Absolute horror inside #Aleppo hospitals this evening as @sams_usa doctors are overwhelmed with casualties #Syria
Regime/Russia strategy to besiege & starve Rebel-held #Aleppo (~300,000 ppl) already producing first food shortages
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/w...article/469602 …?
Thuwar Al-Sham took out an alleged ATGM launcher with #Malyutka on #Mallah front, N. #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo1PquSnQ9U …
ATGM hit on T-72 confirms Regime gains on Shihan Avenue, btwn Khaldiya & Bani Zeid, #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36....127073&z=17&m …
Urban warfare: very short range Malyutka strike by Thuwar Sham vs T-72 in Bani Zeid, #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnGXRzc0ByI …
Bulk of pro-Assad recently killed in #Aleppo:
- Syrians from Coast, Homs & #Aleppo provinces
- Palestinians
- Iranians-Hazaras
- Hezbollah
E. #Ghouta under increasing pressure: Rebel pocket reduced by ~20% since April. Unprecedented since 2013.
Assault from Al-Quds' Palestinians on #Handarat camp preceded by night shelling with cluster bombs, N. #Aleppo.
SAA are attempting to merge from Mallah & Layramoun at Bani Zaid, YPG in SMaqsood would act as buffer for E flank
Fatah Halab launches assaults around Aleppo citadel, while Jaysh al Fatah wants them to attack south at Ramouseh. https://twitter.com/syria_rebel_obs/...91481257172992 …
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Absolute horror inside #Aleppo hospitals this evening as @sams_usa doctors are overwhelmed with casualties #Syria
In #Russia published book of Russian #weapons in #Syria.Praises possibility to combat proven
http://oborona.gov.ru/news/view/11542
Syria's southern tribes are growing increasingly restless in protest against #Jordan's constraint of FSA.
Expect this to surface soon.
Sayf al-Sham, one of the stronger US-vetted groups in #FSA's Southern Front, battling #IS in western Deraa.
https://youtu.be/T_TwamdCf7s
In Kiswa, West Ghouta, al-Ittihad al-Islami li Ajnad al-Sham is cracking down on activists, monopolizing control.
http://bit.ly/28NpOc4
Abu Islam al-Lubnani, suicide bomber for Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda #Syria), attacked pro-#Assad forces in Qalamoun.
Fred Hof: The battalion of straw men deployed against State Dept dissidents shows they have a point.
http://goo.gl/ebPkVl
Jaysh al-Islam, other rebels, resisting pro-#Assad coalition, backed by #Russia's airstrikes, in East Ghouta
At least 90 civilians killed, tens wounded in heavy airstrikes across rebel-held parts of Aleppo, Homs and Idlib since Friday.
In his latest audio, #AQ top leader Al-#Zawahiri labeled #ISIS ideologues/leaders as "officers & intelligence [personnel] of Saddam" Hussein
Which is another way of saying that AQ and ISIS ain't gonna kiss and make up.
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Ali Allawi: "#ISIS...were around...in the shadows in the 1990s...well, well before the #Iraq invasion."
https://youtu.be/9Ek9ZcOXR_A
I have been commenting often in SWJ that we were already facing when we arrived in Baghdad a Phase Two guerrilla war being fought since the early 1990s by Iraqi Salafists in the underground against Saddam..and the forerunner of IS (QJBR) had been active inside Iraq from the early 2000 time frame...we just did not see it.....
Aleppo: #Syria|n rebels started an assault against pro-#Assad forces on Al-#Miyasat hill north of #Aleppo City.
Russian soldiers in Palmyra (Tadmor), Syria. Drum magazine in the AK, previously seen only in special units of FSB
Rebels (Fath Halab) started an assault on Al-Miyasat strategic hill north Aleppo.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...99793&z=15&m=b …
Russian bombers targeted IDP camps east Syria instead of #IS killing 17 ppl according to FSA
https://youtu.be/gPPtkohR5NM
Tajamu Fastqem wiped out with #TOW 2 14.5 mm guns + crew on top of Municipal Palace, #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJhpXoiT_h0 …
Heavy clashes reported in Al-Breij area between Rebels & pro-Regime forces, NE #Aleppo. 1 Gvozdika destroyed.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36....209792&z=15&m …
Rebel leaders in Idlib & key figures should take extra OPSEC precautions, expect new attempts to behead JaF like happened with Ahrar & JN.
Russian carpet bombing (probably on #ISIS positions) in Eastern Desert filmed by Rebels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPtkohR5NM …
Seems Russia concerned over #ISIS inching closer to #Palmyra as 6 long-range Tu-22M3 bombers reportedly struck ISIS
http://tass.ru/en/defense/887758 …?
Yesterday clashes between Sultan Murad & pro-Regime forces on the #Aleppo Citadel perimeter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxSG8V7A10c …
No recent Regime gain near M4 as 1st Coastal Div.'s T-55 shelling Tell Mokhtar, N. #Latakia.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35....117682&z=14&m …
https://youtu.be/w1zV9Z7YYLQ
Southern Front's ceasefire while last 24hrs Regime bombed Tseel, Adwan, Jilin, attempted to advance in Manshiya & shelled Rebel-held #Daraa.
First Regiment tried to prevent Regime from building defenses in Sheikh Said striking a bulldozer w/ #Fagot, #Aleppo
https://youtu.be/etTe0LALZxQ
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Rare #Assad Il-76 cargo flight from #Hama to #Damascus.
Is #Assad Close to a Victory That Could Turn the War in #Syria? #Aleppo
http://goo.gl/GFvPUZ
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister
Kerry buying #Russia's position?
Appears so
NOW we can see exactly how Kerry has blown it again ......this is not the first time he has misspoken to the point that it makes one think he actually works as the DoS for Putin....BUT again maybe he is just channeling the Obama/Rhodes WH thinking on Syria......
John Kerry labeled Ahrar al-Sham & Jaish al-Islam "subgroups" of AQ & #ISIS last week.
By Josh Rogin July 12 at 7:01 AM
This is in fact a serious comment....While the United States and Russia inch closer to more military cooperation in Syria on the ground, Secretary of State John F. Kerry is sounding more and more like he agrees with the Russian view of the Syrian rebel groups fighting against the Assad regime.
Late last month in Aspen, Colo., Kerry said the most important thing the administration is doing to ramp up the effort to defeat extremists in Syria is to “reach an understanding” with the Russian government about how to deal with the terrorists there, which he names as the Islamic State, often referred to as Daesh, and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch. As I reported, Kerry and President Obama have proposed to Moscow increased cooperation against those groups, especially Jabhat al-Nusra, in exchange for Russia convincing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to abide by the crumbling cease-fire and lay off bombing the other rebels.
But then Kerry, perhaps accidentally, threw two other Syrian rebel groups under the bus by calling them “subgroups” of the terrorists.
“There are a couple of subgroups underneath the two designated — Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra — Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham particularly — who brush off and fight with that — alongside these other two sometimes to fight the Assad regime,” he said, referring to two rebel groups that the United States has not named as terrorist groups until now.
The remark, which went largely unnoticed by the media in Aspen, nonetheless set off alarm bells inside the Obama administration. Two administration officials who work on Syria told me that Kerry’s naming of the Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham as “subgroups” of the terrorist organizations was not only inaccurate but potentially harmful to U.S. government efforts to convince the Russians and the Syrian government not to attack them.
“For months, we’ve been arguing to make sure the Russians and the Syrian regime don’t equate these groups with the terrorists,” one senior administration official told me. “Kerry’s line yields that point.”
Another U.S. official simply emailed, “Baffled. SMH[Shaking my head].”
State Department spokesman John Kirby told me that there has been “absolutely no change” in the U.S. government’s support for the policy that only groups designated by the United Nations as terrorists groups should be excluded from the cease-fire, also known as the “cessation of hostilities.”
“Secretary Kerry was simply trying to describe the complexity of the situation in Syria, noting that we aren’t blind to the notion that some fighters shift their loyalties,” he said.
Even if Kerry misspoke, some Syrian groups see his comments as an example of how the Obama administration has slowly but steadily moved toward the Russian view of Syria, which includes painting all opposition groups as terrorists.
“Russia considers all revolutionaries and rebel groups as ISIS or al-Nusra to justify its indiscriminate shelling of civilians and the moderate opposition,” said Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an American nongovernmental organization that works with Syrian rebel groups.
Ahrar al-Sham is made up of Islamic and Salafist units and does not believe in a secular, democratic Syria, but it is not an al-Qaeda subsidiary and doesn’t take direction from Jabhat al-Nusra, Moustafa said. Jaysh al-Islam is supported by U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and has been part of the opposition negotiating team in the Geneva process.
Russia’s obligation, under the new proposed cooperation deal, is to stop bombing Syrian rebel groups the U.S. declares are not terrorists. It’s true that the groups fighting Assad are hard to distinguish and often co-mingle, but U.S. policy is based on knowing which are which. Kerry muddied the waters. That’s typically Moscow’s job.
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
Forget Rhodes and Obama. Where does Lavrov stop and John Kerry begin?
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The Assad regime "National Ceasefire: Round 3" kicks off with @mod_russia bombing IDPs in #Syria
Russian soldiers in Palmyra (Tadmor), Syria. Drum magazine in the AK, previously seen only in special units of FSB
This senior ISIS figure alleges the group has a 'good relationship' with the Syrian government — via @Telegraph
http://read.bi/29B4LPs
So it begins: Cajoled by #Obama, #Kerry calls Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham "subgroups" of terror organisations.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
http://wpo.st/-vMl1
Calling Ahrar al-Sham & Jaysh al-Islam "subgroups" of al-Qa'eda (al-Nusra) is a disingenuous lie; a loophole to justify bombing them.
The #US will probably end up indiscriminately bombing anti-Assad forces alongside the RuAF. Save those that reach a "ceasefire" (surrender).
Guess who again bombed #Aleppo city today?! ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjSm...ature=youtu.be …
17 civilians killed, 40 wounded they say ...
So #Russia sends its Tu-22 thousands of km to bomb displaced refugees instead of #ISIS?! ...
Russia|n targeted with cluster bombs camp for #SyrianRefugees near #Palmyra.Killing 20,including women and children
https://youtu.be/gPPtkohR5NM
"Syrians themselves must decide the fate of their country," says #Russia-n Foreign Minister
http://buff.ly/29vnvKs
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Deraa: dozens of Assad regime fighters killed in Manshiya by rebels
Assad tells EU delegation West's support 4 terrorist groups in Syria cause extremism and waves of refugees in Europe
Damascus: Rebels assassinate 3 Republican Guard Brigadiers. Brigadier Mohammed Nayouf, Brigadier Sohail Haider & Brigadier Malik Aliya
Aleppo: regime sources confirmed that at least 40 of their fighters killed yesterday
FSA affiliated groups, 1stCD pounding assadists with Howitzers, Tanks in reef #Lattakia
Assadists try again to advance in Kinsibba axis at before midnight with airforce & 23mm distractions. Trying to use night as cover #Lattakia
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There are over 80 groups in the southern front, if each group provided just 100 fighters it would be enough to reach Damascus
There is a very large and growing movement against the FSA southern front in Dara which was began by local activists across Aleppo ++
Dozens have starved to death in besieged Madaya, say NGOs
http://gu.com/p/4zyg6/stw
Daraa: Heavy fighting between #Syria|n rebels and pro-#Assad forces in #Daraa today. Reports that many pro-#Assad forces were killed.
Complete rubbish
Cited in part from a Post 168 three days ago:This man was in the UK for a college course to enable a career in commercial shipping. He was not a 'British Daeshi' nor was he 'ex-Navy'.
That this man after leaving two years ago for ISIS gained such access is to say the least implausible IMHO, remember the training many apparent ISIS leaders had from their Soviet era trainers, the Baath regime and as insurgents in Iraq. Disinformation is plausible and given Kuwait's sometimes odd stance on ISIS funding is this reporting for their national purposes?
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davidbfpo
Just a side note....several well known ME subject matter experts have in fact verified some of his statements as being valid and correct and has tied it to other facts that were largely only known to themselves and not talked about much in the public MSM when dealing with IS......
So the interesting question is why would they "burn important insider information" unless IS intended to have the info made public......to discredit Assad as well as the Russians.....
Especially since we know just how close Russia and Assad have been with IS/AQ in the past ten or so years.....
Some are alluding to a possible "shot across the bow" moment to warn both Assad and Russia...what info is still out there that could in fact be embarrassing to both.
How else can one explain the total and openly apparent non interest in both Assad and Putin in directly attacking IS....the occasional air strike seems to be only for appearances....
Take the RuAf carpet bombing from yesterday...Russian MoD announces a strike on IS BUT in reality it was on an openly identified IDP tent camp.....
Drone footage of storming Assad army positions in Malah farms y'day.
https://youtu.be/faP4k_I5xm0
Footage from #Mallah shows despite Regime claims last km b4 Castello Rd is no man's land. 1st def line: Arab Selloum
Combat footage: Zinki assault on #Mallah front, N. #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi1Fsv4C1oc …
Rebels in heart of Arab Selloum, 2.1 km from Castillo Road, #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36....134326&z=16&m …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faP4k_I5xm0 …
THIS is the direct result of the non interest by the Obama/Rhodes WH that some have predicted will occur......non Western interest is actually strengthening JaN (AQ)....
Situation in #Syria: Only hard line Islamists left to defend anti regime civilians against regime. We're watching it grow in strength and with every new combat success.
How do you expect hundreds of thousands of civilians to reject #Nusra as "too extreme" when they keep fighting for the lives of the ppl. ...
Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Zanki capture positions inside Malah north Aleppo & advancing. No signs of Jaish al-Fath.
Aleppo : Heavy fighting continues in #Al_Mallah as Opposition advance on the #Talat_Al_Mayasat area and #Breij.
Rebels destroy Assad army tank in al-Mayasa hill north Aleppo with TOW
https://youtu.be/70uKVEOerQc
Tajamu Fastaqem took out with a #TOW a tank on Breij front, NE #Aleppo.
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