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

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ShahryarHedayat

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Report on PressTV yesterday said that operations in Tikrit are paused until reinforcements arrive and in order to allow civilians to leave the town.

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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Mobydog, stop with the inciting, purely conspiracy theory rumors. They will not be tolerated on SD.

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The US is not providing close air support to the current Iraqi offensive in Tikrit because the Iraqi Army and leadership specifically asked the US not to do so, wanting to be able to oust ISIL from Tikrit without relying on it.
 
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PanAsian

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Downing of U.S. drone suggests Syria imposing red lines on air war
BY TOM PERRY AND SYLVIA WESTALL
BEIRUT Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:32am EDT
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Does this indicate a shift towards targeting the Syrian government now that IS has been somewhat contained?

Could the drone have been scouting out any Russian presence in Syria?
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
Latakia is a coastal city and it's also close to where Russian navy has a presence

Maybe Russia set up a air defence network with advanced SAM systems? Who knows but that's also close to where the Turkish F4 recon aircraft was downed and so it seems like this area is off limits to foreign fighter aircraft trying to enter it

Syrian systems themselves are old and may be manned by not well trained soldiers from Syrian military

So it could be Russian in the region or could be Syrian either way there must be some Tor systems there also let's not forget Syria also had Pantsyr S-1 air defence system too and that system is no joke
 
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Franklin

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Actually the Russian base is at Taurus a different city. But Latakia and its surroundings are what is considered to be the ancestral homeland of the al Assad's and the Alawites. That region so far has been spared from the fighting in the Syrian Civil War. But many young men from this region has gone off to fight in the civil war on the side of the government forces and has suffered a disproportionate amount of the casualties. Its the most reliable bastion of support for the al-Assad's so I can imagine that they have some very good equipment and some crack troops defending that part of the country.
 
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Franklin

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Trouble in the backline in the offensive against the IS in Tikrit.

Iraqi Sunnis accuse Shi'ite paramilitaries of burning homes outside Tikrit

Two Iraqi local officials and a police officer accused Shi'ite paramilitary forces on Saturday of burning and looting homes in the town of al-Dour after capturing the area during a military campaign to oust Islamic State fighters.

A spokesman for the armed faction, Kataib Hezbollah, denied the allegations, while a security commander in the area also said there had been no incident in al-Dour.

Salahuddin Provincial Council member Sahar Mawlood, parliament member Dhia al-Douri and a local policeman said that Kataib Hezbollah fighters, who have been battling Islamic State, had looted, blown up or set fire to houses in the town.

"More than 150 houses were burned. Today witnessed the largest targeting of houses, more than the previous days," Mawlood said.

Iraqi security forces backed by Shi'ite paramilitary groups have paused their push to drive Islamic State out of the city of Tikrit, which it seized last June in a lightning advance across central Iraq, although they have captured al-Dour and nearby communities.

The Shi'ite paramilitary forces have been hailed as heroes by fellow Shi'ites, but accused by the Sunni minority of punishing Sunnis with extrajudicial killings and by driving ordinary people from their homes for failing to resist Islamic State.

They strongly deny the allegations. Kataib Hezbollah's military spokesman Jaffar al-Husseini called the al-Dour accusations a smear campaign, saying: "There aren't any attempts to destroy or burn houses in al-Dour."

He said the group that controls al-Dour had been defusing booby trap bombs rigged up in houses by Islamic State, and that security commanders and officials from Salahuddin province had witnessed the operations.

A national police commander, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters he had not seen anything unusual in the town on Saturday.

The operation to retake Tikrit was halted last weekend, as the Iraqi government said it wanted to make sure all civilians had been evacuated, and to protect soldiers and volunteer fighters who were facing stiff resistance.
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