CrowBat, thank you for your informative updates, much appreciated.


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Since yesterday evening, there is a regime assault on Sheik Najjar Industrial City north of Aleppo. The involved force is said to consist of a mix of about two 'task forces' in size (something like 8 companies/2 battalions), with 20 T-55s and T-72s, supported by UAVs.

Note: this attack was launched by night. Given the 'history' of nocturnal attacks on insurgents in Syria by now, this - plus involvement of UAVs - is making it crystal clear who's in charge of that operation.

For those that might be wondering about what do the Syrians 'actually' think, here a very useful report, titled Aleppo Mapping Project.

My experience is that similar 'wild mix of reasons, motives etc.' can be found everywhere else around that country.

Also interesting, is this article from Israel, citing quite some Hezbollah losses in Syria so far: 350 KIA and about 1,000 WIA.

Some of latest rumours I've heard are even higher (about 450 KIA and more than 1,300 WIA).

Whatever, the point is that the Hezbollah has three small brigades deployed around Qalamoun Mountain Range (along the central part of the Lebanese-Syrian border), with two inside Syria and one inside Lebanon. Since none of these is larger than about 1,200 people, that's quite a chunk of losses they have suffered in about one year of fighting.