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

[Jura The idiot]

Yesterday at 9:08 AM

(related to so called Kurdish attack of Raqqa
EDIT https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-370#post-399323)
Sunday at 12:07 PM

now, still not sure about what's going, ...

... and:
U.S.-backed Syrian militias not preparing assault on Islamic State capital: spokesman

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so ...

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... I just got a better map

 

[Jura The idiot]

(related to so called Kurdish attack of Raqqa
...

... are pictures, available in Twitter today, which purport to show US SF disguised as Kurdish fighters:

(of course it may be a fake, so I won't post more of these)​

 

[SampanViking]

Here is some footage of the group which rather dispels any photoshop suspicions
Link is to Liveleak

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[plawolf]

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Not holding my breath for western new organisations and 'legal experts' apply the same standards and call this a 'gross violation of international laws and standards'.

 

[solarz]

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Not holding my breath for western new organisations and 'legal experts' apply the same standards and call this a 'gross violation of international laws and standards'.

Talk about faux outrage.

 

[Jura The idiot]

as in several previous cases, I had not been looking at some important direction until something major happened there:

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' trapped (connection with

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lost) most recently; "clickable" map showing the same:

the map by "peto lucem" showing the same:

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EDIT
and for comparison, "edmap" of the area from like one week ago:

 

[SampanViking]

I find it incredible how the events in Northern Aleppo are being ....... ignored?.... by the media. All the more so considering the concern that was being expressed for the refugees stuck on the Turkish border in February when the SAA cut of Northern Allepo, even though they obviously had no intent to advancing north.

Now ISIS is poised to overrun these refugee camps on the Turkish border and we do not hear a word or even ask if Turkey is now prepared to reopen its borders!

 

[Jura The idiot]

Today at 8:34 AM

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' trapped (connection with

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lost) most recently; ...

... but now in Twitter I've read Rebels still hold "a corridor" (not through Mare-Jibrin-Azaz main road though, but a strip more to the west, with for example "Kafr Khashir" close to the question mark in the map below ... I created this map mainly to see the scale (it's in the bottom-left corner); the positions of Kurds (in orange) and ISIL (in black) are of course completely schematic):

"Cassad"

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says (EDIT "Cassad", not me) Rebels in this area recently obtained CAS from the USAF A-10s, and were supported by Turkish artillery ... I'm going to update this post

 

[Jura The idiot]

(related to so called Kurdish attack of Raqqa):
Thursday at 8:28 AM

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the most recent I found (in the source I don't know though!):

(shows several-miles advances at most)​

 

[Jura The idiot]

Yesterday at 3:04 PM

... but now in Twitter I've read Rebels still hold "a corridor" (not through Mare-Jibrin-Azaz main road though, but a strip more to the west, with for example "Kafr Khashir" close to the question mark in the map below ... I created this map mainly to see the scale (it's in the bottom-left corner); the positions of Kurds (in orange) and ISIL (in black) are of course completely schematic):

... I'm going to update this post

how do I comment the map below? the Kurds have a new neighbor in Mare-Azaz area, I guess: