Levant crisis - III

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Nov 2016 22:24

Night has fallen and battles are raging. In 12 hours with morning the extent of jihadi losses today will be more clear.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 27 Nov 2016 22:28

what about offensive on Raqqa , when will it start? Any clue Singha saab!

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 27 Nov 2016 22:30

If this map is true north aleppo will fall by tomorrow even

https://mobile.twitter.com/A7_Mirza/sta ... 76/photo/1

Raqqa...sdf is 25k from north and further out in east. Lot more work left to encircle it. Ypg not keen unless they get al bab and link with manbij

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 27 Nov 2016 22:41

Drone support in Aleppo
Notably, aerial drone surveillance has played an instrumental role in allowing precise strikes on Islamist insurgent positions across rebel-held eastern Aleppo and have also served to significantly limit inevitable collateral damage.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 05:59

Members of the Syrian Army’s Republican Guard Tiger Force brandish their new AK-104 rifles at the Nayrab airbase with a Yakovlev commercial airplane in the background.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:05

5 US soldiers killed in Hasakah

AL-HASAKA: The United States Army Special Forces and Rangers have lost 5 soldiers at Tal Tamr, specifically at a Kurdish military base called the Zeewaar Camp. This camp famously flew the American flag and the British Union Jack as of 3 days ago demonstrating the deepening ties between the traitorous Kurds and their terrorist-supporting allies in NATO. The deaths and scores of wounded were the result of an electrical spark detonating a warehouse loaded with American-supplied explosives. Americans spirited, by helicopter, their dead and wounded to a Syrian location at Al-Mabrooka and then to Kurdistaan for full disposition. The Kurds, not so lucky, sent theirs to Al-Qaamishli. This proves that the Americans and British have invaded Syria unlawfully. The White House and the State Department are trying to keep this one under wraps.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:10

The takfiri-White Helmet tag team caught preparing one of their many “Russia blew up the last hospital in Aleppo (again)” PR videos

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:11

The following blog is a new one created by a ex SAA member to talk about, mostly, of weapons and equipments from the SAA. Hope you enjoy it and support the chap.

https://within-syria.blogspot.com.br/20 ... 1776521221

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:13

Impressive T72B equipped with advanced Kontakt-5 explosive reactor armour. It survived 2 direct hit from the US provided TOW BGM-71 in Sheikh Sa’eed, southern Aleppo city, worth seeing, filmed by the terrorists.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 06:26

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha
@Hasaike ypg opened a corridor, they go through sh. maqsoud and into west

Hassan Ridha
2h2 hours ago
Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha
~10,000 civilians have so far fled from east Aleppo, most are entering west Aleppo & some are taking refuge in YPG-controlled Sheikh Maqsoud

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:27

Colonel Cassad has a comprehensive photo report on the actions

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en ... 96183.html

i) Several thousand civilians in east Aleppo “…escaping from ‘freedom figghters’ to a ‘bloody’ tyrant’…”.

ii) Sad news that Mohamad Rafa, leader of the Liwa al Quds died in action today. He had recently been awarded medals and recognition by the Russians for his actions. RIP

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:30

Syria Warns Turkey to Withdraw Forces Immediately

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad warned the Turkish government to immediately withdraw its military forces from Syria.

Turkey is planning something in East Aleppo and using this alleged attack as a ploy to escalate the situation

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950907000402

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 06:31

Ayotollah Leith
6h6 hours ago
Ayotollah Leith ‏@leithfadel
More than 25 percent of the east Aleppo pocket has now been liberated.

Ayotollah Leith
6h6 hours ago
Ayotollah Leith ‏@leithfadel
There were people that wanted the west to bomb 1.2 million people in gov't-held Aleppo to save a made-up population in

Ayotollah Leith
6h6 hours ago
Ayotollah Leith ‏@leithfadel
Spoke to my cousin Joseph fighting in Bustan Al-Basha, he says maybe 30k people left in east Aleppo. Most in Sakhour.

Ayotollah Leith
6h6 hours ago
Ayotollah Leith ‏@leithfadel
The statistics in this war are so puzzling because they are rarely backed by actual fact.

Ayotollah Leith
6h6 hours ago
Ayotollah Leith ‏@leithfadel
We were made to believe 250k-300k people were trapped in east Aleppo. This was supposed to be the greatest human travesty since WWII

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:37

SAA nearing al-bab

The SAA has struck ISIS positions at Al-Mazboora and Al-Qibla reportedly destroying 8 vehicles some of which were Toyota pickups with 23mm cannons aboard. Once the SAA had pounded these positions sufficiently with rockets, the infantry moved in and killed over 16 rats and arrested 9.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:46

WesternGhouta #Damascus Ninar FM Reporter Says 1450 Militants will be deported from #Khan_AlShih & 589 Women, 900 Children.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 06:55

Double ATGM hits on Turk Tank

https://southfront.org/turkish-army-los ... ern-syria/

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:01

Syrian soldier meeting his family from Hanano after so many years.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:06

x 2

In 1973 Fidel Castro sent an armoured brigade to Syria. In the war against Israel there were some 3,000 Cubans on the Golan Heights front

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:09

new Syrian air force attack against those invading Turk Would be great to see Putin slyly lead the slimy Ankara turd peddler to his own demise?

http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/11/syrian ... mbing.html

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:12

More evidence confirming the collusion between Israel and the terrorists in Syria

A number of Syrians in a village in the Occupied Golan blocked the passage of an Israeli ambulance taking a pair of terrorists wounded in Syria to Israel for treatment. Two of the Syrians involved have been sentenced by the Israeli court to jail for terms of 7 years, 8 months and 22 months respectively.

Israel on the other hand routinely blocks ambulances trying to take ill Palestinians to Israeli hospitals for treatment. There have been many instances where the victims, typically pregnant women, have died during these events.

https://southfront.org/first-batch-of-i ... for-idlib/

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:16

BRITISH DESTROYER TRACKING ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV BREAKS DOWN

HMS Duncan, which was among six NATO ships, involved in tracking of the Russian battle group, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov, has broken down, when it was on the way to military exercises with NATO ships.

Representatives of the UK Defense Ministry said that the decision to return the destroyer to the base was taken in order to assess arisen technical problems.

https://t.co/plvCPdxPbH

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:21

The Russians, unlike the Americans, know how to correctly prepare the ground for an infantry attack to be successful.

All the ceasefires, it seems, would have been engineered by the Russians to permit full infiltration into Jihadi areas. It is more than probable that most of the Chechen fighters (shipped in from Idlib) were actually Russian Spetsnaz operators.

For such a sudden collapse the Jihadis have obviously been so well infiltrated that they ended up not knowing who to trust !

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:22

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:26

Taking over of Hanano neighbourhood

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:39

Humaimam …. residents of Qadisiyah and Alhaidariya residences in Aleppo forced the gunmen to leave their neighborhoods

Hundreds of families from Alhaidariya and Alsakhur took to the safe areas and the Syrian army security.

Humaimam: processing of humanitarian aid to the liberated districts of eastern Aleppo.

and this

Yusha Yuseef ‏@MIG29_ 24m24 minutes ago

#Aleppo : Breaking more then 2000 people exit from East aleppo part into SAA Side

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:41

Aleppo suburbs falling as dominos. After Hanano, Jabal Badro and Ard al-Hamra have fallen in few hours. Sakhur now.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:45

Word is zumwalt broke down in panama canal enroute to san diego due to leaky propeller shafts. Its moored in a ex usn base there pending repair. Shows that new kit no matter how uber spec are prone to break even in a centuries old tech like how to seal the drive shafts properly where it goes through the hull....dreadnoughts and ironclads were doing this

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:46

Sakhour is the missing gap between bustan al basha in west and hanano in east. Its the door that needs to close

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:50

Are all the green bus deported jihadis really overnight turning into farmers and traders in idlib i wonder?

They have families to feed many of them.

They have four choices
1. Stay in idlib and find work
2. Seek work in euphrates shield
3. Sneak into turkey and work there
4. Sneak into eu via turkey

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:53

Yusha Yuseef ‏@MIG29_
#Aleppo : The Tiger issued a statement giving militants last warning to leave Aleppo city or suffer total annihilation

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:55

/Tweets From Aleppo\ ‏@halabtweets
Keep your eyes on the REAL numbers of civilians in Eastern Aleppo. The 250k myth is about to be busted.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 07:57

Civilians incl kids finally get a chance to escape...a few shots ringing in background

https://mobile.twitter.com/Souria4Syria ... 29/video/1

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 07:58

watch how captured IS fighters are crying and begging for forgiveness and
speak out how they were fooled by their US, Israel, NATO and Saudi supporters

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 08:01

Soon it will be time for the green buses and one way bmtc pass to idlib....

What happens in the southern pocket will be interesting to see...its larger and has more housing more congested areas.

It also has symbol of aleppo the citadel which dates to pre roman times. Its the berlin reichstag chancery which general chuikovs troops will aim for with the hammer and sickle red banner

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 08:04

The magnitude of the terrorists’ defeat in eastern Aleppo city is unprecedented, in 3 days they have lost a 1/3 of the original pocket with very little losses for the SAA and allied forces, and that in one os the most dense populated area in Syria if not in the entire Middle East. This victory will send shock waves to the entire region and give hope to millions of Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, Libyans that the impossible can be done.
I lost count on the numbers of civilians safely evacuated, it could be easily some 5-10,000 civilians so far, that is a huge moral victory for the Syrian Government and its allies.

So far it is confirmed the liberation of the following districts since early today :
1) Jabal Badro
2) Hellok
3) Bustan al Pasha
4) Ba’edin
5) Ayn al Tal
6) Inzarat

Partial liberation of :

1) Haydariyah (the full liberation is coming at any moment).
2) Sheikh Fares (terrorists leaving the area on the double)
3) Sheikh Kedher (terrorists leaving the area on the double)
4) Sakhur (pocket funneling the terrorists from all the above districts toward south, there is a narrow area still open to allow the terrorists to scape south)

The way this advance is going, it is very likely that the new border line will be at the Aleppo International Airport Motorway.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 08:05

If jihadis are smart they will take the bus pass and spare more destruction of lives and housing. Nobody is coming to help them. And there is no escape now.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 08:06

Time for hezbollah and desert hawks to gnaw at sheik saeed in sw methinks to rattle bars of the cage lol

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Nov 2016 08:08

The rapid advances show good mapping intel and local guides perhaps liwa al quds who lived in the city

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 08:21

Literally most of the terrorists that could flee south they already did,reports indicate massive casualties among the terrorists, the retreat was extremely bad organized and infighting among rats continues.

The following districts are on mop up operations at the moment, there will be announcements soon of full liberation:

1) Haydariyah
2) Sheikh Fares
3) Sheikh Kedher
4) Sakhur

https://twitter.com/A7_Mirza/status/802906045093912576

Some reflections on the speed of the terrorists collapse in eastern Aleppo:

1) Their nbrs may have been on purposely over estimated by the US and UN, they said 8-10,000 and most likely it had 4-5,000 in the beginning. A SAA officer recently said they expect 2,500 able rats at the moment.

2) Something we have chatted few times for the past 3 months (since Handarat Camp offensive), was the ability for rats to keep up their fight with less and less ammo, the current situation may indicate their extreme dire straits in ammo & firepower level.

3) It seems the terrorists under estimated the power of Syrian Government supporter cells inside eastern Aleppo, those cells are indeed making the different in speeding up the liberation of the city.

4) The terrorists are losing the support of locals as fast as they look weak, this is very important for the battles to come in Aleppo, east Ghouta and Idlib.

5) The speed of the terrorists defeat is directly in proportion of preservation of buildings and infra-structure, though it has been badly damaged for the past 4 years, it is a blessing for the ordinary people to no see it utterly destroyed in a pitch battle, house to house, door to door. This aspect, usually not seeing by many, is fundamental to the future of Syria, the more it is preserved now, the faster normal life and services return to all.

6) The SAA and allies combined firepower and tactics have proved to be reinvigorated and lethal. There is no better message for the enemies of Syria that this prime planning & execution.

habal · Post by **habal** » 28 Nov 2016 08:27

Latest news from Aleppo:

1) Have mentioned in a early comment that maybe 5,000-10,000 have left eastern Aleppo in the past 24 hrs. Confirmation from MoD is arriving with 10,000 civilians fleeing to the western Aleppo sector and to Sheikh Maksoud. It was known that Sakhur held the vast majority of civilians in eastern/southern Aleppo, and that area was recently preserved from air attacks. No matter what it is a very large number of civilians being rescued to safety, and less civilians to be used as hostages.

2) It seems Sakhur gap is closed or nearly closed, the terrorists that had the chance to leave managed to do it but many stayed, the fight continues as we speak in Sheikh Fares & Sheikh Khadr. The situation in al Haydariyah continues to be a mix of large areas liberated but some pockets with terrorists.

3) One very strategic area was also liberated today, the water pumping station in Suleiman al Halabi district, vital for the Aleppo city infra structure and to bring things back to normality. The rats left millions of mines and IEDs, will take time to clean up.

4) Surprisedly in another night operation, the SAA and allies managed to breach the Aleppo International Airport Motorway, that was supposed to be the new defensive line for the terrorists just below Sakhur, and liberated part of Hayy Dawarnah and Tubert Lala district, this is still fluid situation but it seems a SAA team managed to break from Jabal Badro.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=36.21 ... 9992;40513

5) There is a strong rumor of another front to be open inside Aleppo this Monday, no clue on the location, it could be anywhere, rats are in dire straits at the moment, defenses are weak in many places but still strong in the northern, western and southern sector of the current pocket, as previous front lines have changed little.