Levant crisis - III

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 19:19

Philipines has now joined cheen camp.president announced in beijing. Expect a defence pact and plan ships in subic bay soon ....

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 19:21

Russian cameras monitor humanitarium corriders. Watch live here http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm

French larva Hollande accuses Russia of war crime.

Just want to remind him of the french strike that killed 180 civilians in a village close to Manbij earlier this spring.

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 19:22

yawn

Where have we heard this before?

"We will destroy you, any place, any time... we will beat you harder than ever before"

- US Army Head Mark Milley, addressing Russia

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 19:25

Ceasefire offered by #Russia starts at 0800 AM for 8 hours daily. Russia won't extend the ceasefire indefinitely if not agreed by militants

#Russia allocated 6 exists 4 #Aleppo, of which 2 for rebels & Jihadists willing 2leave. Gathering is at "Death roundabout" to rural #Aleppo

620 rebels and their families leaving today from Oaddamiyah toward #Idlib while others are expected to leave #Aleppo tomorrow #Syria

Also, Aleppo seems to be fading out of the headlines, replaced by the Mosul offensive.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 20 Oct 2016 19:35

^ It has created significant war hysteria in Europe https://www.rt.com/news/363403-russia-a ... -reaction/

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 19:44

As predicted the women of mosul will beat to death any surviving daesh when the end comes...
....

(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Wednesday, that an unknown sniper started to pursue the members of the Islamic State in four neighborhoods of Mosul, amid significant popular interaction.

Al Sumaria News stated that the accelerating events in the last 24 hours contributed to the emergence of the sniper in four residential neighborhoods in the city, and added that the sniper shot patrols belong to ISIS and injured a number of members.

“The emergence of the ‘Sniper of Mosul’, as the residents call him, increased the pace of the popular resistance against the ISIS,” Al Sumaria added. “The presence of the sniper in four neighborhoods emphasizes that there are many snipers and not only one,” Al Sumaria explained.

The media outlet also declared that rebellious youths started to form combat detachments based on previous military experience to fight the ISIS members.

Yesterday, Mosul started to show signs of a popular armed uprising against the Islamic State, where a group of armed rebellious residents attacked a headquarters of ISIS and destroyed six patrols in less than five hours in the city.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 19:56

Btw as a historical footnote the flat nineveh plain around mosul is where alaksindr army fought and defeated the persian army of darius3 for the third and last time...that time it was called Gaugamela

Darius3 a weak kshatrap withdrew back to the east but was killed by turncoats in his team or paid assassins and his empire fell apart

Western propagandus make a big deal of it, deftly ignoring the persians and greeks had a fight going for centuries before alaksindr and in one case Cyrus had led a army into greece and plundered most of it including athens.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 19:59

Place hasnt changed even today the chariots of war and vast legions march across its tabletop surface....

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 20:08

US media is basically an ashkenazi orgy. The entire focus of this group is ask leading questions, put spin on answers, tripwire debates with superficial issues and oppose anyone who hints at restraint or hesitates in 'wars for Israel' agenda.

Hillary Clinton is this group's public face and cheerleader. Clinton was the neocon b!tch from hell in Las Vegas. When asked about the NFZ, Hillary said she will have her "No Fly Zone" in Syria and will (politely??) give the Russians advanced notice of where they cannot fly.

After Trump said the US should not have warned ISIS ahead of time about the Mosul operation, Hillary went on to "warn" ISIS that the US was headed to Al Raqqa next after Mosul.

She also said Russia was trying to interfere with the US elections to help Trump. Trump responded that he didn't know Putin personally, but that Putin and President Assad have made the US leadership look like a bunch of stupid fools. (pretty much his exact words) Trump also mentioned that it would be much better to try and get along with someone who had that many nuclear missiles.

Clinton came off as an insane zealot. The fox news azhkenazi moderator Chris Wallace kept asking Trump if he would accept the election results, (kind of like Hillary was already the winner???). Trump declined to comment, and the US ashkenazi media then went into an hysterical frenzy with much wailing and gnashing of the teeth.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 20:22

Worse and more unseemly than campaign against namo...with nyt and cnn out in front with the pitchforks...no pretense at neutrality

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 20:35

Founder of the turkoman hashd al watani...turkiye cats paw

Nyt

The Judiciary Council said on Thursday that a complaint against Atheel al-Nujaifi was submitted by three lawmakers from Ninevah province in late 2015, shortly after the Turkish troops were deployed to a base north of the provincial capital, Mosul. It said the investigation concluded on Tuesday, when two eyewitnesses from inside the camp testified in court.

The presence of some 500 Turkish troops in Iraq has increased tension between the two neighbors.

Baghdad says the troops are there without permission and has called on them to withdraw. Ankara has refused, and insists it will play a role in the ongoing military operation to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants.

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 20:36

US war machine interferes routinely on how Russia/Syria must deal with terrorists in Aleppo & elsewhere.

Fortunately, the US war machine has already written a script on how to deal with those groups of ´terrorists´ [+ their family members and offspring], and we can call this overt operation ‘to Waconize a territory.’

That is, we kill all the kids in said territory, so the terrorists cannot terrorize them and to very sure nothing ‘evil’ is left, we burn everything to the ground [live, on TV] so the rest of the world knows ‘We mean business!’

US war machine does not negotiate to terrorists, because they would have to talk to themselves.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 20:36

Court has signed a arrest warrant for him

LokeshC · Post by **LokeshC** » 20 Oct 2016 20:41

One noobie pooch: why are the rats allowed to escape, by both the bear and the eagle?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:28

wrt bear, it gets them aleppo which effectively finishes any hope of rebels gaining a major city as the nerve center of their caliphate.
else the cost in scarce manpower to break into and occupy the city will be high. frees up planes for the campaign in east.

wrt eagle you already know.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:31

Yusha Yuseef ‏@MIG29_ 2h2 hours ago
Breaking ; ISIS Shoot down a US warplane A10 over Mrkdh in Hasakah city

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:32

3 wounded ahrar al sham rats have exited through the bustan al qaser corridor
pic of 2 of them

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:33

rats continue to bombard west aleppo with lines of hell cannons

https://twitter.com/theLemniscat/status ... 7938042880

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:36

Leith Abou Fadel ‏@leithfadel 10h10 hours ago
Lol jihadists are fighting each other in east Aleppo now. Some groups refusing to allow others to leave per the amnesty offer.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:38

I think the amnesty is designed to sap the morale of the defenders .... here is a govt offer to absolve of their crimes, go home or go to Idlib, warm food, a clean bed, hot water bath....perhaps the warmth of a woman....vs slinking around the piles of rubble, occasional meal of rice and beans, constant sniping and shelling, death just a unlucky moment away, surrounded on all sides by hostile enemies ..... it will surely create cracks among the rebels with some wanting out and some preferring to fight to the death. if both troops of rats start firing on each others, makes task easier.

they have already seen rebels from around damascus being sent by bus to Idlib and some availing the amnesty offer and staying back.

habal · Post by **habal** » 20 Oct 2016 21:40

only syrian origin rebels get to go home. Foreigners can only go to Idlib or Turkey.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:43

PMU will launch its attack within 48 hrs per another tweet

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 9h9 hours ago
Mosul offensive enters its 4th day, PMU prepare for assault on western axis, Iraq's 16th Division are preparing to open Mosul Dam front

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 20 Oct 2016 21:44

from their official page.

nachiket · Post by **nachiket** » 20 Oct 2016 23:57

Putin recently changed his stance toward Turkey and they were trying to make nice with each other. That has turned out to be a mistake. This attack on Mosul proves that the only thing the Turks are interested in is killing Kurds and gobbling territory in Iraq and Syria if they can. They don't give a rat's musharraf about ISIS. After they're done killing the YPG they'll go back to helping the jihadis in Syria. And they'll even claim part of the credit for liberating Mosul. Turdogan is a true Paki.

The americans true to their glorious tradition of helping jihadis and creating future problems for the entire world can't look beyond "OMG! Iran and Russia are helping Assad. Kill him!!" in their typical short-sighted mindset. If their beloved "moderate" jihadis gain permanent territory in Syria it will be Afghanistan 2.0 and the next OBL will be sheltered there.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 21 Oct 2016 03:04

Putin recently changed his stance toward Turkey and they were trying to make nice with each other. That has turned out to be a mistake.

Putin is a grand chess player. He does not make no mistakes. Your kaamment is a mistake.

Philipines has now joined cheen camp.president announced in beijing. Expect a defence pact and plan ships in subic bay soon ....

Whatever this has to do with Levant crisis.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 21 Oct 2016 03:23

http://www.dailysabah.com/columns/ilnur ... vided-iraq

Whether the Americans, other Western powers or Baghdad likes it or not, Turkey will be at the table when Iraq is carved up into new states. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is now a game setter and not a player sitting on the substitute bench.

While doing all this Turkey has to forge a plan for its Turkmen brothers in Northern Iraq especially in Kirkuk, in Talafar and in the Turhurmatu regions. As the situation unfolds Turkey can push for Turkmen enclaves in these areas.

This is exactly what they are doing in Syria too. Its called expansionism.

Info on Kurdish internal problems.

The Kurds themselves are already facing serious challenges with growing internal strife as Masoud Barzani, controlling Irbil and Dohuk, is facing strong dissent from Suleimaniyah, run by Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Goran Movement led by Nourshirvan Mustafa. Their financial problems are massive. The PKK is also challenging Barzani with its terrorist bases in the Qandil Mountains and its presence in the Sinjar province between Mosul and the Syrian border. Turkey has to establish dialogue with all political actors of the Kurdish area and act as a brother, as a Kurdish state will never survive without the active support of Turkey.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 21 Oct 2016 03:31

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/t ... 57309.html

On Thursday, the Syrian military said it would bring down any Turkish war planes entering Syrian air space.
"Any attempt to once again breach Syrian airspace by Turkish war planes will be dealt with and they will be brought down by all means available," the Syrian army general command said in a statement.

Hopefully Putin has realised his mistake.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 21 Oct 2016 03:34

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/10 ... an-empire/

Erdogan Doubts Lausanne Treaty Again; Feels Nostalgic for Ottoman Empire

“The Ottomans had a state with such deep roots that its collapse caused material and moral wounds to our nation,” he said, adding that the Lausanne Treaty has been brought to the attention of Turkey’s National Council. “Our territories were 2.5 million square kilometers in 1914 and were reduced to 780,000 square kilometers with the signing of the Lausanne Treaty.” Erdogan stated his doubt in the way history has been interpreted. “I want youth to examine Lausanne and let some of them be annoyed. These mistakes need to be known.”

This comment is the latest in a series of comments showing dissatisfaction with Turkey’s borders and indicating Ankara’s expansionist policies.

habal · Post by **habal** » 21 Oct 2016 06:55

must watch

President of Belarus loses his cool on a BBC journalist while talking about Bashar Al Assad...

https://www.facebook.com/HumanityFirst2 ... 926605870/

bbc reporter is speechless.
Lukashenko is a straight talker & doesn't mince any words.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 07:07

There is a tweet somewhere of turkiye foreign minister with the new bigger turkiye map in background.

Meantime, around 80 daesh killed by iraqi sof in bartella..town is taken. 1 us sof killed by ied unknown details.

Pmu is proceeding toward tal afar and is also put in charge of a 125km long sector west of mosul as a barrier between mosul and syria. This will be the net to catch the rats flushed out

chanakyaa · Post by **chanakyaa** » 21 Oct 2016 08:01

More hot air....‘We’ll beat you anywhere, anytime’!! “We will beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before.”

(WSJ) U.N. Members Propose Bypassing Security Council on Syria

Move is aimed at isolating Russia on world stage

UNITED NATIONS—The U.N.’s General Assembly met informally Thursday to discuss whether to take steps to override the Security Council on the Syrian conflict, as the council remains deadlocked over how to bring an end to the bombing of the northern city of Aleppo.

Four of the five permanent members of the Security Council are butting heads over competing resolutions for a cease-fire in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, where rebels are battling the Russian-backed Syrian government. The council’s division pits Russia against the U.S., the U.K. and France. China, the fifth member, is neutral.

Several member states and the U.N.’s envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, asked the Assembly to invoke a provision that would allow it to convene a special emergency session while the Security Council is at an impasse. The session would allow the Assembly to recommend measures to its members for collective action.

The move is aimed at isolating Russia on the world stage and force it to revise its policy of supporting the Assad regime. Other efforts now under way include calls by member states for a U.N. investigation into the deadly strike on an aid convoy in September that led to the unraveling of a Syrian cease-fire deal between the U.S. and Russia.

Thursday’s meeting didn't produce concrete next steps. It remains unclear whether the General Assembly can muster the majority needed for an emergency session. The informal session was called by Canada in a letter to the Assembly’s president signed by 69 of the U.N.’s 193 members. The letter said the session aimed to explore concrete action and apply pressure on the parties involved in the war.

“The world is looking at the U.N., all of us, all of you, to not let this happen under our watch,” said Canada’s Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, who traveled to New York to attend the meeting. He said the Security Council’s “inability to carry its responsibility” was troubling.

Of immediate concern is the situation in Aleppo, where fighting has killed 500 people and injured 2,000, according to U.N. data. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said more than a quarter of the deaths were children, and food rations are likely to run out by the end of this month.

If the fighting continues, Aleppo would be completely destroyed by the end of this year, Mr. Ban said.

While Mr. Ban didn't share his views on a special emergency session for the Assembly, he criticized the Security Council.

“I regret that the Security Council has failed to discharge its responsibilities to uphold peace and security for Syria,” he said.

Russia and the Syrian government suspended airstrikes on Aleppo on Thursday. Moscow presented the cease-fire as a way to relieve suffering in the city where Western leaders have said civilians have been caught in the crossfire.

Consensus between Russia and the U.S. is considered crucial to ending the Syrian conflict. During the three-hour informal session, representatives of the two nations exchanged heated words.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power called on member states to hold accountable those who share responsibility in Syria’s conflict and demand that they change their behavior.

“The perpetrators have names. When we don’t say ‘the Syrian regime’ or ‘Russia,’ we obscure responsibility,” Ms. Power said.

Russia Ambassador Vitaly Churkin shouted, “Enough already,” and criticized everyone from Mr. Ban to Canada’s foreign minister and the U.S. for turning a blind eye to the culpability of terrorist groups in Syria.

Mr. Churkin said the U.S. wasn't able to control the “genie [of terrorism] that got out of the bottle.” Mr. Churkin then left the chamber.

At the end of the session, Mr. de Mistura told the Assembly that if the cease-fire in Aleppo doesn't last, “it will be time for General Assembly special session” because the Security Council doesn't have the capacity to unify itself to stop “this horror.”

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 10:38

Iraqi PMU English ‏@pmu_english 6h6 hours ago
#BREAKING - #Iraqi #PMU will start their offensive to liberate Tal Afar from #ISIS & permanently cut #ISIS access to #Syria for resupply

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 10:56

IS have struck back with a multi pronged attack on kirkuk perhaps using internal sleeper cells also

War Analysis MENA ‏@WarAnalysisMENA 50m50 minutes ago
#Kirkuk Attack from multiple directions on Kirkuk city by ISIS, multiple police stations under attack. Heavy gunfire in city.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 10:56

Umm Meryam ‏@01Silver825gold 42m42 minutes ago
اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَراَللّٰهُ أَكْبَراَللّٰهُ
A Number of Commando Fighters has entered #Kirkuk &taken control over three neighborhoods entirely

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 10:58

jihadis are shelling and snipering every safe corridor that was indicated. so no civilians have managed to escape east aleppo

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 11:03

video of iraqi SOF in bartella battle - M4 carbine with reflex sight and M203 SAW imo
https://twitter.com/BinMaymun/status/789142554319187968

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 11:05

end of 4th day map mosul

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 11:07

the core black circle of mosul city is around 16km in diameter so the nearest iraqi units are around 20k away and the furthest around 50k.
they will clean up the countryside first to secure lines of logistics and rule out hit and run or VBIED attacks from IS nodes that are bypassed but intact in a more swift advance.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 21 Oct 2016 11:10

The rift within the EU on imposing further eco sanctions against Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... yria-brexi

EU leaders fail to agree on threatening Russia with sanctions over Aleppo
Push by Britain, France and Germany to address Syrian bombing campaign lacks unanimous support of leaders at Brussels summit

Jennifer Rankin and Anushka Asthanain Brussels
Friday 21 October 2016
The EU has pulled back from threatening Russia with immediate sanctions over the bombing of Aleppo as a UK-backed plan ran into opposition from Italy.

At a summit of EU leaders on Thursday, Britain, France and Germany made a last-ditch push to issue a sanctions warning to Russia if “current atrocities” in Aleppo continue.

Despite vocal support from Theresa May and her French counterpart, François Hollande, the plan failed to win the necessary unanimity to pass.

The EU’s three biggest countries had wanted to warn Russia that individuals and organisations linked to the bombing of Aleppo could face asset freezes and travel bans if the violence continues.

Arriving at the summit in Brussels, the British prime minister had urged fellow leaders to press the Kremlin to stop its “appalling [and] sickening” atrocities in Syria.

May told her counterparts over dinner that Russia posed a challenge to Europe’s democratic values and institutions, according to Downing Street sources.

But after talks finished around midnight a reference to sanctions in the summit communique was dropped and replaced with a more vague statement: “The EU is considering all available options should the current atrocities continue.”

Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, told reporters “it was difficult to imagine” this would mean further sanctions against Russia.

The tense debate ranged widely over tensions between the EU and Russia. Leaders discussed airspace violations, disinformation campaigns, cyber attacks and “interference” in the political processes of the EU, said Donald Tusk, the European council president.

“It is clear that Russia’s strategy is to weaken the EU,” he said. “Increasing tensions with Russia is not our aim. We are simply reacting to steps taken by Russia.” *( HIlarious.Brexit has weakened the EU far more than anything that Russia has done!)

Analysis The EU's boxers are on the lookout for fighting talk from Theresa May *(Mayday!Mayday! The Russians are coming,the Russians are coming!)
The PM’s counterparts are in a combative mindset ahead of her debut summit, as they prepare to make an example of the UK

Earlier in the week EU foreign ministers said Russia could be guilty of possible war crimes in Aleppo and agreed to widen sanctions against Syrians implicated in the bombing.

Britain’s impending exit from the EU has raised questions about whether the bloc will be able to stay united on Russia. May believed Russia poses three separate threats, a No 10 source said: a challenge to Europe’s democratic values and institutions, “aggressive behaviour” in eastern Ukraine and the bombing campaign in Syria.

She wanted leaders to take a clear stance that Russia’s agenda in Syria was not about fighting Islamic State or al-Qaida, but encouraging the Syrian ruler, Bashar al-Assad, to think he could win, thereby undermining western efforts to secure peace, the source said.

After the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, met Hollande and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Wednesday night, a “humanitarian pause” in attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo came into effect on Thursday morning.

But EU sources said efforts towards a peace settlement had a long way to go. “The Russians were not being very constructive,” said one diplomat with knowledge of the talks.

Russia offered to stop bombing eastern Aleppo for 11 hours a day over four days but the proposal was seen as insufficient to bring about a peace deal.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights about 2,700 people have been killed or injured in Aleppo since Syrian forces, backed by Russia, launched an all-out assault in September.

The EU imposed economic sanctions against Russia in July 2014 in response to Russia’s arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine and failure to cooperate in the investigation over the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which killed 298 people. Talk of ending those sanctions, which target Russian banks, energy companies and arms makers, had “completely disappeared without trace”, an EU diplomat said.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 21 Oct 2016 11:22

as expected daesh fighters are not comparable to the elite nusra/shams units many of whom are real military vets and properly trained in turkey vs just the ideological ferocity of IS...so long as the frontal units and checkpoints have ATGMs always on warm standby (spare batteries a must) this VBIED swarms can be defeated mostly.

Charlie Winter ‏@charliewinter 13h13 hours ago
48. #IS just reported 6 more suicide operations. That's 17 suiciders today / a total of 37 since #Mosul offensive began on Monday. Wow.