Middle East Thread "POST WAR EDITION"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzWtwmXXL2M

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eXxrC7Iwks

What do you guys think its going to happen at the unsc meeting today? Will anything actually get done?

>>28254310
Nothing ofc.

Not a single one of the conflict parties give a shit about some UN conference at the other end of the world.

But you still must at least appear to be doing something, the same reason why we have monthly yemen peace conferences.

YPG/Jaysh al-Thuwar and the main aleppo Operations Room reached an agreement to end the kurdish-rebel tensions in northern aleppo province.
But it honestly reads pretty unacceptable for the kurds. Its almost a capitulation.

>Cease-fire .
>Free passage from Sheikh Maksoud to Afrin (the two kurdish majority areas)
>Closing of the crossing between sheikh maksoud and the government-held part of Aleppo .
>Allowing rebels to enter sheikh maksoud with the agreement of the YPG
>A military committee would be assigned by both sides to make sure the agreement goes as planned .
>JaT enter Marea Op room (yeah right, that should be impossible)
>JaT agrees that the Operation Room has the right to supervise, guide and make decisions .
>JaT troops stay in their headquarters until the HQs are safe from the Regime and IS forces .
>Freeing all hostages held by both sides .

Syria is such a shit show I lost track of who's killing who for whom after the chemical attacks

>>28254751

>chemical attacks

Good goy

Major happenings in Yemen
For the first time since ages the frontlines have moved again with massive arab coalition/pro-Hadi advances on the western (the Marib one) front: Yesterday they broke north into the desert province of Jawf, securing the capital.
Today the whole eastern and southern half of the province fell to them.

The Houthis still held the line in Marib province along the Sirwah district. But mostly the fighting there is over having moved into the Sanaa Province, where the coalition is now in Nihm district- Many sources indicating that the battle is for the Fardha military base and its looking pretty good for the Hadi forces.

Still, of course you have to remember, that Jawf Province doesnt really matter in the larger picture, that Houthis are still entrenched in some parts of Marib Province and that Sanaa Province is mountainous, so there is still a lot of fighting left to actually reach the capital.

>>28254751
Everyone versus everyone.

>>28254772
We expected this. But Hadi's forces aren't going to "win" any time soon.

Once the Iranians get more money next year, I expect to see some push back.

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Emirati army moving lots of Caesar 155-mm Self-Propelled Guns to the Marib frontlines.

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>>28254761

http://www.globalresearch.ca/erdogan-mafia-state-turkish-mp-faces-treason-charges-for-revealing-how-isis-used-turkey-for-smuggling-chemical-weapons/5496387

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>>28254788
I honestly dont think that the Saleh/Houthi troops can hold onto Taiz much longer. Especially if the fighting in the north further escalates. And then probably they will cede the Red Sea coastline as well, or at least up to Hodaydah. It would have no strategic value anymore if Taiz is truly lost.

I have no idea when the arab coalition will arrive in Sanaa and how it will play out. Maybe the Houthis will give up voluntarily and switch to full insurgency. Or they might choose to fight in the city.

Lastly, of course Hadi will have a hard time to actually win the war, because his forces are so diverse and hate each other (and Hadi even more). And then there is AQAP expanding like crazy.

>>28254652
Basically fucking the government areas in north Aleppo, giving up Sheikh Maqsood, general capitulation and incorporation of JaT unto the islamist groups.
Seems pretty impossible. The kurds need that Aleppo leverage against the other groups, Sheikh Maqsood is vital.

We should dissolve the nation of Iraq.

Give the Shia area to Iran. The sunni area to Jordan. The Kurd area to the Kurds.

Give the Kurd area of Syria to the kurds to. Join it with the iraqi kurds and make Kurdistan.

Allow Assad to run for office in the post war government.

Only post until much later. Turns out my last post of breaking news was a overzealous flag waving pro rebel source claiming to have re captured the Marji airbase.

What did end up happening was rebels re capturing a gas station?(I need to find a map soon) in Marj and the reported large death toll for the republican guard turned out to be true. Fighting continues in the area with both sides taking loses.

On the flip side the rebel counter attack at Mt Nuba has been successful much to the shock of pro twitter SAA supporters that didn't admit to it until about 8 hours after it was first reported. 1st coastal and JAN were involved. Pro rebel sources claim the area was indeed strategic which was why the rebels mobilized such a quick counter attack.
>>28255144
This truce kind of came out of nowhere considering these groups were recently at each others throats in northern Aleppo. I wonder what happened. It just keeps getting more confusing.

-Some minor fighting/Ruaf raids reported around Mahin however no major moves by either side there yet today.

-Southern Aleppo=?

I'm out, enjoy reading others perspective here.

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>>28255178
>>28255178
>We should dissolve the nation of Iraq.
Who is we? Daish and Iran?
>Give the Shia area to Iran.
arabs and persians dont like each other much. They dont even speak the same language and have different cultures. Besides, it would be completely unnacceptable for Saudi Arabia and the gulf countries and would just lead to further wars.
>The sunni area to Jordan.
Why Jordan? Or did you just pick one country at random. And what happens to all the mixed areas like freaking Baghdad?
>Kurd area to the Kurds.
>Give the Kurd area of Syria to the kurds to.
Actually happened already. But the second it becomes an official decision Turkey would invade and crush them.
>Join it with the iraqi kurds and make Kurdistan.
Both sides hate/dislike each other. They have completely different political agendas. One is pro-turkish giving them access to that sweat north iraqi oil; the other is getting bombed by Turkey. Iraqi Kurdistan itself is ruled by two different kurdish factions.
>Allow Assad to run for office in the post war government.
He didnt need to, he already got voted in by 99%. And obviously neither daish nor the rebels that rule the other parts of syria (and not even the kurds) are especially large assad fans.

You know, shit down there is actually pretty complicated.

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http://news.yahoo.com/uae-sending-colombian-mercenaries-yemen-sources-061321886.html

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https://www.JEWbook.com/dchaque/videos/927087524043363/

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>>28255312
>What did end up happening was rebels re capturing a gas station?(I need to find a map soon)

The gas station is probably this one here. Few meters from the gates of the north Helicopter Base.

As a note, the city of Marj as-Sultan have two Helipad camps, one south and one north, with the city in the middle. Dunno if they consider both terrains as only one airbase or two different bases.

>>28255131
Looks like this video is from around Mahin and Huwwarin.

>>28255178
Keep in mind that when the Ottoman empire fell that the nations in the area were deliberately partitioned to keep Kurds a fractured minority.

Turkey hates the idea of a Kurdish nation because logically such a nation would eat the territory around Lake Van too.

Of course, in their fear of Kurdish nationalism they've made sure that they oppresses their own Kurds and bomb the shit out of the populations in Iraq and Syria enough to make sure that the Kurds hate them right back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxmn3iCwDDg

>>28255386
>ISIS enemies with Turkey and Saudi Arabia

What propaganda shit is this chart?

>>28255928
ISIS attacked some turkish troops and declared war against Saudi Arabia, those two things in the last seven or ten days. So, yeah.

>>28255948
>actually believing this crap

Dropping pretend-bombs against ISIS but funneling money and buying their oil isnt really a sign of being an enemy.

God, how I hate goatfucker liars.

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>>28255948

>>28255963
The by a far margin largest buyer of daish gas is actually the assad regime.

I guess that makes them allies as well?

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>>28255963

I find it a little bizarre that ISIS is able to do full on combined arms in the Homs desert of all places.

Like I guess I already know the answer to my own question; "they can't be everywhere at once" but how are they able to just stroll around super flat desert in day time conducting assaults with multiple tanks, AFVs, technicals, and blobs of men completely unhindered.

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/29/items/hadmaswar_tutanota_20151218/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%20%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%83%D9%85%20%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86.mp4

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ISIS continues its program to uparmour its tanks and vehicles.

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>>28257458

>>28256034
Nonsensical jackass, stop reading pro-west pro-turkey biased news articles.

>>28257470
atleast someone over there is upgrading the Russian shit tanks

>>28257458
>>28257470
Source? I'm fascinated that they can still operate tanks in any numbers with all the airstrikes

>>28258121
>>28257329

>>28254788
>>28254772

How can the Houthis re-arm and win, barring direct intervention from outside forces(Iran,Russia?)

>>28255963
Anonymous 12/19/15(Sat)16:05:45 No.28255963▶>>28256034 >>28256681

>>28255948
>I hate goatfucker liars.

It's like you have the mental capacity of a 6yr old.

>Who backs Turkey
>Who backs Saudi Arabia
>Who arms the GCC

These middle eastern countries are just being used by, you know who.

>>28257329
Fuck. Remind me never to take a 7.62x39 round in the back of the head from 6 inches away

>>28257470
>>28257458
>ISIS adopts the Panzer aesethic

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>>28259039
more examples. From what I've seen these uparmoured things were given to the elite ISIS unit(s). "Jaish al-Khalifa" was the first guys to get it, either this is them now in Homs, or they were in Homs the whole time, or these are getting more widespread.

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>>28259101
ISIS in iraq with added camo

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random grabs from recent ISIS shit

HJ-8 in use, knocks out T-62

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>>28259272

>>28254772
>>28254788
>>28254799
>>28254907
Guess all the Saudi Arabia haters can go eat shit now.

Not saying the Houthis didn't kick plenty of ass, but Western firepower and technology pays off lads, and now the Coalition's got plenty of combat experience.

People should hate them now because they are funding wahbabists, not because they suck ass at war.

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Reading the first reports that a major Hezbollah figure was killed by a Israeli airstrike in Damascus...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/samir-kuntar-said-killed-in-israeli-strike/

It reminds me of another Hezbollah figure that was assassinated in Damascus by the CIA back in 2008, Imad Mughniyeh.
You can read about it here.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-the-cia-killed-imad-mughniyeh

The whole story behind Mughniyeh was he tortured a famous CIA agent to death. The CIA even saw video of Buckley before he died. It was bad. His head was bashed in and he was barely alive. The CIA would never forgive such a act even if it took them 20 years to take revenge.

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Western officials are scrambling to get authorisation for Libya airstrikes in the coming days before Islamic State captures the strategically important town of Ajdabiya, gateway to the country’s oil wealth.

Fierce fighting is raging in the town, which sits on a rocky plateau dominating the eastern oil ports. Capture will give Isis command of the Sirte basin, home to Libya’s largest collection of oilfields.

British, American and French jets are on standby for strikes from bases across the Mediterranean, with drones and reconnaissance planes already in the air. US special forces are in the Libyan desert, with one unit inadvertently photographed at the western Wattiya airbase last week.

But strikes will not be launched until Libya issues a formal invitation

>>28260502
With the agreement between both lybian governements we can expect things to get serious soon.

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>>28260473

>>28260502
I remember all the civil war battles fought there.

But apart from that, the force attacking there is ansar al-sharia (the main hardcore jihadist faction, but not isis, they are somewhere loosely allied, somewhere at war)

It also wouldnt make much sense to say they control all the oilfields. They have Sirte and thats it. None of the major towns and oil ports between Sirte and ajdabiya are controlled or even seriosly threatened by Isis.

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>Khan Tuman Brive Aleppo

>>28260473
The main reason the took out Mughniyeh is because he was also the mastermind behind the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut.

>>28260473
Looks like the airstrike also killed a commander of the Syrian Resistance.

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>>28262532
Some reports on the southern Aleppo front.

The SAA/NDF/ShiiteForces captured the villages of Al-Qarassi and Khan Tuman, in this order, that overlook the M5 Highway.

Also, the Arab source now is saying that Iraq Shiite reinforces are coming to northern Aleppo, to launch a large-scale offensive at Al-Zahra’a and Nubl in the comming weeks.

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>>28262645

>T-90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGskZYJSnI

>>28262667
>turcin.PNG
>implying its not serbturcin.png

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>>28262674

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct31P7n6qS0

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In other news, still unconfirmed:

>SAA captured new points in the vicinity of Marj Sultan and advancing in Al-Nashabiyah

>FSA Sultan Murad announce ISIS controlled Qarah, Dudiyan & Bani Yaban as military zones in north Aleppo countryside (see pic)

>SAA with RuAF cover is advancing in the outskirts between Hadath - Huwarrin Homs countryside, in what look a attempt to retake Mahin. Clashes are ongoing and no change of situation yet.

>>28262667
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct31P7n6qS0

Who were those dead guys at the end? Saudi advisors?

>>28262756
Nothing to add right now.
It looks like IS is using Hadath as a defensive point for Mahin like you said originally and I disagreed with you too thinking they would move north quickly.

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New map of southern Aleppo with the capture of Khan Tuman.

>>28262952
Pro rebel twitter and one of the few that actually breaks stories instead of mindless saying their side is winning everything has posted quite a bit from Khan Touman today. His posts are implying rebels still hold parts of Touman. I will be posting some of his vid martial.

https://twitter.com/Abduhark

>>28263050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwPCbxYACK8&feature=youtu.be
TOW video from Tuman.

(not pro rebel obviously)Hezbollah footage from Tuman, notice the Chinese scoped M-16a1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgZnL5Q4Jc

https://twitter.com/Abduhark/status/678574607599816704
Pro rebel twitter source claims rebels took 2 Iranian soldiers prisoner from the Tuman battle today.

>>28254761
Can anyone provide a source for their claim that the Assad regime used chemical weapons and not just Isis/nusra?

>>28263067
actually the scoped Norinco CQs is from this video >>28262667
I watched 4 different videos in the last 10 mins and had a little bit of a information overload moment.

>>28254774
Pretty much this, the Kurds are the only ones that aren't actively fighting more than 1 other faction.

JAI video from the Marj airbase/helio base/general area battle. Signs point to rebels still outside the walls of one of the airbases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW8tG-ODqDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lSHVIbQhVM

>>28258179
Attrition, they'll keep reking the invading forces in insurgent warfare which is what they do best, they merely need weapons and supplies to do it for a prolonged period of time.

>>28259284
That was a regime held fort right?

>>28260473
God damn kikes can't keep getting away with this

>>28263205
Apparentley, they can.

>>28263182
The Saudis will pay heavily for placing Hadi back in power while the Houthis/Saleh side is bound to go bad one day too. This is a complex civil war between the Yemenis people. They will decide, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.

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>BREAKING: Reports of a parachute airborne operation involving 120 regime paratroopers from Il-76 and An-32, behind rebel lines in Salma.

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>>28263212
They'll get what they deserve after this shitshow is over

>>28263259
I'm really not sure about this, anon.

>>28260286

Suadi Niggerabia is objectively the lest competent fighting force on the planet.

It's more like a static display of modern Western equipment than an army. They don't know how to use anything. They don't even do maintenance on their vehicles, it's all contracted out.

Literally sub-nigger tier.

>>28263273
They also launched a naval invasion and invaded also a third of the captured territory of one of the most heavily armed and largest rebel groups in the middle east.

They did have that phase yes, but now they are getting bloodied and fixing a whole lot of that shit lest they lose AGAIN to the Yemeni.

And now we see all those nice Western toys are paying off now with their nice new ROE of 'kill everything that resists'.

Its nice seeing some unrestricted warfare you know?

>>28263243
ITS HAPPENING
>mfw those guys get completely cut off and slaughtered

>>28255178
the shitlord, genocidal turks would never allow an independent kurdistan

>>28263291
it's also funny seeing the Saudi Abrams getting TOWed because their tank doctrine is utterly retarded.
>let's leave our tanks undefended in the middle of a valley, no infantry support. what could go wrong?

>>28263291
>They also launched a naval invasion....

That was mainly the UAE, who are much more competent than the Saudis, for some reason.

>>28263196
ISF held fort, killed like 12 or something soldiers.

Quick note out of Damarcus breaking: A bus was hit with a IED on Mazzeh Street that had Assad presidential guards on board. 4 are killed with more wounded. Also they are female guards? I thought that was just a Gaddafi thing.

>>28263406
What dictator wouldn't want to combine personal protection with personal pussy?

>>28263095
I don´t know shit about that, but have two pieces of news:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-smuggled-sarin-gas-to-al-qaeda-terrorists-in-syria/5495775
>Turkish MP claims that turk gov supplied IS with sarin in order to blackmail assad

https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/
>Turkish MP gets charged for treason

>>28260473
3 rockets hit Northern Israel about 20 mins ago. Seems like this is the initial Hezballah response.

>>28263449
They're already having manpower issues, if they get into a fight with Israel now they may as make themselves ineffective in this war

>>28263449
Things are getting out of control in Syria now. I can't keep up with all that is happening today. Whoa baby.

>>28263467
nah it's just mandatory response nothing more.

They could do some IED's on the border or and ATGM ambush like their last response. If it's not too serious than Israel will probably not escalate it, same as what happened before.

Chances are both parties will be just going through the motions now...

>>28263343
They only lost 6 abrams.

Not bad for straight up winning a war.

Also remember those shitty logistics you mentioned earlier, its why they didn't recover like three salvegable abrams to being them back to service like what Americans do.

>>28263482
Heavy fighting reported near Kurd Mountain, Latakia.
>why can't I hold all this happening?

>>28263360
Saudis have a pretty big fleet, and their special forces were on the ground fighting in Aden since the start.

I don't get how people say oh god saudis suck total ass despite the course of the war suggesting otherwise.

You can't have it both ways, its why the Yemen civil war wiki map is all fucked up with pro Houthis guys just distorting the map incorrectly saying all other sources are pro-Saudi and therefore not substantiated.

Shit should be balanced.

>>28263520
Houthis are probably even bigger liers than the Saudis, how many ships have they claimed to sink? Something like 6 or 7, yet all we've seen is nighttime footage of them launching a large missile, and stock footage of various arab ships.

>>28255644
btw the most recent reports from Marj are from this area including the gas station. It's in this vicinity where most of the fighting is.

>>28263421
I know about that I'm not under a rock, but I keep coming across the
>Assad gassed his own people! Meme and I want to see if its substantiated or just bs, I know that back when he actually had chemical weapons there was only one attack and it was merely a false flag by al nusra, and after the russians took away the chemical weapons only a few attacks happened and all by Isis.

>>28255627
Braise Adadürg :DDDDDD

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>>28263510
Nothing apart from Khan Touman is any noteworthy today.

(Older map, but it gives the significance of the place. Its all about securing the M5)

>>28263542
There is also the huge Tochka hit, that was supposed to have killed 120-200 foreign troops. It was the huge news in the last days and its looking increasingly as if it was completely fabricated.

I actually support the Houthis but most of their stuff is 100% propaganda.

>>28263749
as territory gains sure , if I only posted purely on proven territory gains it would be rather boring.

Heavy fighting on several fronts today mainly from the rebel loses around Khan Touman though. Others would be in Daarya and the Hama front that I didn't post earlier. In Daarya two T-72s were destroyed by ATGM fire today.

There is breaking of Al Fou being shelled by Jaf. Jaf claims the Ruaf bombed cities in the ceasefire agreement so they are retaliating. Basically Jaf is saying they are sick of the Ruaf flaunting around the Al Fou / Zabadani ceasefire and are not taking it anymore.

50+ dead in russian strike on Idlib City.

>>28263809
But its hardly a Happening.
If we are honest, the major stuff this year (palmyra, jisr, idlib) happened in spring and since then the year was pretty lackluster in regards to major offensives/victories.

>>28263809
also I would add any fighting in Latakia is important considering the SAA just lost Mt Nuba and are probably trying to gain it back amide rebel counter attacks right now.

There is blatant hypocrisy from pro SAA map makers. They were producing map after map of Latakia just two days ago and soon as there was a massive rebel counter attack we haven't seen a fucking single map since.

http://www.electronicresistance.net/2015/12/lebanese-media-confirms-us-airbase-construction-in-northeastern-syria/

Oh shit guys, this can't be good for kurd-assad relations.

>>28263854
It's hardly happening?, it's the possible ending of a long fought over ceasefire. That's definitely happening.

And Marj is a huge deal to both rebels and the SAA. The SAA may very well be making progress into eastern Ghouta however the rebels are trying desperately to stop them.

Fuck off with this ignorant bullshit. Both sides are in critical battles.

>>28263879
Well yeah both sides are doing it. If you follow pro-rebel map makers, they also tend to extensively map rebel attack but fell silent when the other side advances.
But in general I think maps from both sides are mostly correct and are corresponding with each other (apart from the retarted russian MOD ones ofc)

For Mt Nuba, wasnt that actually captured by the regime not too long ago? So just rebels trying to take back their clay.

>>28263906
Calm done dude I'm pretty much on your side. Its just that not every fight is SUPERIMPORTNT. Just the usual battles we are seeing here. Of course they have their significance but nothing to overhype either.

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>>28263897
>electronicresistance

>>28263942
Mt Nuba has gone back and forth for weeks and kurd mountain too.
>>28263962
What we are seeing is the SAA backed by Shia militias/Iran and the Ruaf making rapid progress in places like southern Aleppo , Latakia and parts of eastern Ghouta. These are long held rebel strongholds, meanwhile the US and YPG contuine to press toward Raqqa as IS does IS things near Mahin and Palmyra. It is "SUPERIMPORTNT" because no one is holding back anymore, this is what everyone was waiting for when Russia entered the war. It's escalated.

>>28264057
Nothing what you named is "rapid progress" You said yourself that its back and forth in Latakia. Its the same around the Hadher area along the M5.
Mahin was already taken and lost and retaken by daesh, and if they lose it again I wouldnt bet how long assad can hold it this time.
I dont think there is any larger push towards Raqqa right now. The kurds obviously dont want to and the arab rest of the SDF is too weak.

>>28264091
>Nothing what you named is "rapid progress
If you think that than you have downplayed the entire Syrian government side of the war. Of course in other parts it's settled into a stalemate. In Latakia it has been a full Ruaf backed SAA assault toward the heart of the mountains.
Did you somehow forget the large weapons delivery to the YPG recently and that US special forces are IN northern Syria. You can't be this blind.

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>>28264016

>>28260286
Saudis are absolute shit at war. The only reason they are slowly winning is because the Houthis are a militia force outside of their support centers north of Sanaa.

The fact three trained armies with mercs, air superiority, American intelligence, and Gulf Arab funding can barely beat Houthi militias shows that they are as shit as we expected.

The intervention began in March! 9 months to push the Houthis back closer to Sanaa. That's pathetic.

>>28264149
>In Latakia it has been a full Ruaf backed SAA assault toward the heart of the mountains.
and they got some mountain tops here and there. None of the larger settlements were taken, the alGhab plain is the same as always, the Salma battlelines (you know, the supposedly very first step in their offensive) is the same.
>Did you somehow forget the large weapons delivery to the YPG recently and that US special forces are IN northern Syria.
and that translated into progress on the ground where?

>>28264206
They are more successfull at least then the mighty american and russian forces in syria.

>>28263491
They are in no way "winning" this war. The Houthis still control a lot of land outside their homeland. Until they get pushed back to their and lose Sanaa, the Saudis won't be winning.

>>28264210
You are playing semantics. It doesn't matter who holds what in the point I was making. I am saying that the SAA is on the attack there with help from the Russians. I suspect to take heat off the Russian airbase was the main reason but it's got serious. The rebel groups have for the most part been able to fend them off.
>and that translated into progress on the ground where?
Al Hawl for one and the general push in Hasakah. Right now the YPG is attacking the dam nearby. They are not going straight for Raqqa, they are attacking IS in the Hasakah province. IS is trying to hold on to what they can there as US airstrikes pound them.

Again that wasn't my point though. My point was the US has forces on the ground with the already heavy air strikes and is shipping more weapons in but according to you that's not escalation in the least bit right?

>>28264223
American and Russian forces?

All the white world is doing is bombing the fuck out of both sides in a proxy war.

As of the last month Russia and the SAA have completely turned the tide of the war and have expanded territory in all sectors. And this isn't just some small gains. Look at Aleppo, Latakia, or near Lebanon. The Ruskie/Iran/Hez/SAA alliance is winning this war.

America, Turkey, and Co will respond soon enough though. I don't expect an end to this bloodbath.

>>28264291
>I am saying that the SAA is on the attack there with help from the Russians.
But thats not what the argument is about. Of course they are on the attack. Its just that they have not made amazing progress
>My point was the US has forces on the ground with the already heavy air strikes and is shipping more weaponsbut according to you that's not escalation in the least bit right
again: You were talking about rapid progress on the ground. and that I denied.
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But lets end it here. I think the whole argument is going circles.

>>28264293
Go to bed Bashar, its late

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>>28264363

Oy vey!

>>28264363
Why don't you counter anything I said?

Over the last month the SAA has gained significant ground in Latakia, Aleppo, and near Lebanon. Nearly 4,000 sq km.

>>28264363
>>28264410
Giggled/10
>>28264442
What about the regime losing the entire province of Idlib? Initial rebel gains in Latakia? And rebel gains in Daara? Not to mention losing Palmyra to ISIS.

I admit 2015 was a shitty year for the regime and that they are catching up now with the help of Russians. But they are no way near "winning this war".
All in all, it's almost still a stalemate.

>>28263784
The Houthis lost my love when they blew up a perfectly good Abrams for nothing.

Not even ISIS are that cruel (they only blow up damaged Abrams they can't take).

>>28259284
>GLA suicide truck attack

Holy shit. You literally cant defend against that with Arab marksmanship skills.

>>28263908
>AQAP cyclone relief efforts.

We are jihadists of PEACE.
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>>28264699
Well, they can't use it anymore than you or I could, so they might as well keep it from the enemy for good by blowing it up.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-jets-seen-in-lebanons-skies-after-rocket-fire-on-israel/

Israeli artillery fire on south Lebanon in response to the 3 rockets fired earlier today.

This footage is nuts. I can't tell if the guy falls off the motorbike or just jumps in the first clip.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5f_1448476344

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Seems like YPG is going after Tishrin Dam now. That sort of answers why they have been quiet in Southern Hasakah/Arishah after capturing the dam area. Though things may get messy if they do manage to cross the Euphrates.

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>>28266999
The capture of the dam way back in late 2012 was the first step of the rebel offensive, that took the whole province three months later.

I'm unsure if its a sound kurdish strategy if they indeed attack there. Maybe easier than other potential targets, but Turkey already told them to Fuck Off when they were about to cross the euphrates and the arabs have made it clear that they also are not too thrilled with kurds expanding further west.

Over 100 Kurdish fighters killed in Turkish operation

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/100-kurdish-fighters-killed-turkish-operation-151220110210346.html

>>28262756

Translation:

We the leadership of Sultan Murad Brigade announce the following villages in the northern Aleppo countryside:

Qara Mazrea

Dudiyan

Yeni Bayan

as military areas; approach by any civilian toward these areas is forbidden.

We will not take responsibility for any civilian that oversteps their personal boundaries.

12/19/2015

VIDEO: Syrian Army Troops Retake Khan Touman and Qarassi in Aleppo

http://en.alalam.ir/news/1771155

>>28268539
its amazing how overlooked the urban fighting there is

>>28263749
It's still questionable if the shia militias control all of Khan Touman as I was alluding too 12 hours earlier. Not that it matters that much. They still progressed on that front yesterday.
>>28264091
Interesting enough there is reported progress by the SAA on one of the Latakia fronts around Kurd mountain where I mentioned there was fighting early ITT as well.
>>28264348
I am ending my argument and I respect your opinion but mine has not changed either. This whole year going all of 2016 has the most decisive battles. Conditions have been changed with powerful new weapon systems, proxies from multiple world and regional powers. This isn't the same Syrian civil war.

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guise r8 my OC

>>28271894

Edgy/10

But I like.

>>28253639
>all these turk and saud shills

>>28264223
Fuck you, Arab. Allah is a bitch.

>>28262952
>>28263050
>>28263067
You just can't help throwing a little pro-rebel bullshit into every major regime advance, can you?

>>28255740
Turkey really waits for an official kurdish state happens so they can declare war against them because PKK is still killing turkish citizens. The only way to keep the kurds safe in that area to let them stay "unofficial".

>>28263491
>They only lost 6 abrams.
>Not bad for straight up winning a war.
those were undeniable losses, ones with published documentation. unlike the rebels in Syria, there is no such thing as TOW 4 vidz in Yemen to motivate them to document their successes.
>Also remember those shitty logistics you mentioned earlier, its why they didn't recover like three salvegable abrams to being them back to service like what Americans do
we only saw video.
its not a matter of logistics, they just don't have the means to restore it.
>>28263542
>Houthis are probably even bigger liers than the Saudis, how many ships have they claimed to sink? Something like 6 or 7, yet all we've seen is nighttime footage of them launching a large missile, and stock footage of various arab ships.
most attempts at sinking ships with antiship missiles take place tens of miles from any shore and beyond the horizon- are you expecting them to ride a speedboat to document every time they sink one?
>>28264223
>They are more successfull at least then the mighty american and russian forces in syria.
more successful at getting themselves killed and humiliated that is.

>>28263243

Maybe all the arabs needed to not be shit at war was being dropped off of cropdusters...

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Short news, everyone:

-ISIS released some photos saying there are of ongoing battles near the Kweires airport, not specifying where. This could either be their counter attack against the SAA advance or just they defending the Hafer plains.

-ISIS also claim their are advancing near Mahin, Homs, but the place where I get some of my ISIS news is too vague. Yesterday I reported ongoing clashes near Mahin, between the SAA and ISIS, with images of some dead ISIS soldiers, but just that.

-By Pro Regime sources, the SAA & Friends still hold Khan Tuman and had advanced. Clashes reported in the grain silos some kilometers south of Khan Tuman and the yet unconfirmed report that SAA captured a poultry farm near of the town of Zerbah.

>The pic is a ISIS sniper in the Kweires sector, the other images are only mortars firing and a technical shooting at a open plain.

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>>28272905

>Syrian Army captures Al-Hadath in east Homs as ISIS retreats towards Maheen.

>>28272905
Still in the southern Aleppo front, and the Khan Tuman situation, a truck dodge in the last moment a Rebel ATGM, like a boss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBN7molgq1c

The pro SAA twitter posters are saying that this a proof that SAA took completly the village of Khan Tuman, because this ATGM was shoot, probably, from the already mentioned Grain Silos.

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>>28272938
This pleases me, but you need proofs and sources.

>>28272941

About the Marj Al-Sultan, the Arab Source is saying that the JAN/Rebels counter offensive against the airbase was a failure, with 25 death combatants, some of them surrendering and the lost of some heavy weapons.
Their source is a SAA militar source on the city of Damascus, so is always better take it with a grain of salt.

The only thing we know for fact is that this guy in the pic, that gives a crazy speech in the end of that Rebel video of the attack of the base, and supposedly a Nusra field commander, was killed. Dont think is a great loss, nor to humanity, neither to Nusra.

In Yemen the same news as always, Houthis attacked another Saudi guardpost, and now, Saudi managed to intercept a Houthi ballistic missile.

The ceasefire agreement is to be extended by seven days, but this dont change much, as neither side really respects the agreement.

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>Khan Tuman Brive Aleppo

Major News from Afghanistan

>6 NATO soldiers killed in suicide attack on Bagram Base, largest remaining in the country

>Sangin, one of the centers of the Helmand Campaigns, has been mostly overrun today by the taleban

>>28273585
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/21/taliban-take-control-of-large-parts-of-sangin-afghanistan

>The Taliban have overrun large swaths of a key district in Helmand as the militants step up attempts to take control of the southern province that was a main focus for foreign troops in Afghanistan.
>The encroachment on Sangin follows a months-long offensive in which the Taliban have taken, and in some cases held, crucial Helmand districts.

>On Sunday, Helmand’s deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, made an unusual plea to the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani. “Helmand stands on the brink. Ninety men have been killed in Gereshk and Sangin districts in the last two days.”

>More than 100 British soldiers died in Sangin

>>28272700
>are you expecting them to ride a speedboat to document every time they sink one?
That'd be nice, but no, losing six warships in short succession would be hard to hide, and the fact that only the houthis mention it means it's probably fake.

>>28273585
>>28273608
A-stan is falling to pieces under NATO's feet lmao.

Just cut it loose already.

>>28272700
>more successful at getting themselves killed and humiliated that is.
Eh the media blackout would suggest that as we've only seen the Houthis side.

But now that the Coalition is making significant headway again they can discredit Houthis claims of winning and provide objective proof via letting journalists in controlled areas and whatnot.

You really should grow out of this Houthis cheerleader phase, and keep up with recent developments. Do you have a personal bias btw? Some Iranian or anti-american background that makes you support acts against American puppets? Because then its understandable.

>>28273551
This is the picture that "proves" the Shia militias are in control of Khan Touman today as fighting continues on the outskirts. I don't think it was a question on if they took Khan Touman. It was a question if rebels still held parts of the city which they did for a time.

-As far as Marj not much today other than airstrikes and a new SAA ground attack coming from the other side of eastern Ghouta on the M5 highway near Douma.

>Interesting enough there is reported progress by the SAA on one of the Latakia fronts around Kurd mountain where I mentioned there was fighting early ITT as well
-That reported progress was repelled. 1st coastal/FSA again involved.
-YPG is progressing south of Sarin taking two villages from IS.
>>28266999
-The Tishrin Dam battle is simmering as SDF/YPG is softening up the area(US airstrikes are)

-Fighting in northern Aleppo today too between non IS rebels and IS with non IS rebels taking Qurat Mazraa.
>>28272938
Literally nothing from Mahin or Hadath other than airstrikes today. It looks like R Updater was correct in that IS is using Hadath as a defensive perimeter for Mahin.

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>>28274784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFEysoJbTh0

>>28274784
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUash7plWQ
TOW strike from the outskirts of Khan Touman. I don't know what kind of tank they hit but it got demolished. You can hear it.

>>28271894
>>>/reddit/
I'll still bait with it on /pol/ though

>>28253639
The 80's all over again.

>>28274874
what is this Khan Touman? I repeat R Updaters question. Where is your source that IS lost Hadath? I have seen nothing from there today.

>>28272570
Pro Assad here, nothing wrong with throwing pro rebel claims as long as the standards of verifying them are the same for them as they are for pro Assad or IS claims.

>>28272673
Would the west allow that?
I don't think that we would now that we are paying attention, but we might in a decade or so when we are too busy arguing about some manufactured bull shit conflict.

>>28274903
Except those tidbits he threw in there were pretty much meaningless.

>>28274941
They were so meaningless that TOW strikes continue today from the general vicinity from where I posted the TOW strikes from yesterday.
>>28274876
I guess that tank lost is meaningless now, it hurts a fanboys feelings.

>>28273794
Yeah because Saudis are totally going to admit humiliating loses to a bunch of ragtag militia, and risk destabilization due to the loss of authority because of it.

>>28274965
I was talking about the "I think the rebels are saying they still hold some parts of Tuman" and "two captured omg" bits.

>>28274987
I was saying that was what this twitter source was implying control of the city was debatable yesterday. I also mentioned it didn't matter that much as the Shia forces had made progress into the city regardless what the rebel sources were saying in damage control mode.

>>28274967
You don't have to admit anything.

The US navy would confirm 6 or 7 warships sinking, regardless of any faction.

I don't think how significant you understand naval engagements are in this day and age, that shit rivals that russia plane incident.

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>>28275043
anyway to even things out here is a new map of southern Aleppo today with the m5 highway cut.

>>28275140
CUT MY ROAD IN TWO PLACES
THIS IS MY LAST JIHAD

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>>28275140
Here is the higher res one.

>>28275191
I think Assad took Banes.

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>>28275191
I would love to post a new map from Latakia but sadly none have been made for 4 days now however I found some pictures from Mt. Nuba
>>28275184
I love it, I wish I could root for any of these sides so much.
>>28275203
post a source than

>>28274896
well.... I found it myself
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/678870552233140224

This tweet is where Mandic got the claim that the SAA took Hadath. I will look into it. What you Assad fanboys misunderstand is that I am rooting for anyone here. I am interested in the front movements and tactics/weapons involved. I listen to all sides.

>>28274967
They wouldn't have to, because first there would be casualties in the navy that would inevitably get reported, and focused on considering the navy typically doesn't suffer casualties in these kind of wars, not to mention nearby civilian traffic that could have witnessed the strike and/or provided assistance, on top of any military recovery or rescue effort. That's a huge paper trail, and a lot of mouths that can talk.

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>>28275412

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-recaptures-al-hadath-in-east-homs-as-isis-retreats-towards-maheen/

http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Yemen/197856/mercenarios-colombia-eau-guerra-yemen


Colombian mercenaries reject fighting in Yemeni war

Some 300 Colombian mercenaries have refused to fight in the war against Yemen, despite funding from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi ally.

Colombian soldiers transferred to Yemen by the United Arab Emirates have refused to enter into a war with Yemen, Western sources have reported.

According to sources, the UAE spent heavily to recruit a private army composed of well-trained soldiers South Americans.

The UAE has promised to pay 120 dollars a day to Colombians who are special forces in the military base in the UAE city of Zaed.

"Colombian soldiers are highly prized for their training in the fight against the guerrillas. Colombians have many years of experience in guerrilla war, "said an ex-officer of the Colombian Army.

Emirati military officials initially decided to deploy 800 Colombians in Yemen, but had to reconsider its action after the South Americans recruited to fight in Yemen denounced this this was not part of the contract.

These 300 Colombian mercenaries deployed three months ago in southern Yemen, part of the 3000 recruited by the United Arab Emirates for a private army that according to reports seeks to guarantee the security of the federation.

Hiring mercenaries to fight in Yemen came after the Yemeni army attack a weapons depot in the central province of Marib, killed 300 Saudi soldiers, UAE and bareiníes.

On December 8, six Colombian soldiers and Australian commander, a US private military company in Yemen, died during clashes in the city of Taiz (southwest).

On March 26, Saudi Arabia launched a military offensive against Yemen, without the authorization of the UN, in an attempt to remove from the equation the Yemeni popular movement Ansarolá and restore power to the Yemeni president Abdu Rabu Mansur fugitive Hadi, a a close ally of Riyadh.

>$120 a day
Kek I wouldn't do it for 1k a day.

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>Oppositions Groups: "We refuse the Security Council Resolution about #Syria No. 2254 and we stick to the departure of Assad"

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What do you guys think about this interview? I thought it was fairly well done and professional, I don't know if it proves that Assad is smart, but it does definitely suggests that he is eloquent.

http://sana.sy/en/?p=64343

>>28276570
I don't feel like watching it. Dictators that capture my attention would be people like Fidel Castro. That guy would fly off the handle, was charismatic and go on for hours. Gaddafi was a character too, you just had to watch. Same with crazy ass Kim Un today. Assad? ...zzzzzz

>>28255144
What? There's no way they'd give up Sheikh Maqsood after everything they've done to keep it.

>>28276818
Its a written interview, not filmed, but I get you, it was a very "dry" interview with only one instance of Assad interrupting the interviewer, in the most energetic part where the interviewer asks him what he thinks about the proposals of the Dutch to bomb IS in Syria and he just says that the Dutch should fuck off.

It doesn't really reveal anything that we didn't already know so I get why you wouldn't want to read it.

>>28273551

Translation:

Jihad Caller Center

Abu Muhammad al-Muqaddisy Institute

-Legal institutions to graduate callers (like a professor graduates a student from college)

-Legal institutions to graduate female callers (same as above)

-Legal institutions to inform mujaheddin (of advice in jurisprudence)

-Quran episodes (recitations and shit like that)

-Help forums (like a jihad 4chan probably)

-Help chat rooms

-E-library

-Distribution of books, pamphlets, and flyers

-Fatwas

-Military and legal camps (idk wtf they mean by camps)

Thread theme
https://youtu.be/as1mOphRjIU

>>28276146
>On December 8, six Colombian soldiers and Australian commander, a US private military company in Yemen, died during clashes in the city of Taiz (southwest).

It's things like this that make me very reflective on life.

What a series of coincidences and events, that would put an Australian in a military career, sent to Yemen, to fight for the UAE, to be killed in some no-name of a city.

Life is weird. Amazing, but weird

>>28278843
Same shit happens in IS everyday, cunts from all over the world travel to fight and die there, the war nerd says that its due to teenage sexual frustration teamed up with a hunger for adventure, meaning and attention.

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>>28274888

Retaking Ramadi From the Islamic State: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 11)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_iChdMLOI

>>28280929
that 1:30 with the cat eating the dead haji

war is hell lol, I love it

>>28275191
The air in Zerbeh , southern Aleppo today has a very high lead to air index. That's all i am going to say for now since this is early Syrian morning breaking.

>Israeli security experts confirm rumors that Iran is pulling out of Syria
>In September Iran sent 2,000 soldiers to fight to preserve Assad's regime
>Today it's estimated only 700-800 Iranian troops remain in Syria
>This is likely the result of high casualty rate among Iranian troops that surprised Revolutionary Guard commanders, including Qasem Soleimani (who himself was wounded in the fighting).
>The exact number of Iranian fatalities is not known but it stands in the many dozens since September, along with hundreds of wounded soldiers
>Every day Iranian press releases memory ads for fallen Iranian soldiers. At the beginning of the month in a single day a 5th high ranking commander was buried, along with 17 other soldiers of various ranks.
>Reports of retreat create pressure on Iranian public opinion and the necessity of the war, especially near parliament elections as well as the expert committee in charge of choosing the next Supreme Leader
>The Iranian pullout raises concerns among Hezbollah, which lost a third of its standing forces in the Syrian quagmire, and the inability to create a momentum in their favor despite direct Russian intervention, which has so far failed to bring a significant change in the civil war

Wait what peace? Did ISIS be like "it's just a prank bro!" and surrendered?

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Ha, IS claims to have taken a SAA tank and drove it back to their lines last night in the area between Sadad and Mahin. It's like grand theft auto but with tanks. As more battles are in the space between Mahin and Sadad I am going to nickname this as "the Mahin/Sadad wasteland battle"

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>>28282989
Another picture of the stolen tank , T-55 would be my guess.

>>28258976

>Remind me never to take a 7.62x39 round in the back of the head

lol no shit sherlock

>>28283025
clearly T-62

>>28257329

Is there a translation for this?

>>28258012
Bad day in the troll farm?

Russian potatoes running low or something?

You know the world already knows that Russia and Assad are behind ISIS.


Enjoy your radioactive office building.

>>28283061
I stand corrected , I am about to go to sleep.

>>28262734
I don't give a fuck about jews personally but I find putinbots obsession with them interesting.

Russia really is a retarded shithole to fund you assclowns to post.

>>28263421
Globalresearch is news?

Fuck I hope the next Russian 'dear leader' after pootin purges the fuck out of you and your family. NO less than you deserve for scattering faeces all over 4chan

>>28282720
https://twitter.com/deSyracuse/status/679215452241960960

Desyracuse saw the same reports I saw. A large battle broke out at Zerbeh this morning. Results unclear at this time.

>>28273970
>But now that the Coalition is making significant headway again they can discredit Houthis claims of winning and provide objective proof via letting journalists in controlled areas and whatnot.
capturing areas isn't the hard part- holding it is. lots of more competent and amptly armed armies failed the latter, i don't expect the Coalition to make an exception for itself this time.
>You really should grow out of this Houthis cheerleader phase, and keep up with recent developments. Do you have a personal bias btw? Some Iranian or anti-american background that makes you support acts against American puppets? Because then its understandable.
You dont even have to go there. the Houthis just make for a nice underdog in this war against the less than savory opposition of theirs.

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Loyalists captured the following yesterday:
-Al Khalidiyah north west of Khan Tuman
-the town of Marath, its Tel Marath hill and the strategic al Ajami hill

>>28253639

Fucking Lavrov. Picture's like that just remind me how Russia is another puppet of the US, it's all an act. There is no second or third way.

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>>28283448
Compare with Dec 10, see pic.

Note the advances in the south and that Khan Tuman salient.

These maps have a slight pro-rebel slant, the M5 has been cut which isn't showing in these maps.

In next fem weeks/months a cheap and ultra powerful + precise weapons will massively fall in rebels hands.

This weapons will be a game changer and will destroy every pro-regime position + vehicles.

>>28283571


Nothing to do with jew.

>>28283154
Dear General,

They cut the M5, but the rebels in aleppo still have some roads left. What do you think the SAA and allies will do now? Go towards idlib or cut the remainder roads?

Also: What about the east of aleppo. IS vs SAA? Just hld kuweires and its all good?

>>28275203
Bane?

>>28275203
>>28283726

Banes was recaptured (the second time) by Nusra around a week ago

So the YPG/PYD.

How long do you think it will be before they are betrayed by the US and the KRG are brought in to take over Rojava?

I still can't believe the US will allow a Commie army to hold the North of Syria. Many factions within the PYD and PKK are still flat out Maoist.

>>28283193
>You dont even have to go there. the Houthis just make for a nice underdog in this war against the less than savory opposition of theirs.

Well that's a fair point. The problem is underdogs rarely win IRL, most of the time all these advantages add up.

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>>28283704
After Shia militas tried for Zerbeh today and not getting it they hit Banes again hard and the majority of the fighting is around Khalidiyah.
Those are the three hot spots on the front. Banes/Tall hadiyah is important because rebels are still able to apply heat to Al Eis.

Breaking of IS claiming they downed a fighter jet near Mahin/Sadad in the Qalamoun IS pocket side. They say they used manpads. It's unconfirmed however news is going through IS official news ie possibly not bullshit. I will be following up on this
>>28275438
The SAA did take Hadath. Not sure of the status there today.

>>28284833
As far as Kuwiers the SAA created a large buffer around the airbase with the obvious next target being the city of Dayr Hafir. IS on their part continues to harass the SAA in the vicinity of the Kuweirs airbase from the north.

With little news coming from there it's a spat of minor skirmishes every once in while.

>>28284203
>many factions are flat out maoist
there is one group of roughly 200~ people of various communist origins who volunteer and the majority of the YPG wants to distance themselves from the PKK or reform it, if it ever came down to it the majority of members would hop ship to the KRG

Soon, very soon, the blood will pour the sea,
hundreds of terrorists will be burned alive.
Russian woke up, and Rooks fluttered,
Mean Ducks with KABom to visit you fly! Warriors of Russia showed strength, the Spirit of Liberation have in our blood. We throw FABy , CABs and ODABy, hoisted we red flag as grandparents. Soon, very soon, the blood will pour the sea, hundreds of terrorists alive will be burned up. Russian woke up, and Rooks fluttered, Mean Ducks with KABom to visit you fly! Salafitysh vile, do not you cheeky, what stopped the air, fun as us. Caliphate burn us, the survivors will achieve, we howl human rights protection - excites us.

https://twitter.com/TRACterrorism/status/679368645768794113

This is ISs official claim. 2 jets shot down today over Mahin and . Unclear if it was Saaf or Russian. Likely Saaf. Only a couple of pictures out there of a flaming ball in the sky which means nothing to me. No response from any pro SAA source over this. Little evidence present by IS so far as well.

IF true and that's a big if than IS having manpads is definitely new to this AO.

>>28286818
*and the IS Qalamoun pocket I mean

Glad to see after about a month of serious threads we are back on the mandick shitposting bandwagon. This is probably the worst ME thread since we stopped letting mandick make the threads.

Will the SAA ever take Banes and manage to hold it? Now that they have reached the M5 is Aleppo pretty much gunna be a mop up job as soon as they secure the rest of the highway? Pretty interesting shit going on since Russia has joined the fray.

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>>28286880

>>28286880
see
>>28284833
Banes wasn't hit today like Zerbeh was. After the failed Zerbeh assault the shia militias went back to their lines to lick their wounds. It's been mainly shelling and airstrikes since. We'll have to wait to see. There are several points on this front in which they could attack or Jaf could counter attack.

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>>28286965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYTInrTT6_k

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>Dead militants and aid the Saudi terrorists in Khan Tuman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNBNXQKdvA

The talk of the IS guy from wherever the fuck (Georgia?) with supposed SF training reminded me of this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mohamed

>>28286880
You could choose to ignore his posting. His posts are so incoherent that it may as well be background noise that contributes nothing to the discussion.

That said, having him posting paragraphs of poorly written essays is a step up from the usual random link and images worthy of /pol/. All the more easier to tell that he always veers off-topic.

Armchair General is still doing god's work though.

>>28257458
>>28257470
>Two videos from two difference sources
>Showing the same fucking tank to artificially inflate the size of its mechanized army.

Typical IS propaganda strategy.

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>>28287617

Late reports from Syria and Iraq:
- In the southern Aleppo front, as Five stars already say it, Hezbollah forces tried their luck on Zerbah but got repelled, but more than that, the Rebels released lots of TOW videos from around the area. Here some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNf1mookOFA&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P2ZLmAAhU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMMEKn4DGo&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/NorthernStork/status/678982141636509696

https://twitter.com/NorthernStork/status/678981735367892992 (The poor guy in this, running away from the ATGM, stumbles and falls to the ground, getting hit. poor guy.)

In good news for the SAA around there, Arab source informed that the SAA attacked, and captured, the hilltop village of Tal Dadeen near the town of Kafr Haddad.

In the northern region of Aleppo, the FSA recently took the village of Qizil Mazra'ah from ISIS.

Nothing of more interesting to report from other Syrian regions. Some fighting on Daraya, SAA still 2km away from Palmyra, and the usual territorial control change ballet in Latakia.

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>>28289248
Now, about Iraq:

-The battle for Ramadi is getting hotter. The Iraqi Armed Forces broken through ISIS defenses, by south, and have entered the city center, supported by US led coalition airstrikes and an/some Apaches helicopters. The aim of the advancing forces is the government complex in the center of Ramadi.
While the Iraq armed and special forces advance through the city, the Iraq police and allied Sunni tribesmen comes after, to hold the ares taken.

Iraq forces and Shiite militias are also attacking the north of Ramadi. They crossed the Euphrates river, taking half of Abu Thiab.

And we have two new ISW maps for the occasion.

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>>28289370
Here's the second Ramadi map.

Still on Iraq, in something less important than Ramadi, but deserve mention, some shia volunteers have captured Himreen Mountains and nearby oil fields from ISIS.

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>>28289410
And to end the reports, Turkey.

Turkey is getting on fire too. As their hunting to PKK increased these last weeks, Government forces are just rolling and shooting with tanks in kurdish majority cities and repressing with violence and anti government demonstration (not that they had not already done the latter before).

The YDG-H (Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement, basically youth PKK sympathizers) claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that killed two special operation police.

Some reports that the turkish forces are also shelling, from turkish territory, YPG positions in the town of Tall Abyad, Syria, hours ago. Thats is not, probably, so uncommon.

>>28286818
With ISIS fielding chinese ATGM, probably smuggled in the border region with Iraq/Turkey, I dont think would be impossible to them to smuggle some cheap chinese manpad.

In a last note, someone knew about this twitter account of a british volunteer in the peshmerga forces? For some reason ,some of his posts make me think he is a /k/ommando.

https://twitter.com/bazza1131

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Wear you think these guys get such new looking tank shells?

>>28283548
Javelins? Only thing I can think of, but can those take down jets?

>>28284862
Those are just Assad's guards right?

>>28291539
Javelins aren't cheap, the only real game changer that would work for the rebels right now would be a plentiful supply of manpads

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>>28289579
Why are turks such scum?

Anyone have that video/webm of a TOW team hitting a supposed group of SAA soldiers directly

>>28276818
remember, you got to be patient with him. he wasnt born a leader. after all he is the only western dentist ever to walk the earth who was forced to become the dictator of an african country.

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>>28292796

>>28289410
So there hasn't been much changes on other fronts? It looks like the Mosul end has been largely unchanged since Sinjar, Kurds, ISF, or IS.

Jobar kaput
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51v4L1wxvsg

>>28264223


Lolno

>>28263520

Dude you're a fucking retard or some paid shill.

All of the analysts in the world know that Saudi Arabia doesn't even know how to use its weapon systems, let alone maintain them, they don't know how to maneuver or organize large operations. Their air force has been hilariously ineffective with F-15Es and some of the most advanced hardware.

>>28294435
They have enough cash to hire people that know what they are doing and then put their people in photo ops.

>>28294445

Of course, they're sending in staring Ethiopians and Sudanese to do their fighting. And that fucking idiot above has the gall to come here and lie about the miserable performance of a welfare militia force that is Saudi Niggerabia.

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>>28294495

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mercenaries-charge-uae-forces-fighting-yemen-764309832

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All middle eastern problems would cease to exist if we just nuked Turkey and Saudi Arabia

>>28294608
Get a load of this edgy faggot.

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>>28294692

>>28294692
He's right you know though. Maybe through in Israel for good measure. Take out Turkey and Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab peninsula and you'd cut like 80% of funding for terrorists

>>28294704
Take oil off the petrodollar and you cut it all

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>>28294713
You're literally the worst trip on this board.

>>28289689
>tank shells
Too big nigga.

>>28294749
Those look like 100mm shells to me, i don't know what you are talking about you silly goose.

I am trying to figure out what happened today still. Just waking up and looking I see IS has conducted a large offensive in Deir Ezzor. On the airbase and SAA parts of the city. IS so far has seized formerly SAA held Senaa neighborhood and is still attacking the airbase. 4 VBIEDs total have been used so far. In response there are airstrikes on the outskirts of the airbase, not sure what the SAA is doing in the city. The city is where it looks like IS focused today.

>>28286818
IS has put out a video on one of the jet shoot downs over Qalamoun. They didn't used a manpad in the video. It was the 23mm AA technical.

>>28295072
IS has taken Jafra too. Jafra is the neighborhood right outside the airbase. It's in this neighborhood where IS scraps with the SAA all of the time. It goes back and forth regularly.

>>28294608
>nuking roaches
Ineffective, you've got to squash them or shoot them.

>>28295125
Ahh, so they finally shot something down with that, it must have been a saaf since their jets are so shitty that it probably just fell down on its own without being hit.

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>>28295296
Yes, they and other rebel groups always take pot shots at the Saaf with their 23mms. Once in a blue moon they hit them.

This is sorta of a ending day report and I wouldn't post for a while after. I will exclude Deir Ezzor since it's already been covered.

-around the Marj front rebels claim to have mortared SAA troops killing a few of them

-in Daarya near where the supposed "chemical attack" was fighting broke out. No SAA progress reported.

-all quiet on the southern Aleppo front amide minor airstrikes and artillery

-some fighting in central Aleppo between SAA forces and non IS rebels

>>28275246
In Lakakia the SAA backed by Ruaf airstrikes have retaken Mt Nuba. This is the first new map of Latakia since Dec 16 as pro SAA map makers were too salty to make one when rebels re took Mt Nuba. So here we go again.

>>28295925
Nothing to report, you already covered pretty much everything for today.

I would like to wish everyone here happy christmas and a good new year. See you all in 2016, probably.

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>BoomShakaLak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k0PX19Q14s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTg9Uv94-Yg

>>28295072
>>28295164
Unless SAA & Co. are able to lift the siege (which would be far more difficult given the isolation), it's only a matter of when IS will break through the airbase's defense. Even if IS' causalities are high they basically have endless streams of fighters from all directions to replace lost units. What they lack in equipment, they make up for with strength by numbers and explosives.

I'm honest surprised how long that SAA pocket has survived countless IS offenses, but I won't be surprised if Deir Ezzor ends up falling.

>>28298123
They are resupplied by air if I'm not mistaken, I don't think they get reinforcements though, which means that eventually they'll simply lack the numbers to hold it.