Levant crisis - III

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 08:00

banana uvacha again

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 08:05

A new up date from T4 airbase. The base’s defensive line has improved significantly versus early today. It is reported that few thousands prime special forces and soldiers have arrived during the past 48 hours.

The Col Suheil Hassan has visited the base twice, some Tiger Forces stayed in the base as well. Some confirmed information arrived about a large 700 Hizbollah force arrived yesterday and was engaged in battle today recovering the northern hills
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Another force that arrived 2 days ago and was involved in recovering the abandoned military base NW of T4 was the Qalamoun Hawks, under Major General Joma el Jasim.

The fight seems to be now concentrated in the southern side (seem map below), where the village of Sharifah shifted ownership few times today. The key aspect of the southern defensive line is to get back control of the roads and for that the control of Tiyas crossroad is vital.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=34.46 ... ;21249;0;0

Once the defensive perimeter around the base is solid again, the allied forces will attempt to recover the gas fields NW of the base, with adequate armoured forces and CAS, these fields will be liberated quite fast.

Important to mention that the Tiger will be leading this fight, once more, it will be his 3rd time, he knows the terrain better then anyone.

Last but not least, large SAA and allied forces being deployed to two front lines after Aleppo:
1) Eastern Aleppo – Daer Hafer Plains campaign.
2) Palmyra

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 08:07

http://www.aparat.com/v/psrWd

according to the Washington Post, Russia now has its elite KSO troops (Russian equivalent of Delta Force) in Syria..

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 08:08

Sergey Bobkov ‏@sbobkov
#Turkish military lost 3 #Leopard2 tanks at #AlBab. #ISIS used TOW-2 & #Konkurs AT missiles, proving the point that all modern tanks burn.

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 08:11

Female hostages placed in cages and left on rooftops by Jaish al Islam in East Ghouta – ransomed today after 3 years in captivity.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzrWrk8WEAULTBd.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzrWx9FWgAAzJsw.jpg

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 08:11

Eiffel tower is going dark to mourn the defeat of terrorists in Aleppo. Shame on indics who put up french flag on their fbook profile after bataclan. Did a small single french do it after any of numerous terror attacks in India?

We owe them nothing

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 08:13

agitpapa Retweeted
Aldin Abazović
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Aldin Abazović ‏@Ald_Aba
@Ald_Aba Rebel attack started after they refuse to hand over 260 people from gov. list that include top leadership of multiple rebel groups.

agitpapa Retweeted
Aldin Abazović
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Aldin Abazović ‏@Ald_Aba
Rebels launched fierce attacks from their area of control in #Aleppo city, with 2 VBIED striking gov. positions. #Syria

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 08:19

Singha wrote:Eiffel tower is going dark to mourn the defeat of terrorists in Aleppo. Shame on indics who put up french flag on their fbook profile after bataclan. Did a small single french do it after any of numerous terror attacks in India?

We owe them nothing

It's good we kept Rafale order at 36. French are pro-Islamist tools for anglo-zionist lobby.

will French side with India in case of an Islamist-led insurgency, I guess not.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 09:26

Doloroso ‏@Pyrmha108
#Aleppo - Jihadis resume shelling civilian neighbourhoods - evacuations cancelled because AQ & Co won't hand over the worst war criminals...

LokeshC · Post by **LokeshC** » 15 Dec 2016 10:56

Singha wrote:Eiffel tower is going dark to mourn the defeat of terrorists in Aleppo. Shame on indics who put up french flag on their fbook profile after bataclan. Did a small single french do it after any of numerous terror attacks in India?

We owe them nothing

And they fully deserve what's coming to them.

Rammpal · Post by **Rammpal** » 15 Dec 2016 11:04

Singha wrote:Sergey Bobkov ‏@sbobkov
#Turkish military lost 3 #Leopard2 tanks at #AlBab. #ISIS used TOW-2 & #Konkurs AT missiles, proving the point that all modern tanks burn.

Does this have something... anything to do with Arjun, T 90 and IA's procurement plan ?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 11:26

modern ATGMs have made life hell for tanks when fighting in urban areas or in hills or forests offering good cover.
we have low end attempts by the tanks to survive like the "Jobar cage" mods , "saraquib dustbin IR jammers", chains and skirts hanging off on all sides, electrically charged capacitor armour to explode projectiles, ERA , Abrams TUSK upgrade and even a ugly looking Leopard2 evolution.

I would say given the cost factor of $50-100k for a laser guided one and $150-200k for F&F top attack weapon like javelin with good IIR sensors, and the $4-5 mil cost of a tank and the fuel and flatbed truck logistical tail, expensive munna engine and electronics....the cost benefit equation has shifted to ATGMs these fast few years...no real innovations in MBTs in the last 15 years except steep increases in price tag. some european nations like netherland have retired all their MBTs, UK/France/Germany pale shadows of cold war peaks and Khan has boneyarded most of its mighty fleet. only 5 nations are active in next-gen new MBT work - India, Russia, China, Soko and Japan. Khan can surely make a next-gen but might go for some tiny smart missiles in a 128 container VLS dragged by a truck that will fire from under cover and can take out 2000mm of armour

and cost $1mil a shot

midcourse updates too from the network and VLO shaping to defeat radar guided countermeasures. khan is in the post-MBT era already. maybe a MIRV warhead to take out 3 tanks for the price of 1.
http://defense-update.com/products/l/Leopard-PSO.htm
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/tusk.htm

these two leading western MBTs evolved from fast, lethal and mobile tools of open range war into these fat, heavy, sluggish, cowering turtles trundling along village paths trying to dodge the next IED or ATGM from the bushes. a RPG29 vampir with a 500m range can get through 750mm RHA which means it will penetrate all tanks on earth from the side, hull and back. a cheap weapon but you can get 1000s for the price of 1 MBT

the merkava was already heavily modded for urban warfare given the nature of its deployment and terrain. 360 camera, infantry(3) room in back , very heavy hull and top armour, side skirts and chain armour, a obese 75 tons weight, 100 main gun rounds instead of usual 45 ... but even the hezbollah teams knocked out quite a few using konkurs and kornets in 2006.

without some form of organic drone or helicopter gunships protecting them from ATGMs , I feel tanks have had their day as close in terror weapons. every charasi and thug is packing a RPG22+ in his undies these days and knows how to use it. the bigger goons have kornets and TOW2. tanks can be used safely in open country or as mobile long range precision fire weapons against fortifications. also the proliferation of smart small SFW top attack munitions in the major militaries is a deadly threat. the shooter can be a cessna for all it matters, all the intelligence is in the weapon.

fast, cheap, "disposable" T72/T55 type tanks for mobile precision firepower that rattle like a BMTC old bus but can nail fortifications from 2km out have a niche and are used extensively in syria. they seem to get by on village mechanic level of care.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 11:36

Le republique in deep mourning.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 15 Dec 2016 12:06

Trses triste,c'est "larmes de crocodile"!

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:37

NATziO states are taking it personally: they regard the defeat of ISIS in Syria as a defeat for the USA, a defeat for UK, France etc.

By a not-so-strange coincidence, Gordon Duff of veteran's today is running a similar headline today: Aleppo Freed, Biggest US Defeat Since Vietnam.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/12/13 ... e-vietnam/

other mainstream media can't be as explicit since aleppo rebels are basically ..

..

terrorists

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:45

UN & western media tormented with concern for Aleppo's children, doctors, transvestites, queers, what nots

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:46

when yazidis were suffering and chased by isis out of their mountains in sinjar, this high level concern was painfully absent .. hain

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:48

One thing the CIA did right at the begining of the Campaign was to drain Syria of fighting age men through the refugee program into Europe. This would make sense to deprive the enemy of a vast pool of conscripts , maybe that is why the Syrian government to this day has never issued nationwide draft, because there is nobody to draft , they are already serving the country or they are already in Europe.

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:51

The enemy has found the SAA’s weakness, the SAA is stretched too thin and with a country that is one and a half times the size of England it is easy to get overstetched, Aleppo has more population than entire countries like qatar, bahrain & maybe that’s what Palmyra was a test run to see how Syria would respond to or counter attack because surely they don’t think they can hold Palmyra without any logistics in place or civilians to hold hostage.

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:53

US is upping their 'game' in levant

This is not about fighting ISIS, is it?

https://southfront.org/us-expands-elect ... um=twitter

Time to saddle your horses, Russkies !

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 12:57

the Palmyra episode is merely the US defecating on a monolithic Syrian victory and what is essentially the end of the war in Syria in real terms with all major population centres and business, economy under govt control.

the outliers like Idlib, Raqqa, Hama, Ghouta have basically no choice and no prospects to pull it independently if aleppo does not tag along.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Dec 2016 13:02

Singha wrote:Eiffel tower is going dark to mourn the defeat of terrorists in Aleppo. Shame on indics who put up french flag on their fbook profile after bataclan. Did a small single french do it after any of numerous terror attacks in India?

We owe them nothing

such is the shock that Qatar has cancelled national day celebrations, Saudi is also contemplating national mourning. Imagine what must be heart burn in West inside, used to easily winning 'war' (topple regime) using air force and now paid back in same coin.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 15 Dec 2016 13:02

Yes,scant concern when Christian women where raped,tortured and massacred ,aaprt from other Syrian civilians by the likes of ISIS.Now they mourn the defeat of ISIS in Aleppo. Shameless sh*tworms.

This victory is also a huge win for Iran whose influence now stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Meditt. Iran has shown that its forces can operate on the ground anywhere in the region and influnce the outcome.This will also have a marked effect on the Shiite population of Iraq,who will be celebrating the Aleppo victory too. The world is now watching to see how the western juggernaut does in retaking Mosul.Will it display the same (crocodile) tears it has copiously shed over Aleppo?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ia-militia

Iran hails victory in Aleppo as Shia militias boost Syria's Bashar al-Assad
Iranian military chief boasts of Tehran’s role in retaking Syrian city
‘The new American president should take heed of the powers of Iran’
Pro-government forces advance during a military operation in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday.
Martin Chulov, Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Patrick Wintour
Wednesday 14 December 2016 18.16 GMT

Iranian leaders have claimed a military victory in Aleppo, with the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s chief military aide boasting that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s forces would have been unable to retake the besieged city without support from Tehran.

“Aleppo was liberated thanks to a coalition between Iran, Syria, Russia and Lebanon’s Hizbollah,” said Seyed Yahya Rahim-Safavi. “Iran is on one side of this coalition which is approaching victory and this has shown our strength. The new American president should take heed of the powers of Iran.”

Iran’s defence minister called his Syrian counterpart to congratulate him and Mohsen Rezaie, a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, wrote on Instagram that Iran’s aim was to cleanse “terrorists and Takfiris [apostates]” from Syria and Iraq.

The parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, also congratulated Assad’s government, saying that US and British policies had hit a dead end in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen.

‘Are you incapable of shame?’: Samantha Power criticises Syria, Iran and Russia over Aleppo
*(One should ask the good ladt the samq Q about US war crimes in the two GW wars,Abu Gharib,etc.,etc.)

The comments underline the key role played by Iranian-backed Shia militias – but they also signalled a new phase in the power struggle for Syria’s second city, the fate of which will largely determine who wins the war.

Tuesday’s Russian-Turkish deal to spare the last of the opposition was brokered with little input from Iran or the Syrian leadership, who had controlled the battle since Russia scaled back its bombardment.

Pro-Assad forces which had cornered the city’s lasted holdouts were startled by the ceasefire agreement, and were determined to transform their momentum into all-out conquest of the rebel-held areas.

The militias resumed their offensive before dawn on Wednesday, not long before the first of tens of thousands of trapped civilians were supposed to be evacuated.

Airstrikes, believed to be Syrian, soon followed, and a hard-won diplomatic reprieve was in peril, as in all previous attempts to broker peace in Aleppo.

Pro-government forces patrol Aleppo on Wednesday. Photograph: George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images
Until recently, Russian firepower has been decisive. But after the air campaign gave way to a ground offensive earlier this month, Iran’s proxies took the lead, giving them a driving role in what happens next.

According a spokesman for one of the Aleppo factions, the ceasefire was immediately in doubt after Iran imposed conditions the rebels could not meet.

Yasser al-Youssef, of the Noureddine al-Zenki militia said Iran’s demands included the lifting of a rebel siege on Shia villages in Idlib, province, as well as deals on prisoners and missing members of Iranian-backed militias.

“Iran has prepared to invade our besieged areas and has defied Russia’s agreement,” said al-Youssef.

Iran and the Syrian government do not want to compromise on the battlefield or at the negotiating table, believing that total domination will give them a better hand to shape the aftermath. Russia, on the other hand, sees a benefit in transitioning from bludgeoning superpower to peace-broker.

The clash is the first serious divergence between Tehran and Moscow, whose heavyweight interventions have saved Assad but greatly diminished Syria’s sovereignty. But with the endgame in sight, the “win first, settle up later” approach has reached a nadir.

Sectarian fighters mass for battle to capture east Aleppo
Read more
Iran’s role in the Aleppo crisis is set to dominate Thursday’s regular meeting of EU heads of state in Brussels, with leaders of the Syrian opposition calling for economic sanctions to be imposed on Russia and Iran.

The EU, increasingly marginal to a crisis being resolved by Russia, Iran and Turkey , is certain to make it clear that it will not supply any cash for economic reconstruction unless there is a negotiated political settlement – and not a military resolution imposed by Iran or the Syrian government.

In a letter to EU leaders, Dr Riyad Hijib, the co ordinator of the Syrian High Negotiating Committee (HNC), called for “targeted unilateral sanctions against Russian and Iranian entities and individuals directly enabling war crimes in Syria through the supply of material assistance”.

The HNC also called for an urgent review of economic ties with Iran , including commercial airlines used by Iran to send weapons and fighters to Syria.

Many EU states will be deeply reluctant to re impose sanctions on Iran so soon after lifting them as part of the wider deal on Iran’s nuclear programme.

But the renewed emphasis on Iran reflects the key role played by Iranian artillery in the capture of east Aleppo.

Shia militias have also played a decisive role. Raised by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the militias have been far more effective than Syrian units. Their numbers had built around east Aleppo since early last year to an estimated force of 6,000-8,000 troops, many of them battle-hardened in Iraq or southern Lebanon.

Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of the Iranian-backed militias fighting in Syria. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images*
(One of the key architects of this victory,a legend even before this one)
The militias report to the Iranian Maj Gen Qassem Suleimani, who was tasked more than a decade ago by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, to export the values of the Islamic Revolution into the Arab world. Suleimani’s Quds Force is one of the Guards’ most elite units, attracting ideological cadres who believe in Shia supremacy.

Under Suleimani’s control are several Iraqi units, Asa’ib ahl al-Haq, Abu al-Fadhil al-Abbas, and the Nujaba Front, which is affiliated with the Keta’ib Hezbollah militia. All are power players in Iraq’s political-military sphere. Lebanese Hezbollah plays the same role in Beirut and southern Lebanon, where it is interwoven into the political and security apparatus.

Hezbollah was the first of the Iranian proxies to join the fight alongside Assad, and has paid a heavy price for doing so. Party loyalists in Beirut say at least 1,600 of its fighters had been killed in Syria before the conquest of east Aleppo.

Shia graveyards in Najaf have similarly been filling up, with several thousand Iraqi fighters known to have been killed in Syria and buried in large dedicated plots bought by the militias over the past three years.

Most casualties from the Iranian side have been Afghan refugees, recruited on the promise that their families would gain the right to reside in Iran. But an Iranian official said recently that as many as 1,000 Iranians had died in Syria since the conflict began.

The blood and treasure expended by Iran has focused on Aleppo and the western suburbs of Damascus, the site of the Zainab shrine – a pilgrimage point for Shia Muslims.

Iran has framed its war effort in sectarian terms, insisting the men it has sent to fight are in Syria to defend the shrine from Sunni extremists. In addresses inside Syria, Akram al-Ka’abi, the leader of the Nujaba Front, has exhorted his followers to seek revenge for battlefield losses to Sunni figures in the founding years of Islam.

On Tuesday, President Hassan Rouhani, meeting with the prominent Iraqi cleric Ammar al-Hakim, in Tehran, said his government would spare no efforts in supporting “the oppressed nations of the region, including Iraq and Syria”.

In a departure from his hitherto cautious stance on Syria, Rouhani telephoned Assad on Wednesday to “congratulate” him on the “liberation of Aleppo”, Fars news reported. “We see it as our duty to support those trying to force Takfiri terrorism out of their territory,” he told his Syrian counterpart.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 13:49

yusha yuseef (@mig29) has this to say

- evac will start soon now
- 15k people will come away from fouah and kafraya but not all
- saa beat back a attack by JaF in sw aleppo from outside.

no word on if war criminals and foreign terrorists will be pardoned and let go.

so maybe 15k is the total number who are all packed up to leave aleppo. non-jihadi locals trapped in sukkari would like to remain perhaps.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 13:56

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 9m9 minutes ago
Hmeimem: 20 vehicles/buses will evacuate militants from east Aleppo towards Khan Touman

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 18m18 minutes ago
Rebels are burning down their depots & HQs in east Aleppo as preparations for their evacuation continue
2 replies 9 retweets 12 likes

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 55m55 minutes ago
Reports that batch(es) of wounded/sick will be evacuated from Fuah-Kafraya as part of Aleppo deal, evacuation of all is not confirmed

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 1h1 hour ago
Reports that 1st batch of sick/wounded have reached Ramouseh

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 1h1 hour ago
Ambulances carrying wounded have begun to move out of militant-held neighbourhoods & will be accompanied by Red Crescent towards W Aleppo

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 14:31

"starving civilians" on the verge of boarding the green buses
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czs1g6tUQAAR7Rs.jpg

they will be back to cause more mayhem later in other areas

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Dec 2016 15:02

‘When camera gone they leave people under rubble’ – Aleppo residents on Western-backed White Helmets https://www.rt.com/news/370344-white-he ... residents/
video

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 15 Dec 2016 15:16

habal wrote:
Bhurishravas wrote:^^ I dont doubt that there are many many sunnis in Syrian Army, just that the numbers wont be anywhere around 70%.
Tiger force in aleppo is 95% sunni.

Darn those 5 percent waalas.

BTW, if you had claimed that Tiger force is 105% sunni and you yourself have checked their sunniness, it wouldnt have come as a surprise at all.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 15 Dec 2016 15:23

IndraD wrote:ISIS may have stolen Syrian missile system after retaking Palmyra, US general warns http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/14 ... warns.html

ISIS may have CAPTURED Syrian missile system after retaking Palmyra.

Bhurishravas · Post by **Bhurishravas** » 15 Dec 2016 15:28

IndraD wrote:‘When camera gone they leave people under rubble’ – Aleppo residents on Western-backed White Helmets https://www.rt.com/news/370344-white-he ... residents/
video

Thats the problem with propaganda. One must maintain a strict line of lie.
Either the citizens have seen white helmet fellas or they have not. It cant be both.

So, the narrative being pushed till day today that noone (not a single aleppo person) has seen or heard of white helmet fellas is now undone by this news piece where the white helmet fellas have been seen, although allied to the islamist rebels.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Dec 2016 15:29

Finally reality sinking in West & US that IS their poodle has lost against Assad

Analysis: Assad is winning a battle, but not the war for Syria

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/12/middl ... index.html
note the glee at Palmyra take over by IS

A reminder of that came as the last bastions of resistance in Aleppo began to crumble. Some 280 kilometers to the south, ISIS launched an attack on the town of Palmyra surprising in its scale and intensity. Over the weekend, Syrian troops fell back from the town, despite intense Russian airstrikes in their support. Their humiliation came just nine months after the regime celebrated retaking Palmyra and its fabled Roman theater

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 15:29

maytham ‏@maytham956 3m3 minutes ago
As part of eastern #Aleppo agreement, 15 buses moved to Kafarya & Fouaa in north #Idlib to evacuate the ill and wounded people.

4000 terrorists + families will go to Idlib. will take more than a day. first ambulances are taking out the wounded terrorists now. later the able bodied will be picked by green buses...they will be released near khan touman into the hands of the nusra there. pall of smoke over city as they burn houses, food and ammo stockpiles in one last Asuric orgy before quitting the place forever.

SAA units in other parts are idle and busy going over the food, medicines and weapons the western + GCC sources had sent. swank new Steyr AUG rifles is a prized war booty except that it fires 5.56mm ammo. the TSP SSG uses it too.

habal · Post by **habal** » 15 Dec 2016 15:42

Steyr AUG was sold from malaysian to pakis, I can not recollect exact detail though.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 15:46

live periscope footage perhaps from a tethered aerostat.
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/809311063057383425

each ambulance can only take 1 bed or 6 walking wounded, so will take a while to clear the wounded...

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Dec 2016 16:05

Once again a naive pooch to gurus : where will these IS fighters end up , who are being allowed to go
Iraq?<Raqqa<Aleppo>Idlib>Turkey>Europe?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 16:13

singles - mostly in euphrates shield - less work. safer. chance to occupy some abandoned farm where turks/arabs ethnically cleansed. raise a few goats and some crops.
those with family might take the increasingly hard refugee/illegal migrant route to europe after erasing their terrorist selfies on social media.
not many would be willing to sit around waiting for russian bombs in Idlib.

however the Nusra are going to catch many by the throat and make them work in Idlib and Hama saying we risked so much to save you with two rescue attempts now we own your a$$ and you better work here.

its not going to be a bed of roses anywhere.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Dec 2016 16:17

Notice how no news is coming from Mosul front, very slow progress by Khan certified forces if at all. At the most you get to hear '2 more villages liberated'.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 16:35

PMU has grown bored sitting around in tal afar doing nothing until the promised khan certified sikular division shows up to take the town...they are passing time by speculatively moving through the desert searching for outlying isis settlements and arms caches/weapons factories. the shorelines of Tharthar lake north of ramadi and falluja had a incredible number of these wierd isis hermit types living there in small groups and building IEDs & car bombs to use in baghdad for bombings.

like water hyacinth, these spawn of hell are able to survive and grow in inhospitable conditions too. iraqis launched long and wide sweeps on the banks of the lake to catch these crabs in the net.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 19:17

guy on left is said to be abu azrael

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Dec 2016 19:17

Haidar Sumeri ‏@IraqiSecurity 17h17 hours ago
Huge Da'ish assault in 3 areas in eastern #Mosul repelled today by #Iraq's special forces. Dozens of militants dead.