The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc) - II

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 07 Apr 2016 07:30

Yesterday's news of capture of El Eis was either false or it was a probing team which withdrew. El Eis remains with the rebels and SAA, IRGC, Hezbollah along with Shia forces from Iraq are still to launch the offensive.

Lot of arty and aerial bombardment but no change in ground positions.

A video of Ka 52 attacking ISIS positions at Quraytayn earlier. The first 0:18 secs are of the Ka 52, thereafter the video is of ground operations.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 08:14

No point wasting men in infantry charges....if arty and airpower is available. Rus can bring in the heavies with fab1500 kg IMO and soften the place. Make it a bigger game and take back more than lost...advance West of that highway...have the ypg help in ending the siege of shiek maqsood

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 08:20

Bartania is foxy as usual on the divide n rule front

Enough exp around the world.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 07 Apr 2016 08:28

Singha wrote:No point wasting men in infantry charges....if arty and airpower is available. Rus can bring in the heavies with fab1500 kg IMO and soften the place. Make it a bigger game and take back more than lost...advance West of that highway...have the ypg help in ending the siege of shiek maqsood

I agree. The breach of M5 at multiple points is vital for any advance towards Idlib.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 07 Apr 2016 08:32

H e b a ‏@HKX07 now3 hours ago
@DreadMozlum
On a girls school in liberated rebel-held #Idlib
'Girls, wear niqab or we'll cut your necks'. #Syria

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 09:37

Isis attack on deir azor fails again per AL masdar

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 09:37

Huge convoy of iranis has finally reached South aleppo few hours ago.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 07 Apr 2016 09:46

Aldin Abazović
‏@Ald_Aba
#Russia mine-clearing Uran-6 robot at work in #Palmyra #Syria

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 10:26

Seems to be a Bangladesh type West Azerbaijan we knew nothing of

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 12:06

The southernmost remnants of daesh, well South of quraytyn is at present doing an offensive from the desert into the Eastern side of the Damascus defences

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 12:11

All r tasked to keep SAA busy while formidable defence lines are built up in East and manpower moved South after some foreign overlord brokers a secret treaty between nusra and daesh

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 07 Apr 2016 17:21

What is that Naxalvan region, apparently occupied by Turkeys? Hope by the end of this, that part is liberated.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 07 Apr 2016 21:44

It's a West Azerbaijan type of Bangladesh, separated by Armenian territory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhchi ... s_Republic

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 07 Apr 2016 22:26

lot of this is stalin's legacy - of moving populations around to keep everyone in check

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 07 Apr 2016 23:03

.....understanding Assad.......da Panama papers....

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/panama-pa ... 02313.html

Syria's democratic opposition is combing through this week's release of the Panama Papers to revitalize efforts to identify and freeze billions of dollars amassed by the family and friends of their country's dictator, Bashar al-Assad.

The papers, leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, have uncovered a web of shell companies and offshore accounts hiding wealth tied to prominent officials around the world. Among them are new disclosures about Rami and Hafez Makhlouf, the cousins of Assad who are estimated to have once controlled more than half of Syria's economy. The papers also document millions of dollars' worth of real-estate holdings belonging to Suleiman Marouf, an Assad ally based in London.

The Coalition for a Democratic Syria, a U.S.-based group that supports members of the opposition who are not jihadis, told us this week the new information could be a map to uncovering Assad's ill-gotten wealth.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 07 Apr 2016 23:07

this whole panama thing has more to it than meets the eye... all very convenient in so many different ways...
(yeah we're runnin' a little hot tonite, i can barely see the road for the heat comin' on...)

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 07 Apr 2016 23:29

Iraqi troops cut and run.....yet again.....

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/07 ... tcmp=hpbt1

sorry, words fail me right about now......disgusting.....xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

member_23370 · Post by **member_23370** » 07 Apr 2016 23:29

LoL..after all they were trained by US army.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 07 Apr 2016 23:33

Bheeshma wrote:LoL..after all they were trained by US army.

there are Iranians involved also not just the US.....we told the stooge government that Mosul needed to come later...they kept pushing

glad to see you have a sense of humor about ISIS wining at the cost of Iraq.....

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 08 Apr 2016 03:20

Oh, did they manage to give a few more TOWs and M-1s to the needy ISIS? Stingers? Patriots?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 08 Apr 2016 04:33

Ah! Apparently **NOT** - and that is the source of distress for FOX Reliable News Network.

Iraqi Army Maj. Gen. Najm Abdullah al-Jubbouri said ISIS fighters had dug a network of tunnels and had suicide bombers and truck bombs waiting for them.

So if that were Syria, they would have identified *where** the tunnels and VBIEDs were, and the kind RuAF and the Stalin Organ rockets would have showered greetings on them.
WHY is that not happening in Iraq? Answer: Airspace (and ISIS) are **protected** by NATO.

Pausing the effort is another humiliation for Baghdad,

A fine criterion to decide whether to go ahead with The Charge of The Light Brigade!

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

For once the Iraqi Army appears to have intelligent commanders. And that makes FOX and its followers mad, sad, disgusted etc.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 08 Apr 2016 04:42

you do know that Iraq is not getting that equipment free?

they are selling oil to help pay for it.

anyway, it looks like the clowns didn't abandon their weapons and the Iraqi generals ordered the withdrawal.

it looks like it's going to take our couch potatoes to lead the assault on Mosul. As usual.

our guys always seem to be taking some god awful stronghold somewhere.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 08 Apr 2016 04:51

So if that were Syria, they would have identified *where** the tunnels and VBIEDs were, and the kind RuAF and the Stalin Organ rockets would have showered greetings on them.

so tell me, how are they doing at Raqqa? Where the real ISIS are waiting for them.....

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 08 Apr 2016 05:22

Meanwhile actual news from Mosul front:

RiskMap ‏@Riskmapintel 6h6 hours ago

Coalition Airstrike Kills 30 Isis Fighters South Of #Mosul, Rockets Laboratory Destroyed http://dlvr.it/L0NZsq

Retweeted 29 times
Zaid Benjamin Verified account ‏@zaidbenjamin Apr 5

US-led coalition airstrike has destroyed former Turkish consulate in #Mosul -Pentagon Spx Navy Capt. Jeff Davis

Aud™ ‏@CodeAud 9h9 hours ago

#ISIS most prominent media official dies of his wounds in #Mosul
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isis- ... ike-mosul/ …

50 gunmen killed by coalition strikes on a Da'ish sniper training camp near the Grand Mosque in #Mosul in N. #Iraq.

***********************
All better news than

Herrowic Iraqi Army rushes in to Mosul, all die fighting to the last man, leave their TOWs and HUMVEEs and M-1s for the ISIS, with keys in ignition and access codes on little pieces of cardboard stuck to the windshield.

shaun · Post by **shaun** » 08 Apr 2016 06:10

TSJones wrote:
So if that were Syria, they would have identified *where** the tunnels and VBIEDs were, and the kind RuAF and the Stalin Organ rockets would have showered greetings on them.
so tell me, how are they doing at Raqqa? Where the real ISIS are waiting for them.....

what the f#ck is real or unreal ISIS ??!!!! good talib , bad talibs !! moderate rebels , extremist rebels , modern rebels and the list goes on.........simply pathetic.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 08 Apr 2016 06:22

Surprisingly large nos of civilians have reappeared in Palmyra from wherever they had taken shelter.

Another daesh attack on deir azzor beaten off with 40 rats dispatched.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 08 Apr 2016 06:24

The turkey and USA backed so called fsa fighting daesh in North aleppo look like skilled beheaders...quite a few pics on Twitter of fsa rebels proudly holding aloft daesh heads.. Presumably a mounted stag head for the fireplace or mantelpiece

chanakyaa · Post by **chanakyaa** » 08 Apr 2016 06:42

Understanding the fight in Artaskh between Armenia and Azerbaijan

....
With Azerbaijan following the line that it is only attempting to liberate the land it lost in in the last war, it cannot explain why its soldiers cut off the ears of its victims, a Turkish tradition dating back to the Ottoman era...

https://twitter.com/MuradoRT

habal · Post by **habal** » 08 Apr 2016 07:13

i think it's now good time to use nukes on syria. Enough of this small cat & mouse tactical games with nusra turks.

habal · Post by **habal** » 08 Apr 2016 07:42

On April 4, the electronic Rai al-Youm daily carried the following piece by Hesham al-Hbeishan: “The fact that America and its allies are proceeding with the indirect war on Syria irrefutably indicates that any talk about the conferences aimed at finding a political settlement to the war on the Syrian state (Geneva 3) is nothing but mere talk and statements that are void of any implementable contents on the ground. America and its allies in the West and the region are still playing a part and trying to shove the Syrian state into a long war, one that will end in portioning Syria. Until America and its allies are convinced that the time for settling the war on the Syrian war has come, Syria will keep revolving in a bloody circle.

“Until American and its allies are convinced that their project for destroying Syria has achieved all its goals or until they become convinced of the failure of their project in Syria, we will keep monitoring the course of the battles on the ground to obtain clear indications as to the nature and course of the future solutions to the war against the Syrian state and the Syrian people, who represent the sole losers as a result of this imposed war.

“At this specific phase, and as the Arab Syrian army has been progressing and has freed wide areas in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of Homs, one cannot possibly say that America and its allies have re-visited their strategy for the war in Syria. In the absence of any field or political signs, one cannot talk about any possible change of the Americans and their allies’ strategy for the war on Syria. Indeed, they are now going back to talking about training the so-called moderate opposition after the halt of this training program.

“The Americans are also making preparations for some major battles, which will be taking place soon, as per the leaks of the western media. These battles will take place in North East Syria where [the Americans] will be supporting the so-called democratic Syrian forces in and around Al-Reqqah with the aim of blocking the way for the Russian and Syrian allies in the areas of east and north east Syria.

“America and its allies are also still grasping the card of the “Al-Riyadh delegation” and using it to maneuver… American and its allies are also still playing their part in the economic siege against the Syrian state and still working on aborting any course of action or solution that might lead to a political settlement to the war on the Syrian state. All these signs give way to believe that there has been no change in America and its allies’ strategy and war on the Syrian state. Thus all the analyses and talk on some sort of a change at the level of the American position are mere empty analyses that has no realistic content.

“The details and facts pertaining to the war on the Syrian state and the expansion of the battles between ISIL and the Syrian Arab army on the Syrian land clearly indicate that America and its allies have returned to the same tune that they have been repeating for five years…on the “departure of Al-Assad and the political transfer, as well as America’s support for the so-called Al-Riyadh delegation.” This categorically refutes the bets of some analysts who have recently been saying that Washington’s silence regarding most of the events taking place in Syria represents an acceptance of the fait accompli and that Washington has accepted its defeat on the Syrian lands. However, the facts and secrets taking place behind the scenes refute that.

“Clearly, the course of events on the Syrian battlefield does not lead one to believe in the possibility of reaching an easy consensual political settlement for the war against the Syrian state. The battles are still taking place on the ground with more force and additional momentum. As the noise of these battles is rising, one can say that nothing will top the course of the military settlements at this phase from the north to the south as well as the Syrian east. The battles are proceeding in an opposite direction to the political settlements…”

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 08 Apr 2016 09:11

the turkish sponsored advance along the border azaz-->jarablous has covered 1/3 of the distance so far with the capture of Al-Rai border crossing yesterday directly north of Al-Bab.

other than jarablous in east there are no real proper roads left for ISIS to trade north, but the border would have smaller roads to move people and weapons.

this renders the IS presence on Al-bab and deir-hafr as kind of strategically useless they will be trapped in a N-S pincer whenever the SAA finds it convenient (aleppo and east khannsser) and have to deal with the creeping advances of the turkish sponsored formations from the north.

its game over for IS in north syria. they might try a few counterattacks to reclaim Al-rai and their 'cut' on all the trade through it, but the well fed, well armed, well supported turkish munnas should be able to beat them off. a photo of Shams trooper with a laptop type thermal imaging camera use to spot troops in the dark is on twitter. these boys do not lack on experience or tools.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 08 Apr 2016 10:15

Russian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft dropped 6,000 (mostly unguided) bombs over Syria

http://theaviationist.com/2016/03/19/ru ... ver-syria/

The Russian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoots were pretty busy during their Syrian deployment.

On Mar. 16, the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) welcomed the return of their Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft from Hmeymim airfield, in Syria, to their home base in the Krasnodar region.

As reported by the Tass News Agency, during the ceremony, Alexander Galkin, the Russia’s Southern Military District commander, said the Frogfoots flew more than 1,600 sorties and dropped around 6,000 bombs since when Russian aircraft began missions against terrorists in Syria on Sep. 15, 2015.

“After a prolonged assignment away from home we are welcoming back our best pilots. They have coped with all of their tasks. Over the past six months they flew 1,600 sorties in adverse conditions spending more than 1,000 hours in the sky over Syria to have dropped about 6,000 bombs on the terrorists,” Galkin said.

Noteworthy, the Sukhoi Su-34 bombers have been the first RuAF aircraft to leave Hmeymim airbase on Mar. 15, followed by the Su-24 and Su-25 attack jets which left the airfield later on the same day.

A we have already explained, unlike the U.S. led coalition combat planes which rely on accurate precision guided munitions (PGMs), the Russian aircraft made an extensive use of unguided bombs, such as the OFAB-250 which along with S-13 rockets represented the main weapon used by the Frogfoots against terrorists targets in Syria.

Nevertheless also the RuAF attack jets used several kinds of PGMs. These weapons, which belong to the KAB-500 guided bomb series, include the KAB-500KR TV guided bomb, the KAB-500L laser guided bomb and the GLONASS-guided KAB-500S-E that like the American JDAM depends on a GPS guidance system.

These smart weapons can arm the Su-24, the Su-25, the Su-30 and the Su-34: all the fighter bomber types that took part in the Russian air campaign in Syria.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 08 Apr 2016 12:03

Complex plans and maskirovka in motion...

Ibrahim Joudeh ‏@Ibra_Joudeh
Suheil Al Hassan The Tiger is back to #Aleppo along with his forces for a new battle in East Aleppo
#Syria #SAA

habal · Post by **habal** » 08 Apr 2016 12:23

Russian Mi-28 destroys ISIS terrorist vehicles in East Homs

habal · Post by **habal** » 08 Apr 2016 12:53

Syrian Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam admits using banned weapons against Kurds in Aleppo

http://on.rt.com/79gh
Published time: 7 Apr, 2016 21:45
Edited time: 7 Apr, 2016 23:24

The Jaysh al-Islam militant group fighting government forces in Syria has admitted to using “forbidden” weapons against Kurdish militia in Aleppo. The group’s statement comes after reports of chemical gas being used in shelling Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsood district.
The Kurdish Red Crescent confirmed reports that chemicals had been used in the attack. “The victims brought to the hospital are suffering from spasms and convulsions because of poisoning by gases banned all over the world, such as chlorine,” a Red Crescent doctor told Sputnik.

YPG also confirmed that toxic agents had been used by the Islamists, according to RIA Novosti.

“We confirm the information concerning usage by Islamists, acting under patronage of Turkey, of the poisonous agent in the Maqsood neighborhood of Aleppo. Its poisonous effect have experienced dozens of civilians,” the head of the YPG central headquarters was cited as saying.

habal · Post by **habal** » 08 Apr 2016 12:58

these are the ones fighting in Aleppo, seemingly endless supply.

that is why I said, a nuke will finish quick, without taking forever, the pain on all sides. Turdogan will know he can't finish the war, SD will know it is pointless. Britain will be defeated. Syria will be spared.

Some 100 Turkish regime Special Forces Cross into Syria

A source in Syrian Kurdish militia reported that at least 100 Turkish regime special forces soldiers have crossed into the Syrian Idlib province through a checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border.

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) — At least 100 Turkish regime special forces soldiers have crossed into Syria’s northern Idlib province through a checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border, a source in Syrian Kurdish militia told Sputnik on Thursday.

"Turkey has sent 100 special forces troops to Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing point in the Idlib province," the source said.

Turkish regime has been shelling Syrian Kurdish militias in northern Syria along the Turkish border since February. Ankara has claimed that the Syrian Kurds have links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

In a late March interview with Sputnik Assad called Turkey one of the countries directly supporting terrorism in Syria and Iraq.

Russia has repeatedly called on the Turkish regime to stop facilitating arms shipments across the border with Syria.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 08 Apr 2016 15:38

Small Russian Village Remembers Their Hero Who Died Liberating Palmyra

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 08 Apr 2016 18:36

Janes reporting about the weapons supply to Syrian rebels by USA:

http://www.janes.com/article/59374/us-a ... s-detailed

Simplified packing list for December 2015 arms shipment

Type Weight (kg)
Aqaba Agalar Total

7.62x39 mm 85,190 48,998 134,188
7.62x54 mm 58,752 8,652 67,404
12.7 mm 81,468.40 36,713 118,181
14.5 mm 196,233.76 173,447 369,681
82 mm 53,885.34 53,885
PG-7VM 0.00 68,600 68,600
PG-7VT 36,795 88,224.00 125,019
9M111M 13,540 8,153 21,693
AK-47 & DShK* 12,250 12,250
AK-47 & PKM* 6,540 6,540
PKM 6,340 6,340
DShK & RPG-7* 3,585 3,585
RPG-7 4,120 4,120
Faktoria launchers2,421.60 298 2,720
Total 550,996 443,210 994,206
* The packing list merged some categories
Documents released by the US government's Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website have provided an indication of the types and numbers of Eastern European weapons and ammunition the United States is providing to Syrian rebel groups as part of a programme that continues despite the widely respected ceasefire in that country.

The FBO has released two solicitations in recent months looking for shipping companies to transport explosive material from Eastern Europe to the Jordanian port of Aqaba on behalf of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command.

Released on 3 November 2015, the first solicitation sought a contractor to ship 81 containers of cargo that included explosive material from Constanta in Bulgaria to Aqaba.

The solicitation was subsequently updated with a detailed packing list that showed the cargo had a total weight of 994 tonnes, a little under half of which was to be unloaded at Agalar, a military pier near the Turkish town of Tasucu, the other half at Aqaba.

The cargo listed in the document included AK-47 rifles, PKM general-purpose machine guns, DShK heavy machine guns, RPG-7 rocket launchers, and 9K111M Faktoria anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) systems. The Faktoria is an improved version of the 9K111 Fagot ATGW, the primary difference being that its missile has a tandem warhead for defeating explosive reactive armour (ERA) fitted to some tanks.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 08 Apr 2016 19:52

Wonder if the Da'esh have a tradition of exchanging gifts at X'Mas. A few American-gifted TOWs and AK47s, along with a few slave girls and boys, a few severed heads of US-Backed Flee Sylian Almy chiefs, maybe the odd crucified Xtian, just some nice trinkets and tokens of affection like that...

From the People of the United States of America
Direct to the Moderate Terrorists of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Turkey, Mali and Jordan
Compliments of Our Leaders Al Obama and Hee-Hee Clinton

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 08 Apr 2016 20:44

Have a look at the video on this link. I am not saying this happens only to the Saudis but this is extreme.

Hamo
‏@KekHamo
Saudi paratrooper...
via @ThijsWhoa

https://twitter.com/KekHamo/status/718381720148525058