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    1. The SDF has captured Shnina, Abdallah and al-Kubra settlements in Raqqa Governorate

    2. The YPG has shelled Turkish-backed FSA forces at Khaljibirin in Aleppo Governorate, in the Turkish-FSA zone

    3. Eldar or Aldar Khalil of Rojava's TEV-DEM Executive Committee writes at Foreign Policy on the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict and PYD-PKK relations (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/2017/05...rdogan-pyd-ypg). Selected excerpts below:

    I am a member of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), an umbrella organization made up of six political parties and civil society institutions, including the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the leading Kurdish party in northern Syria. We are recognized by the PYD, as well as the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) as their political leadership. We are devoted to building an egalitarian, democratic, and ethical society where Arabs, Kurds, and Syriacs — along with Muslims, Christians and Yazidis — all live peacefully side by side and where women are treated equal to men.

    In justifying this egregious attack on northern Syria, Erdogan used a common refrain. The PYD and the Syrian Kurds, he said, are the same as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), making them terrorists.

    Erdogan recently repeated this allegation, saying that he is “seriously saddened” by television footage showing U.S. military forces operating alongside what he considers a terrorist insignia — our flag.

    We are not the PKK, no matter how much Erdogan wishes it were so, and it is not difficult to explain why.

    Modern Kurdish groups can trace their political philosophies to one of two founding figures: Mustapha Barzani and Abdullah Ocalan. The fundamental distinction between the two is that while Barzani, the father of the current president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani, called for building a nationalist Kurdish state based on aristocracy and the rule of a few, Ocalan called for a socialist state where all were equal. Over time, Ocalan evolved his ideas from socialism to federalism, believing that a democracy where power is decentralized is the best way to protect both individual and collective freedoms.

    The influences of these figures and ideas can be seen today. Iraq’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) springs from the Barzani school of thought, and as a result the KRG is ruled by a few, with power and wealth concentrated in the hands of the Barzani family and its friends. Ocalan’s school of thought, on the other hand, extends to the PYD, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and the PKK, as well as other groups in Iraq and Iran. All these groups have implemented Ocalan’s ideas differently and pursued different aims, as we interact with different geopolitical players.

    We don’t deny our relationships with all Kurdish parties in the four parts of Kurdistan (spread across present-day Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq), as we don’t deny our connection to Ocalan. In fact, as I write this, I am proud to say I have a photo of Ocalan on my desk next to me. Ocalan’s views and philosophy are at the core of how we govern the Northern Syrian Federation, or Rojava. And they are why, under our control, northern Syria has become a model — respecting the rights of minority groups and women, and ensuring that individual and collective freedoms are not only protected but empowered.

    We also don’t deny that PKK also traces its school of thought back to Ocalan. However, their implementation of his teachings differs greatly from ours, and their political circumstances do as well. These distinctions are important, however much Erdogan wishes the world to ignore them. We can share a founding philosophical father without being the same organization. Having different leadership, different members, and publicly stating we are different — as we are doing in this article and have done numerous times in the past — should be a clear indication as to our intent. Simply put, we are our own organization, and we are proud of that.

    As Kurds, we of course sympathize with our brothers and sisters in Turkey. Many of their towns are divided along our border, partly residing in Turkey and partly in northern Syria. Historically, many Syrian Kurds joined the struggle in Turkey and were martyred there. Equally, some Kurds from Turkey and Iraq came to Syria to join the heroic resistance of Kobani against the Islamic State, and were martyred in Rojava. The PKK offered its help to Kobani, as did the United States.

    It pains us to see those on the Turkish side of the border suffer from oppression and fear under Erdogan. But that is not our struggle, and we have said publicly and will say again that our territory and resources are not going to be used by the PKK or any other groups fighting Turkey. We don’t interfere in the domestic affairs of neighboring countries, and we expect other countries to do the same.

    The fact that Kurdish towns are divided between countries is part of the complexity of our region. Yes, this nuance is difficult for those outside our region to understand, but it is critical. If observers or policymakers fail to grasp it, they will be led to believe false blanket statements — such as the ones Erdogan makes — where he equates us with PKK.

    For Erdogan, the fact that the Syrian Kurds are not the PKK represents an inconvenient truth...

    ...as problems in Turkey continue to grow, his appetite for conflict in Syria will similarly escalate. This was not the first time he bombed us, and it will not be the last. Each time he does, he will call us terrorists and accuse us of being PKK.

    Until Erdogan’s lies are exposed, it will remain convenient for him to engage in this duplicity. But this is the truth: We are not PKK, no matter how often Erdogan says otherwise.
    Emphasis added. Take with a crack cocaine-sized grain of salt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Is he a serving U.S. soldier or a volunteer from the U.S.?
    Serving...

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    Azor...now tell me that this US President does not have some serious issues..

    If the story is correct and it is as it is being leaked by the US IC....then this President has committed a serious security violation and is liable for that under US Federal Law...

    Running his NSA McMaster out to deny it is a complete farce as McMaster is still a full time General and will do what he is told by any US President....

    You just cannot leak highly classified HUMINT intel to anyone especially the Russians when the source can be easily identified and eliminated by IS....SIMPLY in the name of trying to impress the Russians....

    National security experts: Trump's sharing classified info with Russia 'may breach his oath of office'

    IF it is true what was revealed.... it will be easy for the GRU/SVR/FSB to deduce exactly which deep HUMINT source is providing the info that Trump quoted....THIS IS SERIOUS regardless of which person one voted for....

    It is extremely hard to get a solid deep agent into IS/AQ only to have him/her BURNED by Trump based simply on his ego....

    EXAMPLE in 1987 in Celle Germany there was a shoot out between Federal Police and three RAF terrorist...one killed, one wounded and one got away in the hectic...

    The one wounded turned out to be a very deep agent and a member of RAF for over 8 long years...burned because one agency did not check with the other before the capture attempt....that was the only agent that ever got that deep inside RAF...
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Azor...now tell me that this US President does not have some serious issues..

    If the story is correct and it is as it is being leaked by the US IC....then this President has committed a serious security violation and is liable for that under US Federal Law...

    Running his NSA McMaster out to deny it is a complete farce as McMaster is still a full time General and will do what he is told by any US President....

    You just cannot leak highly classified HUMINT intel to anyone especially the Russians when the source can be easily identified and eliminated by IS....SIMPLY in the name of trying to impress the Russians....

    National security experts: Trump's sharing classified info with Russia 'may breach his oath of office'

    IF it is true what was revealed.... it will be easy for the GRU/SVR/FSB to deduce exactly which deep HUMINT source is providing the info that Trump quoted....THIS IS SERIOUS regardless of which person one voted for....

    It is extremely hard to get a solid deep agent into IS/AQ only to have him/her BURNED by Trump based simply on his ego....

    EXAMPLE in 1987 in Celle Germany there was a shoot out between Federal Police and three RAF terrorist...one killed, one wounded and one got away in the hectic...

    The one wounded turned out to be a very deep agent and a member of RAF for over 8 long years...burned because one agency did not check with the other before the capture attempt....that was the only agent that ever got that deep inside RAF...
    REMEMBER this statement from a Republican Congressman....

    Darrell Issa‏
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    What do I say to the marines in my district when Hillary Clinton handles classified information in a careless way yet has no ramifications?

    President Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials during a meeting last week at the White House, two US officials confirmed Monday to BuzzFeed News.
    The meeting included Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The disclosures were first reported by the Washington Post, which cited current and former US officials who said the information was considered so sensitive that some details had been withheld from American allies and was restricted within the US government.
    Two US officials who were briefed on Trump’s disclosures last week confirmed to BuzzFeed News the veracity of the Washington Post report, with one noting that “it’s far worse than what has already been reported.” The official was referring to the extent of the classified intelligence information Trump disclosed to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister.
    The information Trump shared included intelligence on an ISIS plot that had been passed to the US by a partner, which was not identified. But Trump's disclosure was considered a potential blow to the intelligence-sharing arrangement, and White House officials reportedly moved quickly to contain the fallout.
    At least one member of the Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed on Trump’s disclosures, an intelligence committee staffer said. Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the committee, was not briefed, according to his office. Other members of the committee also said they did not receive a briefing.
    FYI, McMaster didn't deny the Intel was passed to RIS -- only that it didn't contain TS+ S&M. Wake up, stop lying.

    Nobody in intel circles is taking McMaster's "denial" seriously. He's a good soldier following orders. Price you pay for working for Trump.

    Confirmation that intel Trump gave to RIS was TS/SAP information obtained from a US ally re #ISIS terrorist plans.

    It's hard to ask our military and intelligence community to risk their lives for intelligence if Trump is just going to blab to our enemies.

    Don't forget that Russian MEDIA was in the White House with them at the time! And that this specifiic Russian state news corp Tass, was involved in a New York Spy ring-
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    Azor...so now will you finally stop defending Trump and his failed Syrian policies as there are none....

    Deputy national security advisor Dina Powell has denied the story as false. Notably, national security advisor General H.R. McMaster limited his denial to the fact that, “At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly.” Likewise, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has denied disclosure of any information on “sources, methods or military operations.” These are both very carefully worded statements that leave open the possibility that classified information was disclosed other than sources and methods or that classified information was disclosed which might be used as a basis to infer sources and methods not directly disclosed. Typically, policies related to the safeguarding of classified information treat both sources and methods information and information pertaining to or related to sources and methods in the same category.
    Again, this statement is carefully worded. The declaration that the story “as reported” is untrue leaves plenty of room for the administration to pinpoint discrepancies in the Post story without denying the substance. And once again, McMaster does not deny that an egregious breach of national security information was revealed, merely that “intelligence sources or methods [were] discussed” and that the President “disclose[d] any military operations that were not publicly known.” The Post’s Greg Miller, one of the two reporters who broke the story, accused the White House of “playing word games” in response to McMaster’s press conference. And indeed, if McMaster meant to be denying that anything harmful was said in the Oval Office, then it is hard to understand why (as the Post reports) “senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency,” or whythe Post agreed not to publish certain details of the plot discussed in the Oval Office after “officials” warned that doing so would “jeopardize important intelligence capabilities."

    There may be disclosures yet to come. According to one current U.S. official quoted in Buzzfeed, the situation is “far worse than what has already been reported.” The New York Times writes that “sharing the information without the express permission of the ally who provided it ... could jeopardize a crucial intelligence-sharing relationship.”

    This is perhaps the gravest allegation of presidential misconduct in the scandal-ridden four months of the Trump administration.


    IF I had ever openly stated what I knew on intel like this dumb move by Trump due to stroking his own ego I would have ended up in prison for a minimum of 10 years....

    REMEMBER I never did say I was in a SF unit in Berlin until 1 JAN 2015....THIRTY years later (DEC 1984 when it was deactivated) and only when the DoD unclassified our existence.....BUT NEVER declassified our missions nor our training, tactics and techniques.....AND the President of the US cannot keep his mouth shut????

    Trump has no earthly idea about intel nor security EVEN AFTER constantly bashing Clinton and her email server....so did his rants of "lock her up" now apply to him????
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    Reminder: Our NATO allies were terrified of Trump's Russia ties even before he passed TS+ to the Kremlin in the WH.
    http://observer.com/2017/05/lennart-...in-elections/#

    L'Affaire Russe is the perfect Trump story. It's got rampant narcissism, an inability 2 shut up, 0 regard 4 laws+norms + profound stupidity.

    What cowardice looks like: McMaster bashes solid reporting while aides privately urge Post to withhold details that'd prove Post was right.
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/o...data.html?_r=0

    When the World is Led by a Child

    He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence. Trump thought he’d be celebrated for firing James Comey. He thought his press coverage would grow wildly positive once he won the nomination. He is perpetually surprised because reality does not comport with his fantasies.
    “We badly want to understand Trump, to grasp him,” David Roberts writes in Vox. “It might give us some sense of control, or at least an ability to predict what he will do next. But what if there’s nothing to understand? What if there is no there there?”
    And out of that void comes a carelessness that quite possibly betrayed an intelligence source, and endangered a country.

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    John Schindler

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    I told you 3 months ago #NSA was withholding some very sensitive intel from the Trump WH. Now you understand why.
    http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-t...sian-embassy/#

    Russian senator on alleged Trump leak to Lavrov: "Sergei Viktorovich is a gifted person… but this is the first time I heard he’s a spy too."

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    Individuals who are "extremely careless" with classified information should be denied further access to such info.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Azor...so now will you finally stop defending Trump and his failed Syrian policies as there are none....



    Again, this statement is carefully worded. The declaration that the story “as reported” is untrue leaves plenty of room for the administration to pinpoint discrepancies in the Post story without denying the substance. And once again, McMaster does not deny that an egregious breach of national security information was revealed, merely that “intelligence sources or methods [were] discussed” and that the President “disclose[d] any military operations that were not publicly known.” The Post’s Greg Miller, one of the two reporters who broke the story, accused the White House of “playing word games” in response to McMaster’s press conference. And indeed, if McMaster meant to be denying that anything harmful was said in the Oval Office, then it is hard to understand why (as the Post reports) “senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency,” or whythe Post agreed not to publish certain details of the plot discussed in the Oval Office after “officials” warned that doing so would “jeopardize important intelligence capabilities."

    There may be disclosures yet to come. According to one current U.S. official quoted in Buzzfeed, the situation is “far worse than what has already been reported.” The New York Times writes that “sharing the information without the express permission of the ally who provided it ... could jeopardize a crucial intelligence-sharing relationship.”

    This is perhaps the gravest allegation of presidential misconduct in the scandal-ridden four months of the Trump administration.


    IF I had ever openly stated what I knew on intel like this dumb move by Trump due to stroking his own ego I would have ended up in prison for a minimum of 10 years....

    REMEMBER I never did say I was in a SF unit in Berlin until 1 JAN 2015....THIRTY years later (DEC 1984 when it was deactivated) and only when the DoD unclassified our existence.....BUT NEVER declassified our missions nor our training, tactics and techniques.....AND the President of the US cannot keep his mouth shut????

    Trump has no earthly idea about intel nor security EVEN AFTER constantly bashing Clinton and her email server....so did his rants of "lock her up" now apply to him????
    We have inside 24 hours gone from Trump declaring this Washington Post article "fake news"

    TO "I have the right to do it".......

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    As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.

    BUT WAIT...this is not the typical Trump tweeting style....someone wrote it for him....

    BUT Trump does not have the right to openly and completely violate US National Security and to ignore Federal Security Regulations and Laws.....

    OR to risk the life of an undercover field agent working for an allied security service....JUST to impress someone......

    ANYONE who fully understands the Russian role in supporting Assad, PKK, IS and Iran knows if they could identify the undercover agent they would kill him....

    SINCE WHEN has the WH Oval Office become a SCIF for Russian visitors to get US intel updates

    Gen. McMaster, Monday night: "It didn't happen."
    President Trump, Tuesday morning: Yes it did.


    "That person is likely dead." - @JulietteKayyem on CNN about source who infiltrated ISIS who the President (THE PRESIDENT) just compromised

    And one senior Nato diplomat quoted by Reuters said: "If true, this is not going to instill confidence in allies already wary of sharing the most sensitive information."

    But he added: "Our story says that the nature of the information provided would have allowed the Russians to 'reverse engineer' to discover the sources and methods. He said so much that they could figure it out."
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    Suweida: Many pro-#Assad forces and heavy weapons arrived in #Suweida in preparation for attacks against #FSA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    We have inside 24 hours gone from Trump declaring this Washington Post article "fake news"

    TO "I have the right to do it".......

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    As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.

    BUT WAIT...this is not the typical Trump tweeting style....someone wrote it for him....

    BUT Trump does not have the right to openly and completely violate US National Security and to ignore Federal Security Regulations and Laws.....

    OR to risk the life of an undercover field agent working for an allied security service....JUST to impress someone......

    ANYONE who fully understands the Russian role in supporting Assad, PKK, IS and Iran knows if they could identify the undercover agent they would kill him....

    SINCE WHEN has the WH Oval Office become a SCIF for Russian visitors to get US intel updates

    Gen. McMaster, Monday night: "It didn't happen."
    President Trump, Tuesday morning: Yes it did.


    "That person is likely dead." - @JulietteKayyem on CNN about source who infiltrated ISIS who the President (THE PRESIDENT) just compromised

    And one senior Nato diplomat quoted by Reuters said: "If true, this is not going to instill confidence in allies already wary of sharing the most sensitive information."
    The upcoming NATO meeting will be about weather and restaurant tips as long as Trump is there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    We have inside 24 hours gone from Trump declaring this Washington Post article "fake news"

    TO "I have the right to do it".......

    Donald J. Trump‏
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    As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.

    BUT WAIT...this is not the typical Trump tweeting style....someone wrote it for him....

    BUT Trump does not have the right to openly and completely violate US National Security and to ignore Federal Security Regulations and Laws.....

    OR to risk the life of an undercover field agent working for an allied security service....JUST to impress someone......

    ANYONE who fully understands the Russian role in supporting Assad, PKK, IS and Iran knows if they could identify the undercover agent they would kill him....

    SINCE WHEN has the WH Oval Office become a SCIF for Russian visitors to get US intel updates

    Gen. McMaster, Monday night: "It didn't happen."
    President Trump, Tuesday morning: Yes it did.


    "That person is likely dead." - @JulietteKayyem on CNN about source who infiltrated ISIS who the President (THE PRESIDENT) just compromised

    And one senior Nato diplomat quoted by Reuters said: "If true, this is not going to instill confidence in allies already wary of sharing the most sensitive information."
    The upcoming NATO meeting will be all about the weather and where are the best places to eat and what tour one will take...ISIS what the heck is that...Syria not sure where that is exactly....Putin who......?

    The Latest: Kremlin calls reports that Trump shared classified info "nonsense," Top German lawmaker expresses alarm.
    http://apne.ws/2pG3EF3

    realDonaldTrump
    I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community.....


    NOW this has just become a one heck of a major farce....
    WH/NSC spokesman Mike Anton emphatically denies that Pres Trump's tweets today confirm disclosure of classified material to Russia.


    WaPo reports Trump's team wanted "full transcript" of mtg w Russians ltd to small grp to contain intel leak. Sure sounds like there r tapes

    SO who decided within the USG IC that determined this had happened and how did they know about the meeting....
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    FSA Jaysh al-Asha'ir targets Assad's forces amassing in Rusheideh east Suwaida south Syria
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32...9476&z=14&m=b#

    More civilians got killed as the number of #AssadPutin air force strikes on the "Homs De-Escalation Zone" surpasses 15 for today.

    Homs: #Assad warplanes bombed #Kafr_Laha in Northern #Homs pocket. Several civilians were killed or wounded.
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34...3063&z=14&m=b#
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    Updated Control & Influence #Map #Syria 15 May 2017 by #Data Shows % of Gains & Loses in the last 30 Days PDF:
    https://goo.gl/oEo4uc

    Assad formed an alliance with German neo-Nazi party Der Dritte Weg.
    http://www.
    jpost.com/Diaspora/German-neo-Nazi-party-builds-alliance-with-Assad-and-Hezbollah-490847#
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    Azor...here it goes on the Kurds....Trump had claimed that he is the greatest "deal maker" and he would convince Erdogan to support his Raqqa plans....

    Well word out of Turkish circles here in Europe is that the US MEANING Trump failed badly in trying to convince the Turks that the US plan to support the PKK would benefit them AND even worse Erdogan did not get assurances that the US would not then turn Raqqa over to Assad...

    Photo op w/ # #Trump was the sole goal of #Erdoğan, who wanted to remedy his post-referendum legitimacy deficit. So, the trip was a success.
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    Azor...notice the YPG/PKK double game they are playing on the US....

    Very likely that #SDF/#YPG hand over #Raqqa city & #Tabqa + dam to #Assad forces

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    E. #Ghouta: clashes continue on Beit Nayem & Muhammadiyah fronts amidst Regime shelling with IRAM rockets.

    ISIS killed #Iran|ian (#IRGC) commander Ali Rida Qabadi. Front unspecified but likely E. #Homs CS.

    E. #Syria: important Regime reinforcements (Rep. Guards etc.) sent to #DeirEzzor through #Qamishli Airport as new push vs #ISIS expected.
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    Daraa: Bunian Marsous op room denounces violation of "de-escalation zone" as Regime tries 2 advance in Manshiyah for 2nd day. Heavy clashes

    Most of pro-Assad killed in Jan.-April 2017 (h/t @HomsDocumentary) were from:
    - Coast (38%)
    - #Hama (17%)
    - #Homs (13%)
    - #Damascus (11%).

    Regime lost 295 officers in January-April 2017: 21 (Brig.) Generals, 32 Colonels, 11 Lt Colonels, 18 Majors & 54 Captains. @HomsDocumentary.

    The 3 deadliest provinces for pro-Assad in 2017 are (h/t @HomsDocumentary):
    - #Damascus (24%)
    - #Aleppo (19%)
    - #Hama (16%).
    1,141 killed

    ISIS took out 2 tanks with #ATGM|s, one N. of #Palmyra Grain Silos where clashes raging since weeks and the 2nd E. of Ithriya (E. #Hama).

    Afghan child soldier of #IRGC's Fatemioun brigade, Esmat Shokouhi, killed in Syria, buried today in Qazvin, Iran.
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    AKIpress news agency (from Italia) report 150 #Russia'n soldiers injured during battles in #Syria the past 2,5 months

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    Default RE: SDF and pro-Assad Forces and Rolling Back Daesh Along the Euphrates

    According to a FSA commander, the Coalition is coordinating with the SDF to prevent pro-Assad forces from advancing toward Deir-ez-Zor. The thinking is that U.S.-led forces will advance along the Euphrates to Deir-ez-Zor and don’t want interference from Damascus, despite the Assad-Daesh conflict over the besieged city.

    Source: https://twitter.com/badly_xeroxed (Cody Roche at Bellingcat)

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