Middle East Thread "The Fall Of Racca" Edition

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SMAART = rebel news

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/afghan-commando-kills-two-us-soldiers-official-150225975.html

An Afghan commando Saturday killed two American soldiers and wounded two others during a joint operation in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said, in the latest so-called insider attack on international forces.

US use white phosphor against residential area in Raqqa

https://youtu.be/q8xNVrfUOgA

>>34215917
At least Raqqa taking pressure away of DeZ and Iraq, because IS is claiming that reinforcements are coming in from these places.

Let's see if I can do a fact post on Raqqa.
- position: smack in the middle of northern Syria, 40 km east of the Dabqa dam. In the north is Kobane, in the east is Deir es Zur.
- area: since the Euphrate river has allowed for irrigation, Ragga is the center of perhap the second or third largest farming area of the entire Syria.
- population: Approx. 220.000 in 2012. Current pop after N number of refugees leaving and entering: unknown
- strategical: to the SDF and the kurds, this area is the center of the area they can have any hope of holding once the war is over. Should they fail to take it, they'll be left with only a narrow and vulnerable stripe along the border to bridge their key holdings. Possible failure is not an option but a disaster.
- opposition: some numbers quoted are 3-4000 ISIS fighters. Could be more, could be less.
- SDF forces: could be 30-40.000? Trouble is, each victory eats away forces both to casualties and to holding units. While the locals might be friendly there are many third parties wanting to move in at first opportunity. On the bright side they have US CAS support and the Russians are benevolent so far, and the Turks do not have the strength to move in this deep that quickly.

This battle could take months. I am not worried that the ISIS can win. I am worried that the big picture can change during or after the battle, inviting to new battle there with other factions.

what's this talk about IS attacking 17th division?

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>>34216373
Yes IS retook division 17 by turning it into a kill zone with landmines, artillery fire and IS was able to reenter the base using tunnels. SDF was forced to pull out today with the first counter attack since the battle started.

>>34216587
Other than that heavy fighting in Daraa with no movement by either side plus some SAA loses including a tank, some rebel loses as well. Also heavy fighting by the Palmyra silos with pro SAA sources claiming advances near Arak.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06XJMI9oPo4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pgq09xsE1Y

>>34216782

How big a problem are personnel mines in this area? It is the only reason I can think of for why they keep walking in single file.

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Pakistan to send its 20,000 soldiers to Qatar

https://www.pakistantribe.com/62243/pakistan-send-20000-soldiers-qatar

>>34216814
That's Deir Ezzor, it looks like some of the footage is from near the IS held cemetery.

>>34216926
Sorry, the cemetery is on the other side of the main road shown, this has to be from around the hills near 137th brigade.

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>>34216956
I translated the title. It says it's 4km from Arak on the road to Deir Ezzor. Oh well. I'll just post a new pic of a IS tank in Deir Ezzor and you can see why I made that mistake.

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>>34216926
>>34216956

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US Gov officials have described Tanf rebels as weak. US determined it could not take them to Bu Kamal. Nor can it defend them 4 ever.

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>>34217120
RUKI VVERH!

>>34216921

So now little Qatar is going to have both US, Pakistani and Turkish forces to protect them? Even if US does a runner that's pretty substantial support. I struggle to see Pakistan's interest in this game though. 20k soldiers is a pretty solid investment.

>>34215997

dude that's my neighbor town of Pabillonis during fireworks tests

>>34217161
it hasn't been confirmed by any pakistani officials

and the pakistani parliament has already passed a motion favoring neutrality

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Apparently US forces now bomb pro government forces on a daily basis. Pic related is from the area east of Taqba where SAA and SDF met recently. Did SAA/allies actually attack SDF? Which excuse does the US have for these strikes?
>Note that the source of this (liveuamap) isn't that reliable

>>34217068
I see, great geo location.
>>34217056
It's the same main road in Deir Ezzor that goes all the way to Palmyra.

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>>34217415
>implying the US needs an excuse to bomb something

I still keep wondering which budgets the Americans are putting the bill for this campaign on. Obama could not even get the congress to DISCUSS the war against IS. Trump, even with the congress in his pocket, have not even tried yet. So who pays? I know the war against Saddam's Iraq was paid with loans from China. How are they doing it this time?

>>34217717
In the end, the taxpayer always foots the bill

>>34217687
True, but they always make up something so I guessed that would also be the case this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmC7UmR-Pc

>set up a deconfliction zone
>"the zone is there to protect FSA troops at Al-Tanf, only intent of US is to fight ISIS"
>strike government militias outside the zone

>>34217729

Well yes. But everything comes at the expense of something else. Chinese bond loans might not come at more than a 2% interest, but they will have to be paid off eventually. I have yet to hear any number in even the loosest definition to hint at the cost for the ongoing operation.

After the Saddam's Iraq war, the US had tapped into every storage they possess. Norway, Germany, Philippines iirc - the supplies of ammo and big guns ran pretty low. It took a decade to replenish them, if they ever completed it. The current campaign is of course on a much smaller scale troop and gunwise, but those sorties are not cheap and nor is the wear and tear on the planes themselves. Special forces don't make do on MRE's and old gear either.

So, where is it going to hit? Social services? Infrastructure? Military investments? VA?

>>34217687
>implying the US needs an excuse to bomb something
implying transport planes would be used as bombers.

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>>34217829
I think >>34217687 didn't imply that, he probably wanted to demonstrate the power of the US with that pic and underline that they thus don't need excuses to bomb somebody.

>>34215997

Honestly, who gives a shit.

Any Muslim living under ISIS deserves it.

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>>34217976
if you ask like that i do give a shit, but nobody gives a shit i give a shit so yeah...
>pic related, people from raqqa greeting an sdf guy. i don't think everyone living under isis rule supports them, especially considering that people who are captured while trying to flee isis-held territory are killed

>>34217976
Families or sympathizers of IS members who willingly stuck around, without a doubt, but there have also been fleeing civilians that IS actually prosecutes or kills to order to discourage others to do the same. They want as much human shields to be crammed into their strongholds as possible to complicate enemy incursions.

>>34217976

Sure thing, big guy. Just like everyone living in nazi-occupied Europe deserved it? Just like everyone living in British-controlled America deserved anything that happened to them? Meh, what's the use. You will not understand the concept in this lifetime. May you be in a better position to understand in your next.

>>34217717
Mexico

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>Syrian KINO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi2cQwhTRBE

>>34215971
Lol

>>34217717
((()))

>>34217415
Mostly because these forces are Iranian/Iraqi shia militias.

If you are dumb enough to attack the SDF, prepare to get bombed.

>>34218020
>cool bro i dunno how to properly use greentext either

>>34218250
Ok sorry for that, won't happen again, i swear, hope i didn't hurt your feelings

>3 dead Americans

I hope it goes to 3000.

>>34218363
Hi armatard

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>>34218363

Hm. I am reading an article which says that something like 95.000 civilians have left Raqqa within the last few weeks. That should still mean there are something like 125.000 civilians are in there, but I doubt that anyone knows the true number any more.

>>34218369
3000 dead Americans provoked the USA twice.
5000 dead makes them leave. Taliban just gotta kill 1800 more

>>34218819
>5000 dead makes them leave. Taliban just gotta kill 1800 more
Obama made us leave. Literally a coward of a president. Trump on the other hand.... Lets just say if you don't want to be bombed you'll leave us alone until after the next presidential election.

>>34217415
this
>>34218243

What the fuck did they think would happen.

>>34218973

Maybe exactly what they wanted to happen. As long as the opposition is willing to risk some low quality troops, they win either the US gives in or strikes those troops off the map. Nothing like a big scary enemy from far away to gain local support.

>>34216921
I googled...holy shit, its true.

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How much longer until ISIS as a prostate is finally kill?

i.e. how long until Raqqa is cleansed?

>>34219617
Raqqa isnt the end of ISIS
They have a global network, that of which we've never seen before.
If it's not the Middle East, it'll be elsewhere with some of their other constituents

I can only really see a collapse/splintering of ISIS when Abu Bakr al Bahgdadi is killed. Once the personality that people have been swearing their lives to is gone, others will try to take the role, that is, unless ISIS has that planned out too

>>34219719
ISIS will be destroyed exactly 30 days after Trump commences his 30 day plan to erradicate ISIS

>>34219946
eh, Mattis already announced that the US will be intensifying its fight against ISIS, but it seems like with each passing week, Trump is getting corralled into toe'ing the traditional republican line

>>34218039
>They want as much human shields to be crammed into their strongholds as possible to complicate enemy incursions.

So what?

The more brutally Muslims under ISIS are killed by either us or ISIS, the fewer will join their cause or lend them any support.

>>34218059

>Sure thing, big guy. Just like everyone living in nazi-occupied Europe deserved it?

Are you kidding?

We fucking fire bombed their civilians in terror bombing raids, incinerated Jap civilians for fun, used flamethrowers and ionizing radiations to destroy their flesh and chromosomes...

And I'm supposed to feel sorry for some fucking sand nigger animals who just months earlier were bragging about their executions with pornographic videos?

Get fucked you worthless babby-brained little child.


The next step in the prosecution of war against ISIS is the detonation of an enhanced radiation weapon over their population cluster, to ensure their seed dies in the womb.

>>34222176
So edgy

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>>34217829
>MOABs are kicked out the back of C-130s
That's literally a cargo plane being used as a bomber

>>34218143
>anna news
>independent news agency
Yeah right, nice liberator shitposting mandick. Anything new from 2ch /wm/ ?

>>34218363
Well, that's what happens when you fight for Israel.

>>34223231
>anna
>shitposting

calm down turbo, anna has some of the best non IS coverage of the conflict

>>34215971
>Afghan commando
were they really?

>>34223275
>Best coverage
Agreed but with some Russian propaganda twist to it.

>>34223323
who doesn't do propaganda these days, everybody is biased to some degree

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>desert fun courtesy of american taxpayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrC9rXGAys

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>Base Hmeymim part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDM2Vl0Qp8o

>>34217687
Except for russians

>>34222207

The C-130 is a flying Swiss foloding knife. Quoting wikipedia: "he Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles, including as a gunship (AC-130), for airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It is now the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide. Over forty variants and versions of the Hercules, including a civilian one marketed as the Lockheed L-100, operate in more than 60 nations."

I have been passenger in a C-130. It was not a comfortable ride. But it it built to do whatever it has to.

>>34223297

Why not? There are lots of the Afghan Special Forces and they are trained by the US. Of course they do operations together. And of course they are infiltrated up to the neck by taliban, IS, ISI, you name it.

>>34216347
>strategical: to the SDF and the kurds, this area is the center of the area they can have any hope of holding once the war is over.
Unlikely. The kurds have little ambitions beyond their ethnical homeland, it was hard enough for the US to talk them into participating in this offensive. This wouldn't fly with the syrian government and all other countries in the region that all have an interest in keeping their kurdish populations at bay. Autonomy of their ethical homeland will be hard enough to achieve.

Why there's nothing happening in Iraq? Are they counting on IS moving most of it's forces to Syria before they start moping up rest of the country?

>>34224091

I was looking at the map and the wiki and a few articles when I wrote that. One thing I could not find was the pre-war never mind current percentage of kurds in Raqqa. You are saying that this is not kurd homeland?

Ooookay. Iran is now airlifting food to Qatar.

"Syrian activists" claimed coalition bombing killed seven civilians in the al-Nour street in Raqqa.

>>34223579
It cracks me up that they keep shouting allah ackbar no matter how stupid the achievement is.

>>34224169

Ah. Saw the name after posting. Activists go by the name Raqqa24, who works with @24raqqa. Both do tweets, most of which are in arabic, and I can't immediately see who they are working for.

>>34224182

Forgot the link. Here you go.

https://twitter.com/24raqqa?lang=en&lang=en

>>34224140
the kurdish pre war population of raqqa is almost non existant, only arabs there. Same goes for much of the territory they'v already captured from ISIS. The territory where they make up significant parts of the population is concentrated close to the turkish border.

>>34224275

I did see a claim somewhere that the US wanted the arab/non-kurd part of SDF to front the Raqqa assault but seeing how most of SDF are kurd I didn't consider it. Which tribes are dominant in Raqqa, then? It was meant to be the IS capital but right now I can't see why.

What the hell is Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states going to get out of blockading Qatar?

All it seems to be doing is pushing Qatar closer to Iran.

>>34224727
Qatar has geopolitical goals other than being an SA puppet, hence why they need to go.

>>34224772
But what are Saudis gonna achieve by doing this? There are many countries that show support to Qatar unless Saudis are going to invade Qatar which btw is possible since most of the world will close eyes on Qatar because most eurocuck countries support Saudis.

>>34224853
Qatar foreign policy often undermines SA hegemony in the region and Trump basically gave them free reign.

>>34225065

Here's the part I don't understand. Qatar supports jihadist? But if so, how come Turkey - who supposedly want no truck with islamists - support Qatar? Is this the same Turkey who possibly were buying cheap oil from IS, or is it the Turkey who at at the gulenists throat?

>>34225128
Presumably Turks themselves want to contain Saudi power.

>>34225193

So this isn't about the Turks wanting a naval, or air, base in the Persian Gulf? Frankly I don't even know if Turkey has much of a navy.

How believable is this claim of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being killed?

>>34225279
about as believable as the last 20 ones

>>34225193
Turks want to became a big player in the region, that's why they're supporting Qatar.

>>34225265
Turks already had a deal for a military base in Qatar, this whole thing just fast-tracked it.

>>34225128
Hard cash is also important. Qataris are rich, like conspiracy Jew level rich. By backing them, Erdogan is hoping it will attract some of their billions into Turkey which will help boost Turkish economy, stabilize the Turkish lira and keep Erdogan beloved by his people.

>IS reported to have killed 23 YPG militias and having captured alive two in attacks in the East and to the West of Raqqah

i hope not, feel sorry for those two guys/gals

>>34223579
>cannot tell a Russian anti tank missile from and American one

Lol, and I thought you were Russian all along Mandic.

>>34225532
>implying the rebels didn't get showered in pretty much anything you could buy in lybia and ex jugo countries by someone

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>>34225532
>mandic
>russian

how dare you! mandic is a turk rape baby and dont forget it!

>>34217976
>Honestly, who gives a shit.
>Any Muslim living under ISIS deserves it.
this is why we have so called terrorism

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

>>34225840
it helps terror organizations recruit people, but it's not the reason for their action

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>BORDER

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

>>34225864
its is. terrorism is caused by failed politics. which include war crimes. but this is /k/. usally we just enjoy the blams, stupid fag.

Iranian militias get fucked up by Alabdo units
https://youtu.be/57Nqe5JxGMA

>>34226057
no it's not. There are literally verses in the Quran that tell muslims to kill disbelievers. Also radical islamic organizations are massively supported by Saudi-Arabia, the Gulf states and to a lesser degree Iran. I don't think these governments do that because they're unhappy about some war crime.

>>34226057
>>34226104
https://quran.com/8/12

>>34226104
This. There is a bigger agenda going on behind the scene. Sure, no sane happy person would ever join a jihad but it's not only fueled by general unhappiness.

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Free Army report about succesful defending of the town Naimah and futher gains in Manshiyeh

https://youtu.be/AdHoWedkthg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Naimah

Rebel report about rassian presence in syria, enlightens weapon sales (to assad)
https://youtu.be/3bHjBCSEMkg

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."

It's in the bible so all christians should be slave owners, right?

And then there is... "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord."

Holy books can be good things. They can also get a little bit outdated. And when they are, it isn't the people that has to adjust or become irrelevant. Christian popes and their lawmen and executioners used to run the world ragged. Now it is the imams who need to learn their place.

>>34226205
The thing is the vast majority of christians have adapted and refuse to take the silly parts serious. Thanks to this time called the Enlightment. The Muslims however are still as developed as the christians were pre 18th century.

>>34226104
>war crime.
is what people let take up arms. saying its all about islam is naive covfefe.

>>34226235
You keep believing, I'll keep evolving.

>>34226256
>tfw not christian

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>>34226236
No it isn't. It's calling the beast by its proper name.

>>34226236
haven't heard of many war crimes in Britain, Germany, Sweden since 45, still hundreds join ISIS. They explicetly say they fight a Jihad and that their goal is a worldwide caliphate.

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>>34226275
which make no difference. because you believe nonsense.

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>>34226093
I seen that , it was yesterday. Nasty capture the flag raid. Keeping up with my daily brief overview the only thing new is further SDF advances in Raqqa city after the IS hit 17th division yesterday. More talk of HTS fueling with FSA in Idlib. More pro SAA talk on a impending assault on Arak.

>lel current situation in Syria

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is it true USA is using good ol' willy pete?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJy7BpF1Ac

>>34226338
yes

>>34226321
And here we go:

>Muh belief is right, your belief is wrong

Mudslimes are truely the worst.

rebels supplie lines strong and working well

https://youtu.be/3-oA4LTkKOQ
https://youtu.be/dPk-MuPbfII

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>>34226338
yes, at least on two incidents, night of 8th-9th and 9th-10th june

here is a video about the damage, source is ISIS but as far as I can tell the wounds fit the description of white phospherus
>https://twitter.com/AllyOfTruth/status/873644101253685248

>>34226347
2/10

>>34226358
that bread in the end looks absolutely fucking delicious
made me hungry, too bad they probably don't have much butter

>>34226338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY

not WP but song still works

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>>34225840

>>34226235

Well, ask a jew to eat pork? The only reason the muslims are being run ragged is that the imams are allowed to hold political power. Until their people shove their clergy to the wall and tell them to mind their own fucking spiritual business, it will continue. And we in the west should not pretend we are that much further. Priests had lots of local power here well into the 20th century. What's that, can't buy beer after 6pm? Said who? Oh.

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>>34226338
out-fucking-standing

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>>34226400
And now you're enjoying what continues to fill the vacuum -- violence and depravity. And, increasingly, Islam.

>>34226392
the fact that many people there might support ISIS doesn't justify areal bombings with incendiary bombs, you can never be sure if innocents could be hit

>>34226431
The question of this poll has a lot of
>implying

>>34226400
>The Chuch doesn't want you to drink alcohol after 6pm, close stores on sunday etc
>Islam wants to behead you, enslave your family and pillage your lands

Hmmm, so weird that people are really starting to dislike you guys

>>34222147
IS fighters don't give a fuck about the long term or whether they wreck everything they leave behind. They're self-serving fucks that are just in it for a pedo orgy afterlife. An afterlife they will never get because the mind dies with the body and the idea of life after death is delusional.

>>34226435
God will sort them out.

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>>34226669


>God will sort them out.

isn't that the same logic as ISIS

>>34226705
Yes, hence they should be okay with that approach. You reap what you sow.

>>34226718
i thaught you were joking, but in case you're serious the flaw with that logic is that the innocents you kill don't necessarily affect ISIS in any way and the fact stll remains that they aren't responsible for what ISIS did (assuming there are innocent civilian casualties)

>>34226431

How many times have you been posting that Christian Fundamentalist statistic by now, Phil? Have you ever added how OLD those numbers are? Or how skewed the sourcing at the time was?

>>34218819
it too the Vietnamese 57,000 americans and a million of their own.

thats a steep bill.

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IS claims to have destroyed a tank and BMP north of the Palmyra silos today. This after SAA moved up the Arak outskirts yesterday. Ruaf airstrikes are ongoing. Pic is a topographical map of area from a pro rebel source.

SDF advances into Raqqa include clashes reaching the east side of Raqqas "old city".

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>>34226951
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/26/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JCOZxb6j8s

>>34227129

It is a nice big page full of data, What I could not find, at least without my magnifying glass, was how many interviews the numbers were based on. Ten in each country? Ten thousand?

>>34227479
http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/frequently-asked-questions/

You do realize that verses of the Quran explicitly call Muslims to kill disbelievers? The Quran is considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God.

I'm not that "Christian Fundamentalist" you referred to earlier, but if you think that people who acknowledge that many teachings of Islam cause violence have to be bigots, racists or fundamentalists you are delusional.

>>34227528

I am no fan of muslims and I am not a christian. Faith is bigger than which book we subscribe to or not. My use of the word 'christian fundamentalist' was meant for the Pew Institute, which happen to be one of the wealthiest groups on the planet and has a clear religious direction which they take some care not to advertise on their website.

I know the quran part about killing disbelievers. The fact that the western world has millions and millions of devout muslims who do not spend their days cutting nonmuslim throat, leads me to believe that there is some sanity in that camp as well. In my own country there has only been one single massacre in centuries and the guy who did that considers himself a christian crusader.

Basically? I think the guys who have gone the terrorist route have been losers in their own communites and easy targets for the religious leaders who make sure their own lives are not put on the line as they talk the losers into going boom. That's not a result of islam. That is a result of political goals through religious brainwashing.

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>>34227844
>This

also if i can have slaves if i buy them from my neighbor which is what the bible says,

also discussions like this belong on /pol/

this is a discussion about current combat engagements against ISIS

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>>34224121
They are getting assravaged by ISIS in mosul and a new insurgency began in Anbar province.

I get the impression the US is focusing more on syria/afghanistan now.

>>34227872
>this is a discussion about current combat engagements against ISIS

*this is a discussion about all current combat engagements.

>>34227844
but what about people in areas that IS controls who dont revolt against them? True, they are terrorized when they do try, but I cant help but think that there are large segments of the population of a city like raqqa that is OK with isis. The same people who would gladly take up arms (and have) when IS is winning, and will turn around and pretend to be civilians when the sdf and americans show up. This is what the anons hating Muslims are really talking about itt. Its not that every muslim is beheading people in the street, its that they are more or less silently approving of it and doing nothing to combat it.

>>34226338
Yeah

>>34227844

Islam enables that shit, Christianity specifically says that shit like that isn't cool.

Islam is shit and all muslims should be executed by drowning in pigs blood.

>>34227844
Millions and millions of western Muslims don't start installing sharia law because they're still a minority and would fail. What happens when you've got neighbourhoods full of muslims in belgium, france, germany or england? They get radicalized. Can you name another christian-motivated terrorist attack in the last ten years besides Anders Breivik? You see, I don't doubt many muslims are peaceful and muslim societies CAN be secular (e. g. Turkey until lately). Islamic societies just tend to opress their perceived opponents like no other religious group nowadays. The fact that this religious hatred is used for political reasons (e.g. by Saudi-Arabia or Iran) doesn't mean that the very reason for this hateful and violent ideology is the religion itself.

>>34227949
hate the game, not the player.
The fact that islam enables it doesn't mean every muslim follows these teachings, that should be clear.

>>34228029
ok i think that prdoesn't really fit what i was trying to say

>>34228029
The ones engaged in Taqyyiah until they`re a larger portion of the population and start going snackbar to get rid of everybody else that isn`t a muslim?
Mind some History, will they need to take half of Europe again so an intellectual like yourself can say:
>Well, shieeeeeeet, seems like we have a problem
Musims should be genocided and their religion abolished from existence, and that is already a hard task with a population of 1.6 billion people.

>>34228070
oh well, there are some people in every group on
the planet that are violent against others
>let's genocide all, including the peaceful people

Saying that there's an issue with Islam and fighting against radical group is one thing, what you say is just pure bullshit

>>34227907
NEW YORK: Two naturalized Americans from New York and Michigan have been charged with terrorism, accused of operating on behalf of Hezbollah in the United States, Panama and Thailand, U.S. officials announced Thursday.

Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer el Debek, 37, were arrested on June 1 in the Bronx and just outside Detroit, respectively, U.S. officials said. They appeared before U.S. magistrates separately.

>>34227930

Revolting is a pretty scary thing when the occupyers have spies in every house and civil-clad police in every street. Ask the East Germans. I recall that as much as 40% of the adults were having neighborhood espionage as a job number two. And of course, all the military and police patrols were done two and two and at least one of them would always be married and have children. Once the state gets power enough, you start to get scared to even THINK of rebellion. But sure, a number of every last ISIS stronghold's civilian population were joyous to see them arrive, and kick out all the corrupt and brutal local government. And shutting up when they found out that the new guys cared even less. And I am sure that in the endless streams of refugees there are still going to be a lot of IS fans. If they get peace, new homes, new jobs and their families expand, they will do what all the other vanquished systems' people always have done. Stopped talking about the bad old times. Europe, Asia, America - we coped with our losses and bought cars and TVs and lawn chairs. I hope the ones who thought IS was the future ends up in lawn chairs too.

>>34228119
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFSin5Gctv8
You`re in denial.

>>34228193
Yes, I know Islam was spread with violence and war.
Does that mean that every muslim living today is violent and should be killed in your opinion?

>>34228225

Hmmmm, let me think. Wasn't there another religion that was spread with violence and war too?

Okay. It doesn't matter. I won't tell muslims or any other religious faction how to live, as long at the government of my own country is willing and ready to expel any foreign priest that tries to talk people into violence - and imprison those who are not foreign. As long as justice reigns, that's religion enough for me.

>>34228317
See what you said here is perfectly reasonable, no need to call for genocide haha

On a sidenote, yes, christianity was in fact very often spread violently, thankfully that has stopped long ago. Look up what the romans did after adopting christianity, the wars the franks waged against pagan saxons, the crusades, the conquistadors etc

>>34228356

Yeah but they don't do it in the modern age sooo

>>34228500
Well, apart from Africa.

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>>34228500
Christians had a 700-year head start, with centuries of collapse and resurgence, plus religious evolution as a byproduct of being centered in a fragmented Europe.

Besides the Abassids, Islam has stagnated for many centuries because its center is a Mideast that is dominated by a handful of large, domineering states at any time before modern European colonization, all monopolizing the narrative of the religion (and still do now).

>>34217829
>implying they aren't

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>>34228143
>we coped with our losses and bought cars and TVs and lawn chairs.

the truth hurts

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>>34217717
Lol loans from china, k. Stupid idiot. stop watching so much youtube conspiracy videos.

>>34217795
Are you pro Assad you lil comie faggot?

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>>34218363
>>34218435
>>34218819
>>34223237

I want to meet one of you conspirashits in RL. Do you really believe the bullshit you post? You fucking idiots truly think Israel controls America not the other way around. You truly think Russians are the good goys and America is evil. Fuck you're retarded.

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>>34229715

>you're retarded

>>34229715
>I want to meet one of you conspirashits in RL.
Good luck with that, they live on the internet, in comment sections, shady forums and chans.
>Fuck you're retarded.
Course they are, same reason why you hardly find those people in the streets, you get a smack in the face for being this retarded in real life sooner or later.

>>34217717
>was paid with loans from China
china using a t-bill ladder is not "loans." you should have a t-bill ladder, too, but you're a lazy NEET. I hate your generation so fucking much. It reflects poorly on mine.

>>34229772
Faggot. Have fun being on the losers side. Meanwhile America wipes her ass with the likes of you. You Romanian faggot.

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>>34229715
if you don't think pic related runs america, then you don't know your history, and you don't know america.

freemasons run the country.

>>34230141
I know history a million times better than you, you just watch youtube conspiracy videos and "connect the dots" because your so "woke". Please oh please try and have an argument with an actual historian and watch him not even bother with a lunatic that belongs in an insane asylum. I hate you conspirashits with a fucking passion I'd beat the fuck out of you if you started spewing your "muhh jeeeewwwz" bullshit you dumb brainwashed faggot.

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>>34230141
>>34230189

>>34230141
THE NUMBERS MASON

>>34230189
Imagine you are a lowlife loser, nothing works, you cant achieve anything and nobody respects you, but then you stumble onto those low quality jpgs and 90s small TV channels tier documentaries telling you a super "truth", just knowing this makes you better as "them", actually "they" are too stupid to know the "truth", but you...you are special for knowing it and cause it makes you feel good you believe it even more and delude yourself even harder.

Can you lads please keep this on topic? More combat less gods

>>34217687
Fake

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>>34230540
they will just start arguing about how jews fund ISIS. Tinfoils gonna tinfoil

>>34222147
The more Muslims are killed by the US the happier ISIS is you dumb fuck, it's their prime recruiting strategy.

>>34229660
I think he's the lesser evil compared to I
Isis, hts, jaish al islam and ahrar al sham. I've yet to see significant influence of the FSA to assume they represent the rebels as a whole. Besides, the whole story of bombing and sanctioning Adsad & russia because of alleged chemical attacks and dying children seems little hypocritical to me when the US use white phospherus against residential areas. You don't have to be a commie to notice that, i think.

>>34230540
It's the general course of the thread on a slow news day. They'll get bored and fuck off eventually.

Do I have to ask though. What the hell is going on with these anti-HTS protests in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib?

https://twitter.com/AllyOfTruth/status/873822402714755072/video/1

>>34232393
don't know the initial reason for the protests (maybe because it's al-quaida) but some protesters were shot by hts fighters in idlib province, so it's reasonable they'd be pissed off about hts

>>34230287
Tinfoilers gonna tinfoil. Believing in some grand conspiracy of freemason, Jews, Nazis, etc etc is litteraly retarded and not how the world works. These fucking idiots actually think Russia and assad are the good guys in this. They have no idea how horrible Russia can make their lives if it wasn't for America keeping Russia contained. Don't get me wrong I don't care for any sand nigger in Syria and hope they wipe themselves all out. Better yet I wish America would use Syria as a bombing test site and put Russians in their place. The day I meet one of these pro Russia tinfoil faggots in rl is the day I beat the shit out of them. A lot of these conspiracy theories are nothing more than Kremlin propaganda.

>>34232548
I get your point on that conspiracy stuff and when we're talking about Russia&Nato, but you can't seriously believe Syria would be better off with Assad and the Russians defeated, considering that most rebels are radical islamists. I don't think there's a "good and bad" side, they just have opposing interests and don't care about how they achieve them, i think.

>>34232548
>These fucking idiots actually think Russia and assad are the good guys in this. They have no idea how horrible Russia can make their lives if it wasn't for America keeping Russia contained.

what a fucking reach you're making there.

Russia's a shithole full of corruption and delusion but fuck if their plan is not a better alternative to what the US has been up to for the past three to four decades in the region, let's not pretend caring about any blood shed at all and agreeing with American foreign policy are compatible lines of thought.

the majority of the people who are in favor of letting Russia do their thing do it not because they're that much in love with le ebin slav meme but because it's actually possible to disagree with your government's bullshit when you're informed and don't agree with fake ass realpolitik that isn't actually in anyone's best interest but a few foreign fucks who'd fuck you over just as well were the war happening over here.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5lo_21AV7Q

anyone got ww2 vids or pics of tanks operating in syria? Particularly german tanks?

I recall seeing a pz4 at one time.

>>34233223
>I recall seeing a pz4 at one time.

wasn't it just a wreck?

>>34233271
might have been a stug, I forget.

>SAA still hasn't taken Arak

what the fuck is even going on out there isn't it all desert, how is it just not completely saturated with artillery and airstrikes, they even have the hills above looking down into arak

>>34215971

Why is the US helping these people again? They should have annexed Afghanistan and made it into a territory like Puerto Rico.

>>34233361
The US is very close to completely pulling out of Afghanistan, the NATO mission has clearly failed and virtually all of our other partners have already withdrawn.

Afghanistan as a state will devolve into territories based on ethnic/tribal groups once again and descend further into instability once the central government collapses.

Who knows, maybe Kabul will hangon, but the south and east of the country will go to the Taliban swiftly once we pull out.

>>34229650

They have invented something called Google. Try the term "iraq war financed by china". As far as I can see every newspaper in the world have commented on it. Or maybe you are working for Breitbart?

>>34230189
>I'm so smart and enlightened because I don't read primary sources, I read ACTUAL LICENCED historians

Bwahaha. The latest in the Qatar story:

Qatar are renting in former US Attorney General John Ashcroft and his law firm to "evaluate, verify and as necessary, strengthen the client's anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing" compliance." and potentially lobby lawmakers and the media.

So everything will be all right now.

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>get ready to say goodbye to Deir ez-Zor

ISIS That is going to attack DeirEzzor o city in the next days.
A lot of ISIS Fighters Arrived in DeirEzzor to take part in the offensive Against the Assad regime in the city soon.
More than 800 ISIS fighters prepares to storm the city.
He did not mention Brigade 137 or the Airbase, he just mentioned the city.
He says that a whole Chechenian and palestinian brigade arrived in DeirEzzor from several areas.
Seems very true because IS palestinan brigade was operating in northern and eastern Aleppo went to DeirEzzor now.

>Rev up those FAB-5000

>>34233575
ISIS probably pulled out all their crack troops from Raqqa weeks ago and sent them south, was obvious Dez was going to get hit hard as one last major attempt by ISIS to finally break Dez

>>34233575

Woah hold the horse. This is very interesting. I have never heard of this thing before. There is a Palestinian ISIS brigade?

>>34233575
was to be expected I guess, they wanna go out in style

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>>34230141
>if you don't think pic related runs america, then you don't know your history, and you don't know america.
>freemasons run the country.''


Pic related is the most powerful temple in the world

I'm a 3rd degree master mason. We control NOTHING. I regularly have to beg for money. We've been bailed out by cheap as fuck industrialists, and can barely make rent.

Its a social CLUB, and the few masters that shake hands are actually dying out, fucking shriners have more pull than Templars. Its all a boys club.... any AE wanna push up? I can give a degree for 50 bucks

Thats how poor we are

>>34233670
>I'm a 3rd degree master mason. We control NOTHING. I regularly have to beg for money. We've been bailed out by cheap as fuck industrialists, and can barely make rent.
That sounds exactly like someone in charge of everything would say...hmmmmm

>>34233600
Hamas Salafist/Wahhabist ideology is rather common in those parts.

>>34233575
how many saa troops are left in the city?

>>34233575
Deir ez Zor is also the only city where IS is on the offensive without being threatened seriously. Plus SAA is expanding in Homs on their way to Deir ez Zor, so it makes sense.

>>34233742
Not much considering the fact that IS have overran several arms depots in Deir ez Zor.

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Will SAA hold out?

>>34228225
yes

>>34233809
if they get bombed again, i dont think they could

this whole thread reeks of scabbed snot and sweat
this while board as well
goddamn jews i hate you so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrJNPogZ34Y

>>34233904
Did the us bomb deir ez zor?

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>>34233809

I wonder.... is the stage being set for an event where the SAA is gallantly rescued by the SDF, or is this going to be the story of the Iranians being the last minute cavalry?

>https://twitter.com/AfarinMamosta/status/874259337300017152

The fuck.

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>>34233809

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>>34234012
It's a story of IS again not being able to do shit unless they have vast numerical superiority or their enemies being incompetent.

>>34234039
>https://twitter.com/AfarinMamosta/status/874259337300017152

Think I have seen this guy before in previous YPG pictures. It is good to see that Bushido is not a lost path yet.

>>34234091

Or being scared shitless any longer. How is morale in the SAA these days? I know that swaggering when you are out of bullet range is the normal way of things, but after all their de facto victories the last half year the SAA should not scare off easily from a fortified position?

>>34234110
moral is okay in Deir Ezzor i would assume , most of forces are focused on eastern front to reach Deir Ezzor now , they have much more hope then before

>>34234110
No idea. But they've been holed up there for years and repelled more attacks than I can count, so I would guess it's pretty high.

>>34234147
>>34234143

Are they still prancing around in groups in the open begging for rockets or are we talking disciplined veterans under proper leadership? There has to be something special if they have held up this well for this long. Who is the commander?

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#BREAKING // #SAA COMMANDER
We will confront all axes(terrorists & operators) En Route to our lovely #DeirEzzor

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>>34234167
Deir Ezzor defenders are hardened veterans .Also they have excellent leadership.

Issam Zahreddine is commander of Deir Ezzor defense.

This is him

>>34234184
>Issam Zahreddine

I googled him briefly. I get the distinct impression that he is sort of a Zhukov. More surprised to see that he is a Druze, not a muslim, and still holds that high a rank.

Issam Zahreddine after battle against ISIS.Deir Ezzor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI0sDUmbQO8

One of the things I miss while following the middle east conflicts, is the lack of distinct leaders to watch the progress of. Granted it is hard enough to even keep the faction apart, but once in a while it would be nice to have a face to relate to.

>>34234221

I found this one too. One gets the impression that he is the hands on, up front, kind of leader - even though these clips are propaganda of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvf31I6GKso

>>34234268

Forgot to mention that this particular clip is a year old and I can't tell where it is from.

>>34234268
he is on the very front ,commanding troops from there , he obviously is not the one that storms enemy positions but ,he is on very front

>>34234268
him and Suheil al Hassan commander of Tiger unit ,are 2 most famous commanders on SAA side

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>>34233482
>arabs buying neo-con influence with oil money

somethings age like fine wine . . .

>>34234039
What the fuck?

Is the SDF taking foreign volunteers?

I'd be on the next fucking flight out if that's the case

>>34234395
don't know if you're joking but yes, there are lots of foreign volunteers in the ypg/sdf

contact the lions of rojava if you want to die in the syrian desert

>>34234355

At least Ashcroft is consistent. He is on the board of whatever-Blackwater-calls-themselves-this-week and has Israel Aircraft Industries International among his customers. Ashcroft is a member of the Assemblies of God church, and is a gospel singer/writer.

In other words, he should fit right in.

>>34234422
Lions of Rojava aren't SDF and I fucking hate kurds

>>34234395

SDF is composed of several military groups; kurds and arab. The YPG are by far the biggest of these groups. I am not entirely sure if the female wing, the YPJ, are also part of the SDF but they have been an important part of the war in the north - back when the battle was for Kobane, one in three kurd fighters was a woman. Both YPG and YPJ accept foreign volunteers but the majority of their troops are syrian kurds.

>>34234435
You do realize the kurds make up the majority of sdf?

>>34234462
I'd rather join the arab parts, kurds are right up there with albanians and eastern europeans in terms of my most hated groups here in NYC

>>34234485
you are in america, just join the airforce/navy/army/marines/whateverelse unit you have there if you want to fight

>>34234485

Why? What have they done to you personally? Or the albanians or the eastern europeans for that matter? Dislike I can understand, that 's how we deal with the world. Hatred should have a proper cause.

Syria is not a good place to volunteer for any foreigner anyway. The YPG take better care of their foreigners than any other group I can think of, but you are still underfed and underpaid compared to security staff work anywhere else in the world. Worst case scenario isn't dying but being kidnapped on the street and held for ransom. The last guy from my country who went to non-ypg parts of syria, was held ransom for half a year then sent home in little boxes when the pay came too little and too late.

>>34234525
I'm from South Africa, I just work here on a visa that will expire soon

>>34234538
Dislike is probably a better word, none of those groups have ever done anything good in the 4 years I've lived here

The albos and eastern euro's are the laziest shitbags at work, they do nothing and leave twice as much work for everyone else

Kurds in general just act feral despite being in the first world

>>34234184
Yeah we've seen that when IS overran two huge army depots within a year which were guarded by like 5 soldiers and IS got they hands on couple hundred tons of munitions, which funny enough weren't destroyed by airstrikes afterwards.
They are incompetent like all SAA.

>>34234584
3 years siege.still holding. facts simply dispute what u are saying.

>>34234567
you sound very young and/or naive

>>34234633
Let me know when you hit 34 and have visited 12 countries

>>34234678
so naive it is then

>>34233361
mamame el bicho cabrón

Unironic Syrian guy here. If you don't believe me you can suck my dick. I'm always on /sg/. Ask me anything.

>>34234789
prove it, i suck dicks but i can't over the internet

>>34234789
where do you live currently, if not syria, where in syria are you from?

which religion?

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>>34234848
Pic related

>>34234864
Southwest Damascus.
Sunni Muslim.

>>34234874
why didn't you get out?

>>34234874
are you in the area under siege?

>>34234898
oh sorry, thats east damascus

>>34234874
which fraction do you support?

>>34234874
You whore
How dare you go to another general ;_;

>>34234898
I live in government held territory.

>>34234884
I'm exempt from conscription until i turn 29 and i have money. why should I ?

>>34234916
I "support" assad. not his biggest fan personally, but beats the hell out of the rebels.

>>34234952
doesn't the saa conscript a lot?

>>34234932
lulz the Croatian guy mentioned the thread and i thought i might give it a visit.

>>34234957
well they conscript everyone who isn't in college or who is over 26 years old (i'm a doctor so i get three extra years), hence all the single male refugees that go to Europe.

>>34234958
"spontaneous raid on k/sg by pol/sg"

>>34234981
lmoa

>>34234981
>k/sg
what's that?

>>34234997
this thread?

>>34234997
/k/sg = k/middleast

>>34235004
i thought this was middle east thread?

>>34235010
middleast= greater Syria.

therefor middleeast general =syria general

>>34235010
it's a meme phampai. much of the discussion on /sg/ is about the middle east in general.

>>34234979
can you tell wheter the rebels are actually syrian (saw alot of foreigners in footage from idlib, for example), why they took up arms (is assad really that bad?), and how religius the average population is (shia/sunni conflict)?

>>34235033
whats a "meme"?

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>>34235005
>/k/sg

>>34234981
We are currently raiding on P!xelC@nvas etching graffiti into Kurdish artwork and making a mural of iran. syria and hezbollah flags

>>34234213

Druze apparently integrate well into every country except israel.

>>34235058
>Druze apparently integrate well into every country except israel.

Only true for the Druze in the Golan Heights.

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>>34234395

>fighting for feminist communists

>>34235036
>can you tell wheter the rebels are actually syria
well it depends on the area. take for example the closest front lines (ex front lines to be accurate) to where i live: the towns of Mou'adamiyah, Dariyah, and Khan Al Sheikh. as far as i know, there were very few foreigners in there (most of them Tunisians who came in 2012). In general, the closer you get to the borders (Idlib in the north, Dar'a in the south), the more foreigners there is.

>why they took up arms?
that's a really complicated thing, but here's what you need to know: Assad's inner circle is a group of vicious thugs. city dwellers tend to be secular-ish and relatively wealthy (in part because of their ties to influential insiders in government) while people from the country side tend to be poor, marginalized, ill educated, and extremely conservative, hence why they went up in rebellion.
in reality, the revolution is less about sunnis vs alawites, and more about village vs the city.

>how religius the average population is (shia/sunni conflict)?
I answered that above. Shias are more fanatical than most people think though.

>>34234395
kill yourself my man.

>>34235051
>m-muh /pol/ boogeyman is everywhere
kys

>>34235097
thank you for the insight, very interesting! Can you say something about the western media coverage of the war, is it accurate?
Also, aren't you afraid that there's ISIS in your area ?(yarmouk i think)

>>34230141
Mason here, you're actually off your rocker. Free Masonry is much more about having a close fraternal organization bound by a higher power than seeking any form of political power.

>>34235133
lmoa Yarmouk is very far from where I live. there once used to be Nusra 15 minutes from where i live, but that was like 4 years ago.
as for the media coverage, it's a mixed bag really. mainstream outlets frequently engage in cherry picking and spreading cheap propaganda, but at the same time, the pro assad "independent" outlets are so far up their own their asses and are just as blind to anything that contradicts their narrative as their rivals.
there are a couple of sites that provide accurate analysis. In general, i would say that western mainstream media does exaggerate the SAA's crimes, but not as much as pro Assad people make it out to be.

>>34233288
Stug confirmed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwk0SYIWQAEAq6f.jpg

>>34235175
what do you think about the sdf/kurds?

>>34235121
>Muh 'm-muh /pol/ boogeyman'
Seriously?

>>34235199
I think the kurds have a right to independence, though i believe that they are as authoritarian as everyone else in this conflict, and that thier economic model is unsustainable in the long run, and as a result, they will not bring more happiness (or peace) for the people living in their territories.

>>34235227
sorry if i ask a lot, but it's interesting to hear from bashar al assad himself:D

how is it to live under assads government? How is your freedom limited?

>>34235249
if you have enough money, life is good. the worst thing is the conscription really, as most males leave the country shortly before they turn 26.

>How is your freedom limited?
syria is an authoritarian third world shithole just like all the others throughout the world. there's no independent media, weak property rights, and the laws are rigged so people not connected to the government are not allowed to make money.

alright folk i have to go now. leave your questions if you have any and i'll look 'em up later.

>>34235386
thank you for the answers

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>>34235325

Thanks for the insight and good luck syrian stal/k/er !

>>34235058
>People hate that countries that are trying to ethnically cleanse them

Who would have thought?

>>34235543
You are mixing up Druze and Palestinians.

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>>34235058
>>34235543
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze

>>34232621
So much fucking this. Couldnt have said it better myself.

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>https://twitter.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/874234558459375616
>Seems female Rojava Peshmerga from Amude Şemal Seîd died from her injuries, after she shot herself by mistake

PFFFFhahahahahaaa

>>34235945
That's a lot of makeup

btw
https://syria.liveuamap.com

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>>34235992

I traced the story back to Yekiti Media, which if I understand correctly represents an kurd opposition group that has considerable beef against the YPG. Until I get further sources I'm going to be dubious to this story..

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>>34236159
Why are you posting your slav shit in the mid east thread. Go to bed Mandic.

Posting legit thread post of a IS ATGM strike near the Palmyra silos today with an apparent IS fighter cheering nearby. The SAA has yet to break into Arak.

https://twitter.com/geopolitiquee/status/874219135013720064/video/1

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>>34236032
i'm not russian or ukrainian, sooo what's up with the picture?

>>34236252
sorry meant for Mandic's dumb ass here
>>34236032

>>34236272
>slava ukraina
anti-ukraine shitpost shit, mandic should fuck off back to kc/2ch

>>34236291
How is Deir Ezzor doing?

>>34236293
oh okay

straight off from livemaps, sorry

>Russian government-controlled news agency Sputnik publishes article with the title: "So-called Syrian Democratic Forces are none other but militants like Daesh (ISIS)"

>sputnik
oh wow

>>34236328
There was some bombing raids a couple of hours ago but not much else. Deir Ezzor 24 claims a IS Chechen group has arrived in the city implying IS sending in their shock troops for another offensive. We'll see.

>>34226400
>cant buy beer after 6pm
Nigga where do you live? Liquor stores in my neighborhood dont close til 2AM

>>34236385
here in finland we're not allowed to buy alcohol after 9pm
no hard liquor after 8pm and the liquor stores are closed on sundays

>>34236332

Talk about striking with a dull blade. I'd happily be considered part of a 'militant' faction any day. What's the opposite? Strike Force Knitters?

>>34236385

Norway. Beer sale in stores close at 8pm weekdays. Not available at all on sundays and closes at 6 on saturdays. Hard liquor and fucking WINE is only sold in state monopoly stores which never closes later than 6pm. This set of rules was not cooked up by the pagans, I can assure you.

SDF has now taken control of Al-Meshleb, which is the second area they take in Raqqa. Same forces are heading for Al-Senaa at high speed, even though fighting is still happening in the two first ones. Is Raqqa going to fall a lot faster than expected?

>>34236458
>Beer sale in stores close at 8pm weekdays. Not available at all on sundays and closes at 6 on saturdays.
oh god what, i thought we in finland had it hard

>>34236503

Could be worse. I remember when all stores closed at 17 and were closed entirely on weekends. And we get to buy proper 4.7% beer - you should taste some of that crap they sell in Sweden and in the US. 2.5%? I shudder at the thought of living in some of those entirely dry counties in the US.

>>34236480
I'm increasingly worried that ISIS will revenge fuck deir ezzor or something I hope I'm wrong

>>34235992
How the hell are all these Kurd girls so good looking?

>>34236616

A society more tolerant toward makeup and showing hair can do that. A low calory military diet and daily running cuts away flab too. Plus, these girls are in all woman units far awar from the middle eastern curse called family control. Some of these girls are probably freer as soldiers than they ever were as civilians.

>>34236585

If I understand correctly every military unit is looking at deir ez zor now. There'll be air support from SyAF, RuAf and probably also USAF, and the IS have not had a chance to dig tunnels there. I could be wrong but I think the sand is about to be painted a beautiful red with ISIS blood.