Russian Syrian Naval Express on the move....
Russian Navy's (Project 1234) Nanuchka class corvette "MIRAZH" (617) northbound on the İstanbul Strait (9:00 am local time)
Raed Al Saleh @RaedAlSaleh3Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
At 07:00 am a family of four children, father, mother and 25 injured after exposure Al_sakhour bombed poison gas "chlorine" #Aleppo
Russian Syrian Naval Express on the move....
Russian Navy's (Project 1234) Nanuchka class corvette "MIRAZH" (617) northbound on the İstanbul Strait (9:00 am local time)
Head of Hizbullah's Executive Council says a new "Resistance" Middle East - free of US influence - will be founded by the party's martyrs.
Trump's newest partner in the ME since he stated he would support Assad and Putin in fighting IS...and by extension that includes IRAN does it not?????
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11 civilians killed in #US-led coalition air strike on Abu al-Hassan, 24 km north of #Raqqa.
- @24Raqqa
From the anti-ISIS activists behind that reliable news report:
100% true.
#US:"Military mistakes".
#AssadPutin:Targeted extinction.
@24Raqqa
5 days of #AssadPutin air strikes on eastern #Aleppo city caused:
- 289 deaths
- 950 wounded
- 100+ missing
- 4 destroyed hospitals
BUT WAIT..the Russian FM stated publicly there were no Russian attacks on Aleppo...BUT WAIT their aircraft were videoed during their air strikes....
SO the Russian FM is not lying is he...no he is just tap dancing.....not actually lying....
Desperate civilians in #Aleppo after devastating #AssadPutin air strikes today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JckKxEEgoug#…
Only death by #AssadPutin's bombs awaits the 275.000 remaining civilians in eastern #Aleppo ...
And they know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqqV...utu.be#…
Also in #Idlib province, @SyriaCivilDef could only lift the dead from under the rubble ...
Graphic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XARDxjqYI#…
This was once the city of #KafrHamra west of #Aleppo.
Entirely destroyed after recent brutal #AssadPutin air strikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXhX...utu.be#…
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Charles Lister @Charles_Lister
By “infighting,” I mean competition, outbidding & rivalry, *not* violent clashes.
Big developments inside JFS in #Syria, as infighting has erupted betw'n pro-AQ & pro-JFS elements.
Talks ongoing, rumors of possible split.
pt: JFS's internal tensions began during the Nusra-to-JFS formation, which was actively rejected by several very senior Nusra leaders.
pts: Most ‘rejectionists’ didn't publicly split from JFS, but have been working to convince JFS fighters to break away & form new AQ group.
pts: JFS's crisis reached its peak when “reformist” figures began pushing for further JFS “reforms,” thereby enraging AQ loyalists further.
NOTE: the current Trump and yes even Obama advisors have often overlooked that the Salafist groups are always discussing and modifying themselves internally and what was said/done two years ago is not what you see and hear now...there urgently needs to be engagement with this development NOT trying to simply kill them and or run from them.....these groups do respond to their supporting civilian societies regardless of what we in the US think....and right now JFS while no longer officially AQ is highly regarded by the Syrian people BECAUSE they are fighting to protect them against the Russian onslaught that Trump wants to work with THUS driving them straight the arms of JFS and indirectly IS....AND CAN we blame them for it???
THIS has been one of the most ardent arguments used by Obama WH WHEN the argument turned to arming the moderate Syrian FSA.....BUT TOTALLY SHREDDED by ground reality......
U.S. maintains relations with 80+ vetted FSA factions.
- 1,073 TOW missiles sent
- Only 12 were proliferated
12 single TOW missiles found their way to other groups...NOT a really big threat it would appear....ESPECIALLY since the TOW launcher was not part of the transfer....
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/17/...-a-disaster/#…
Russian Naval Spy Ship Activities.....
ВМФ Редкое видео - Исследователь "Янтарь" проекта 22010 в #Иран'е 18.11.16
#Iran "Yantar" Russian Research Vessel Berths at Bandar Abbas
I had posted numerous comments on the spy activities of the Yantar loitering over undersea internet cable links in the Med.....with on being directly interrupted after the Yantar "visit" over it....
Evidently a Russian/Assad friendly fire turned into a "see the rebels are also shelling schools"..attempt to deflect the world opinion away from their attacks on schools and hospitals...
Not the first time they have one this in the last few weeks.....
BREAKING Syrian state television says that at least 10 people had been killed in rebel shelling of West #Aleppo school including 7 children
EuphratesShield: #TSK M60T destroyed an #ISIS SVBIED with a precise shot in outskirts of Qabasin.
This highlights #EuphratesShield forces lack #ATGMs (vital to take out car bombs in open areas) on the contrary of #SDF/#YPG.
NE #Latakia: First Coastal Division's strike vs pro-Regime forces with a #Fagot on Tell Abu Ali.
N. #Aleppo: First Regiment destroyed with a #TOW an #ATGM launcher on Bayanun-Al-Zahraa front.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...z=12&m#…
SW. #Aleppo: 10 pro-Regime forces killed, incl. Hezbollah, during failed assault on Suq Al-Gibs.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...13&m=b#…
Aleppo: #FIA vid shows Rebels in control of most Owaija Industrial Area despite claims of contrary h/t @AllyOfTruth http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...15&m=b#…
W. #Homs: impressive photos from besieged Al-Waer district turned into rubble day after day by airstrikes & shelling.
BREAKING TODAY
Many towns in countryside #Idlib now being bombed by #Russia/#ASSad terrorists airstrikes
Idlib: #Assad regime, #Iran and #Hezbollah preparing #Idlib offensive.
BREAKING
#Russia terrorists carried out airstrikes directly targeting #SyriaCivilDefense Warehouse
2 members wounded
#Idlib #Syria Nov 20
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Aleppo: #Turkey warplanes bombing #ISIS positions around #Al_Bab since the morning.
Aleppo: Photo from a hospital in Eastern #Aleppo. There is no hope left..no medicine...limited doctors and nurses are now available and nowhere to treat incoming injured and wounded.....
AND the entire WEST stands by silently YET this actually makes them just as complicit as Assad and Putin in this genocide against Sunni's...WHEN this dust settles and they look for answers why they did nothing.....their silence is the answer..no Western leadership is seen anywhere anymore.
Post 1567 originally:The little girl in this photo actually died late last night....
The Syrian activist tracking losses and took her photo was also killed this morning in a massive air strike that hit his residential building.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 11-20-2016 at 01:11 PM. Reason: Shorten and added original post
Footage
Further #Assad regime attacks on the demilitarised al-Waer area near #Homs city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjprqytVuaA
Footage
Yet another school bombed during lessons east of #Damascus.
Several pupils killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlF3d7ouFw#…
SECOND school hit with an air strike in Idbid.....no students were killed... a number injured by the blasts.....
#
PYD/#PKK is trying "to ban any dissenting opinion": arrested more members of Kurdish opposition on Thursday.
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/co...l-impetus#full
Local resistance is the way to stop ISIL impetus
Hassan Hassan
November 20, 2016 Updated: November 20, 2016 05:21 PM
At the peak of ISIL’s military momentum in 2014, the Iraqi city of Haditha was in the middle of it all. From its northwestern tip, ISIL had seized areas that stretched to Aleppo. The group’s territorial depth east of the city extended to the Jordanian border. The militants also seized Tikrit, west of the city, and Baghdadi to its south. The group enforced a siege around the city that would last for two years.
Haditha’s remarkable resistance is even more impressive given that ISIL saw the city in western Anbar as a vital prize. In September 2014, ISIL tried to take control of the Haditha Dam, Iraq’s second largest hydroelectric facility after the Mosul Dam. In May 2015, ISIL’s takeover of Ramadi deepened Haditha’s isolation from the south.
But Haditha still survived the pressure from ISIL. In an audio statement released one month after ISIL took over Ramadi, ISIL’s former spokesman specifically mentioned Haditha as a top priority for the group. In particular, he singled out the Jaghayfa tribe that led the effort to protect the city.
"If we do overrun Haditha before they repent, we won’t spare anyone until it is said that there used to be Jaghayfa here and homes for Jaghayfa," said Abu Muhammad Al Adnani, who was killed in an American attack in August.
Attempts to take the city further intensified after Adnani’s speech. As the operation to expel ISIL from Mosul enters its second month and the campaign to isolate Raqqa enters its third week, the story of little-known towns such as Haditha deserves attention. ISIL swept through cities such as Mosul and Raqqa with relative ease but, despite all odds, failed to take ones such as Haditha.
Since the group swept through Mosul and Raqqa in 2014, the question of how disadvantaged local resistance in towns such as Haditha managed to stop ISIL is rarely asked. But the question is the right one to ask today, if the full lessons from the past two years are to be learnt.
"Local" is the key word. Haditha suffered its share of bloodshed over the years since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Local fighters were also involved in the postwar insurgency but they later joined the American-backed Sunni movement to expel Al Qaeda in Iraq from Sunni towns. The town has since become a staunch opponent of the group.
Other Sunni areas went through a similar process. Ramadi, for example, was one of the centres of Al Qaeda when it announced, along with its allies, the Islamic State in Iraq in 2006. But after the Sunni uprising against Al Qaeda at the time, much of Ramadi developed an antibody against the group, which struggled to control it even though it tried incessantly for a year. Ramadi, however, fell in May last year after the local resistance was depleted amid reports that infighting with pro-government militias contributed to the collapse. In February, Iraqi authorities declared the city to be liberated.
For the people of Haditha and Ramadi, the fight against ISIL was theirs. They wanted to protect their areas from a group they knew very well. They also knew the social terrain and prevented ISIL from establishing influence within their society. Individuals who helped ISIL are discreetly named and shamed. Any presence for the group in their midst, however small, is seen as a threat. Since the Mosul operation began, ISIL again tried to enter the city as it did in adjacent Rutbah last month.
Haditha is just one example of local heroism. In Syria, for example, ISIL waged a relentless campaign since its rise in the country in 2014 to control Marea, a town in northern Aleppo. Like Haditha, Marea was besieged in May by ISIL after two years of frequent attacks to control the area, a gateway into Aleppo and not far from two key ISIL strongholds at the time, Al Bab and Dabiq. "During the siege, we were hit with 50 [ISIL] car bombs," a local commander told the Daily Beast after the rebels broke the siege in June. "Each car was filled with 10 tons of explosive."
Haditha and Marea were within ISIL’s field of operation at the peak of its military momentum in 2014. The two towns present a timely reminder about what it takes to defeat this organisation. There is no doubt that ISIL did its best to take these areas. It had the military advantage and territorial depth for several months to do so.
In Mosul and Raqqa, ISIL faced little or no local resistance. The failings of the Iraqi government and the behaviour of the police and military in Mosul are well known. The expulsion of the Syrian regime from Raqqa was made possible by rebels who were largely from outside Raqqa, which was a key factor that enabled ISIL to control the city and prevent the return of the rebels to it. The common thread in the stories of Haditha, Marea, Mosul and Raqqa is the local factor. The war against ISIL can only be won if locals feel invested in filling the void after ISIL and guard their areas against the return of a group they view as their enemy.
In the first school that was hit...1 adult...6 children killed...23 students injured
RuAF airstrikes "in Idlib"
https://youtu.be/cTF5f-H-NnU?t=2s#
… first one near al-Atarib (Aleppo Gouvernorate)
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.125327&...0668&z=18&m=b#
THERE MUST a secret wave of IS flying carpets carrying 500lb Russian bombs OR this is just more Russian media lying hard at work......
Russia's gov't-sponsored Vesti:"Clearly, Russia doesn't conduct any strikes in #Aleppo. For an entire month our air force avoids the area."
The key secret to the success of any propaganda...say the same thing 100 times and THEN surprisingly people will believe it...
Wow..Russia is not bombing Aleppo ..then who is??????
God this is just so awful
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/1...63200380.html#
Video of the Russian air strike that hit an Aleppo Children's Hospital
THAT RUSSIA claims they never bombed.....
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While we discuss Trump, and watch French primaries, this is our generation's never ending shame #Aleppo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...=share_btn_tw#
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