ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

Yesterday at 5:07 PM

Jura said:

... the Government had been heavily attacking in the area of Mallah (the tank place
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-378#post-401168
again, was repelled; EDIT now I noticed a different account:
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian Army, Resistance Forces Advance in Aleppo's Handarat Region

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... the fresh map:
Castello road marked, for a reason:

Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:42pm EDT

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'Road of death' to Aleppo pounded as air strikes cut off rebel areas

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Jura said:

... here's how the situation in let's say east-from-Damascus part of Syria looked like yesterday (ACCORDING TO A SOURCE I DON'T KNOW):

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OK new edition:

I don't follow #2, #5;

I noticed about #3: https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-379#post-401533

LOL that source said the same about #1 yesterday:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-379#post-401476

very interesting is #4 since that source:

• keeps showing the Government push in the desert in the
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  direction, not
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  direction, and
• kinda confirms what I've read elsewhere which is the sooo long supply route had been attacked by ISIL yesterday (by the way temperatures there are in 100F range during the day, and 70F at night, plus noticed this footage (shows a sandstorm in the area recently):

ISIS launches large-scale offensive in east Homs By Leith Fadel - 14/06/2016

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related Tweets I saw quoted this source only

Jura said:

enough
taxiya
I'm putting you on my Ignore List since the controversy is over: Moderators deleted both posts of yours, in which you had engaged me, and which I had recently reported in
China's SCS Strategy Thread
Jun 7, 2016
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/chinas-scs-strategy-thread.t3118/page-266#post-400855
(my second reporting posts openly called Moderators for help, got deleted as well)

taxiya
now I'm not going to see your posts
but moderation works in this forum!

let me go to Syria now ...

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If you didn't read the Xinhua news article and made a mistake, then I am merely pointing it out, you should not feel offended. If you deliberately misinterpreted or misquoted (I hope not), then I am not going to stop pointing that out unless you stop doing so.

Besides, my post was less about you to read, but more for the rest of the people to see the truth. It is nothing against forum rules to state facts.

I'll quickly use "miladvisor" map I posted about one week ago
Thursday at 5:53 PM
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-377#post-401087
of Southern Aleppo area, as the Government Forces have been under attack(s) for two days now (that seems to be confirmed by videos), counterattacking (? this depends on the source one reads approximately in the red rectangle I added:

noticed the claim of a T-90 hit in the area; the closeup I made:


EDIT from this grab

and I can't say if it is, or isn't, a T-90 ... looking at the sequence of explosions (since 00:47), I guess that tank had reactive armor:

Yesterday at 8:50 AM

Jura said:

related to the encirclement of

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by Kurds
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as of now, it looks as "the siege option": I've read in Twitter

• water, electricity supplies for the town are cut off, and
• ISIL tries to break in ...

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and "laying the siege" is not easy:
already
Jun 8, 2016

Jura said:

... ISIL had left from Hudhud

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as shown here

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... and one week after, which is now, I read in Twitter Kurds took over Hudhud! and it even might not be true, looking at the most recent "edmap":

Yesterday at 4:32 PM

Jura said:

OK new edition:

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... here:


Is #1 true?

I don't follow #2, #3, #4; posted on #5 above:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-380#post-401629

but I'm guessing the most important point is the one missing in the most recent map: news from the group sent to the desert to "recapture Raqqa"
(as advertised: Jun 4, 2016 https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-375#post-400600)
now I looked at pro-Government Twitter account which probably tried to create an impression the group had waited for reinforcements, and they arrived:
time will tell

EDIT
just checking
(ARRASAFEH, to the right, above = Resafa)

LOL! previously Erwin Rommel had been in charge of German operations in certain dessert areas:
Damascus says German special forces present in Syria, Berlin denies claim

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Syria condemns presence of French and German special forces in Ain al-Arab and Manbij

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now I visited Kurdish Twitter accounts, found allegedly fighting with them now Swedes:
and, alas:
I'll give myself a break now.

the longer I follow the Syrian conflict and its coverage, the less I understand ... will give three examples:

#1
Tuesday at 5:15 PM

Jura said:

ISIS launches large-scale offensive in east Homs By Leith Fadel - 14/06/2016

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related Tweets I saw quoted this source only

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didn't see anything about it since then ... announced by obviously non-ISIL source, I mean I could understand fanbois making up gains, regains and stuff, talking about victories coming in this and that direction, but in this case, I just don't know