Middle Eastern Wars thread: he's so fucking gay edition

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>>34942760

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Chinese YPG fighter in Raqqa, apparently he's served 3 tours. Chinese media is weary of giving any attention to people who go over but this guy's "blackout" was lifted.

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East German anti tank grenade for sale, $70 USD, Idlib.

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Very cool modded (and knocked out) houthi landcruiser.

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>>34943199

>>34942760
>and receive S-400s
For why?

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Yeah, this topic has been dead for over a week. We missed the Lebanese operation and recent SAA headways in DeZ province.

Would had been a good time to weight the effectiveness of the Lebanese army since it doesn't get mentioned much.

>>34942768
nice

>>34943432
To cockblock Greece and conquer all the islands.

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>>34943480
I feel like its just bulwark for Hezbollah, but I might be talking out of my ass.

>This one in Tal Afar belongs to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Battalion

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>>34943480
fuck ivan sidorenko btw

up to date gorgeous map

https://imagopyrenaei.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/syria-iraq-22-aug-2017.png

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"ISIS Hunters", admittedly by a Russian journalist on the scene, they are a small group basically just used for PR.

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>>34945771

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>>34945776

>>34942785
merc?

>>34945831
Special Syrian gov't unit. Not sure if they're an official part of the army of a militia

>>34942760
>but I have a feeling a gov't vs Kurds war may be on the horizon once those two sides find themselves staring at each other.
It's always been on the cards, they've been in open conflict a few times already but to date the "lets both deal with IS first" sentiment has served to cool things off on each occasion, that time is now close to ending as IS is near finished as an organisation that can threaten either party in open battle.

What happens next is nigh impossible to get any clear read on, I don't think either Assad or the bulk of SDF wants conflict, left to their own devices they would sooner thrash out a deal than enter into another long campaign since both are blooded after so much war, SAA worse so. Unfortunately there's too many outside fingers poking in the pie, Russia doesn't really give a fuck about the situation so long as they keep their friendly port/government in Damascus, but chances are between them Turkey and the US are going to both work very hard driving a wedge further into Syria to keep there from being any peacefull deal and extending the conflict indefinitely. Suits both parties interests and gives us ongoing war porn for years to come, just will suck as always for those caught living there and fighting for everyone elses wider games.

tel afar will be next big thing...just occasional shoot outs and skirmishes right now

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Belgian SFG and US Army 82nd Airborne looking out for SVBIEDs outside of Tal Afar

>>34949035
Is 82nd the guy with the big tow system?

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>>34945618
From the information I got the Lebanese army itself has rather threadbare equipment and training. It might very well be true that Hezbollah is doing a lot of heavy lifting, even if they're acting on their own accord, outside the Lebanese government's will.

I'll be happy to provide at least one Arsal offense pic without that excessively distracting watermark.

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>>34949111

Wide shot of >>34943480

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>>34949120

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>>34949137

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>>34949139
Yellow and green flag on a tank. Huh.

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>>34949147
Not the only pictorial evidence of Hezbollah involvement it seems.

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"nigger rigged"

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SVD before and after, Idlib.

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>>34949526

>>34945618
Do they actually change the shocks?

>>34949527
Is that some sort of ghetto SVU conversion?

>>34949139

I don't recognize this model. Something old and homebrewed?

>>34949373

If it is stupid and simple and it works, it aint stupid.

>>34945905

gov't??? He's clearly with the YPG

Hrui coffee shop has been liberated.

>>34942785
Any idea if there's a significant number of Chinese involved? Could they be looking at this as a sub rosa way to get a little combat experience for select people?

>>34950118
Oops, I didn't realise which image he was quoting. Yes, ypg.

>>34949373
SALAM BROTHER! WE HEARD YOU LIKE BACKBLASTS! SO WE PUT A BACKBLASTER ON YOUR BACKBLASTER SO YOU CAN GET BACKBLASTED IN THE FACE WHILE BACKBLASTING YOUR BACKBLASTERS!

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>>34950103
They're Polaris Ranger XP 1000s. Very new ones in fact if the rims are any indication.

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Abandoned IS armored frontloader in Raqqa

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https://twitter.com/AfarinMamosta/status/899956833863041024

Self-firing guns captured in Raqqa

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>>34951115

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>yea boi

Satellite Shows Iran Building Scud Missile Factory in Syria


http://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/syria/satellite-shows-iran-building-scud-missile-factory-in-syria/2017/08/16/

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-building-weapons-missile-factories-syria-lebanon-israeli-media-reports/28679098.html

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.807080

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newest technical build by IS

>>34943480
threads die when US backed terrorists no longer are a factor

anti-turkish bataillon formed in north aleppo

https://youtu.be/KwV6u5PYHM4

>>34951939
>IS
>Able to build anything that doesn't look like scrapheap on wheels.

>>34942760
I remember your blog. Mid east threads die due to lack of intrest and lack of Mandic, i dirgress. Bumping the thread with what could be major breaking of HTS trying to break the eastern Hama seige which would mean HTS is dircetly trying to save a IS pocket. Could this be a new alliance?

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>>34953813
never had a blog. Just been posting in and making these threads since like early 2013.

>>34953813
What do they stand to gain saving a faction that is somehow fundamentally more fanatical than they are, other than short term combat advantage?
Haven't they learned that AQ fucked up by giving Zarkawi's network so much support in 2000s Iraq?

They'll have to completely break ties with AQ if they're going to support IS.

>>34949373
Gets me thinkin

>>34949527
Literally negative tactical gain from those mods

>>34953813
HTS has always been a form of ISIS, but not ISIS.
I mean, Nusra literally was ISIS pre-2014.

>>34954979
IS was originally a little-known Jordanian Salafist network under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that found opportunity in Iraq following the Sunni revolt post-2003. Al-Qaeda took his network in as their Iraqi franchise, and tolerated their iron-fisted ways for years. It's true that the Nusra Front was founded when IS was at its height, but that was a different Syrian Islamist-based faction that was supposed to be the Syrian wing of AQ.

AQ intended to merge the Iraqi wing (IS) with the Syrian wing (Nusra), but when AQ realized that IS was overextending their ambition and was even bloodthirstier than even AQ can stomach, they cut them off, and IS went on to run their own Syrian-Iraqi outfit in opposition to AQ and its affiliates. That also meant that AQ technically doesn't have any solid presence in Iraq because IS is in control of what territory there is left that is not under the Iraqi government or Kurdistan, and had to invest more on Nusra up until it became HTS and no longer needed direct AQ support.

>Ithriya-Khanasser corridor being attack

I knew that road was going to be targeted for being a weak point since the SAA launched the Aleppo offensive.

I'm just so surprised HTS and IS took this long to figure out that a full blown offensive is needed to take the road for good.

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>>34949035
>>34949054
it's possible

>>34956014
Isn't that the same road that's been 'taken' umpteen times over the years, and everytime SyAF and RuAF rape whichever group thinks it's a good idea because it's an empty road through the desert and there's fuck all out there for cover?

Unless they take a reasonable sized settlement (there really isn't anything on that particular stretch of road) or manage to stay dug in for several weeks it's just the same shit that happens on a regular basis, my money's on within a few days whoever it is has been fucked up badly enough to move on and go back to hiding in the desert again, having realised for the 200th time that trying to hold ground on open terrain when you have negligable AA is a really dumb idea when your opponent has some kind of air force.

>>34945618

That blood below the door, god damn.

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>>34949035
That Motherfuckin F I V E S E V E N

>>34950527
possible...if the ministry of state security knows anything they sure aint gonna say shit. wouldnt surprise me though...im sure some are just there like most other foreign fighters though

So post ISIS getting BTFO what are the borders going to look like?

>>34951752
flying jews take it out in 10...9...8...

I hope Mandic returns, I'm suffering withdrawal from the lack of Serbian shitposting

>>34954553
Sharpie beard

>>34959174
is he the only one here supporting Assad?

>>34959519
>realistically supporting anyone in such a conflict

>>34951939
I prefered them with their Mad Max looking VBIED

>>34958833
>>34950527
no you fucking mall ninjas somebody just wanted to go fight so he did and china just happened to stop giving a shit.

>>34959535
>>34959519
ypg all the way baby, eat shit fascist motherfuckers

>>34959519
I think a lot of anons 'support' Assad so far as viewing him as the least shit option out of some very shitty choices for who ends up holding the bulk of Syria, not very many actually outright support him though or think he's actually a good guy to have in charge.

After all, the alternatives to Assad were IS or Nusra since the genuinely non-jihadi portion of the FSA wasn't really much of a thing after the first few months, and the Kurds+local friends have never had either the ability or desire to take over the whole country, doubly so once the Russians made it clear they wanted Assad to remain.

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>>34961046
I'm on the same page as most Assad supporters, they just refuse to see their Jihadist problem is of their own making.
>>34957973
You are right, roads and rivers are the most deadly points of any conflict , especially roads. Not only was the attack pushed back but the SAA gained further areas in eastern Homs today. IS eastern Hama seems to be holding on for now.

On the SAA Raqqa front which I happened to be talking about before the threads died IS did take over Al Ghanim village and surrounding areas. The last time I talked about this area I suspected IS left behind forces to emerge as the SAA made fast advances.
Lastly heavy US bombing raids in the last of IS held Raqqa.

I don't have much else but I am willing to post more this weekend if the thread is alive. There should be continued heavy fighting into the weekend and Dez is waiting.

Bump for update.

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2 Hours ago Large Reinforcements of #Tribal_Forces arrived to Shamiyyah Line & Al jibly, Ghanem Ali Ali, Zor Shamar Recaptured

>>34945638
I love how the "big bore gun on a truck" concept got revived by the Nexter Caesar.
Except the point of it is actually to connect the moving mass, and not just the chassis, to the spade.

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leb forces

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https://twitter.com/DalanyMokus/status/900701979353243649

Apparently the SAA finally found one of those tunnel entrenchments IS had been using as an outpost to launch offensives in and around Palmyra. It seems to have three exits.

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isis waifu

>>34964939
TOW-1 ?

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YPG, Raqqa

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ISIS gun truck found abandoned, Raqqa

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>>34965087

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HTS random shelling, north Aleppo

>>34965079
>This guy's AR is more pimped than many in /arg/

Lel

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>>34965099

I have to wonder what is robbing all the attention away from this war.

>>34966495
some dude with very tiny hands.

>>34966495
Its been the same slow burn of the Syrian gov+Russians+Iranians winning for the last several months. Isis was fascinating while it lasted.

>>34966495
What >>34967406 said, the war is winding down right now and ISIS, the traditional shit-stirring faction is on its last legs. Rebels are slowly dying out, with a jihadi civil war in the north west and a few scattered groups else where. Pro-gov forces are slowly mopping up and kurds are just slugging through raqqah. Perhaps it will get interesting again if SDF and SAA have a falling out, but until then it will be a very boring conflict with two dominant sides slowly slogging it out against the remaining rebels and IS forces.

>>34967406
>>34968579
At least I'll have the Livemap as company when this thread gets bumped out. It's been a good run though.

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>>34967406
Petty much, the SAA had to throw everything into eastern Homs/Hama and put all other fronts on hold. It goes to show how hard it is to flood these IS strongholds when nothing else is going on in the entire country other than some minor fighting with FSA near Jordan and the Lebanon pocket.


New SAA advances into eastern Hama today and also where Mandic got the Russian SF pic from. >>34969547

>>34964331
Don't listen to Ivan as a real source. Even the Arab source is better than him. He is only good for pictures. Ivan is a joke.

>>34966495

IS and the Israeli-US Jihadist cause is failing, big-time.

>>34971227
I got the video of Al Rahman corp just days before 4th division cried uncle in Jobar. They do a very basic coverage of "ambush strategy" in which they basically blew up buildings the SAA advanced into.

One of the ways they did it was they would attack a building after they "lost" it, 4th would call for reinforcements thinking Al Rahman corp was coming at them. Reinforcements arrive. Al Rahman then blows the building.

Pre set demos is excellent urban defense and one of the reasons Jobar is still held. What's left of it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iItwxWRi4tE

>>34965087
>>34965090
>a T-55 turret mounted on a flatbed
Fucking class.

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Russians SSO/SOF with Qalamoun Shield Forces. You can hear Russians talking trough video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1CKvT5JZ7s …

>>34966495
Trump won and now is the president.

>>34972132
It will be enjoyable when the SAA lines all their people up against a wall and ethnically cleanses them all.

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Next stop, Deir Ezzor.

>>34975494
I find it surprising that the summer months have been so busy. Usually they hunker down until September, especially in the desert regions.