reading....
Putin's war of smoke and mirrors
http://www.politico.eu/article/vladi...rimea-ukraine/ …
"We are sleepwalking through the end of our era of peace.
It is time to wake up."
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 11:35 AM.
One of the best recent examples of the Russian "altered state of reality".....
Popular RuNet tweet says US allies w/ Russia after Syria campaign like "US always sides w/ victor." (WWII allusion.) https://twitter.com/spacelordrock/st...36391891525632 …
Regime heavy artillery continues to target Handarat camp & the Castello road in northern #Aleppo, #Syria
Abu Saeed al-Holandi @Q_QKMN
New || The mujahidin started a new attack on the Khan Tuman front in Aleppo. Other fronts will be activated soon. Nusra is warming up.
Rebels coalition and Nusra start another attack on IRGC militias positions in Khan Tuman, Barnah and Zitan south #Aleppo.
So far Ahrar al-Sham confirmed they fully captured al-Khaldiyah NW Khan Tuman.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...41714&z=16&m=b …
Seeing Syrian (partially islamist) rebel advances S-W of Aleppo, Kremlin will soon realize its ally Assad can ONLY stand w/ its air strikes.
Quite the imagination from proAssad trolls, Turkish Special Forces are now in Sheikh Maqsoud supporting Nusra
Reports that the YPG are preventing civilians from leaving Sheikh Maqsoud in #Aleppo, #Syria
Using civilians as shields.....just as does IS......and the Russian mercenaries in eastern Ukraine...
True ISIS preys on the areas of rebels and if Dumayr falls they'll go for Jayrud, Ruhayba and Nasiriya.
Orient on rebel counter that liberated Strela AD Batt, Safa & Chinese plant, Dam-Bag road (Abu al-Shamat) from #ISIS
http://youtu.be/4DdCaPM0lGc
What people don’t understand is that if rebel areas in E. Qalamoun fall to ISIS then Ghouta could also fall in the blink of an eye
N. #Aleppo scenario: #RuAF bombing & paving way 4 Shia militias offensive in S. Aleppo, along Khan Tuman-Al-Eis axis
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:40 PM.
Head for the bunkers…..
“We are drafting "a new interpretation" of Russia’s Foreign Policy at the instruction of the President” Lavrov said…..
In the old “foreign policy” first strike use of tactical nuclear weapons was a given…now what?????
Sounds like a line from 1936 Germany!
Yep. And it's it got a name: "Jackboot Diplomacy
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:15 PM.
CrowBat.....MSM is now picking up on your SAA comments......
Important piece by @RichardJSpencer on the makeup of the Syrian Army today - an army with no Syrians in it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ian-arab-army/ …
Also what do you think of this IRGC comment......
Interesting: #IRGC commander Saeed Ghasemi criticises lack of coverage of Afghan fighters killed in #Syria, says many buried anonymously
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:36 PM.
From "local tractor drivers & miners" in #Ukraine - to Russians & Serbs as "Syrian fighters"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ian-arab-army/ …
What is interesting is that the particular grenade mentioned in this article ha already been tagged as Russian Spetsnaz by social media days ago and now MSM is just picking up on it.....
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:30 PM.
Russian Syrian Express is on the move again....
Heavily-laden Russian Navy BSF 158 Tsezar Kunikov transits southbound Bosphorus
pic.twitter.com/YZudVrJBoK
http://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2016/9...tsezar-kunikov
The Russian "wanderings" of this ship is becoming more interesting since she left Syria she headed first to Malta and now unknown where to....yet she is part and parcel of the Syrian Express.....
Transport vessel "Yauza" departed Valletta, Malta, on Apr 8; destination unknown
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:51 PM.
FSA central div announce rebels now control Barnah and Zitan villages. Clashes continue in Khan Tuman.
https://twitter.com/Central_divisio/...39903820324864 …
Syria IRGC soldiers with a Chinese W85 HMG - South of Aleppo, Jan. 2016. via @MmaGreen
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-09-2016 at 04:50 PM.
An old bubble
I note the cited source is actually a Tass story and it refers to a joint Belarus-Russia air defence agreement signed in 2009, long before the Ukraine War started. One would therefore hope NATO noticed and could predict what the structure would be. It maybe dangerous, but if NATO knew does that mean 'extremely dangerous'?
Link:http://tass.ru/en/defense/867811
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