Isis play for Homs. Timed with fall of Aleppo and coming Raqqa offensive:
http://in.reuters.com/article/mideas...-idINKBN14119R …
Syrian rebel official: 'We will not make any concessions' to Russia or Assad
http://read.bi/2hqOpIA
Syria #Aleppo municipal stadium in city center transformed
to concentration camp
Isis play for Homs. Timed with fall of Aleppo and coming Raqqa offensive:
http://in.reuters.com/article/mideas...-idINKBN14119R …
Syria Queiq river in #Aleppo south of regime hold city center 2013:
110 executed men fished out by residents
Aleppo: Pro-#Assad forces, including #Hezbollah, torturing people in Eastern #Aleppo. Video from earlier today.
Deliberate and brutal torture...will not post it......
Includes brutal beatings of wounded and injured......
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Human Rights Watch
✔ @hrw "We have no oxygen canisters left...We have no ICU. The medical situation we’re in reduces us to tears"~ #Aleppo doc
http://bit.ly/2hmov8D
ALL Western leaders of all Western nations are now fully and completely complicit in the ongoing genocide in Aleppo.....
NOT a single word out of the entire UNSC....
CrowBat...anything on your end about this Turkish claim??????
Palmyra: Turkish security sources claimed that #Assad regime has deliberately left high-range anti-aircraft missiles for #ISIS in #Palmyra.
Have not seen anything in the various posted videos on this.....
Assad forces conducted field executions against 35 civilians in #Bustan_Alqasr
A24 sources confirmed there were about 7 women executed with other +70 persons in mass execution by #Assad/#Russia in Aleppo
Multiple reports of pro-#Assad forces mass executing rebels & civilians and burning their bodies in the last pocket of #Aleppo.
Mass executions are taking place in East Aleppo at the hands of the regime. Several reports. All trustworthy.
Aleppo Many reports of field executions of civilians & rebels alike by Assad/Iranian militias in Sakhour, Salihin, Bustan al-Qasr & Fardous
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Syria #Aleppo Rebels still hold several neigborhoods (were armed uprising started years ago)
Hama: Dozens of civilians were killed and 450 wounded by #Assad poison gas attacks in Eastern #Hama.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Sarin use is being claimed.....
RE: Fall of Aleppo
It is clear that the Assadists are engaged in mopping up operations, and that Aleppo has fallen.
How does this set back the FSA in terms of manpower and civilians under its control?
The rebel combatant losses seem rather light according to Wikipedia (yes, I know).
What's next for the FSA?
Would suggest reading everything written by Weiss...Lister and Orton in the last three months...as they have covered it....
IMHO they are heading for a strong long term guerrilla war with Assad holding major cities but not the countryside and the LOCs to those towns opening him up to a very strong guerrilla based war.....with FSA controlling the countryside vs the cities under Assad.....leads to the interesting question can Assad feed the cities without major aid from Russia and Iran if the FSA controls the countryside?
Basically both FSA and IS have been largely able to openly move around the country at will in large convoys never getting bombed or seen...
The Sunni's now see themselves as the only one's interested in removing Assad and they will not give up that idea....and it appears that Russia is being dragged deeper into that guerrilla war....yes they can flatten cities and towns but in the end Assad and Iran had to move every available soldier into Aleppo to take it...weakening themselves everywhere else in Syria.....they can take short victories but lack the manpower to hold large areas under their control....
Would watch now the Sunni Front States and how they position themselves after the fall of Aleppo....especially what position Turkey takes.....
IF the Shia executions continue against Sunni's in Aleppo....watch the gloves come off FSA and JFS....they have largely refrained from causing Assad controlled areas massive damages from indiscriminate shelling's and attacks..in their drive to protect the overall population of both sides.
BBC News - Have Russian hitmen been killing with impunity in Turkey?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38294204#
Emergency operations chief of Doctors Without Borders tells @franceinfo he deplores the lack of intl. solidarity with #Syrians
'Liberation' of Aleppo, Assadist-style...
- Reports of children burned alive and mass executions in the street as Aleppo falls to Syrian Army
- summary execution of 79 in Sakhour, Salihin, and Fardous,
- summary execution of 37 in Bustan al-Qasr District,
- summary execution of 200 in Qalseh District,
- summary execution of 14 from Ajam, Hassan and Masri families, 29 from Fasier, Hajjar, Sande families, 25 from Ako and Fael families in Fardous and Salhin Districts,
- massacres by IRGC's Iraqi Shi'a jihadists,
- reports about rape at regime checkpoints,
... and so on. In essence, this is like if Jews would have had the ability to live-stream Nazi massacres during the WWII...
Evidence? Assadists are happily sharing resulting photos around the Twitter. Sorry if I'm too disgusted to 'share' these.
...all of which is little surprising considering it's not only the worst Shabbiha thugs of Liwa Suqour as-Sahra and the Fawj Maghawir al-Bahr ('Sea Commandos') but also the Syrian Nazis of the SSNP, plus IRGC's Iraqi Shi'a jihadists that were unleashed upon civilians there...
Preliminary figures are indicating that they've already massacred about tenfold more people in Aleppo of the last few days alone, than the Daesh in all of the last two years...
Hope, all the Assad-, Putler- and IRGc-fans are going to enjoy this, and I'm sure they'll do their best to white-wash it. Others can continue to ignore it, just to have 'clean conscience': why care, it's Christmas time...
Fighting-wise, there's not that much to report as the insurgent defences inside Aleppo de-facto collapsed. Few exceptions were such like:
- Katiba Abu al-Joud (JAI) fought to the last in Qalseh District;
- insurgents have thwarted an IRGC advance into Sallahaddin District, but have definitely lost Sheikh Saeed District;
- fighting is currently concentrated on Sallahaddin District.
That's the centrepiece of the uprising in Aleppo ever since mid-2011, so I guess, the battle is going to 'end' there too (massacres: certainly not).
That aside,
- Assadists are already celebrating the end of battle; and
- their fans abroad are declaring the battle for over, supposedly 'as rebels withdraw' (without saying where, though)...
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Flying activity
Russians launched only two air strikes the whole night, then two at 06.45 - guess because they are so 'angry' with the Daesh. Assadists started flying around 07.45, when a single Su-22 took off from Shayrat in NE direction... (considering the supposedly 'critical' situation in regards of Palmyra, nonchalance of the regime remains nothing short of 'amazing').
Instead, they then began launching the usual stream of air strikes on Eastern Aleppo - foremost by helicopters from as-Safira. It was only around 10.00hrs that four Su-22s were launched from Tiyas that all went in eastern direction - i.e. presumably attacked Daesh. From time to time, they were followed by single MiG-23s from Shayrat, and - around 11.09 - 'even' by one Su-24...
Russians meanwhile continued at a leisure pace, launching a total of fantastic 6 air strikes by 11.00hrs... Some of these against Raqqa, as can be read further below. Activity of VKS reconnaissance aircraft can also only be described as 'frenetic': one UAV and one recce aircraft (type not recognized) were observed over Khan Sheikhoun, in south-western Idlib Governorate around the noon. 15-20 minutes later, 2 Russians bombed Ma'arat an-Nauman and Sarqib... around 12.40, two others bombed Khan Touman.
Eventually, it was only between 13.00 and 15.00hrs, that ops of Su-22s and MiG-23s from Shayrat picked some pace: about 20 of their take-offs were registered. On the contrary, Su-24s bombed Idlib and few other places around.
Russians then 'took over' around 18.00hr, launching four additional air strikes - and with that, the flying day was over.
Totals:
SyAAF
helicopters: 16
L-39: 0
MiG-21: 6
MiG-23: 12 (most of these against Daesh)
Su-22: 29 (14-15 of these against Daesh)
Su-24: 8
UAVs: 2
VKS: 25
V-MF: 2
helicopters: 1 (yup, 1 Mi-24)
recce: 1
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al-Bab
TSK/FSyA forces have entered the Zamzam District (western al-Bab), but for my taste, the THK and Turkish artillery are now getting much too trigger-happy too, with rather tragic consequences for the local population, as can be seen here or here (both videos confirmed to have been taken yesterday.
While I'm still trying to find out what was targeted there, one of local activists has pointed me at the weapon used in both cases as Turkish variant of the GBU-31 - which is a strange choice: AFAIK, CENTCOM, for example, would never come to the idea to use a 907kg warhead in the middle of a densely populated area. It's simply too hefty.
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Raqqa
Russians discovered there's Daesh in Raqqa, so bombed the place - and promptly hit one of local markets, massacring 20 civilians.
...was the most obvious 'target', I guess...
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Hama
Multiple air strikes deployed Sarin gas to murder 85 civilians in Jruh, Salaliya, and Hamada Omar villages, in Aqeerbat area, in Daesh-held parts of eastern Hama... (that said, there are reports citing up to 93 civilians killed there). That's then called Russians pounding ISIS oil tankers.
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Homs
Meanwhile, Tiyas AB is surrounded from three sides, and the Daesh issued an ultimatum for Assadists there to withdraw or face consequences (see 'massacre'). Assad-fans are reporting arrival of '16 SAA special forces'[/URL], but gauging by who is emitting videos of this kind, it's [s]Hezbollah[/s]...erm... 'Syrian Arab Army' of course... that's fighting there now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTmM-zphOU
...and they 'launched a small counter-attack... :roll:
Haven't seen any kind of evidence for this.
The total count based on videos and photos released by the Daesh so far is as follows:
- 19 MBTs
- 6 BMPs
- 1 ZSU-23-4
...and colossal amounts of ammo and supplies, supposedly - at least according to this Russian journo - stocked for 'spring offensive on Dayr az-Zawr',
Of course, few minutes later the same came back to waste more electrons by declaring, 'Palmyra was inside great propaganda, it has 'zero military significance because of Russian operation is limited'...
Syrian regime forces excute all the members of the medical staff in Alhayat clinic in Alkalaseh neighborhood in #Aleppo
White Helmets on the situation in Aleppo now: "All streets and destroyed buildings are full with dead bodies. It's hell."
BREAKING: Syrian military has executed women and children in eastern Aleppo
(Via Al-Jazeera)
As Aleppo is falling, German FM repeats "there's no military solution to the conflict". Don't know what to say
https://twitter.com/AuswaertigesAmt/...7643411046401#
Russia says Syrian govt forces now control over 98% of #Aleppo. Rebel forces control max 3km2.UN alarmed by rpts of atrocities in final push
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Charles Lister
✔
@Charles_Lister
Take note - While ploughing unprecedented [foreign] resources into #Aleppo battle, #Assad, #Russia & #Iran accepted #Palmyra loss to #ISIS.
"If we ever wonder when the new Middle Ages began, I'll reply: when the West watched the mass killings in Aleppo"
AND did absolutely nothing and remained absolutely silent.....
“We are people, are being deleted from the human map." A stream of agonizing SOS msgs fm Aleppo, via @ABarnardNYT.
http://nyti.ms/2gxXfqI
Russia-backed #genocide in #Aleppo: Last Rebels in Aleppo Say Assad Forces Are Burning People Alive
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...le-alive.html#
Syria has brought many horrors, but witnessing last desperate words of #Aleppo's activists, teachers, medics, as it falls - no words.
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Syria Any pics of rebel ammo /weapons stores seized by #Assad-forces? There must be tons. Regime show only some rusty hell cannons.
Syria 3 years of bombardment with daily 30 dead in #Aleppo = 30.000 dead
- with daily 50 dead in Aleppo = 50.000 dead
-estimates-
Salem Abulnassr Doctor Fr East #Aleppo speak to world,80k Civilians left in 5 districts Besieged
Syrian govt TV accidentally interview woman whose sons were killed by govt airstrikes, too much cog dissonance.
Syria Heavy night clashes at the gates of T4 Tiyas airbase -#IS try to storm it
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34...14&m=b#…
In shortest possible terms:
- Most of the FSyA and other insurgent groups are still perfectly intact: it turned out one of major reasons for such a quick collapse of Aleppo is the fact that very few insurgents (less than 4,000, perhaps as little as 3,000, instead of usually reported 7,000-8,000) were left inside Aleppo.
- But, not only the FSyA, but even the Ahrar and various other groups can now be expected to get further extremised by the massacres instigated by Assadists and the IRGC inside Aleppo (Ahrar has already announced that 'gloves are now off');
- foremost, they'll now become more vulnerable to all sorts of al-Qaida's lures than ever before; even more so because for them it's now perfectly clear that not only West betrayed them (and is only a step short of entering a military pact with Moscow and Iran), but that all of their supposed supporters from the Gulf did the same, too.
One can expect some of forces in question to attempt launching an insurgency-style war behind the frontlines - like few of them are already test-running in northern Hama - though that's going to get particularly hard considering the scope of ethnic cleansings there. Nevertheless, even under such conditions, that's only going to bolster al-Qaida'a influence and result in an entirely new, most savage phase of this war one can imagine.
Bottom line: NOW - i.e. in 2017 - all of the West is 'finally' going to get the kind of war in Syria everybody is talking about since 2011: one between Islamic extremists and everybody else.
Congratulations.
Jesus friggin Christ was this a deliberate Assad/Putin resupply run for the IS as they face Turkey and FSA?????
Syria #IslamicState publish list of spoils seized in #Palmyra
44 main battle tanks
Aleppo White Helmets: 90+ bodies under rubble we can’t dig out, we hear women & children under rubble we cant rescue due to intense bombing
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Those who could, did nothing.
Germany, US, Turkey etc.
Aleppo this last evening.
The last hours of the town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_tKxBTr3I#…
1st reactions to the total destruction of eastern #Aleppo: #Russian and #Iranian State news celebrating.
#Hezbollah rejects mass executions.
OrientNews now reports 200 people executed in two neighborhoods alone
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