Syria in 2016 (January-March)

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

YPG still attacking FSA in Aleppo.....

BreakingReport
#YPG forces captured the "Youth Housing Complex" outside #SheikhMaqsoud today.
#Aleppo #Syria

ProAssad trolls claimed control again...but evidently not...

Footage
Pro-#Assad (Iranian-sponsored) forces near #Khanaser.
NOT yet back under control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIp5GICtygM …

Footage
Al-Lataminah in #Hama province is under "Russian" air strikes as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoa3zoQb2tU …

Footage
Air strikes also resumed on #Douma near #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHZm2y6FNtc …

Footage
Also civilians in #Saraqib in #Idlib province, are under air strikes again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfXj8_v2r4 …

Update
Visual confirmation, pro-#Assad forces recaptured Rasm an Nafal.
#Aleppo #Syria

Footage
#Assad keeps killing civilians in #TerMaela, #Homs province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKWwUAER0s …

Footage
Reported "Russian" air strike on #Saida in #Daraa province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFQEfa2WstM …

BUT WAIT.....Russian MoD stated they have flown fewer air strikes over the last two days....they are lying again it appears....

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Russian MoD totally hates being called war criminals...tries to now blame the Turks who are not killing civilians with deliberate air strikes....

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
#SYRIA Instead of unsubstantiated accusations Amnesty Intl,Human Rights Watch,Medecins Sans Frontieres should assess criminal actions Turkey

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
Rus-American agreements aren't acceptable for everyone,esp.in north #SYRIA where shelling of Syrian bordering towns from Turkish territory

Russian 6Ds of propaganda hard at work......

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

Russian MoD totally hates being called war criminals...tries to now blame the Turks who are not killing civilians with deliberate air strikes....

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
#SYRIA Instead of unsubstantiated accusations Amnesty Intl,Human Rights Watch,Medecins Sans Frontieres should assess criminal actions Turkey

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
Rus-American agreements aren't acceptable for everyone,esp.in north #SYRIA where shelling of Syrian bordering towns from Turkish territory

Russian 6Ds of propaganda hard at work......

Russian MoD continues their unabated lying campaign that equals their deliberate killing of civilians.....

Today they claimed at their briefing they flew 62 sorties hitting 187 IS and JN targets.....

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
#SYRIA Russian aircraft continue making strikes on objects of these international terrorists of #ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra

AND then they listed all the military things they hit.....

NOW go back and reread the bombing reports I posted just today that came in from the Sunni towns and villages hit and the numbers of civilians either killed and or wounded....

NONE of these towns that reported air strikes via video footage were bases for IS and or JN......BUT they were for the FSA....interestingly determined to NOT be a terrorist group by the UNSC and the US......

So I guess the famous Russian precision air strikes "mistook" a local community food market as a major IS encampment but how can that be with such Russian precision guided munitions????????

Especially since it was the same "local food market that has been hit four times in the past five months by the Russians......

Man does IS regenerate their fighters fast and always seem to put them in the same exact location as the local food market.......

One might think that IS being "hit five times in a local market" might change their local AFTER the first air strike....?

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

Russian MoD continues their unabated lying campaign that equals their deliberate killing of civilians.....

Today they claimed at their briefing they flew 62 sorties hitting 187 IS and JN targets.....

Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
#SYRIA Russian aircraft continue making strikes on objects of these international terrorists of #ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra

AND then they listed all the military things they hit.....

NOW go back and reread the bombing reports I posted just today that came in from the Sunni towns and villages hit and the numbers of civilians either killed and or wounded....

NONE of these towns that reported air strikes via video footage were bases for IS and or JN......BUT they were for the FSA....interestingly determined to NOT be a terrorist group by the UNSC and the US......

So I guess the famous Russian precision air strikes "mistook" a local community food market as a major IS encampment but how can that be with such Russian precision guided munitions????????

Especially since it was the same "local food market that has been hit four times in the past five months by the Russians......

Man does IS regenerate their fighters fast and always seem to put them in the same exact location as the local food market.......

One might think that IS being "hit five times in a local market" might change their local AFTER the first air strike....?

Barbaric multiple regime barrel bomb attacks on besieged #Daraya west #Damascus
http://youtu.be/7zTXsUbxMW0

Regime dropping bombs on Daraya again
http://youtu.be/GaJsBO5tmK0
https://youtu.be/kKEnMNZSVAA
https://youtu.be/FtfAaPr78hA

SYRIA: SAA general claims operation against 'Jabhat al-Nusra' will continue in Daraya even with a cease fire -

BUT WAIT...JaN is not even anywhere close to being in the area.......???? So we now see exactly how Assad and Putin handles the term "terrorists can be bombed" as they define what the ceasefire document states......

AND MORE Russian air strikes on those IS/JaN positions they claimed today to being hit.

Destruction aftermath #RUSSIA airstrikes on #Ariha, killing 10civilians including 3 children
#Idlib cs #Syria FEB 24
https://youtu.be/Gw5zq2glPHU

RUSSIA renew it's airstrikes on #Kafr_Zeta now
#Hama cs #Syria FEB 24

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Amaq News Agency claims that 220 regime soldiers have been killed in Khanaser attack.

SAA shelling using #RUSSIA MLRS targeted civilians houses in outskirts of #alCastelo Road
#Hama cs #Syria FEB 24

Victims of #SAA shelling using #RUSSIA MLRS on #alCastelo
#Hama cs #Syria FEB 24
2 Martyrs so far:
1-Emad Suleiman
2-Tariq Nazir Darwish

4 "Unknown" warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting a Park & the Faculty of Science in #alHaweq neighborhood
#DeirEzzor #Syria FEB 24

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

Barbaric multiple regime barrel bomb attacks on besieged #Daraya west #Damascus
http://youtu.be/7zTXsUbxMW0

Regime dropping bombs on Daraya again
http://youtu.be/GaJsBO5tmK0
https://youtu.be/kKEnMNZSVAA
https://youtu.be/FtfAaPr78hA

SYRIA: SAA general claims operation against 'Jabhat al-Nusra' will continue in Daraya even with a cease fire -

BUT WAIT...JaN is not even anywhere close to being in the area.......???? So we now see exactly how Assad and Putin handles the term "terrorists can be bombed" as they define what the ceasefire document states......

AND MORE Russian air strikes on those IS/JaN positions they claimed today to being hit.

Destruction aftermath #RUSSIA airstrikes on #Ariha, killing 10civilians including 3 children
#Idlib cs #Syria FEB 24
https://youtu.be/Gw5zq2glPHU

RUSSIA renew it's airstrikes on #Kafr_Zeta now
#Hama cs #Syria FEB 24

US Military and Intelligence Leaders In Agreement That Russia Won't Honor Cease-Fires
http://on.wsj.com/1XKjFAD
pic.twitter.com/RGPsMm3wQ0

JUST as he did not honor nor fulfill a single point in the Minsk 2 agreement....

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-24-2016

Interesting question........does in fact the Syrian Cessation of Hostilities actually signal the de facto break up of Syria...

Was this all along the US PLAN C......?????

**CrowBat** · 02-24-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

CrowBat.....anything on this..there had been a unknown blast reported and posted as such but then silence since the report.......

There was a big meeting in Jableh, and it was blown up. There's no doubt about this.

But, 'dozens of generals' is certainly an exaggeration. There's only a handful of generals in the HQ of the 58th Army - partially because most of Russian units deployed in Syria are battalion-sized (there's not a single 'brigade-sized' unit, for example).

And then: how many Russians were killed... I doubt Keystone Cops migth ever let us know.

...except through such 'retaliation' like bombing of Sarqib today...

CrowBat.....have you heard anything about these Russian so called peace treaties.....??

...if this would be a comedy, Keystone Cops in Moscow would've landed a major coup...

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

CrowBat...this will interest you...concerns the Russian Syrian Express...appears that the Russian Army is now having to haul fuel all over the battlefield...this is the first reported sighting of military fuel tankers on their Syrian Express ships and the first use of a commercial RORO......

Either that or Russia is preparing to send in a larger military force with armor and IFVs....these fuelers are often seen in eastern Ukraine where the Russian army has over 500 tanks and over 800 IFVs....

This is how unarmed/unarmored support vehicles are sent to Syria; On civilian cargo ships. A.Tkachenko on Bosphorus

There are 9 highly flammable (огнеопасный) liquid tank trailers along with approx 25 trucks on top deck of Tkachenko

NOTE: being carried on a commercial RORO...evidently their own fleet is incapable to either carrying them or this does indicate more troops are coming.......

The obviously military cargo vehicles on a commercial RoRo is a resourceful way of Russia expanding its supply lines

BUT the RORO is filing false end destination data which is highly illegal in the shipping business....

Russian government chartered RO-RO continues to file false AIS data, Supposedly Limassol-bound but going to #Tartus

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Now we see the so called "Biden Plan for Iraq" being possibly implemented in Syria?????

Michael Weiss ✔ @michaeldweiss
Does Obama Want to Carve Up Syria?
http://thebea.st/21iiMVs

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

CrowBat...this will interest you...concerns the Russian Syrian Express...appears that the Russian Army is now having to haul fuel all over the battlefield...this is the first reported sighting of military fuel tankers on their Syrian Express ships and the first use of a commercial RORO......

Either that or Russia is preparing to send in a larger military force with armor and IFVs....these fuelers are often seen in eastern Ukraine where the Russian army has over 500 tanks and over 800 IFVs....

This is how unarmed/unarmored support vehicles are sent to Syria; On civilian cargo ships. A.Tkachenko on Bosphorus

There are 9 highly flammable (огнеопасный) liquid tank trailers along with approx 25 trucks on top deck of Tkachenko

NOTE: being carried on a commercial RORO...evidently their own fleet is incapable to either carrying them or this does indicate more troops are coming.......

The obviously military cargo vehicles on a commercial RoRo is a resourceful way of Russia expanding its supply lines

BUT the RORO is filing false end destination data which is highly illegal in the shipping business....

Russian government chartered RO-RO continues to file false AIS data, Supposedly Limassol-bound but going to #Tartus

CrowBat...Russian troops are inbound if this is correct.....statements reflects large number of officers with peacekeeping experience.....this IMO tends to point to both the Russian 14th and 15th Peacekeeping Mech Infantry/Armor Brigades are coming in as these are the two Russian designated UN peacekeeping brigades as one would not be able to fully cover Syria with one.

WHY do I say this...check the last paragraph of the Russian statement ...taken straight from their peacekeeping doctrinal presentation which I have a copy of....

Have trained the staff of the 15th in 2012 and 2013 and even got them over to using the US decision making processes (MDMP) including reporting processes complete with translated reports will be interesting to see what they kept and what they discarded in the coming months.

Russian Embassy, UAE ✔ @RusEmbassyUAE
#Russia has started a complex work aimed at #reconciliation in #Syria |
http://goo.gl/Vkq3S9 | #روسيا #سوريا
pic.twitter.com/VsCFUYKj5a

These two brigades would in fact have enough firepower to counter any cross overs by Turkey and or KSA into Syria...if linked into the Russian forces already in Syria......

Want to bet neither Kerry and or Obama knew this when they were negotiating with the Russians otherwise he would not have been talking about a Plan B or DoD/IC would not be saying Russians will not hold to the ceasefire....

BTW ...their unrestricted SOFA fully allows for major stationing of Russian troops and indicates to me Assad is in place until 2020 much as he stated in his interviews and press releases the last two weeks....

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Are there any moderates left at @UN? "Syrian Minister’s Wife Named by @UN to Assess Mental Health of the Displaced" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/wo...displaced.html …

Ever wonder why the UN was in "bed" with Assad and why they had their major UN HQs for Syria in Damascus BUT could not somehow recognize the Assad starvation tactic nor reported accurately the sheer numbers of civilians being starved to death???

And the so called UN is suppose to be "neutral"....?

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

FSA says no ceasefire without Daraya. Assad dropped 50 bombs on Daraya today.
http://youtu.be/3UF3agvRUHk
https://youtu.be/e6nR-1aCqxY

Everyone except Putin and Assad knows neither IS nor JaN is positioned anywhere inside Daraya....

No ceasefire without #Daraya. Our #FSA stronghold in W#Damascus. Over 200kms away from #daesh & no nusra presence there. It must be included

Appears that Russia and Assad do not really care what the US agreed to and if one notices the US really does not complain does it????

Pro regime people say #Ahrar will not be included by #Russia but attacked. That's not what #US agreed to.

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

YPG/PYD/PKK have said they will adhere to #Syria's ceasefire. But, like Assad and Russia, they call all non-IS insurgents "al-Qaeda".

Notice both Assad and Putin declared they will continue to bomb IS and JaN and "other terrorists" then in their fine print they add "{as determined by the UNSC"...but here is not a very clear UNSC who else is on the list.....SO FAS assumes Assad and Putin still define anyone resisting Assad to be a "terrorist" so really the bombing will never stop.

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

CrowBat...Russian troops are inbound if this is correct.....statements reflects large number of officers with peacekeeping experience.....this IMO tends to point to both the Russian 14th and 15th Peacekeeping Mech Infantry/Armor Brigades are coming in as these are the two Russian designated UN peacekeeping brigades as one would not be able to fully cover Syria with one.

WHY do I say this...check the last paragraph of the Russian statement ...taken straight from their peacekeeping doctrinal presentation which I have a copy of....

Have trained the staff of the 15th in 2012 and 2013 and even got them over to using the US decision making processes (MDMP) including reporting processes complete with translated reports will be interesting to see what they kept and what they discarded in the coming months.

Russian Embassy, UAE ✔ @RusEmbassyUAE
#Russia has started a complex work aimed at #reconciliation in #Syria |
http://goo.gl/Vkq3S9 | #روسيا #سوريا
pic.twitter.com/VsCFUYKj5a

These two brigades would in fact have enough firepower to counter any cross overs by Turkey and or KSA into Syria...if linked into the Russian forces already in Syria......

Want to bet neither Kerry and or Obama knew this when they were negotiating with the Russians otherwise he would not have been talking about a Plan B or DoD/IC would not be saying Russians will not hold to the ceasefire....

BTW ...their unrestricted SOFA fully allows for major stationing of Russian troops and indicates to me Assad is in place until 2020 much as he stated in his interviews and press releases the last two weeks....

Russian FM has stated a number of times in the last two days that Russia and the US are trying to get a supporting UNSC resolution through to support the CoH agreements.....BUT do they really mean getting a "peacekeeping mission via the UNSC" with US approval???

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

News
Seven Russian air strikes hit #JisrAlShughour yesterday.
No casualties as many fled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWl4nRoF4ME …

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

FSA says no ceasefire without Daraya. Assad dropped 50 bombs on Daraya today.
http://youtu.be/3UF3agvRUHk
https://youtu.be/e6nR-1aCqxY

Everyone except Putin and Assad knows neither IS nor JaN is positioned anywhere inside Daraya....

No ceasefire without #Daraya. Our #FSA stronghold in W#Damascus. Over 200kms away from #daesh & no nusra presence there. It must be included

Appears that Russia and Assad do not really care what the US agreed to and if one notices the US really does not complain does it????

Pro regime people say #Ahrar will not be included by #Russia but attacked. That's not what #US agreed to.

In Germany......
Video
Der Damaskus-Vorort #Daraya heute.
#Assad's Massenmrder sind weiter fleiig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TiXPm6SoE

TV report from besieged #Damascus subs
Darayya/Maadamiyeh
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/syr...empfe-107.html …
In German....

46 barrelbombs hit #Daraya yesterday

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

CrowBat...this was evidently the Russian revenge attack for the VBIED attack on their officers...

Deadly air raid hit a market in Ariha. 15 people killed while buying food. #Idlib #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK0_lPdN064 …

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Assad and Putin have now destroyed 28 hospitals...in the last five months via deliberate air strikes.......

Syria Marj hospital serving 55k people in E. Ghouta destroyed by Assad bombing last week
http://youtu.be/ihFrJmJ2GcQ

BUT WAIT Russian MoD claims they have never hit a single hospital anywhere in Syria and for that matter anywhere in the ME...it was the bad aiming of the USAF.....

**OUTLAW 09** · 02-25-2016

Does this make any sense to any SWJ reader....?

UN parachute 21 tons aid supplies into regime hold parts of #DeirEzzor city
Note: They have an airbase

BUT WAIT 21 tons to an Assad town but no much of anything else yet to Sunni towns (total of 470K) besieged by Assad/Putin/Hezbollah and Shia militia STILL has not occurred...aid is being held up in fact by Assad forces in a number of locations and not allowed through...ALL for show it appears.....as the UN does not officially complain about the aid being stopped by Assad nor does Putin say a single word......