Page 11 of 143 FirstFirst ... 9101112132161111 ... LastLast
Results 201 to 220 of 2857

Thread: Syria in 2016 (July-September)

  1. #201
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Syrian rebels launched an offensive INSIDE #Aleppo city...

    Clarification: Some say it is only Nusra that launched the offensive.
    This is just because Nusra announced it online.
    Many groups involved.

    Especially tunnel bomb that made the start of the (surely limited) push is very unlikely to be detonated by Nusra.

    If someone finds out Nusra itself actually dug and detonated the tunnel bomb, please let me know. Would be first be them in Aleppo?!!

  2. #202
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Syrians in #Turkey who crossed to #Aleppo for Eid are now trapped
    http://ow.ly/7oaD3025ZIU

    Confirmation
    #Aleppo is 100% besieged since 24 hours.
    NO foreign government reacted
    .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsBxSNNBvjY

    Unusual cluster ammunitions used in the #Russian attacks on Babis and nearby Bashnatrah.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6bXfWkDlXM

    New #footage
    4 ppl. got killed and 20 injured in another #RussianAirstrike on #Babis near #Aleppo last night.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8LL7Jdn5mk

    Another regime air strike on #Aleppo city yesterday afternoon injured one woman.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj10sxgnCss
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 08:34 AM.

  3. #203
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/co...time-and-again


    How Assad has outfoxed his foes time and again

    Hassan Hassan

    July 10, 2016

    I remember when I heard that Baghdad had fallen to the US-led coalition in 2003. I was on my way back to university in Damascus from a visit to my home town in Albukamal, in eastern Syria. The news came as we stopped in Palmyra for a half-hour break. For the rest of the trip, gloom and doom dominated among travellers.

    For many, such feelings of deep anger and frustration later turned into action. The next time I returned home for another visit, a taxi driver told me that volunteers were flowing from Syria into Iraq. Syrian authorities, the driver said, were not stopping people. Noticing my disbelief, he said that he would drive me to the other side of the border any moment.

    The story did not make much sense to me. After all, the Syrian regime was secular and would not tolerate any form of activism, much less one that was expressed in jihadi terms. I asked relatives at home about what the driver said, and they confirmed that two people in my town had travelled to fight with the Iraqi resistance. Albukamal came to be known as the gateway for jihadists pouring from the region into Iraq through Syria.

    Rashad Al Kattan, a security risk analyst and a fellow with the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, was a witness to this activity from his neighbourhood too. Volunteers heading to Albukamal would travel from Damascus.

    “My family’s house is near the US embassy in Damascus," recalled Mr Al Kattan. “A few months after the invasion, I started seeing the large green buses used for public transport parked outside the Iraqi embassy, which is opposite the US embassy. It continued for some time but the buses moved to Sumarieh coach station, on the outskirts of the capital, apparently after the Americans complained it was happening under their watch, literally."

    In September 2009, former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki said that “most terrorists came from Syria". Bashar Al Assad replied that the accusations were “immoral". Less than two years after the Damascus-Baghdad escalation, Mr Al Assad issued an amnesty for jailed jihadists a few months after the eruption of the Syrian uprising. What happened between 2009 and 2011? Did the Assad regime stop seeing jihadists as a useful tool?

    I am reminded of the story after the debate that followed the release of the Iraq inquiry report in the Uk. The discussions largely overlooked the cynical game played by Damascus, and seem to have learnt the wrong lessons from the Iraq war. Many of those fired up after the report’s release are guilty of repeating the same mistakes that led to the unimaginable suffering in Iraq today.

    For example, those who voted in favour of the Iraq war in the British parliament are arguably no worse than those who voted in the same place against punitive air strikes against Mr Al Assad’s regime after it used chemical weapons against civilians several times. Ideally, the West has no business intervening in the Middle East. But the reality is that western forces are entrenched in the region and therefore have the capacity to play a leadership role. This is called leverage. Those who do not want that leverage to be utilised, in the name of anti-imperialism, are complicit. They are overcorrecting history.

    The Assad regime wanted Iraq to turn into hell, and it helped achieve that. The reward the regime wanted was that foreign powers would think twice before they intervened in Syria. It won the Iraq war, with the help of jihadists. When the same regime released extremists from prisons in 2011, it wanted to pull off the same trick. As the uprising turned into a civil war, the regime forces avoided jihadists and targeted the rest. It struck deals with jihadists, and ignored the rest. It traded with jihadists and hit the rest.

    The policy worked. Today, the US is seeking a formula of cooperation against those extremists with the Russians in Syria. The circle is complete. The US that failed to rule effectively in Iraq partly because of Mr Al Assad and his allies has, once again, to seek indirect cooperation with Damascus.

    For Iraqis and Syrians, much of the discussion about the Iraq inquiry report is beside the point.

    Many of the loudest voices after the report was released are fighting a different fight that has little to do with Iraqis. Whether leftists or anti-imperialists, they are fighting the Iraq war through Syria. They do not want to consider the differences between an invasion of a country and the use of force to put an end to continuing butchery. Mr Al Assad wanted them to think twice before intervention, but they do not want to even think about it. They blindly oppose.

  4. #204
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Ah.....those so called "moderate" Iranian supported Iraqi Shi'a militias.....who fought as well and are still fighting inside Syria BUT not against IS....

    Fallujah refugees hesitant to return home for fear of Shiite militia
    http://goo.gl/k7Lm2x

    Same militias the US government assured us were not going into Fallujah.

  5. #205
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Syrian rebels launched an offensive INSIDE #Aleppo city...

    Clarification: Some say it is only Nusra that launched the offensive.
    This is just because Nusra announced it online.
    Many groups involved.

    Especially tunnel bomb that made the start of the (surely limited) push is very unlikely to be detonated by Nusra.

    If someone finds out Nusra itself actually dug and detonated the tunnel bomb, please let me know. Would be first be them in Aleppo?!!
    Opposition fighters (Jabhat al-Shamiya) have launched a counter-offensive vs. regime forces in #Aleppo’s old city.

    Nusra's role is minimal.


    Nusra has long had a minimal presence in central #Aleppo (mostly Bustan al-Qasr).

    Clearly its social media seeks to aggrandize this.

    BUT WAIT.....the total failure of the Obama/Rhodes WH in Syria is literally driving thousands of Syrians into the arms of JaN (AQ).....

    Nusra has taken more than 3k Syrians from Idlib & S.Aleppo into its ranks since Feb.

  6. #206
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Syria Pro regime Quds brigade & #Iran lead militias try to enter Handarat in northern outskirts of #Aleppo
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...77477&z=15&m=b

    Aleppo Rebels detonate tunnel bomb under Aqaba district
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...53648&z=18&m=b

    Heavy clashes around the "Municipal Palace" in #Aleppo city today.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bwww4ZMTUE

  7. #207
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Massive offensive by the #Syria|n rebels against pro-#Assad forces in #Aleppo City.

  8. #208
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    ISIS is at the gates of Palmyra, and Russia may have shot down its own helicopter near the town. Live updates:
    http://bit.ly/29y9Bgf

  9. #209
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by CrowBat View Post
    Sorry, nope.

    As can be seen on the video below, the helicopter in question was a Russian Mi-35N: this variant cannot retract its undercarriage, and has short, 'stubby' winglets.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzjMMPDQD0

    What the video shows appears to be two hits into the cabin, and the third - decisive - one, hitting the tail rotor. Most likely, the Daesh used a calibre 57mm S-60 flak (of Soviet origin), which they love to install on trucks. This weapon proved lethal against all sorts of helicopters during earlier wars, especially in Vietnam and Iran-Iraq Wars.

    All of which means: the Keystone Cops in Moscow (see: 'MOD') are lying.

    No Russians are flying any kind of Syrian aircraft or helicopters. Instead, the Keystone Cops are lying to hide their own losses; they're lying when they describe the helicopter as being underway on some sort of test-flight; they're lying when they say it was shot down by a 'US-made TOW missile' too.
    CrowBat....Russians are hitting the "vodka" heavily today...US TOW downed their Mi35M...

    Which we know is a true "vodka moment.......as there was no TOW rocket motor smoke

    There is some question though about their own fire hitting the tail rotor.....saw a darkened video where you can clearly see the 57mm hits then one under the tail boom and then the hit on the tail rotor.....

    Appeared to be a barrage of four rounds....

    For a friendly fire incident I do not think so as the second Mi35 was right behind in a trailing formation and lower than the one that was hit as if they were flying a combat patrol mission.....
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 03:57 PM.

  10. #210
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    10+ #Syria|n civilians killed by #Assad airstrikes on Bab Al Maqam in #Aleppo City

    A lot of outcry about the "brutal" rebel offensive in #Aleppo City.
    Syria|n rebels have captured 53+ pro-#Assad forces around the #Aleppo Citadel.
    Battles still ongoing in Bab Faraj area, as Police station, Sheraton hotel, Clock square and multiple buildings still Regime-held.

    Damascus: #ISIS suicide attack killed 16 #Syria|n rebels, including 7 leaders, in #Dumayr today.

    Idlib: @SyriaCivilDef hero Haitham Al Hasan was killed by #Russia|n airstrikes in #Turmanin today

    Latakia: #Syria|n rebels blowing up a group of pro-#Assad forces with TOW in #Turkmen_Mountain, Northern #Latakia.

    Manbij: #ISIS captured another #YPG fighter north of #Manbij.

    Clashes & airstrikes now reported around #Palmyra silos between pro-Regime & #ISIS who blew up 1 cannon with #ATGM.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=34....411121&z=14&m
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 04:26 PM.

  11. #211
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Ah.....those so called "moderate" Iranian supported Iraqi Shi'a militias.....who fought as well and are still fighting inside Syria BUT not against IS....

    Fallujah refugees hesitant to return home for fear of Shiite militia
    http://goo.gl/k7Lm2x

    Same militias the US government assured us were not going into Fallujah.
    Terrifically blinkered comments from CJTF-OIR spox re US support for Fed Police and Badr in Fallujah in this piece:
    http://www.militarytimes.com/story/o...ence/86804634/
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 04:25 PM.

  12. #212
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Palmyra: #ISIS has reached the outskirts of #Palmyra. Heavy fighting and airstrikes now.

    NOW that is embarassing for Putin.....

  13. #213
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Thank goodness Iran is a bulwark against sectarian fitna because otherwise this would be disturbing.
    http://gu.com/p/3xt4c/stw

  14. #214
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Opposition's Faylaq al-Sham (#FSA-linked) lost 2 important commanders in #Mallah ongoing battles. #Aleppo

    Regime sources saying heavy clashes ongoing around the Citadel while unconfirmed sources claimed the Citadel is now under siege.

    Opposition factions claim full control of Bab Faraj area in Old city, and claimed to capture 53 Regime fighters around the Citadel.

    From battle in #Aleppo city center today
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gZBxoKkwQ0

    Russia'n airstrikes on northern #Idlib & western #Aleppo along rebel supply road from #Turkey killed dozens of people today

  15. #215
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Al Jazeera reporter Ibraheem Omar killed by #Russia'n airstrike in northern #Idlib near border to #Turkey

  16. #216
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    2nd Coastal Division #TOW strike vs infantry in Burj Bayda, Jebal Turkman, N. #Latakia.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R_JlbqFXMM

    Recent advances of regime forces in the besieged Daraya left the rebels & civilians in a tiny space subjected to ceaseless bombardment

    RuAF airstrikes reported on #Palmyra hours after some #ISIS fighters managed to sneak into E. suburbs, via @PalmyraRev1

    Unidentified drone shot down by rebels over south Aleppo where IRGC militias operates

  17. #217
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    After siege on Rebel-held #Aleppo, #RuAF trying now to create fuel shortage in Idlib prov. destroying fuel tankers.

    Footage
    Number is up to 20 killed in #Russian cluster bomb attack on vital fuel convoy.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBgmC2rB2k

    Video of the aftermath of a Russian airstrike on a convoy between Termanin and Dar Taizzah #Syria
    https://youtu.be/pER1k2DU2N8

    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
    International community still holds out hope that #Syria political process is alive & will move forward soon.

    #Aleppo siege will end that.


    Backed by tanks & BMPs Rebels renewed push vs #ISIS affiliates in Ain Dakhar, W. #Daraa.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv1WDCCPxPw

    Regime forces advancing against #FSA in #Darayya in West of #Damascus; took control of important areas and farms. Battles ongoing.

    Clashes with regime army break out across old Aleppo front in what seems like an attempt to reduce pressure on city NW gate around Castillo.
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 04:56 PM.

  18. #218
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Unconfirmed reports rebels gained serious ground in the ongoing offensive inside Aleppo city. So far there is a media black out to confirm.

    Neither Trump nor Clinton discusses pressuring Putin to stop Assad's sieges & barrel bombs.
    http://bit.ly/29xoTPB

    Except for "deep concerns" here and there, US, EU & Turkey seems to have approved Russia/Assad plan to siege Aleppo.
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 04:44 PM.

  19. #219
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    Footage
    Russian secondary air strike on firefighters in #Idlib province.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBhtsPTC9o

    Burning inferno and heinous attack on first responders by #Russia in #Idlib province.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsPhjzcxNA

    Graphic!
    40 sheep were killed in another air strike on #Hayya, N-W of #Aleppo.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVilYttw9P0

    A heavy Russian airstrike on central #Aleppo killed 10 people & injured 4 more around noon.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUFdEVMmLc

    Children among dead in Sunday's west #Aleppo airstrikes
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...X-c26UsMkHTwb2

    Idlib : #Russian airstrike massacre in #Tirmanin as missiles kill 8 civilians and wound dozens of others.
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 05:06 PM.

  20. #220
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    35,749

    Default

    CrowBat...anything to this comment...??

    Palmyra coordination also claims another helicopter crashed, citing a possible technical malfunction

    Commenter is relatively good with his info......

    تنسيقية مدينة تدمر
    ‏@PalmyraRev1
    The fall of another helicopter for #SAA in the vicinity of the silos area east of #Palmyra. It is believed she fell technical failure.#Syria
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-11-2016 at 05:02 PM.

Similar Threads

  1. Syria in 2016: an exchange on what to do
    By mwe12 in forum Middle East
    Replies: 61
    Last Post: 02-06-2016, 12:43 PM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •