Middle East General- Hama rodeo and SDF it aint me

>>33393166
It just seems odd so far that I've seen nothing even indicating that the SAA is working to counter the offensive.
I've yet to even see airstrikes materialize.
Were the caught this offguard?

>>33393223
Looks like. Remember for years the SAA ignored ISIS and focused on fighting the FSA, but recently the SAA began really laying into ISIS, capturing a bunch of territory there, but also dedicating a large number of troops to a front which previously didn't exist. Hence, it appears that the SAA were expecting all the rebels in idlib to continue infighting, and not mount a full scale attack on their lines.

We shall see if they rotate sufficient forces, quickly enough to prevent Hama from being taken. Would be interesting to see what happens if Hama falls.

>>33393223
the SAA can only properly defend like half the fronts at any given time, they rely on the other half staying quiet

Any chance of terrorist sweep through Hama city?

>>33394002
It depends on if they take Qamhana. That's basically the last defensible position before Hama.
Given the apparent total strategic surprise the offensive has so far, I wouldn't be shocked if the rebels get away with a win.

>btfo SAA in Hama
>take Hama and move south
>break siege on Homs Pocket
>attack Homs

Why the fuck arent they defending Hama, or atleast try to?

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>>33394489
for being "not gay" this guy always manages to look the opposite

>>33394489
Just friends being friends bro.

>>33394243
They dont need to- They already bypassed it to the southwest

so US troops will stay in Iraq after ISIS is gone to help keep stabilize Iraq...shouldn't the US (and others) be doing the same in Libya?

>>33395665
we never invaded Libya with ground troops so there's no need for that :^)

we'll just bomb anyone there who gets too terroristy, lolsorryguys

>ISIS still owns the grain silos
Is the SAA and friends going to have to choose between keeping Hama or keeping Palmyra now?

top kek

>>33395665
Russian mercs and US SOF are known to operate in the area. Though Egypt has taken the lead by helping Col. Haftar (Russian mercs are part of that help).

US SOF hasn't been very active there though, they ran out of militant leaders they could snatch and bag or kill since now most militias are aligned to one side (Haftar's Libyan National Army; LNA) or another (GNA in Tripoli)

>>33395970
on the topic of Libya; here's a good read

http://www.defensenews.com/articles/eu-navies-find-training-libyan-coast-guard-no-easy-task

>>33396711
second bump

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>>33393166
>Major General Mohammad Sultan, the commander of the Second Battalion in Baath Brigades Fifth Corps was killed with four of his battalion by IS in Palmyra, Homs Governorate, Syria.

Wew this guy ALREADY died, they just had this photo opp with all these old fucks in the 5th corps parading around

Weird to see him die that fast

You guys think once the NDF secure Tabqa the US will use that airfield to ship in all kinds of toys to help take Raqqah to the east?

>>33397159
unlikely, its too close to Raqqa and will get a lot of incoming arty if they make it operational. Plus they've been using Qamishlo in north-east Syria for a while already (since around 2015)

>>33397242
True, Taqba is a fucking fortress of an area though, it will become an important strong point for the SDF as this war progresses

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>>33397082
5th corp are a bunch of scrubs sent out to Palmyra as cannon bait for the Russians to convince IS to come out of their hideouts. A lot of them are going die in the eastern Homs wastelands. Their death toll holding static positions got started in style.

Someone is getting fast tracked to the rank of general in 5th corp after his death and I feel sorry for them.

>>33397863
>Major General

I hate how they give out all these super high ranks to clearly people in positions of power and you always see these retards dying in the news

How the fuck does someone that high up supposedly get btfo that quickly

>>33397878
He probably went out to survey their newly held positions around Palmyra and IS was watching them the whole time.

>>33398072
they are so fucking retarded
god the SAA is a joke

I know it isn't NEW, but, anyone have links (to active) or Webms of DAESH drive by assassination from a few years back? been searching for over an hour cannot find any active links all the videos have been banned/removed/deleted. help a /k/ommando out

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>>33398205
look for clashing of swords #4. I believe that was the ISIS series that they released right after their invasion of iraq.

>>33398273
Story?

>>33398273
THANK YOU so very much, Friend!

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>>33398294
iraqi police gettin murked, part 9,834

>>33397082
>Major General
>Battalion

wut, can sand people into ranks ?

>>33398273
why didnt he react to having a gun in his face?

>>33398381
Probably thinking about all the good kebab he was about to have for lunch. Who knows tho. Situational awareness requires a lot of mental effort.

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

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>SDF around #Tabqa dam after the airdrop preparing for the operation behind enemy lines.

Syrian Arab Coalition, according to the U.S :-^)

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>>33400045
With just a tiny bit of YPG backup.

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>>33400048

>>33400048
YPG got some new toys have they

>>33400045
>>33400048
that's cool, going to bust out my popcorn soon

Let's talk about how US+SDF have (allegedly) taken over the Tabqah dam intact already.

https://twitter.com/M1Massoud/status/844576909061185536

>>33397878

Sand nigger armies are basically like African militias.

They award themselves titles, and wear uniforms, but they're not an actual army. Like in Liberia, you had that one leader call himself like "Apsotle, Supreme General and Messiah".

>>33400257
Fuck that was fast.
I wonder if there was any fight or any special op to take it.

>>33400257
are you retarded? To take the dam they first need to take the city. Look at a map, tardlet

>>33400328
Looks like it's fake after all, but they could take the dam first from the north, and then the city, couldn't they?

>>33400045
All their arabs are around Manbij. Everywhere else is Kurds.

The SAA is really getting pounded by the Hama and Damascus offensives. Is the Hama offensive the result of all the relocation deals they've made? Thousands of rebels went to Idlib and this is their attack?

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>>33400490
>ifunny

>>33400098
>not wanting to dye for israel
fuckin faggot

>>33401973
what kind of dyes are we talking about?

>>33400257
US SOF is just there to advise remember :^)

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>BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDbmhvY-QM

>>33402202
Is that a fucking chicken around 0:17?

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>>33400257
looks like they floated at least some vehicles there

>>33400045
>>33400048
neat

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Is this quality gear?

>>33402530
sounds like a turkey,

>>33400477
Probably not a direct result, but the ferocity of it no doubt is a result of the relocations. I'm just tuning back in after a long break so 5 star call me out if i'm wrong please.

Update on (what im calling) the Peninsula Op. SDF have now started to ferry armor across to the peninsula to the west of Raqqa that was captured during the airlift.

MTLB's and other light vehicles are being ferried across.

SDF are now using the territory to the west of Tabaqha to advance on the military airbase. This is happening at the same time as Kurdish forces to the east of Raqqa are advancing. It is most likely that they are pursuing an enveloping offensive to cut off Raqqa before besieging the city.

The amphibious/air op seems to have taken ISIL by surprise, as they are rushing to send the necessary reinforcements to defend Tabqah.

Also, the most recent development is that SDF are preparing to assault the Tabqah dam (to the north of the town), making ISIL have to deal with three simultaneous offensives at the same time.

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>>33403172
mufuggin SOON

>>33402735
What do you think?

>>33403172
>making ISIL have to deal with three simultaneous offensives at the same time.
MUH
DIIIIIIIIIIIK

give them hell boys (and girls)

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>>33402735

>>33398117
this webm is over 1,5 years old. the logo is the former FSA in Aleppo logo; the fatah haleb coalition.

These are a bunch of iraqi shia militia getting blown the fuck out after the main South Aleppo push stopped (when they capped Khan Tuman and Al hadher and Al Eis) The irainians tried to get to Fuah by just using infantry militias; these type of vids were the result.

reports of a large SAA counter offensive spearheaded by tiger forces. Already seem to have retaken some villages incl. kawab and khattab

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>>33403552
>when the ground game is juuuuust right

>>33403729
I've seen that too, but I'm waiting on proofs.
Seems really quick to organize a counter offensive since the rebels weren't really tired out by their offensive.

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So what's with this salient then?
Is this the equivalent of the one at Kursk?
Could the SAA be reasonably expected to do anything do it?

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>>33404400

>same shit like always
>BACK AND FORTH

Do you think that some Russian officers are advising the SAA during these moments? Or they never put their nose in that stuff?

>>33403729
Bullshit, they have been claiming this for over 10 hours and they wont post proofs. Camera battery must be dead huh :^)

>>33404772
Whats the point of shitposting? You're no better than the retards that where jerking off and spouting "hurrr ASSad is gonna lose the whole province!!!"

>>33404861
Well no i mean he is right.
The SAA hasn't posted any proof of advances or really any counter offensive at all.
And considering they do the "everything is fine! The troops have high morale and we are holding!" thing during every offensive they don't have the best reputation.

Help me with this... concept. US general Scaparotti told the Senate tonight that he thinks Russia is helping Taliban in Afghanistan with supplies. Does it sound as unlikely to you guys as it does to me?

>>33404935
Exactly, if it's common knowledge then whats the point of even making the post. Might as well go to /pol/

>>33401989
blue and white, of course.

>>33405120
Maybe if you've had your head in the sand for the past few years. It's a low-risk effort from them to make NATO look bad
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-russia-idUSKBN13W2XJ

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Air force got some casualties

I don't understand. Who are you people? And how do you know so much about the activities and movements of armed factions in Syria?

>>33406941
Good try ISIS.

>>33406941
>how do you know so much about the activities and movements of armed factions in Syria?

the internet is a thing

>>33407116
https://www.atlasnews.co/single-post/2017/03/23/Kurdish-Syrian-forces-conduct-large-airdrop-operation

wrote an article about it for the news agency I volunteer at. What do you guys think? (Yes to an extent im shilling, but more so I want your honest opinion on the article)

>>33407450
lol didn't meant it as a direct answer to the other post

>>33407450
Maybe provide more strategic context and a map?

>>33407494
added strategic context. Though our conflict map is the only thing we're "allowed" to use, and it hasn't been updated to show the current frontlines.

Thanks for the advise tho

bamp

>>33405915
next guy will probably die from "training excercise in Italian alps"

>>33400048
>>33400045
Since when are the YPG rolling out all tacticool and the like?

>>33403655
Isn't this the YPG's counter-terror unit or something?

>>33409644
These are probably the apex of the Kurds in Syria that the US picked up and started working with a few years back

Wouldn't surprise me if any were Peshmerga over from Iraq either

I'm seeing sporadic tweets that the rebels have taken Qomhama or at least there's fighting within the town.
No proofs though.

>>33410379
Well the SAA did post pics of dead rebel commander in Qomhama
So the rebels are definitely in. It also pretty much disproves yesterdays claims that SAA recaptured many of those smaller towns.

https://twitter.com/ibra_joudeh/status/845240899496001536

>>33393247
what's that in the foreground? some kind of 30mm?

>>33410600
Are you serious?

>>33410596
>dead rebel commander in Qomhama
>So the rebels are definitely in
Well, they were there until they were killed

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what about ukrarine?

>>33405639
>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-russia-idUSKBN13W2XJ

Very interesting read. Puts a new light on recent Taliban skirmishes with Western forces. Thank you.

>>33410765
is it carrying an RPO? And does anything happen in ukraine these days?

>>33405915

Some POG got herself ingested into a turbine.

>>33407450

>helicopter-borne parachute drops

So you just made shit up?

That's fake news bro. 2/10

>>33410379
The main battle seem to be in Qomhama. Rebels imply that at least some parts are captured-

Meanwhile Ahrar has joined the fun with an operation of their own in the Kernaz area

>>33404400
>>33404582
>Pooping back and forth forever.

Whats left for ISIS when Raqqah and Mosul are liberated, aka next month?

>>33394583
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzSVmsrJEzk

>>33403172
I shot my load when the SDF and US support did the ballsy thing and crossed Lake Assad in preparation of the Taqba raid. It's beautiful.

>>33410985
They'll have to retreat down the river from Raqqa. Their base of operation was apparently relocated weeks back.

>>33411029
I mean they only have villages left , no major cities , they will fall one after the other. In the next few months ISIS will fall and new Sikes Piko agreement will be put and new state will be established in northern syria. At least thats what I think.

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>>33410985
Raqqa will be far longer. The SDF just dont have the numbers to sustain the kind of casualties we have seen in Mosul, Tikrit, Ramadi. I guess it will be a siege of the city, a bit like we have seen at Al-Bab, just not as incompetent.

In general, ISIS in iraq will switch back to insurgency, waiting for the inevitable sunni-shia clashes, the Kirkuk issue spoiling arab-kurd unity and then we have elections next year where with a bit of luck Maliki could come back or Badr wins; both of them could very well trigger a new shia civil war.

In syria, they will concentrate in the euphrates valley and fuck things up in the surrounding deserts.
Then they will screenshot all the "isis is finished for good" articles in the western MSM and wait for a good opportunity when Assad and the Kurds and the rebels are distracted, to recapture some of their clay again

>>33402646
>>33403172
MTLBs are amphibious aren't they? I wonder why they don't just drive (sail?) them across and free up space on the barges.

>>33402771
No it's Syria

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>your faction doesn't camouflage its vehicles with tiny maps of chicken wings and Kurdistan

NEVER GONNA MAKE IT

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Yearly reminder that Kobane was 6 strikes a day, Manbij 9. They haven't even entered Raqqah yet. Shit is gonna be HYYYYYYYYYYYPE

>>33411052
Well yeah, without a doubt that's pretty much all they have left: Scattered desert possessions, and villages and a handful of smaller towns alongside the rivers.

But IS' predecessors have known to go underground and resort to asymmetrical fighting, waiting until the next opportunity to tear up a new caliphate. There's no way Iraq or Syria can stretch far to monitor insurgent operations persistently.

>>33410828
One ammunition depot/storage building was attacked/sabotaged and blew up, occasional shelling. Oterwise they are just bickering about the Eurovision song contest.

>>33411292
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpwEZ_9VLD8

absolute madman whoever did this

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New map of minor SDF advances post US air assault the other day. The dam battle should be exciting. I always wondered why the Russians never got the SAA into helicopter assaults. It would be prefect for their large sweeps.

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>>33411227
>early reminder that Kobane was 6 strikes a day, Manbij 9.
so is that alot or not much?

>>33411636
>I always wondered why the Russians never got the SAA into helicopter assaults. It would be prefect for their large sweeps.

The simple answer is Russia does not have the resources to spare. I mean they are using Su-30's to fire unguided rockets.

I was checking Step for the latest Hama news and the last fighting news isn't in Hama but in eastern Ghouta and the Palmyra silos. IS attacking the silo checkpoint again... like the old days.

The SAA did taken another village around Deir Hafer in eastern Aleppo. IS is close to losing it.

>>33407450
Try getting the facts instead of making up bullshit

>>33411052
lol, one al-queda branch gets defeated, another one is already on its way (HTS).

the problem in arab society is much deeper than it looks. as long as there are millions of young people growing up with no purpose in their lives, it doesn't matter who holds the territory, and the extremist-salafist movements will have more than enough followers.

and you just cant build a state that easily. the US has tried. it doesn't work. the extremists get BTFO with direct Russian, Iranian, US, etc. involvement, but when they leave everything goes back to shit.

I am curious about all the 'refugees' coming from western Mosul now. The media are talking about them as if they are all innocent bystanders and not at all the guys coming from the ISIS stronghold. Where do they all go, how are they vetted, and how are they kept from fueling the next rebellion?

>>33411780
ISIS is notorious for not allowing any civilians escape their cities, so I assume that many of them are indeed civilians.

and there's no point in vetting them is there, any Ahmed in the region can become ISIS at any moment. It's the local states (syria, iraq) job to stop the rebellions, but both are kind of failed states.

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>>33410828
A former Russian parliament member who fled to Ukraine and was going to testify about Russia's invasion of Crimea was assassinated

Meanwhile, Russians mass new? T-72 variants with sideskirts from the T-90MS along the Ukrainian border

You don't hear about it much but early Feburary was probably the heaviest fighting/shelling of the war in a good long while. There's some major tension in the industrial zone

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HTS used a captured T-90 against the SAA in northern Hama

>>33411864
nice tank looks like warhammer 40k

>>33412030

It's not big enough, stupid or impractical enough to be 40k, and there aren't enough spikes on it.

>>33411864
>T-90
Aren't these the most powerful russian tank today?

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The first T-72 TURMS-T to have been captured by the Islamic State, Deir ez-Zor.

>>33411857
>the middle eastern nation of Ukraine
fuck off

>>33412231
T-90A is weaker thsn T-55. It is shit mistake.
T-90ZQMFB however is strongest tank in world, second only to T-14 "HOMOERATA".

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The Syrian Arab Army has made another generous donation to the Islamic State in Deir ez-Zor. Part of the 'Ghaneema for everybody' campaign.

>>33411692
>silos
Is this 2016 all over again?

>>33412355
To be fair, everyone has donated to ISIS.

Ask yourself why half their guns are still American lmao

>>33411857
Holy fuck is this real ?

>>33412355
Fucking Jews and CIA supplying ISIS all the time. How else would they get all the weaponry and ammunition

>>33412364
It feels like it. I went off in a rant while major Russian/SAA operation were full steam to Palmyra by saying if they don't take the oil fields to the north like Shaer IS won't be defeated in the area. It's back to business as usual.

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>>33412355

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>>33412498

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>>33394489

I don't follow all the faction leaders so closely. Can any autists explain who this is?

>>33412429
Most of ISIS stuff is from china and eastern europe, bought by gulf arabs.

>>33412519
Suheil "Homosexual Tiger" al-Hassan, brigadier general and commander of Tiger force, apparently the only loyalist force worth that can actually, like, fight enemies,

>>33405915
She was a loader and got crushed by a BRU-61 which is a rack that holds Small Diameter Bombs

At least thats what I heard in the shop today

>>33411684
It's a decent amount, but not as much as one would think considering how fucking YUGE the battle of Kobane was. Has a lot to do with city size. Raqqah will be YUUUUGE (relatively)!

>>33411470
Thats a big bang apparently it may have been sabotaged by a drone as there was a failed attempt to set it on fire using a drone 2015.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39363416

>>33413010
does russia have any offensive drones in its inventory?

>>33412838
was kobane really that YUGE? noone talks about it anymore and there arent that many pictures either

>IS claim another US airborne mission to take over Tabqa dam west of Raqqa failed today

Why they didn't take it during the night. With their superior gear and their nightvision it would be a piece of cake to take that dam no?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/world/africa/hosni-mubarak-egypt.html?_r=1

NYT on former Egyptian dictator Mubarak being released from detention today. Egypt did it right. Syria could have been like Egypt, safe and stable if Assad wasn't a fucking idiot.

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>>33413363
I forgot
>Mubaraks fw

>>33394563
he's not a poof, the guys sucking him off and getting fucked by him might be though.

>>33411768
time start handing blankets in the ME...

hmm weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znnpUyjCucg

>>33413363
Egypt is gonna blow and make Syria look nice.

>>33413614
Sure thing mursi

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUPOf8Ne0Ag

>>33413711
Are you fucking retarded? Egyptian soldiers are already dying in the Sinai and the army already has had gun battles with MB members. Shit is simmering and could blow. Fuck out of here with your dumbass

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>>33412402
Supposedly, one of the largest Ukrainian Ammo depots went boom the other day. How convenient.

About 100k tons of munitions went boom. Sabotage is suspected

>>33413779
Syrians would beg for nothing more than a low level insurgency.

People have been saying Egypt was going blow for years and it's already over with Sisi in power.

>>33412502
What kind of shells are those?

>>33413739
Thats terrific.
Whos in Jobar by the way? HTS? Or another group?

>>33413839
Sisi being in power is the reason it's going to blow. The man wasted $50 billion from the gulf Arabs on arms and prestige projects and is now in the process of destroying Egyptian-Saudi relations which will result in a million Egyptians working in SA to be sent packing. Do you think Iran and Russia need a million uneducated workers? Sisi himself publicly said Egypt needs some 28000 teachers to stop children from growing up illiterate and than went and bought 46 KA-52. IMF told him he needs to reform the economy, open up the county of FDI, remove state subsidies to people and companies, allow the currency to float. He started doing that and than immediately backed off. Everything that lead to Arab spring is present in Egypt and it's only going to get worse. And all the liberals and "moderate" Islamists are in prison. When shit hits, there won't be a Free Egyptian Army, it's going to go straight to Islamic State in Egypt.

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Nice map of N. Hama. Don't know how accurate.

>>33414018
Pretty accurate, not sure about shayzar, but it seems that there is still fighting inside qomhana

>>33413990
I just finished reading a FT story on how they got 12 billion dollar loan from IMF because Sisi floated their currency. I understand it isn't a great situation but how about you stay with the times?

https://www.ft.com/content/083a15cc-e248-11e6-9645-c9357a75844a

>>33414062
Here is a better link to the story

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-imf-idUSKBN137005

>>33413889
Looks like 100mm APDS, but I could be wrong. The 100mm was the last fully-cased Russian tank round IIRC

>>33414062
$12 billion over 3 years. Compare that to the estimated $50 billion they got from Gulf after Sisi took over, $38 of are estimated to have come from SA. And while UAE might keep it's support I doubt it's going to remain on the same level. Plus The Gulf was giving grants and aid and discount oil right and left, IMF is giving loans.

And the currency isn't even the main problem, in reality it was going to float one way or the other, they simply didn't have the reserves to keep it propped up. The main problem is the subsidies system, especially the oil and food subsidies, and the huge military run industrial complex. Sisi tried to cut them once before and it almost exploded. So he backed off. I don't see Sisi taking any of the necessary steps to fix the economy and without that Egypt is a time bomb.

Also dick measuring with Saudis could result in Saudis expelling Egyptian workers. Saudis are petty and if Sisi continue with his new found love for Iran Saudis will respond. Add to that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which could cause serious water management problems for Egypt. And with ISIS running around the tourism sector will remain low. Egypt needs structural reforms, something Sisi ,being part of the old guard, can not deliver. Maybe IMF will be able to force him to reform as they did with Turkish deep state and Erdogan in early 2000s. Or maybe Sisi is thinking of using Libyan oil to prop up his government.

>>33414090
Also IMF deals with liquidity not investment. The fact that Egyptians need IMF to survive is indicative that Egypt needs major reforms and that the government is living on borrowed time.

>>33412429
>Capture SAA ammunition depot
>"God damn CIA"

>>33413739

This is the first time I've actually seen some proper war fighting. Not the usual snackbar shooting over the fence/sand berm type "warfare".

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lol kurds

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I thought this dude got killed yesterday? Pic is supposedly from around Palmyra today.

>>33397082

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>>33415183

How has Jihad Julian not been shivved by some Kurdish expats in Germany yet.

I mean, he's begging for it.

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>>33415739

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>>33410765
These guys are from MatrixUAV. They are cool guys. They are a bunch of civies who make drones for the Army with off the shelf equipment.

Weather you are pro Ukr or pro Sep, /K/ should take a look what groups like them are doing with Drones.

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>>33413803
They probably had shit storage and safety measures and this isn't the first time however this probably was sabotage.

The Ukrainian army although heavily battered in 2014 however is nearing full strength. Not strong enough to clean out the separatists an Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine but is getting close to the levels were it would make a Russian invasion of Ukraine extreamly costly.

This explosion should be a setback. Ukraine doesn't have that much ammo left because it doesn't have any major ammo factories left. Before they were running low on Tochka-U Missiles and heavy rockets. This will further deplete this number and will limit what ever deterrence Ukraine has left. Ukraine has plans to make new precision rockets and a new tactical missiles but that is years away.

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>>33415739
wondering the same thing desu. That motherfucker is batshit

>>33416199
this is your brain on "Assad must go"

>>33415139
Thats a different guy, the 5th corps is filled with old men like that

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>>33400045
>physically-capable female, with muscle mass and no menstrual cycle because of hormone condition
>my country doesn't accept women in combat roles
>I will never operate as hard as Kurdish women get to
>the only operating women do in my country's military is as secretaries who are pretty much just whores who sit at a desk until the officer wants to "speak" with them
If only I were a Marxist and didn't mind putting myself in danger for a flag I don't care about...

>>33413245
in terms of numbers probably not but the impact that it had upon the course of the conflict has been pretty significant

>>33412598

>warheads on foreheads

>>33411112
MTLB are originally amphibious, but as you can see it has add on armor, which makes me doubt that it will float.

>>33414259
Or 85mm for D-44 which is still used i Deir Ezzor. Even zis-3 76mm is still used

RT is reporting SAA is pushing back Al Sham and friends though.
How can state run media lie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8D-P6oINY

Also how the hell is Deir Ez Zor not overrun yet?
IS has had it completely isolated for years now.
I know SAA delivers supply and reinforcements by air but jeez, that's some Alamo type shit.

>>33406941
>ITT
People who follow foreign wars like normies follow sportsball. All this information is on the internet, if you know where to look.

>>33413739
why nobody shoots back at them?

>>33419679
someone did at the first second of the video.

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>>33419623
>IS has had it completely isolated for years now.
No where to run forcing the ayrab garrison to fight. Bonus points for strong leader in the eyes of his men is on the ground.

>>33411470

I bet theres some large bald ruski driving near light speed away from that plant hunched over in a euro clown car.

>>33418177

you sound gross

I was headed out but had to post a TOW strike in Hama today. Rebels hit an large group of SAA from behind with a TOW. Nasty hit. Broke up a attack before it started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0QaQIS1cY

Other than that rebels have been stalled in their Hama offensive.

>>33420559
oh yes and rebels lost points gained in Jobar yesterday. No way they could hold those buildings any longer with the massive SAA counter attack posted by Mandic ITT.

>>33413779
t. 12 year old who doesnt know shit about the middle east.
You never go full retarted, you just did.
Egypt is not going to be like syria, period.
Learn about egypt and egypts goverment,army , people, history, then you can happily stfu.

>>33403705
knowledge

>>33420559
this has to be the worst one I've seen so far, good god look at how many people were gathered in the open

I know this is probably a cultural thing - but whose culture? I am talking about this Alahu Akbar yelling which seem to happen indescrimitately whether it is the enemy or your own side that takes a hit. Comparable to yer aulde 'yiha woohoo holy shit" cry, perhaps. But I can't help wondering, is it more in use with some groups than others? It's not like I hear it on the streets of my country. But if I DID hear it I'd be grasping for my carry immediately. So what can you ME experts say about it? It is a devout+ thing, or something all the kids cry out, or what?

>>33421048

Oh, and please - I do know what it mean. Technically.

>>33420559
TAKBIR!
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>>33421048
it's just a more versatile version of "oh my god"

>>33418177
You sound like a massive faggot

>>33418177
post tits

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>>33421636

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awwww yisssssss

>>33421153
5 dead , 9 wounded

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>>33420559

If sand niggers are so retarded?

Why haven't we just used the opportunity to kill them all and take everything they have? Or the CHinese, or any other capable force?

>>33421910
fuck they are close

Will Assad allow an autonomous Rojava?

>>33398072
did he died

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>>33413889
>>33414259
Looks like 85mm APCR to me.
Probably supplied way back with T-34/85 and been sitting in storage ever since.

Russian 100mm cases have more tapering at the front, see pic.

>>33422277
Does he have a choice? It will probably take 10 years to mop up the remaining ISIS and rebels

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>>33422895

Also, even if IS vanished overnight the Syrian kurds seem to be in favor with both Russa and USA. Looks to me like the northern provinces are heading for for a situation pretty much like the one in Iraq. Which Assad won't like one bit but they ARE effectively a buffer zone against the erratic Turks.

>>33411470
That's Tianjin-tier

>that rocket that flew for 10 miles and then blew up someone's house

>>33413363
Please explain your logic here, 5star.
It doesn't make any sense to me considering Egypt never had the problem of mass armed rebellion by Al-Qaeda and other islamists.

Mubarak only stepped down after the army removed him from power.

In Syria, if Assad stepped down in 2011 that would most likely not have changed a goddamn thing. He is unpopular among the Sunni majority, but heavily supported by Shia and some Christians.

Mubarak literally was 2-5% popularity in the polls before he lost power. It is why the military turned on him so quickly.

The old president of Yemen stepped down in 2011. Now it's officially a shithole Al-Qaeda ridden failed-state worse than Syria

>>33413839
>Egyptian military dictator is why Egypt is stable
>Syrian military dictator is why Syria is not stable

>people have been saying
Who? Sisi has only been around for 3.5 years. The economy in Egypt is absolutely horrible, and supposedly the Ethiopians are about to slow the Nile waterflow with their own dam.

>>33414062
They "floated" the currency and got a small IMF deal.

Hard to know which way it'll grow. I personally look at the fact Egypt has been rather stable the last 60 years under military dictators, so I'd expect that to continue.
It will still be a stagnant islamic shithole though

>>33419615
They are. Multiple places just were retaken today by the SAA

What is Egypt like, tribewise?

>>33420559
Arabs are so fucking retarded. This same shit has happened 8,000 times and they (FSA, ISIS, SAA) still stand in giant fucking groups in the wideopen.

>>33423282
A couple American soldiers just died in the attack LMAO

8-9 wounded

>>33423714
I honestly don't know enough to comment.

Probably less Arab tribe mentality than many other places because of their urban concentration around the Nile.

Egyptians are much more nationally united (and 90% Sunni muslim) than many other Arab states. Egypt actually has a more natural origin than Syria/Iraq/Gulf States.

>>33423737
It's the whole inshallah mentality. Milfags have told us that over and over and over again.

>>33423636
>>33423551
It's not my sole idea , the Syrian that used to post here backed me. What Mubarak did by leaving quickly but left his government intact. It was all a show. The military stood down. Then when the people saw a real Islamist take power they realized it wasn't a good idea. Here comes the military in to save the day. Egypt isn't ripped to pieces. The end. As far as the economy Egypt always had a shit central economy but this is common in the middle east.

What Assad did between waffling, letting out prisoners and then going full kill mode kicked up a hornets nest full of armed Iraqi war veteran Islamists who then mixed in with people who probably would have supported Assad in the long run.
Now he has a large war on his hands and all it brings like the poster before just said for at least the next 10 years. Turkey , the US, Russia, Iran, Jordan, Saudis, Israel, Hezbollah, involved etc. Also Rojova because they played their cards right. He made a lot of political mistakes leading to the meltdown. Half of his own part of the country is now run by warlords not Assad.

>>33419363
Guilty chuckle.

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>>33420559
webm so that future generation might witness such foolishness and learn from it

>>33423870
That said it wasn't all Assads fault either. A lot of them (mainly in eastern Syria) were willing to accept hard core Al Qaeda and then IS like it wasn't a thing. The blame goes around here. It's their fault in their own way. They are all stupid.

>>33423792

Ah. So the fracture lines goes along moderates versus extremists rather than border lines? And the Muslim Brotherhood represented the more religious extreme wing, or were they a political wing in other respects as well?

>>33424093
What's to learn? Even an enlisted private in any Western army would know huddling into parade ground formation on a battlefield is a retarded idea.

>>33424648
which is why CSMs and light Col's love doing it

>>33412030
needs moar sponsons tho breh

>>33423870
I agree

Personally, if there was a better alternative, he should step down to be replaced by a more moderate candidate. If they worked with the kurds and moderate sunnis, they could focus on beating ISIS and Al-Qaeda first.

The problem is that for all his faults, Assad is still relatively competent.

I'd still disagree with your and the Syrian assessment (where is zvesda) because I don't think they are comparable.

Syria is a far more volatile and religiously/ethnically divided state than Egypt ever was, and Mubarak stepped down because the army deserted him.
Furthermore, there's no guarantee that Morsi would've been such a fuckup.

As is obvious, Al-Qaeda run Idlib province is hell on earth. Yet people support them there

>>33425320
>As is obvious, Al-Qaeda run Idlib province is hell on earth.
source?

>>33421048
Many threads ago, there was an explaination that Allahu Ackbar didn't really translate to "god is great" as it is usually translated, but rather it has a nuance that translates to "god is greatER". This nuance implies that regardless of what is happening at a given moment, it is nothing since god is greater.

>getting shot at
[This is nothing], god is greater
>witnessing the birth of your firstborn
[this miracle is nothing since] god is greater

It is a fatalistic thing, no matter how extreme things get, positive or negative, it is the lesser compared to the greatness of god. A comparable english phrase is "this is nothing", or as an attitude the stereotype of the british understatement.

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>assad recruiting all female units
>they all are wearing hijabs

wat the fug

>>33425671
On point. Allahi Akbar is supposed to acknowledge God and how he is bigger and greater than all of us and what happens to us.

It's kinda similar to the Christian notion of it all being part of God's plan

Kurds outside tabqah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbxZTwXwo5E

also, wtf FSA took tadif. They arnt going to continue to Kweires so . . . why?

>>33422633
Seems like a very unsafe way of transporting shells.. Awesome.

>>33429154
If these are Assad's forces, why are they using Lebanon's flag as hijabs? Gonna need source on this.

any exciting news from raqqa/tabqa?

>>33430884
Its the Syrian flag. You can see the black stripe on most of the Habibtis

>>33429154

Also, what's with the black vests? Any camo value of black is negated by the white headgear, and the two pockets are nice but not as nice as the estimated four jacket pockets on the jacket inside which they are covering up. Okay, in theory those could be just shirts without lower pockets. But if it's there for the AK mags, why not use belt pouches?

>>33431206
I think vest's are only worn be recruits still in training...

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absolute madmen if this is true

>>33431602

Query: how was this area available for inspection? And who were doing the inspection?

>>33431626
i'm starting to lean on it being not true, but who knows
we'll see

>>33431626
Dont question iraqi news reports or you are literally worse then isis.

>>33431659

I am not indicating the story is a falsum. It's not like I have good thoughts for ISIS. And in theory this could be on a border line area. But if it is on the hot and bothered border line I'm puzzled as to who are driving in with lorries and retrieving bombed-to-ragged-hell corpses, never mind searching the area forensically. Also, it is not a less interesting story if it's a falsum.

>>33423636

Disregarding how long they have been in power and the actual situation.

If you are a dictator and most of the power at some point is in your hand, if the country is stable - it has a lot to do with you. If the country is unstable - it has a lot to do wit you. Because you are the only entity in the country that actually matters. If some rebels start fucking you up? Still, it is due to the dictator. He holds all the power, he could have taken appropriate steps at the appropriate time with that might and if he did not, he is to blame.

Hence why the Russians are trying to force Syria to change and be more inclusive. They know Assad fucked up by being too hard and didn't bend. So he de facto broke instead of just bending.

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that's bullshit, but I believe it

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>>33432839

>>33432839
IS wishes it was that lucky

>>33431659
>ITS ALL LIES, THE GREAT ISLAMIC STATE WOULD NEVER KILL PRISONERS FOR PROPAGANDA!!!

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>Self-declared Northern Syria (Rojava) Autonomous Administration to open representation offices in the US and the UK soon: official.

>>33433313
Curious if it's an attempt at fait accompli on their side or there was some kind of deal with Assad we will soon hear about.

Shalom,

Any news on FSA LGBT Brigade? Are they still in operation? Thanks

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>>33433755
p.sure they all turned sides and joined tiger forces

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why do russian submunitions look like a prop from an ironman movie?

>>33436648
small heda and culture of kill

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>>33433755
Shalom back, FSA/HTS did kill a old Israeli enemy in Hama today. Bilal Al-Zibawi kia, part of the old guard of Hezbollah.

>>33436991
Another faggot killed

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I wish a nigga would

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sdf operating outside taqbah with what sounds like the theme music from contra playing over it

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