W. #Manbij: #Russia|n SOF wearing #SDF Manbij Military Council (#MMC) patch.
Confirmed: Regime forces entered #SDF/#YPG controlled territory heading to W. #Manbij & current frontline with #FSA (clashes ongoing).
W. #Manbij: intense clashes are raging between #FSA and #SDF/#YPG on Boughaz-Quahiuk frontline W. of Arimah.
Convoy of at least 20 Regime vehicles (no armours) spotted in W. #Manbij carrying 100+ fighters (so called "border guards").
SO now we have US SOF with BIG US flags flying driving around the Manbij area AND Russia SOF driving around with BIG Russian flags flying in the same EXACT same battlespace.....AND Turkey and FSA fighting directly Russian and US SOF supported proxies....WITH US Marine artillery firing support against the Turks/FSA.....
JUST HOW MUCH more convoluted can this get????
AND IS..laughing all the way to the bank.....
DoS Tillerson has not said a single word....SecDef Mattis is not saying a single word...AND certainly nothing out of Trump....
What a mass confused piece of chaos we are seeing and I was critical of Obamaa's lack of actions in Syria????
JUST HOW MUCH more convoluted can this get????
AND IS..laughing all the way to the bank.....
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REPORT FROM MAR 5 2017
W. #Manbij: #SDF/#YPG reversed all #EuphratesShield gains and even seized Jubb Al-Amir. Graphic video. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...z=14&m#…
Will not post video BUT it depicts execution style head shots on all killed FSA fighters.....
Head shots....was SDF trained on using this tactic and or where US SOF involved in the actual fighting...as US SOF have been reported recently as accompanying SDF in the close up fighting ...
E. #Damascus: video from Regime side showing battle to control orchards N. of #Qabun & involvement of up-armoured tank (T-72s).
All Regime attempts to advance on W. #Aleppo fronts failed. Area is heavily bombed this evening (artillery and airstrikes).
More confirmation of Russian SOF wearing SDF/MMC patches in Manbij....in Russian....with an additional photo...
Ничего необычного, просто солдаты РФ с курдскими нашивками в районе Манбиджа (Сирия)
Туда же движется турецкая армия
http://zloy-odessit.livejournal.com/...edium=social#…
Idlib - Whitehelmets @whitehelmets_sy
Idlib | kefranbl
Four martyrs, including two children and a woman and several Injuries .
Civil defense Rescued them from under the rubble.
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Russian ANNA footage of Russian convoy to Manbij, link up with SDF, and Russo-Syrian danceoff, including Chechen lezginka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NuiKhBoWE
Bluntly put.....to say the least...
Trump and @CJTFOIR needed exactly TWO MONTHS to forget / ignore what US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter warned of before he left office....it was valid then and is really valid now...
As Trump and the SecDef now have us sucked into a massive goat rope that will not end well for anyone....
FROM 6.1.2017....."Russia has done absolutely nothing to fight IS".....Everything they have done is dumb headed and or the opposite of what they said they were doing"...
Obama never trusted Russian statements on Syria BUT it appears Trump AND Mattis completely do?????
Lastly Obama was correct...
Senior #Ahrar al-Sham commander Abu Musab survived an assassination attempt in Jebel al-Zawiyeh.
Activists blame it on #HTS/Jund al-Aqsa.
2 Ahrar al-Sham commanders (Abu Abdulatif & Abu Abdulrahman al-Ghab) survived separate assassination attempt in Al-Ghab, #Hama tonight.
Heavy clashes have broken out between #HTS & Ahrar al-Sham after HTS attempted to arrest senior Ahrar leaders in Jebel al-Zawiyeh, #Idlib.
Heavy clashes have broken out between #HTS & Ahrar al-Sham after HTS attempted to arrest senior Ahrar leaders in Jebel al-Zawiyeh, #Idlib.
One senior Ahrar leader 2 days ago whether a merger with #JFS/HTS is still possible. His reply?
- “Never. It’s impossible."
While it remains highly unlikely that Ahrar al-Sham would ever consider all-out confrontation with #HTS, suspicions/tensions = skyhigh.
Prominent jihadi cleric Abdulrazzaq al-Mehdi defected from #HTS in protest + Abu Mariya al-Qahtani & Abdullah al-Moheiseni distanced.
Contrary to the established narrative, #HTS retains substantial internal differences & recent attacks on #Ahrar revealed those starkly.
Jolani & hardline JFS leaders fear #Turkey-backed move to isolate HTS & concessions to #Assad.
HTS seeks border & electricity control.
Ahrar al-Sham’s core leadership has consistently refused a merger w. Nusra, JFS & now #HTS.
Abu Jaber & co. want to force subjugation.
Areas now under Assad control are breaking up into areas strictly controlled by warlords he cannot control......
Superb reporting on #Syria’s lawless militias -
- #Assad's Control Erodes as Warlords Gain Upper Hand
http://spon.de/aeV4x
This is what #Israel worries about in #Syria:
- New #Iran-backed “Brigade for Liberation of the Golan” established by Harakat al-Nujaba.
The #PKK-affiliated Yazidi militia “YBS" held meetings with the #Iran-backed designated terror org Kataib Hezbollah yesterday in #Iraq.
REMEMBER the US named these two... KH and PKK as terror groups YET are providing them direct support in Manbij.....
I thought Trump was fighting terrorist anywhere in the world?
APPEARS he is not...
The PKK-affiliated Yazidi militia “YBS" held meetings with the Iran-backed designated terror org Kataib Hezbollah yesterday in Iraq.
BUT WAIT...I thought the US SOF fought to assist the Yazidi who now appear to be associated with a US named terror group????
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"The West Helped the Assad Regime and Its Allies Take Palmyra"
https://goo.gl/zOfdzd#
Al-Qaeda attempted a politico-military takeover of N. #Syria's insurgency, and probably sealed its fate.
http://bit.ly/2lyU7cU#
Turkey suspects U.S. has chosen #YPG to do the #Raqqa Operation; not entirely pleased about it.
http://reut.rs/2mQPfnC
The United States appears to have decided to enlist the help of Kurdish YPG militia in a campaign to push Islamic State out of its stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, thwarting Turkey's ambitions, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey, the United States and Russia must coordinate to clear Syria of terrorist groups. The three countries' chiefs of staff were working to prevent clashes between the different parties.
Yildirim spoke as Turkey's military chief of staff met his U.S. and Russian counterparts in the southern Turkish province of Antalya to discuss coordination in Syria. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the results of the meeting "could change the whole picture".
"... It appears that the U.S. may carry out this operation with the YPG, not with Turkey. And at the same time the U.S. is giving weapons to the YPG," the official said.
"If this operation is carried out in this manner there will be a cost for Turkey-U.S. relations, because the YPG is a terrorist organization ..."
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford attended the three-party meeting at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, a spokesman for Dunford said.
The spokesman, Navy Captain Greg Hicks, said the military chiefs discussed security in Iraq and Syria and the importance of additional measures to avoid accidents.
They also discussed "the current situation of the fight against all terrorist organizations in Syria with an effort to wage a more effective fight against (them) ..."
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Dunford did not inform his Turkish counterpart of any decision about the Raqqa offensive, in remarks that appeared at odds with the Turkish account.
Ankara has been pressing the United States to change its strategy for fighting Islamic State in Syria by abandoning the YPG and instead drawing on Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels to retake Raqqa.
Turkey views the YPG and its political affiliate the PYD as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency against the Turkish government.
MULTI-SIDED CONFLICT
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said last week the next target of his country's Syrian operation was Manbij, which is controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
But Yildirim said then that military action by Turkey would not make sense unless coordinated with the United States and Russia.
After clashing with FSA rebels west of Manbij this month, the Manbij Military council declared a deal with Russia to hand front-line villages to Syrian government control to prevent their coming under Turkish control.
Rapid developments in the war for northern Syria - the most complicated theater in the multi-sided conflict - are setting new limits on Turkish power, while affirming the role of the U.S.-allied YPG militia that Ankara entered Syria to fight.
The Syrian government has emerged as a major player in the war for the north after punching through a swath of Islamic State-held territory, blocking any further Turkish advances from the buffer zone it has carved out in Syria near its frontier.
In August, Turkey-backed forces launched an operation to drive Islamic State away from its border with Syria and prevent the YPG from taking territory in their wake.
Since pushing the jihadists out of their al-Bab stronghold, fighting has focused on villages west of Manbij, setting Turkish-backed rebels against the Manbij Military Council, part of the U.S.-backed SDF that includes the YPG.
Source: #Turkey’s plans for joint TSK-#FSA cross-border assault on Tel Abyad remain in place. Trained fighters are in place for deployment.
A not so subtle warning to the US...Russia..Assad and Iran....
Turkey warns US relations are at risk if Kurds help retake Raqqa
http://read.bi/2n9Ngrg
"Assad or we burn the country" became "Assad and we burn it anyway"
"Raqqa will probably not be the final battle against Isis."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ml#pt0-165985#
No talk of "winning" as 2 top US war generals give hours long testimony to Senate, today. But Trump...
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2...erals/135781/#
Aleppo: #EuphratesShield forces destroyed a remote-controlled #YPG VBIED at #Boughaz village west of #Arima. #Manbij
US-backed Syrian force rules out Turkey role in Raqqa, Spokesman calls Turkey "an occupation force" that can't be allowed to take Syria land
APPEARS now the US will place far more boots on the ground....After defeat of IS...???
CENTCOM Gen Votel: US will likely need more conventional military forces in #Syria later during stability operations.
Different from "anti-ISIS operations", "stability operations" are aimed at #Turkey and Syrian rebels I guess.
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Aleppo: Video shows #EuphratesShield forces fighting with #YPG and #Assad regime fighters west of #Arima today. #Manbij
Russian Syrian Express....Ship of Interest......
Ship of Interest: Coming from Novorossiysk, Russia flag Ro-Ro Sparta II transits Bosphorus en route to #Tartus #Syria
Turkish Stork Air Traffic Control..reports hundreds of storks on their flight path from Africa to Europe crossing today.....
First migrating #Storks, heading directly north along the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, from Kadıky to skdar
Light westerly headwinds, but largely no weather front to hinder their Europe bound flight plans....
Their feathered comrades from southern France have been already in Brandenburg/Berlin area....enjoying the wetlands and their recovery from a long flight...
Humans have the world going to hell in a hand bag but Mother Nature always get's it right....
Better quality images of #Russia SOF in #Palmyra #Syria h/t @sashakots
Russian SOF/SpN (SSO) in Palmyra. Launcher for Kornet-E (9K135) ATGM w/ 1PN79M-3 (3rd Gen) thermal imaging sight.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 03-09-2017 at 06:50 PM.
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