Middle East Thread "WWW3 EDITION"

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>>34395098
Anyone got links to the live map of Syria?

>>34395173
https://syria.liveuamap.com/

Today the Iraqi Army claims to have taken the Al Nuri mosque and that it means the end of the ISIS caliphate in Iraq. Fighting in Mosul is however continuing, with one estimate of remaining ISIS fighters there to be around 300.

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Russian diplomat warns US apparently gearing up for new intervention in Syria.

>>34395357

And for new intervention in North Korea. China will be absolutely thrilled. How many separate mini wars can USA fight at the same time anyway?

>>34395367

In addition to what they are already doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria I mean.

>>34395693
Usually around 10.

>>34395357
Lmaoing at the /r/thedonald cucks literally still claiming that Jewmp is playing """3D chess""" when he's literally about to start ww3

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With all the conventions of the current map with the locations of fighting and an unknown degree of reliability, even loyal to Iraqi government sources reacted quite skeptical toward the main application for complete control of Mosul and the victory over LIH throughout Iraq.

Al-Nouri, according to him, is really captured, and amid its ruins today should not even speak the prime Abadi, but all the other positions of militants remain completely under their control. Task Abadi - finally declare victory and close the topic, in the expectation that further hostilities will take place is not in the category of "assault", and presented as a sweep of the liberated territory.

The first term, which was listed as the final victory, was named a further 20 of January - on the day of the inauguration of the Trump, and in fact, from the Abadi claimed victory even for the election of the US President. Obama needs to demonstrate the success of its policy in the Middle East. Since then, the term konchatelnoy and a true victory shifted more than 25 times. Perhaps only the eternal Russian "concerns" on kicking, butting, zubotychiny and backstabbing can compete with the endless "latest" victory over LIH terms put forward by Baghdad.

In general, before the end of the fighting is still far, but for the triumphant scream is hiding a more serious question - what's next? What are the results of two years of tortured Iraqi army offensive in the LIH in Iraq? Any war has a clear and simple goal achievement or failure to which can be considered a victory (or defeat, respectively).

Abadi, restoring part of the territories of Iraq captured during the offensive LIH in May-October 2014 an Islamic state, performs the tasks of the military defeat of the LIH and restoration of the territorial integrity of Iraq. Question - whether he did it - hanging in the air. TV picture is likely to conceal the real state of affairs - alas, postmodernism makes its own rules.

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Caps in the air - it's good, but what does this victory tortured for future events?

The military defeat of the LIH has not yet been reached. Organized resistance continued, but its nature has changed. The number of fighters is estimated at 20-30 thousand people in Syria and Iraq, plus a significant portion of their relocated to Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, where they continue to develop its human resources. Management is not destroyed. On the other hand, Iraq is the second time the army has lost the last three years. The first time - in '14 - it just broke and ran, and now it is pretty much just cut off. Estimate the losses of the Iraqi army and the military police is not easy, but even the lowest estimate of 60,000 killed and wounded, and the main losses occurred in the most trained and capable part - it certainly defeat. The victory is in this case was a Pyrrhic character.

In September, a decision will Abadi no less complicated problem - reaction to the referendum on the sovereignty of Kurdistan. Restoring control over Sunni areas, Baghdad becomes the Kurdish territory, and in addition, automatically receive a territorial dispute over the occupied lands around Kirkuk. At the same time regaining control of the Sunni areas too, is highly conditional - it is supported by an incredibly violent events that are close to the genocide that will inevitably lead to a new surge of Sunni resistance. LIH can only applaud such a policy in Baghdad, as the opponents themselves create a new resource base for the Islamic state.

Thus both the strategic objectives of the war with LIH not met and did not even clear whether they are feasible at all. It is clear that to say this out loud - political suicide, and so desperately needed Abadi picture. Taken ruins of Al-Nour are symbolic and can go for it, and so it will be replicated elsewhere. The coalition also needs to prove its viability, so skepticism about the results of the victory, apparently, will be put out for media.

>>34396812

Bah. If Trump actually fulfilled on his promises OR on his threats on anything whatsoever, the world would already have ended. Judging by his results so far: not to worry.

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>>34395357
The US never changes

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Interesting videos from past couple of weeks or so.

>8 minutes in the life of the Syrian army in Jobar and Ein Tarma (Eastern Ghouta).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py3ttyAiHBo

>ISIS 34 min propaganda footage.
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/yeDMZCLg/the-islamic-state-22one-of-the-two-goods-wilacc84yat-nicc84nawacc8422_dvd.mp4

>Russian battleships & submarine fire 6 cruise missiles on ISIS targets in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-ALjytWtA

>Syrian Army' using UR-77 in al-Qaboun operation | May 2017 | Damascus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShkM3FAM0o

>Tour Of Latakia Airbase Pt 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEqC6gax3M

>Tour of Latakia Airbase Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDM2Vl0Qp8o

>Tour of Ruins of Aleppo with Military Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwfbFcKPow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYqFZGqmHw

>On the frontlines with "Liwa al-Quds" | June 16th 2017 | Hama province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsBI-D2BNAc

>Footage of Military action in area of Al Talila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVwWRAht7Qo

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US special operators dispatched to Syria-Turkey border to prevent possible invasion.

>>34397829

Interesting. Who are they trying to stop, exactly? The turks from attacking the kurds, or ISIS from running off to turkey, or the PKK from joining up with the YPG, or the turks from going to help Qatar, or...? So many possibilities.

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>>34398200

>>34395722
with Covfefe in play, we might be looking at 12

SDF now controls the southern access to Raqqa, which means the ISIS in Raqqa are finally fully encircled.

In theory.

>>34395113
>every thread

>>34398898
Is this proof that kurds > arabs?

Just look at Mosul versus the Kurdish campaign to Raqqa.

smart woman, journalist talks in depth about Turkey's media blackout and the mini (not so mini?) civil war they have going in the south east.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-warcollege-29june-idUSKBN19K2OG

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>>34399708
also has exclusive pics she got from ISIS phones.

ISIS wife intimate moment...

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>>34399811
ISIS fighter chilling with waifu.

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>>34399831
ISIS French love letter

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>>34399835

This documentary just won an award, definitely deserves it.

bizarre interesting view into the lives of Al-Nusra SVBIED drivers before their date and fate.

https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6585/dugma-the-button

>>34400442
>Refsdal was in a village in the northern Syria province of Aleppo when he heard an explosion. Camera in hand, he jumped into a minibus driven by a fighter from the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, to inspect the damage. A U.S.-led coalition airstrike had hit a base in the town, leaving at least 10 people dead. A civilian speaks angrily into Refsdal's camera, saying the airstrike has targeted civilian homes and killed innocent people. A Nusra fighter interrupts: "Easy now. There is both a military base and civilians here. Tell the truth", he says, before adding that the blast's intended target was a Nusra base. Refsdal understood the implicit message from the Al-Qaeda member: Film what you want, we're not going to feed you propaganda. To his surprise, Refsdal found that the group remained committed to letting a Western journalist film the fighters openly and without censorship. Refsdal spent a total of six weeks embedded with the Nusra fighters.

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>>34396812
well, at this point he is just doing the same shit shillary would've done but just slightly later.
we might as well be looking at something like another iraq, just with some slightly more organized goatfuckers

>>34398942
The real test comes from the speed in which they clear the city out and how well they can contain the encirclement, and not fuck up like how a sleeper cell in Mosul managed to stir shit up well outside the Old City pocket a couple days ago.

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>>34400442
another older documentary from the same director, same style of being embedded.

>Behind The Taliban Mask (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OI8Y0jjM0k

>>34398200
>Reply to a post that has no citation.
>Get a useless boilerplate image reaction.

This is why you don't waste time responding to Mandick's shitposting.

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>>34400585

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>>34400442

>>34400638
whoops I'm dumb didn't realize that was just a trailer. I also didn't realize it was so hard to find. Watched it a while ago on a now dead mirror.

>>34400779
>>34400442
found it
>Dugma: The Button
http://twomovies.tv/full_movie/25/5945222/1/movie/#

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>>34400802
>http://twomovies.tv/full_movie/25/5945222/1/movie/#

much obliged

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>>34400802
>:^)

>>34400457
Thats fucking amazing. Jihadists be damned, but I gotta hand it to this one for telling the truth kek.

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>>34399708
p.good stuff. The story about turkey dressing FSA in army uniforms and using them against the kurds is pretty interesting. Basically erdo building his own shadow internal jihadist forces. Im sure that one wont ever come back to bite him in the ass . . .

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loot IS captured from an iraqi pmu near the Jordanian border. Its like wack a mole out there

>>34403523
Lots of good VBIEDs to build out of.

>>34397599

>https://youtu.be/AShkM3FAM0o

this video is fucking great, that detcord scene was pure war porn

i love how they're using tanks at literal point blank range because it's more dangerous for the enemy to try to blow them up that way

>>34399852
>Make the Caliphate great again

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http://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/Russia%20Military%20Power%20Report%202017.pdf

>>34397599
Thanks! I was looking for the isis one.

>>34400802
>Literal Al Qaeda lets you film freely with no censorship or strongmanning, while SAA won't even let you in the country to film.

Makes your brain cells stimulate

>>34405639

It is funny. They changed their name to ISANS in November 2014 though.

>>34405680
Lel. I like how ISIS strongarmed the fuck out of the acronym even though different random "ISIS"s existed before it.

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>>34395098
No offense but why is this thread always popular alive and well ? I tought 4chan tards hated arabs

>>34405697
That's why it's popular, we come here to watch arabs be inept and get BTFO by Russia and the Allied Coalition

>>34399835
Anyone of you wants me to translate this ?

>>34405697
Cause a handful of us autistic fucks curate these threads and keep them alive. War is interesting. Where is there war? Middle East.

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>>34405705
If it's easy for you sure why not.

The SAA has managed to pull off a massive land grab, although most of it is just uninhabited desert.

>>34399835
Its written very badly even seems like it was translated by google sometimes
"For Naouel
Hi Naouel , I just wanted to tell you that i am very sorry for everything that happened between us, i dont know why i got so mad over nothing.
I ask god for protection against the devil ( Its either the devil or "my cat" by the way he wrote it down)
I cant tell you more but just know that i love you"

>>34405697

Why would anyone hate arabs? What shit have they done to the US or Europe or Russia or China since the 12th century? Refuse to hand over all their oil for free?

I don't mind disliking anyone. In fact, I dislike most everyone. But this hate thing is like hating feminists or gays - how can their activities incite hatred in your when your life is not in the least affected by them?

>>34399835
Young maghrebi borned in France, can't write french properly despite top tier education and decide do join Syria - TERRORISM!
Many such cases!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YoyZ84qZmc

>>34397599
>Russian battleships & submarine fire 6 cruise missiles on ISIS targets in Syria
Cruise missiles fired from under water is cool af to be honest my famalams.

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https://www.funker530.com/prisoner-sledge-hammer/

>>34405697
I like it because I enjoy seeing ISIS getting BTFO everyday in Iraq.
Hopefully Syria can start doing that too

>>34405688
They even fucked over Archer

>>34406577
They dumb-bomb city blocks as if it was Dresden, so i dont really think they will care about the legality of beating some arab with a sledgehammer
>not that i have anything against such bombing

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https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-30/kurdish-ypg-plans-to-take-azaz-jarablus-area-in-syria-statement

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>>34406577
I think these guys are Wagner PMCs

Also there's a severed head on the ground

>>34406710

So. The YPG are going take that area from the FSA-and-Turkish-Army-friends-group that currently holds it? Is this a declaration of hostilities or a hint that the FSA need to get out of Dodge?

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>>34407142

>Also there's a severed head on the ground

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oy9VUdfYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ua1g7pwXy0

>>34407142
There is also a blody special forces shovel. They cut that dudes head off with it

>>34408138

Fascinating how we are back to WW1. Little planes in the sky that the ground forces don't know how to deal with, and have not been equipped to deal with. One bird that might not cause much damage, but you still need to scram when it zeroes in on you. I wonder what the response will be, eventually? Walmart manpads with optics and Ipad remote controls?

>>34408335
zsu-23's pointed up.

>>34408335
Miniature A-10s of course, the small drones usually seen used for recon/grenade bomb trolling have such negligable heat/radar signatures that missiles are out of the equation for most of them, so gun kills it is!

>>34408389
>>34408390

I dunno guys. We are talking about targets the size of a frisbee, that move in an asymmetric pattern with - as you say - low heat/radar signature. Hitting it is one thing. The important element of these whacka-a-drones are really that they are very low cost, very high accessability, high precision and require little more skills than say a cell phone. If you waste an expensive missile to take it out, the enemy has already won the round. Evolution would dictate that the answer to a low cost threat must also be low cost.

Heh. Maybe eagles finally return to the military ranks, at least for guerilla forces.

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https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alsumaria.tv%2Fnews%2F208387%2Falsumaria-news%2Far%23&edit-text=

>>34403523
ford, chevy, ford, ...
so they arent even bothering with the toyotas anymore lel

>>34409646

Well, when the US military went shopping for the Afghanistan safari cars they bought US cars. Ford Rangers through Global Fleet Sales, and Chevrolet Suburbans. Afghan and Iraq forces got them for free afterwards. So no inferior japanese Toyotas for your tax money. If you want to know which American congress members got the production in their state, do your own damn research.

>>34410042

Ach. That was supposed to be "Afghanistan and Iraq safari". We apologize for the inconvenience.

>>34395113
Why are you upset?

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The variety of AT weapons used in this conflict is absurd. If it was designed to kill a tank in the past four decades its probably being used.

>>34408601
Antiaircraft Arisaka sights for picatinny rails and make them stupid long range.

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sooooo that cock block the iranians moves is pretty much over right?

>inb5 IT WAS A PRANK BRO

>>34405375

Pretty good read.

Too bad most Amerisharts are so hilariously ignorant about Russia and her interests. This should be an eye opener.

>>34408333

Well, play stupid games (Jihad, holy war etc.) you win pretty stupid prizes.

>>34405688
There is (was?) a furniture shop in my city called ISIS, the worst part it the sign had white text on a black background

Should I drop out of college now and enlist in hopes to fight in syria in the next four years?

>>34413044
Join the kurds, you'd get bombed by the turks
Join the fsa, russians will play with you and a sledgehammer after the wax figure tiger commander rapes you
Join the saa, you might bet bombed by Israel if you are fighting Alqaeda

Its not worth it. You'll just make new enemies

>>34413044
>>34414002

I figure 'enlist' means into the US forces. If so, you will get three days of proper invasion, and six tours of Afghan-style 'friendly' fire and Iraq style IED. Lucky if you will ever fire at an actual enemy but you'll need full armor and never less than five buddies to go souvenir shopping. The only thing new with Syria is that you'll need a handbook to keep track of all the factions and who they are allied with this week.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97-g2vwX-Y

>>34414382

What was the flare at the end for? Far as I could see, there was not a single ack ack measure.

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>>34397599
Do you have the iranian isis video that they released during the iran attack?

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http://nationalinterest.org/feature/5-reasons-america-should-not-fight-iran-russia-assad-syria-21344?page=show

>>34414422
>>34414422
Same as the ones dumped on the other attack runs/orbits, just standard procedure to shit them out all the time in case someone's trying to get a missile off at you.

Might seem like a waste, especially since there's been pretty low manpad threat in Syria to date, but since you get zero warning of someone sending a heat seeker your way it's better to be cautious just in case today's the day you happen to shooting stuff up near someone with one.

>>34414382
iraqi air force?

>>34414554

Amazing. The russkis do that as a routine and do not realize that the enemy will know that routine too? Or is it actually so effective that they can fly off before the effect wears off?

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>>34405697
>hahaha sandniggers amirite lads
WHERE THERE IS WAR. THERE IS /k/.

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>>34412208
t: mandic

>>34405716
this, all in all

>>34405888
Amazing trips, but shit post.

>>34405888
islam is the problem

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2nd coastals succesful send fresh baked cookies to assadist mafia compount

https://youtu.be/X9o_Mx1BZyE

>>34415273
>islam is the problem
*religion

Syrian Democratic Forces Warns of 'Open Confrontation' With Turkey

A top official in the Syrian Democratic Forces announced on Thursday that there is a “large possibility of open and strong confrontations” with Turkish forces in northwest Syria, where the two sides exchanged fire on Wednesday.

2nd coastals feed russian puppets with SPG9 sold by sovjet russia in 1970 to syrian regime

https://youtu.be/dKU5Jk5qcBo

report from democratic frontline @ Jobar

https://youtu.be/FDfc2vqW5Ok

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>mopping up dashbags

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

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>>34415329

Based Turkey.

Looks like Russia and Erdogan are going to tag team and fuck the US proxies in the ass.

>>34415344

They fucked up that earthen mound real good.

How will Assmad ever recover?

>>34415620
>How will Assmad ever recover?
he is defeated since 2015

US forces inside Tal Abyad

https://youtu.be/LRz7wBiNcwA

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>>34415865

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>>34415898
small, girlish build
>dont lift. you wont need it anyway.

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https://www.JEWbook.com/1260907644032183/videos/1271741412948806/

>>34405888
except for funding Wahhabi Islam and starting this whole terrorism mess

>>34414329
what if I went the special forces route? Marine recon or MARSOC specifically.

>>34416896
Your teenage fantasies are cute.

>>34416908
thanks man

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Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.

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still alot of fighting in mosul. IS doesn't look exhausted.

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>>34417625
there must be huge tunnel network

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>>34417625

They're doomed

their "offensive" is just like the nazis V2 (vergeltungswaffe)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR3zvpFJwcg

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>>34415312

Seeing reports of Ruaf bombing now in rural IS held Hama. This is a good battle to come back into(took a month break with a few days popping in) after the SAA cleaned house up in Aleppo. Tiger forces also showed up. We about to see what kind of preparations IS made because this area has been virtually untouched for a long time.
>>34417625
Evolution combat. Only the smart one's are left. They are going to be hard to dig out.
>>34418040
There is no doubt IS is fucked. It's a last stand.

>US Military Put on Alert; Washington 'Waiting for an Excuse' to Attack Syria, Says Russian Senator

According to Aleksey Pushkov, a Russian Senator and former head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the State Duma, "The United States put its Navy and Air Force on alert, and is just waiting for an excuse to strike Syria."

Pushkov's warning coincides with reports of the US amassing intelligence gathering aircraft off Syria. Three of the most important spy planes in the US inventory have been gathering intelligence off the Syrian coast over the past week, according to Haaretz.

Earlier this week, the White House claimed that the Syrian government could be preparing to use chemical weapons that would likely result in "the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children."

The bizarre (and unsubstantiated) claim was made shortly after Sy Hersh reported that the US knew the Idlib "Sarin" attack was a hoax, but Trump chose to retaliate anyway.
Now we are being told (via the trusty warmongers at the New York Times), that the OPCW has concluded that "Sarin or a similar poison" was used in the April 4 attack in Idlib.

It's WMD deja vu all over again.

A rough translation: "The United States put its Navy and Air Force on alert, and is just waiting for an excuse to strike Syria. Assad will not give them one. This the perfect time for a provocation."

It sounds like the war in Syria is just getting started.

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>>34418342
SAA kicking off the battle for rural Hama with some beheaded IS. What goes comes around. This is going to be a brutal battle.

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>>34418606
Although this isn't the first time the SAA has attempted to take the area this is the first time they brought the heat in with a large formation , many from the recent Aleppo fighting. IS either has dug in defense lines or they'll melt away. Time will tell.

>>34418647

One thing is certain, the SAA has not learned the value of propaganda. Having their forces pose with heads will not be to their advantage later on. What do we base our hatred of ISIS on, if not their slaughter?

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>>34418040
This photo needs to be posted alongside the source, just 'cause it looks so fucking savage;
https://twitter.com/kurdishblogger/status/856378888544555008

>>34418386
If the US doesn't escalate things in Syria they have lost. Isis and Al-Qaeda are done, it's a mop up operation now, may take a while but they're just a nuisance. If Putin manages to put the few Syrian moderates and Assad around a table for an agreement it only leaves the Kurds. Even though Assad and Erdogan aren't buddies, and Turkey fucked Syria over several times during the war, they both have an interest in finding a bilateral solution in northern Syria where the last US puppet is (Kurds). That's why the US will escalate things.

Meanwhile, the Devil is dealing the joker card in Yemen. Cholera, that old killer of armies and populations. Since April 1500 have died, but WHO is reporting 246.000 suspected cases. That is 53.000 more than LAST WEEK. Cholera is a bacterial disease that spreads through drinking water. Considering that violent diarrhea are among the symptoms and that middle eastern hygienics are, to put it carefully, not quite up to western standards, I would not be surprised if this continues to spread exponentially.

>>34418673
But does the US even expect to """win""" in Syria? What does a "US Victory" in Syria look like? Assad gone? You'd have to assassinate him at this point. The SDF isnt going to nor can they take over all of Syria. The only way the US could "win" is by complete invasion, and no one in America except a very tiny and honestly very stupid group of people wants an invasion of Syria

>>34408601
>Maybe eagles finally return to the military ranks
Make it happen

>>34405375
Got a tl;cr?

>>34418647
heads were cut off after they were dead btw

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>>34420319
>heads were cut off after they were dead btw

""""""""""""""""""""MODERATE"""""""""""""""""""""""

>>34418606
Not actual SAA, paramilitary "desert hawks". Just interesting noting the difference. Which also explains the lack of professionalism and beheading corpses.

>>34399835
love how he started drawing bart simpson but then remembered he's a Salafist now and isn't allowed to depict humans

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Classy as fuck Russian military

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>>34397537
>its another episode where the US thinks they can save resources and time buy training people who end up forcing the US to waste more resources and time
but it will work next time we arm sandys!

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Captured VBIED for attacking tanks. 3 EFPs to try to breach the armour before it plows into it and kabooms.

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Dutch journalist compares his Kia rental to the same Kia model that was converted to a VBIED

>>34407142
Lmao I watched that video like 3 times and just realized the fucking severed head just sitting around.
I love Russians.

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>>34418606

Noice. Would be good to find some live/wounded ISIS and behead them in front of a slaughtered pig or something. These animals understand nothing but violence.

>>34421593
How edgy of you

>>34418663

There's literally no PR downside to mutilating ISIS. In fact most people in the world would applaud it.

>>34421607
Holding severed heads is always negative

>>34406710
is that where mcniggerator went?

>>34421617

Nah, no one winces any more. Especially not going to get weepy over ISIS. Think of them as the meat that goes into cat food.

>>34418098
This inevitably comes up since there is no legitimate argument in favor of religion. Mindlessly reinforcing dogmatic principles was for a time when access to information was restricted to the rich and powerful

>>34420008
I'd say the ideal US 'win' would be an end to the Russian and Iranian influence/footholds in Syria, which yes pretty much means Assad gone and some friendly puppet installed in his place.

What nobody has any idea about is how to achieve this outcome, bar of course the megahawks you mentioned that want another balls deep invasion because in their view Russia must be cockblocked at any cost up to and including WW3. It's why the actual US policy in Syria has been so scattershot, everyone has been having ideas and throwing mud at the wall in the hope something would stick for them eventually, but really all it has been in practice is refusing to give up for year after year despite it constantly looking less and less likely that a favourable outcome is achievable.

Keeping an oar or two in stirring things up gives the hawks the illusion they haven't quit, but just makes things be a little more shitty for a little longer for the ordinary Syrians caught in the middle of it all, whilst leaving the US backed further and further into this retards corner as they resort to more and more stupid escalations of force just to remain somewhat relevant on the ground. This latest round of posturing and bullshit talk of chemical weapons is just laying the groundwork for another desperate roll of the dice in the coming weeks, although what effect another round of strikes could have on the eventual outcome still looks exceedingly minimal. It will happen most likely, wont have any major effect on the outcome, and will ultimately be nothing more than the hawks within the US having a tantrum because they aren't getting their way.

For us all we get to do is sit and wait to see which systems the US will get some live fire practice with this time.

>>34415055
it was a good read

>>34414616
they are not that effective to begin with, well depends on the manpad. But current gen manpads will not be fooled by flares.

still it's the only defense they have against it. Everyone is doing it this way by the way. Not only the russians.

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>>34421565

interesting.

i always wondered, why they dont place a huge shaped charge into the back of these vans, when they try to target a heavy armored vehicle like a tank.

>>34421607

Some of the people ISIS decapitated may have deserved it. Noone cares. Once the brouhaha ends, SAA will be remembered for being as savage as the ISIS when it came to prisoner treatment. Whether these ISIS guys deserved it or not will less important.

Personally I want the SAA and Assad to end up lawfully governing Syria again. The more of these marketing disasters happen, the less the chances of that are. They are winning and should be planning for peace, not for the gloating by people who already supports them. These pics are not going to go away.

Afghanistan olds. Specifically from the Chemtal-district in the Balkh province, where a 'government-friendly' militia was joining up with other forces for a military operation when they were ambushed by the Taliban. 13 dead - reported so far.

Meanwhile, France is cozying up with Iran. The French oil company Total have just signed up a 10 billion dollar deal for developing a gas field off the Iranian coast. This is Iran's biggest deal with a western country since the sanctions were lifted.

Kinda smooth. Having the platforms filled up with French contractors is going to make them a much more awkward military target, to western forces anyway.

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>fail

>>34423240
is that his spinal cord holy shit

>>34414494
The National Interest is literally run by Russian lobbyists these days

>>34408335
Radio frequency jammers.

>>34418040
>They're doomed
nah. they change their tactics back to 2013. which mean IS cant be defeatet.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4aTxF3xjWA

interesting scenario

>>34423805

https://youtu.be/BXHeUoXd0QQ

BL attack Pakistan army convoy in Kannerah, Awaran

>>34424137

Well, if I should ever have to hide among giraffes...

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IS tunnel

>>34424137
I think I unlocked that shit back in Rainbow 6. XD

>>34423240
wow that arm looks tasty like I could eat it..

>>34400603
>here you go
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/ypg-syria-special-forces-peace-operation

>>34422439

Hopefully, Erdoshit comes around and realizes that only together with Putin can they devise an outcome that will exclude the most undesirable meddling caused by the USA.

>>34426000
>Introducing the Achbar Mk 2000, for when you love spray and pray, but want it to last just that little bit longer

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>The heat is on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWOnj-nfqlc&t=0s

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>>34423767

yeah, i agree with that, they will lose their "land" but carbombing for example will last for decades.

But i doubt they will have the power to rise from insurgency to open/"conventional" warfare again.
I mean, they shat at everyone, even sunnis that where loyal to them back then.

>>34423767
>>34426524
I think when most of us on here talk about IS being 'defeated' it's in terms of them being a land holding entity, that as an insurgency/terror organisation they'll be around for much longer is kind of taken for granted but almost disregarded. Extremist organisations are already around aplenty, and don't on the whole generate the sort of mad max/orcs warfare these threads have lived on for the last few years.

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American and British volunteer

>>34428195
T A T S
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>>34428195

>Forehead tattoo

So this guy is either gonna be a mercenary all his life or restricted to working at a tattoo parlor.

>>34395098
>Brother Nathanael

>>>/pol/

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>>34428195

>>34400802
Thanks!

So at what point can we start involving Venezuela in these threads?
It's lurching towards a civil war, and I think some innajungle fighting would be interesting to study. I just never see it get mentioned.

>>34429453
Is it lurching tho. Waiting for police/army defections and civilians seizing armouries. When it does I guess this will become civil wars thread? Gotta agree on a name nerdlings

>>34429479
I think the helicopter grenade dropping thing coupled with Maduro's rewriting of the constitution is a good trigger point desu.
It's still at the point of Ukraine now, but with Maduro being a good commie and taking the "dude just arrest everyone lmao" route, it can't be too far off.

What is the vimeo search for all the IS uploads?

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>>34429453
someone needs to set up some livestreams or something. Good war threads are predicated on good war footage. Without pics it might as well not be happening

>>34430629
Smartphone are everywhere today, once shit hits the fan there will be footage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beb6QCgJZAQ

>>34429453

Many things to say about Venezuela. But part of the Middle East it isn't. Dedicate another thread to it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMiGmYz8Us

>>34428138
source?

>>34432375
But do we really need another thread dedicated to a civil war?
I mean I'd be interested in having it here, especially with Syria slowly winding down.

>>34422439
It took them a good decade before the American warhawks acknowledged that they fanned the flames of Sunni-Shia animosity in Iraq. Do we expect the these Burgerfucks to do the research for Syria? They just want to tear shit up for everyone else for personal penis stroking.

>>34428138
If I recall this was a month or so back during the Mosul offensive.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAuWnK5uF4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7DtBwhxlzY

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>>34434893

>>34435002

kek

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1j8id29YI

>>34405375
Appreciate you when you post useful information, otherwise you're insufferable name-fag.

>>34434893
that marines video was fukin kino they need to do more of that kind of stuff

>>34395357
When are the Russians going to use their own uniforms and helmets?

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

>>34437595
Its just them playing boring ketchup with ISIS
Their commercial with them pulling aid to distribute on trucks still makes me cringe/angry

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Early morning bump for survival, plus centcom reporting SDF advancing into the old city of Raqqa after 'coalition forces' (almost certainly meaning USAF) bombed 2 sections of the city walls, which were being defended by IS.

>>34440843
I can imagine IS whining on social media about OIR destroying historical site for tactical reasons when IS has been known for destroying historical sites of no strategic value for buttfuck retarded ideological reasons.

>>34440843
will raqqa be wrapped up before mosul? And where is ISIS going next? All out on deir eizzor?

>>34441890
Probably. Their fallback positions are likely to be down the river, but there'll certainly be some "sleeper cells" sticking around to stir shit.

>>34428195
Where was this taken
On which side are they

>>34437789

its cheaper this way then producing your own gear

>>34442231
"ISIS KILLERS" good name for a unit

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>>34442442

is that a machete on his back or what, i not sure....

would be, at least the exact right kind of treatment for ISIS fighters

>>34441981

No beards, tattoos, kurd camo.... highly probably YPG.

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>>34442580

Well spotted. Since he is wearing a russian uniform and it is Mandic posting, I assume that is a russian solder. And if so, my best guess is that the machete is a Kizlyar Alligator. Nasty piece of work but looks very useful.

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https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20160811/1474124416.html

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>>34443031

Russia sold T-90S to Iraq and Vietnam, and T-90SM to Kuwait.

Iraq - 73
Vietnam - 64
Kuwait - 146

>>34441605
DESU my first thought was a little along the lines of 'FFS burgers, don't you start doing that shit as well' but they do at least have a valid reason, and to be romantic about it for the city walls to fall in war, even one vastly beyond what they were ever built for, is a hell of a lot more appropriate than stuff getting blown up for shits 'n giggles as IS have done.

>>34441890
>will raqqa be wrapped up before mosul?
Probably not unless the guys there all cut and run, Mosul is I think down to a handful of blocks left whilst Raqqa is just getting going on the old city, which has tended to be the toughest part to crack everywhere due to the density and sturdiness of the buildings.

>>34397537
>train and equip sandy
>gib gun with gps tracking
>???????
>sandys new friends get a one way ticket to allah

>>34444082
Forgot about the dumb word filters we have now, fuck you hiroshimoot roodypoo candyass.

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"""peaceful""" Iran at it again, now shelling Kurds in Iraq.

>4 Wounded in Iranian Shelling on Iraqi Border Region

>Erbil- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps heavy artillery and rockets targeted on Monday wide regions of Iraqi Kurdistan, injuring four and displacing hundreds, as well as damaging agricultural lands.

>Farzang Ahmad, the local administrator of the Haji Omaran, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the “Iranian artillery continued on targeting a village in Haji Omaran until the evening, leading to the injury of a woman, who was among the region’s residents and working in the agriculture.”

https://english.aawsat.com/theaawsat/news-middle-east/4-wounded-iranian-shelling-iraqi-border-region

>>34444820

Iranian claim this is aimed at Iranian kurd opposition forces operating out of Iraqian Kurdistan. Said opposition claims they are operating from the Iranian side of the border.

It's not like we have any way of telling what the truth is.