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

flyzies

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It seems more and more likely that Aleppo will fall to the government this year. After that, I'm not sure if the "rebels" will be able to recover to be a significant force again.
 

delft

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It seems more and more likely that Aleppo will fall to the government this year. After that, I'm not sure if the "rebels" will be able to recover to be a significant force again.
With Turkey again becoming a friend to Russia and Iran its game over very soon.
 
Wednesday at 3:42 PM
going back to
Yesterday at 8:33 AM

I should now say it was actually the Kurds from

who were first to close the loop:
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(such a level of detail yet unavailable from Reuters :) dated Jul 27, 2016 8:58am EDT):
Syrian army says cut off all supply routes into east Aleppo

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now (it's
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the most recent "de Syracuse" map shows also the direct connection between "Al Malah Farms area" and the town has established by the Government (it's happened after taking over Bani Zaid District, finally I see where it is :) it's related to
Jul 7, 2016
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perhaps I should mention the Government attacks from the south (from within the town), too (as the above map indicates) ...
 

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You may be interested Jura, that the next declared target is Kafr Hamra, which is the town just to the West of where the two SAA forces have joined.

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SANA and Almasdar have been reporting all day that civilians from East Aleppo are starting to trickle out through the Humanitarian Corridors and that some fighters are also laying down their weapons and exiting as well.

Now the story is also being carried by the BBC (and presumably other MSM outlets) so it seems that it is true.

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I must make comment about the official "Western response to this".

The US has suggested the plan may be an attempt to force the evacuation of civilians and the surrender of rebel groups in the city.

Nothing I have read or watched in the events prior had led me to believe that the 4 humanitarian corridors were, or would ever be, anything other then safe evacuation routes. Why then do we get this disingenuous bullcrap with the faux expectation that they may be aid delivery routes in.
This is all the more obvious given that the Iraqi army undertook a very similar evacuation initiative prior to the storming of Fallujah!

Boiling the complaint down to "we accuse the Syrian Government and Russia of planning to win" makes them look suitably ridiculous.
 
SANA and Almasdar have been reporting all day that civilians from East Aleppo are starting to trickle out through the Humanitarian Corridors and that some fighters are also laying down their weapons and exiting as well.

Now the story is also being carried by the BBC (and presumably other MSM outlets) so it seems that it is true.

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... I don't know what's true and what isn't, but I saw this claim in Twitter:

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Syrian state media publishes images claiming to be civilians entering from rebel-controlled Eastern Aleppo through "humanitarian corners" but local sources confirmed the fact that these images were not as they were claimed and that they were taken in areas under the control of Syrian Gov forces in the neighborhood of Salahuddin this morning in Aleppo during the distribution of aid to the population of the region by a charity.
the picture to the left is in your
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LOL now I realized people took Mr. Assad with them (while "starting to trickle out" perhaps?)
 
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... and now I read the Government carved out "Maydaa" (in the red ellipse below) from the Eastern Ghouta Pocket (which automatically shows at
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... and recently "Hawsh ash Shalaq" (to the south-west from Maydaa), which I believe is "Hawsh al-Farah" in the most recent "miladvisor" map:
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delft

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Russia to open 4 more humanitarian corridors out of Syria’ Aleppo
Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:38PM

Russia has announced that four additional “humanitarian corridors” will be opened for Syrian civilians to leave the besieged city of Aleppo.

“Four humanitarian corridors are being opened, in addition to those prepared earlier for the exit of civilians from Aleppo neighborhoods controlled by militants,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

It added that three corridors had already begun working in the area.

Some 169 civilians have been able to get out of “the neighborhoods controlled by illegal armed groups through the exit points,” since the start of the humanitarian operation, the statement noted.

The Russian ministry also said that 85 civilians left the eastern parts of Aleppo on Friday, with 52 more on Saturday, adding that the Syrian government has "prepared six humanitarian aid centers which can accommodate three thousand people."

The ministry further said that 69 militants have laid down arms and 59 people received medical treatment.

The announcement comes as dozens of Syrian families are leaving militant-held neighborhoods of Aleppo through safe passages created by the Syrian army.

Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported on Saturday that among those evacuating the eastern areas of Aleppo were armed militants who handed over their weapons and surrendered to authorities.

Some of them have arrived in temporary shelters set up by the army in the western part of Aleppo, the report said.

State television broadcast footage showed civilians, mostly women and children, walking under the watch of government troops and boarding buses.

It also showed a handful of young men, who were surrendering to government forces. All had covered their faces, and most were carrying weapons aloft.

Earlier this week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad offered an amnesty to militants who lay down their arms and surrender to authorities in the next three months.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that around 20 people had crossed into government-controlled territory during the evacuation on Saturday.

The latest developments come after the Syrian army and allied forces cut off all supply routes through the Castello Road used by militants into eastern Aleppo.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
Numbers are small as yet but the human shield of the terrorists is leaking away.
The time mentioned at the top is probably Tehran time.
 
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Numbers are small as yet but the human shield of the terrorists is leaking away.
The time mentioned at the top is probably Tehran time.
for Russians, it's always ИГИЛ:
Published on Jul 30, 2016
Footage released by RT Arabic on Saturday shows Syrian refugees who left the parts of Aleppo occupied by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formally ISIS/ISIL) via humanitarian corridors.
 
Czech story now: yet unidentified Czech citizen (a male) wanted to join ISIL in January of this year, got caught by Turks, who sent him back, and only recently he was put into pre-trial detention (he confessed (it was found out he had Liked :) jihadi videos in Twitter), faces from three to twelve years in prison ... assuming he's sane which I doubt)
 
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