Syria in 2016 (April-June)

[OUTLAW 09]

Regime interpretation of #Daraya truce (#Damascus). US: Rebels can report violation to UN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs799GT4ylQ …

Report: Castillo road, last lifeline to Rebel-held #Aleppo, protected from snipers but not from artillery/airstrikes

[OUTLAW 09]

Faylaq Sham fired unusually high nbr of Elephant missiles on militias in Zahraa, N. #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq44pAxNXjc …

Fierce clashes in #Lattakia since morning, heavy weaponry and air force all over, operations on for about 2 weeks now, regime trying advance

So far pro-Assad forces backed by Russian Airforce failed to take back
- Al Eis since 8 weeks
- KhanTuman since 3 weeks
- Zara since 2 weeks

Deir Ezzour : Coalition aircraft drop leaflets over #Bukamal asking the people to stay away from ISIS HQ and to support "Jaysh Souria Jadid"

It confirms that the main goal of New Syrian Army (#NSyA) is to seize the whole Southern #Syria|n border from #ISIS.

[OUTLAW 09]

He cannot win in Syria so he tries for a win in Iraq........

Iran confirms officially that Qasim Suleimani is leading the Fallujah battle.
http://ln.is/www.ara.shafaaq.com/iZLHv …

Islamic State banner now covered with Husayn ibn Ali and Alasaib Ahl al-Haq flags in al-Karma near #Fallujah.

Not a good look for those who say this is not sectarian. Potential for IS to look like freedom fighters gets raised in Sunni nexus.

[OUTLAW 09]

IS trying to split #FSA held Azaz pocket north #Aleppo. Clashes reported inside Kaljibrin and Kafr Kalbin villages.

Fierce clashes as #ISIS is trying to split Rebel pocket & isolate Marea stronghold by attacking Kaljibrin, N.#Aleppo

IS seized Tal Hussein, Niyarah, Tatiya and Burayshah east Azaz. Reports coalition and Turkish artillery started providing support for #FSA.

Local activists reported 4 civilians killed in #IS attack on Kaljibrin village including 2 year-old girl.

Azaz update #map May 27 #DAESH #ISIS major attack #Kafr_Kalbin #Kaljibrin
http://edmaps.com/html/syrian_civil_war_in_maps.html …

JaN released 18 members of division 30 who have been held for months...JaN is under local civilian pressure via by their daily demonstrations against JaN actions......

[OUTLAW 09]

Massive proAssad and proRussian troll attempts at blocking a large number of Twitter accounts that report on Syria...and who have reported for now going on years......AND on Twitter accounts that report as well on eastern Ukraine.....a well coordinated attack to block social media reporting.

So who says social media is not one of the best weapons against Russian info warfare........

AND Twitter Support again supports Russian and Assad trolls......AGAIN the core question....why is an American company listed on NASDQ being such a great friend of Russian and Assad trolls and literally bends over backwards to support their demands which have always led to the Twitter accounts being reinstated.....AS there was never a "violation" of Twitter Service agreements.

Maybe the SEC needs to fully understand just how much Russian black oligarch money has been invested into US social media companies especially Twitter and FaceBook....

[OUTLAW 09]

Twitter Support even blocked this Turkish account which reports on Russian Naval and Syrian Express movements...

#ВМФ Ropucha class LST #Бф BF Minsk transited Bosphorus

Heavily-laden #ВМФ Ropucha class LST #Cф NF Alexander Otrakovsky transited Bosphorus en route to #Tartus #Syria

[OUTLAW 09]

Under the rubric of "what the heck is this"......????

"Taliban's interests in the fight against ISIS in Afghanistan coincide with #Russia." -FM Lavrov
http://www.interfax.ru/world/486749


Michael Weiss
✔ ‎@michaeldweiss Awesome? Exclusive: Iran Teams With Taliban To Fight Islamic State in Afghanistan
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/26/...n-afghanistan/ …

BUT WAIT.....Iran is the private pullback and supply sanctuary for the Taliban....and AQ and IS.....

SO why is Iran using Afghans to fight FSA in Syria instead of IS and to fight Sunni's in Iraq?????

[OUTLAW 09]

APPEARS that now Twitter Support is actually blocking well known journalists who both write on actions inside Syria but are considered to be ME SMEs......

This is now a serious threat against social media as a whole and YET Twitter goes along with the proAssad and proRussian troll demands with absolutely no pushback.......

TWITTER Support is now apparently blocking all social media accounts that report and analyze Syrian events.....to include extremely well known journalists......

[OUTLAW 09]

Something that is extremely critical but never talked about even here at SWJ is the ongoing seriously fought social media info war against both Assad and Putin with little to no assistance from the US in any form.

The interesting question that should be openly discussed by SWJ is just how much of the so called US owned social media companies ie FB, Twitter, YouTube is actually full under the influence of Russian oligarch black money via investments into those companies.

FB, YT and Twitter have begun aggressively in the last year to block accounts after massive complaints by proAssad and proRssuain trolls who point to so called Service Agreement violations.

WHAT is interesting is that the trolls use a very effective bot network to push these complaints and Twitter or FB Support does not take the time to even review th complaints....they simply automatically block the account.

In some aspects these bot networks parallel criminally used Russian bot networks that many US IT departments have problems with.

Today Twitter has effectively blocked a large number of accounts that both analyze and report on Syrian events AS WELL as eastern Ukraine events and often critique Russian actions.

THIS even includes well known Us journalists who have written extensively on say Syria and who are considered to be ME SMEs.

Is it time for the Us government to seriously look at the use of US social media companies as part and parcel of the ongoing and intensive Russian info war being carried out against the US.

IMHO...it is time to have the SEC check the Russian inv estments into these Us companies via the Panama Papers and I think they will find a number of sanctioned Russian oligarchs have invested into US social media companies via off shore accounts.

BUT here is the flip side of this comment.

A large number of the accounts are from US journalists to pointed out yesterday the wearing by US SOF personnel of the Kurdish YPG emblem on their combat uniforms and rightly pointed out the in fact the YPG up to 2014/2015 was being carried by the DoS NCTC as being a US named terrorist organization effectively tied into the PKK which is conducting an open guerrilla war against Turkey going on now for over 30 odd years.

SO hwere they effectively blocked by proAssad and or proRussian trolls.....

OR the US government for their critique of US SOF for wearing a "terrorist emblem" on their uniforms.....???

A very valid point????

[OUTLAW 09]

#Footage The day starts as the last day ended. #Assad air force strikes on #Hayyan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RICxYUkyfq8 …

#Footage The #Assad air force attacked and damaged another mosque in #Aleppo city overnight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuuYDTbEx84 …pic.twitter.com/RC3QxSDL4u

NewsMap #ISIS is in its final offensive to cut-off #Marea and took four rebel-held villages overnight. #Syriapic.
twitter.com/gD9t5iYZMV

[OUTLAW 09]

IslamicState destroyed #Erdogan's "Save Zone" in northern #Syria along #Turkey border in less than 6 hours

IS claim captured a dozen rebels & killed 33 others during their assault in northern #Aleppo

Smoke rising in the distance from intense IS/FSA fighting....NOT a single Us CAS mission in support...they are all supporting the purported SDF advance which has basically stalled and pulled back.....

View from Kilis to battle at outskirts of the #Turkey/#Syria border-crossing in N-#Aleppo when #IslamicState advance

Reports ISIS take Syria-Turkey border Xing - 165,000 displaced Syrians now trapped @ closed border @HRW
http://bit.ly/1Ttgnll

Syria 100.000 residents & #refugees in #Azaz & #Mare towns now under siege by #IslamicState at border to #Turkey
-massaker expected-

Syria #IslamicState in full control of #Azaz -> #Mare road in northern #Aleppo (Kafr Kalbin, Kaljibrin, Sandaf seized)

BreakingReport
At least 10 killed, many injured, in #Assad air strike on bakery in #Huraytan, north of #Aleppo.

N.#Aleppo update. Locations in red taken by #ISIS. Azaz pocket split in 2 & possibly in 3. Marea officially besieged

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria #Aleppo #IslamicState reach Bab al-Salameh border crossing to #Turkey & isolate #Azaz (Niyarah & Tatiyah seized)

ISIS CUTS OFF #MAREA FROM #AZAZ, OVERRUNS LAST REBEL LINES OF DEFENCE.

STILL no US coalition provided CAS....why is that with large number of IS target opportunities?????

[OUTLAW 09]

So much for that vaulted US SOF SDF attack designed to destroy IS......went absolutely nowhere...after much heralded MSM support.

Instead of coming to the assistance of FSA which is under heavy IS attacks SDF pulls back...the US population has been told that the US proxy was built to destroy IS but in reality it seems like US SOF and SDF are in fact assisting IS........

SDF/#YPG withdraws forces from #Raqqa battlefield towards
#Manbij after #IslamicState advance to #Afrn & #Azaz in N- #Aleppo prov.

Syria #US airstrikes on Kafr Kalbin at south of #Azaz in northern #Aleppo
Seems #IslamicState finished #Turkey backed rebel pocket

CrowBat....if IS can hold these captured areas...will this finally push the Turks and Saudi's into northern Aleppo area?

CrowBat....Sorry FSA has already answered the question if confirmed as true.......
UPDATE
Rebels claim they retook Sandaf, Jibreen and Kafr Kalbin, restoring the supply line between Azaz and Marea.
Unconfimed so far.

Second Update...to many conflicting reports coming in as to whether the towns were retaken or not...BUT IS definitely killing captured FSA fighters and their families.....

STILL no US coalition CAS anywhere to be seen......all while SDF/YPG have stopped their IS Raqqa attacks and are pulling back together with their US SOF advisors.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Footage from Al-Salihiyah town at Euphrates river ~30km NW of #Iraq'i border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5C4...ature=youtu.be …

Russian and Assad AF are running an air strike rate alleged to be between 100-150 per day and the US coalition rate is again WHAT?????

MSF International @MSF
BREAKING: We are evacuating team & patients from our Al Salamah hospital in north #Syria after IS offensive in #Azaz

BREAKING I got confirmation from #Azaz that #ISIS executes rebels & their families of the main squares of #Jibrin & #KafrKalbin 30+ killed.

Conflicting reports Some say,connection reestablished, some say ISIS holds the towns Latest I heard:"Thousands of families trapped in Marea"

Latest Update: Rebellion has retaken Sandaf from ISIS....counterattacks underway to retake IS captured towns....

[OUTLAW 09]

IS make significant gains north #Aleppo. This could be the scenario #YPG long waited for to expel #FSA completely.

At least 12 ppl killed in Russian/Assad air attack targeted Huraytan village #Aleppo.

[OUTLAW 09]

I was about to ask you about this... can't believe US troops would be doing anything of that kind. Not even to 'blend in'.

But, if they do... oh man, that's beyond 'outrageous' (and nobody of those _perhaps_ involved in such an affair has got a trace of clue what kind of repercussions such 'brotherhood' can have).

CrowBat.....wonder of Obama WH and CENTCOM will "rethink" the patch issue...highly doubt it as they just do not "get it"....???

Turkish FM calls US troops in YPG patches "unacceptable." Bad optics 4 Ankara, which is well aware they're embedded http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-...&NewsCatID=510 …

[OUTLAW 09]

YPG has withdrawn all its Heavy Weaponry and Tanks from Ain Essa towards Manbij and Jarablus

So as I said #Raqqah offensive was a diversion... as they made their move towards Azaz.......which is Sunni arab and has been under FSA control for a long while and is NOT IS controlled.....

Let's not forget that it was Turkey and US who wanted Jabhat al-Nusra out of north Aleppo before they agreed to provide any support to #FSA.

#FSA factions north #Aleppo counted on irregular and poor Intl coalition and Turkish army support.... seems designed to eventually lead to this.

YPG is amassing its forces near Azaz

Time seems right for YPG to mass forces and take whats left of Azaz pocket, they are experts in this sort of attacks
https://twitter.com/VivaRevolt/statu...46030970834944 …

BUT WAIT.....the YPG potentially taking Azaz is a massive "red line" for both Turkey and the Saudi's.....and has been so stated by both a number of times in recent weeks.....

ISIS offensive in #Azaz and Mare'a will be rebelled,rebels massing troops to retake what they lost

[OUTLAW 09]

Regime targets Sunni worshipers after Jumah prayers with a carbomb in #Idlib city outside Shuyab Mosque.
https://twitter.com/RFS_mediaoffice/...46456080486400 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Naval and Syrian Express was busy today and yesterday........

#ВМФ Natya class minesweeper BSF #ЧФ Kovrovets returns from the Mediterranean deployment after 103days
pic.twitter.com/vStRLMeLb7

[OUTLAW 09]

How to giv Syria territory to #YPG?
1-Assad/Russia attack FSA
2-FSA lose to ISIS
3-US attack ISIS
4-ISIS lose to YPG

IS executed 33 #FSA fighters and captured 10 others north Aleppo.
https://twitter.com/Syriamubasher/st...51970151563268 …

More than 100k ppl in Azaz & several IDP camps north Aleppo under #IS attack & Turkey is worried about is US troops wearing YPG/PKK patches!