Levant crisis - III

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Feb 2017 09:16

Iraqi Day ‏@iraqi_day 11h11 hours ago
IMPORTANT
#BREAKING
#Iraq Federal Police chief Raad Shaker Jawdat "Security forces are 1 KM away from #Mosul government complex in Dawasa"

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Feb 2017 09:19

mosul airport

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Feb 2017 14:15

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ru ... -missiles/

video russia sea launched missiles hit daraa

pralay · Post by **pralay** » 25 Feb 2017 18:54

If/Once SAA-SDF connects with YPG east/south-east of al bab and on good terms to each other
SAA can
1. open up a new flank north of Deir Ez Zor to break the seige as it will be much shorter and sustainable than the 200km route through desert.
2. Take palmyra, hold there/charge to al-sukhnah
3. Seige/take Deir Hafer and charge on Maskanah(which is quert large city)
4. Open another flank to charge on Tabqa from Sheikh-Hilal and then to raqqa(if not captured by then)

YPG can
1. focus on Raqqa,
2. handle threat from ES at Manbij
3. Can send reinforcements to SDF if ES chooses to attack Efrin

SDF can
1. send reinforcements to YPG if ES chooses to attack Manbij
2. or screw ES on west near mari or Azaz or al-bab ,if ES choose to attack Manbij/Efrin

US can
1. Claim victory against IS if YPG manages to capture raqqa before SAA,

ES/Turkey can go hostile
1. attack Manbij as they always wanted
2. It may also slow down/distract YPG/US from claiming the crown

RUS Having already secured their ally Assad they have already got what they want the most. As extra-curricular activities they can
1. turn blind eye to ES hostility or just do lip service as ES hostility may delay YPG advance on Raqqa hence providing time for Rus ally SAA to catch up
2. Bomb some turkish soldiers by Mistake as revenge/warning for the lost plain-pilots
3. If SAA catches up with YPG at raqqa, it will be add-on booty and they will manage to do == with US just like during WW2

AS/AQ/HYT can
1. Kill those who they feel are lesser shade of green
2. try get on to SAA's neck by attacking Salamiya-Khanaser

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Feb 2017 22:32

The last para above
1. Being done at web scale. Mass graves are filling up
2. Tried many times. Didnt go well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PetoLucem/st ... 2534316033

Tiger force are now 10km from sdf line . If the linkup happens

Water supply of aleppo is secured
Sultan blocked
Road link to qamishli for saa
Road link to afrin for ypg

Decks clear to focus on maskanah plains

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Feb 2017 22:34

Unless isis counter attacks or sultans hounds bite saa, that 10km will be done in 10 days for sure.

Isis may already have retreated with small arms to deir hafr

pralay · Post by **pralay** » 26 Feb 2017 00:51

Singha wrote:Unless isis counter attacks or sultans hounds bite saa, that 10km will be done in 10 days for sure.

yes, SAA already took a large chunk today

and also Tadif

Yusha YuseefVerified account @MIG29_
99% Tiger Forces Capture Tadef Just waite to confirm

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 07:31

video = another unknown ac drops people or aid into tal afar

https://twitter.com/iraqi_day/status/835544748677038084

my guess would be its turkey. maybe MIT agents are being dropped to broker a escape for their assets via bribing the kurdish formations who hold the north side of tal afar region.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 07:38

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 10:19

https://twitter.com/TheArabSource/statu ... 6167596032

some 8 vbied were sent against the tiger forces yesterday and reports are that all were destroyed. here a tank hiding in a hole waits until the munna is close enough, then darts out and nails it nearby at point blank range before going back to its hole.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 10:26

no nonsense individual contributor types of tiger forces.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 10:29

3 daesh captured alive in east aleppo - look old to be frontline elements ,could be camp crew and admin types

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 10:31

drone video ISIS vbied attack on FSA in al-bab https://twitter.com/MIG29_/status/834888574290051074

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 26 Feb 2017 14:32

Rudaw EnglishVerified account‏@RudawEnglish 19h19 hours ago
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#BREAKING: Prominent Rudaw war reporter and journalist Shifa Gardi has been killed in #Mosul as she covered clashes.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2017 18:03

Hassan Ridha‏ @sayed_ridha
SDF says campaign to isolate Raqqa from DeirEzzor is ongoing and is nearing the end

38m
Hassan Ridha‏ @sayed_ridha
SDF in past week: Captured 247 villages/hamlets in Raqqa + 65 in DeirEzzor in area of 1762km2 with 172 IS militants killed + 8 arrested

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 08:50

8h
Yusha Yuseef‏ @MIG29_
i can confirmed a clashes between SAA Tiger Forces and Euphrates Shield around #Tatef East Aleppo CS

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 08:51

Tigers are keeping usual 1km/day pace and 8km from nearest sdf checkpoints west of manbij

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 08:52

Saa has reached the hills of south palmyra ..near orchards

Isis set fire to the gas fields..they know wont be returning to east homs ever....its the endgame. Engineers are putting out fires and starting on repairs

Russia has trained and kitted a cisf type unit to secure such oil fields and refineries

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 08:56

They should pull a judo move to bypass palmyra and head for arak with blocks on the road. Force them to be besieged or run across the deserts toward jordan

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 12:37

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 27 Feb 2017 12:39

Reminds one of the great desert rallies that took place during WW2,wth the Brits and Germans trading desert sand to each other with regularity.
Gen.O'Connor had tremendous success against the Eyties,but after Churchill sent some of his forces to Greece,he was captured later by the Germans. The jury is still out whether he could've stopped Rommel.I don't think he could've,but would've fought much harder. Rommel then swept into Egypt,but logistics and fatigue left him out of breath at El Alamein. Monty spent time building up his resources while Rommel ,who had to be supplied from Italy,found much of it sunk by Allied air operating out of "unsinkable" Malta, Malta was the key with which the Allies and Monty defeated the Germans. Why,"INS India",is so vital in our control of the IOR and the island of Sri Lanka which at any cost has to be kept out of Chinese hands.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 13:49

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5niAWFXQAAR06C.jpg

rat captured on outskirts of al-bab

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 13:50

maytham‏@maytham956 14h14 hours ago
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#ISIS's terrorists are evacuating their families from AlKhafseh and DeirHafer after #SAA's advancement in the eastern coubtryside of #Aleppo

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 13:53

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5lqK86XQAAmeFE.jpg

maytham‏@maytham956 21h21 hours ago
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#Syria|n dish: Shiekh AlMehshi, fried Zucchini stuffed with minced meat and pine seeds and cooked in cooked hot yogurt served with rice

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 13:56

syrian choir - sons and daughters of martyrs .... so many young valuable lives taken by the wahabi claws

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 16:33

Iraqi PMU English‏@pmu_english Feb 26
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#BREAKING - #Iraqi #PMU Engineering has designed & now fielding high capacity radio jammers to down #ISIS quadcopters in area of operations

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5lSr5CUwAAsKek.jpg

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 16:34

barzani doing the bidding of ankara...

Iraqi PMU English‏@pmu_english Feb 25
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Iraqi PMU English Retweeted NPU
#Iraqi #PMU, Iraqi Army, #Ezidi and now the #NPU are all being held back from fighting #ISIS by the #KDP checkpoints. We hope to resolve

pralay · Post by **pralay** » 27 Feb 2017 17:30

Breaking : Tiger forces reached the YPG line

NDF Retweeted
Syrian Civil War Map‏@CivilWarMap 13m13 minutes ago
Syrian Arab Army captured Jub al-Khafi and Mushayrifah.
SDF captured Bizzah. Both territories connected now.
Map:

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 19:35

This was inevitable as terrain has no natural barrier and isis has abandoned that region to perhaps defend deir hafr.

Key question is what will sultan do? Usa has reiterated they support the manbij military council.

Its an opportunity for assad and kurds to build bridges against the two common enemies

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 20:07

al masdar

A US Commander based in the Middle East has said that Kurdish-led forces will need more sophisticated weaponry to continue its fight against ISIS and to continue onto Raqqa city.

“Anti-tank weapons systems to address the vehicle-born IEDs. Certainly mortars would be something of help,” General Joseph Votel said on Sunday.

“Things that they would need of a force that’s going to conduct an assault,” he continued.

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The weapons would be flown into a dirt airstrip built for the U.S. by a Syrian engineer, who lost his family to ISIS, that is long enough to handle large cargo planes from the United States, CBS News reported.

A defector of the People’s Protection Units revealed that the US had never equipped the militia as they said they would.

“We asked for heavy weapons. We got nothing. We asked for everything. All we got was ammunition and small arms,” he claimed.

He then went onto reveal that they were never supplied flak jackets, helmets, night vision equipment, or mine detectors like the United States had promised.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Feb 2017 20:15

while TSPA got mountains of these kit for fighting the bad taliban and TTP. even flak jackets.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 27 Feb 2017 20:20

Which two planes were downed using stingers. Russian, Syrian, American??
Or the stinger news is fake.

pralay · Post by **pralay** » 27 Feb 2017 21:19

Bhurishravas wrote:Which two planes were downed using stingers. Russian, Syrian, American??
Or the stinger news is fake.

where?

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 27 Feb 2017 23:21

pralay wrote:
Bhurishravas wrote:Which two planes were downed using stingers. Russian, Syrian, American??
Or the stinger news is fake.
where?

I think I read somewhere above that Turkey was supplying the rebels with Stinger missiles and they had shot down two planes. Cant find it now.
Accept my apologies.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Feb 2017 06:28

Al masdar....

Thousands of Kurdish troops arrive from Iraq to spearhead Deir Ezzor offensive
By Chris Tomson - 27/02/20171

A Kurdish convoy described as nearly “10 kilometers long” entered the Hasakah governorate on Monday amid a massive build-up for an upcoming Kurdish-led offensive towards Deir Ezzor city, possibly phase 4 of the Euphrates Wrath campaign.

The army reportedly consisted of a mixture of Peshmerga and YPG fighters that had finished operations across the border where the Iraqi Army has won the upper hand.

However, a friend of Al-Masdar News, Wladimir van Wilgenburg, called a spokesperson of the Peshmerga based in Erbil who denied their forces had crossed into Syria.

Nevertheless, hundreds of Kurdish tanks, armored vehicles, technicals and BMP’s travelled through the Al-Malkiyah border crossing, eventually linking up with SDF militants at the main highway in Hasakah earlier today.

According to information obtained by Al-Masdar News reporter Yusha Yuseef, these combined Kurdish forces will start an overwhelming US-backed offensive through the oil-rich desert north of Deir Ezzor.

Should this upcoming offensive go to plan, the predominately Kurdish SDF would lift a three-year long siege imposed by ISIS on the provincial capital of Deir Ezzor where entrenched Syrian government troops have struggled to turn the tides in recent months.

Meanwhile, one report suggested that Kurdish forces had captured Al-Kubar on Sunday; this ISIS-held town is anchored at the Euphrates River in northern Deir Ezzor. The advance could not be independently verified by Al-Masdar News’ military sources.

Elsewhere, south of Manbij, the SDF captured 9 villages from ISIS in rural Aleppo earlier today, coming within striking distance of the Al-Khafsa water pumping station

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Feb 2017 06:29

Could be a campaign to start near deir azzor and then roll up isis along the river to raqqa. Beat and corral them back into raqqa...

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 28 Feb 2017 07:15

I don't think ppl in Deir Ez Zor will be happy to see Turkish troops. History is horrible on that account: scene of genocide where thousands were forced into the desert and left to die. But Kurds may be a very welcome sight. And will be much more merciless in the pest-e-sha'eed. OTOH, if u were a SAA soldier and u saw an F-16 approaching, what confidence would you have that they are not coming to kill u?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Feb 2017 07:22

The kurds were with the turks mostly in armenian genocide. It was kind arabs in deir azzor who saved some.

Anyway these kurds are for breakthrough in raqqa and the anti isis deir azzor tribes for deir azzor province. These tribes were anti isis from the start and staged some small revolts which were brutally put down...now they see their chance to avenge deaths in their clan. It wont be pretty must will be done. Thats why isis has totally run away from countryside to the towns along river

They will get whats coming to them.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Feb 2017 07:23

Now i understand why the deir azzor cemetary al makbara is the size of a small town ... must be many mass graves of armenians there

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 28 Feb 2017 07:44

Singha wrote:Now i understand why the deir azzor cemetary al makbara is the size of a small town ... must be many mass graves of armenians there

Now much bigger and flatter after RUAF ParkingLot Program