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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Civil defense volunteers and medical staff are high-value targets for Assad and Russia airstrikes. Photos from Damascus and Hama today.

    Dr. Ali Darwish passed away after he was injured this noon by the #Assad chlorine attack on Alatamneh hospital

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    Homs: Rebels have cut the #Homs-#Salamiyah highway again.

    Hama: Attempt by pro-#Assad forces to recapture #Arzeh also failed.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...15&m=b#…

    Aleppo: #HTS blowing up #Assad rocket launcher with #TOW in Western #Aleppo.

    Hama: Video from #Maarzaf confirms that entire #Maarzaf village is under rebel control today.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...15&m=b#…

    Hama Battle: Jaish Al-Nasr shelled #Hama Airbase with a barrage of Grad rockets.

    Hama Battle: Rebels thwarted an attempt by pro-Regime forces to seize back Al-Sakhr CP & destroyed a tank.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...z=12&m#…

    Manpower woes continue: last week #Assad was recruiting over-age males, now it's under-age females ... Might even bring positive press.

    Hama Battle: #HTS artillery (122 mm cannon) pounding Regime-held #Qomhana.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...z=13&m#…

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    Many pro-Assad units/militias reached #Hama battlefield as shown by their casualties: Iranian #IRGC, Navy Commandos & Qalamoun Shield.
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    Hama Battle: seems the TOS-1 shipped from #Tartus already striking Rebel territory, here E. of Khan Sheikhoun. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...70897&z=12&m#…

    Hama Battle: Jaish Al-Nasr's T-62 targeting pro-Regime forces on #Qomhana front with armor-piercing shells.

    Ivan Sidorenko‏#@IvanSidorenko1 3h
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    #Syria #Damascus List of 51 #SAA #SRG #NDF Soldiers martyred in #Qaboun / #Jobar Fronts during a duration of five days.


    Hama Battle: Ahrar Al-Sham targeted Regime road between #Homs-#Salamiyah, closing it temporarily. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=34...56635&z=11&m#…

    Hama Battle: Jaish Al-Nasr declares pro-Regime assault on Azreh is repelled.

    Hama Battle: #Qomhana and nearby Zin Al-Abdeen Mount are under pre-emptive shelling with all kinds of weapons.

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    This is HUGE: Apparently the #Syria|n S-300 AA systems delivered by #Russia labeled #Israel|i planes as friendly
    http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Co...fenses-484777#

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    Hama: Russia has just bombed Maharda a Christian village which rebels have not even entered or planned to even enter!

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    This is HUGE: Apparently the #Syria|n S-300 AA systems delivered by #Russia labeled #Israel|i planes as friendly
    http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Co...fenses-484777#
    That article is complete rubbish (to put it mildly).

    As usually, Israeli sources are citing some Kuwaiti newspaper - which in turn should be basing its reporting on supposed interviews with IRGC's officers?

    1.) That with Israelis citing Kuwaiti newspapers is a well-known practice already since decades. The most famous examples were those from 1981, when Begin cited some Kuwaiti newspaper for supposed Sadam's statement about intention to nuke Israel. Weeks-long research by an entire team of the Congress Library resulted in 0 confirmation for that statement. Begin simply lied. Makes one wonder what is now the case...

    2.) IRGC's officers giving interviews to foreign journalists is rarer than snake's sweat.

    3.) After asking certain S-300 operator to read that article and tell him his frank opinion he's simply bamboozled: what kind of a code could anybody insert into that system so to 'blind' it from recognizing IASF aircraft as such or prevent them from opening fire at the Israelis? There is simply nothing of that kind.

    4.) Assadists actually fired three S-200s (aka SA-5 Gammons): they don't even have any S-300s.

    5.) And finally, IRGC's officers going for the record to criticise the Russians right now is as likely to happen as that the Earth is going to stop spinning around its own axis by the time you read this post to its end.

    Namely, the IRGC is more keen to appease Russians than ever before. They went as far as to subject their ops in Syria to the Russian control, just for example.

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    This is a huge story. If true, it's likely the largest massacre of civilians by the U.S. military since Vietnam. And Iraq is blaming Trump.

    After airstrikes killing as many as 200 civilians, Iraqi officer says rules of engagement relaxed under Trump.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/w...s.html#…

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    Default For CrowBat: Corroboration on "order" in Assadland...

    Institutionalized ‘Warlordism’: Syria’s National Defense Force
    Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 6
    By: Chris Zambelis
    https://jamestown.org/program/instit...defense-force/

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