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

[Jura The idiot]

Jan 6, 2017

it's Breaking News

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at gazeta.ru right now: Russians will [very soon] reduce their forces in Syria, the first to leave is [what I would call] the Kuznetsov CVBG (officially it's like the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet), says

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while NOT to leave are AA S-300s and ASh / LA (Nov 15, 2016) Bastions, "an informed source" told Интерфакс:

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what a revelation

 

[Jura The idiot]

Today at 12:07 PM

Yesterday at 8:39 PM

Government has been under attack recently in Deir Ezzor; I tried to find details ...

very unpopular topic, I know

two new maps (both should be "clickable"):

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[Jura The idiot]

Yesterday at 7:22 PM

Today at 12:07 PM

two new maps (both should be "clickable"):

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... and now I noticed pessimism which had arrived into Twitter and the related blog by "Cassad"

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(pictures inside)
after info claiming ISIL in 'Assad Hospital' (it's the only hospital marked in the above map)

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which would pretty much mean splitting the Government forces in Deir Ezzor ... now it seems it's not that bad but who knows (maybe just a mood of optimism returned among Internet watchers??)

let's wait and see

 

[Jura The idiot]

... splitting the Government forces in Deir Ezzor ...

... now I briefly checked Twitter (plus

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) and according to what I read it would seem to me ISIL is closest between
'Cementery' (Yesterday at 12:07 PM; ISIL didn't get into it, I approximated the positions in this area by the black line in the map below) and
'al-Maqabis' (a factory? marked in the map below; ISIL-held part of the town is further into the northeastern corner) which Government lost today:

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EDIT of course this is unconfirmed, but the situation is getting critical for Government in Deir Ezzor

 

[Jura The idiot]

Today at 12:37 PM

... now I briefly checked Twitter (plus

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) and according to what I read it would seem to me ISIL is closest between
'Cementery' (Yesterday at 12:07 PM; ISIL didn't get into it, I approximated the positions in this area by the black line in the map below) and
'al-Maqabis' (a factory? marked in the map below; ISIL-held part of the town is further into the northeastern corner) which Government lost today:

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EDIT of course this is unconfirmed, but the situation is getting critical for Government in Deir Ezzor

it's been split by now; the width of the gap ... depends on the map you would look at inside

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[Jura The idiot]

(related to the ISIL action against Government in

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):

Yesterday at 6:53 PM

Today at 12:37 PM

it's been split by now; the width of the gap ... depends on the map you would look at inside

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now I looked there and:

the most recent is the attack (marked automatically) against the biggest base ... "Cassad" mentions it in the update to the related blog

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let me see ... as of now, ISIL probably in Panorama Base, in Cemetery, ...
EDIT after zooming in ... ISIL not in University nor Hospital:

 

[Jura The idiot]

(related to the ISIL action against Government in

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):

...

now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
so I checked the first page of

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and within around fifty articles there, which appeared during last six hours (majority is Astana, Kazakhstan blah blah and blah), I noticed just three, from sources as varied as

1. Farsnews Syria: 14,000 ISIL Terrorists Start Advancing in Deir Ezzur, City to Airbase Road Cut off
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   and Hundreds of Fresh Army Soldiers, Hezbollah Fighters Sent to Deir Ezzur to Face ISIL
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   and
   
2. The Voice of America
   Fighting Forces UN to Suspend Food Airdrops to Besieged Syrian City
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(sorry if I missed any, of course Deir Ezzor might be mentioned inside of some other articles, but still)

 

[Jura The idiot]

Today at 6:30 PM

now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
...

... actually around that time (17.01.2017, 19:11) gazeta.ru

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posted surprisingly (yes, even to me) pessimistic (yes, even to me) article "Assad Is Loosing The Last Town In The East"
gosh

EDIT
frigging scary collection of VBIED attacks from yesterday: the vid inside of

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[Jura The idiot]

Saturday at 7:43 PM

Thursday at 8:16 PM

now the campus shown as taken by the Iraqis:

just checked the new edition:

 

[PanAsian]

now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
so I checked the first page of

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and within around fifty articles there, which appeared during last six hours (majority is Astana, Kazakhstan blah blah and blah), I noticed just three, from sources as varied as

1. Farsnews Syria: 14,000 ISIL Terrorists Start Advancing in Deir Ezzur, City to Airbase Road Cut off
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   and Hundreds of Fresh Army Soldiers, Hezbollah Fighters Sent to Deir Ezzur to Face ISIL
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   and
   
2. The Voice of America
   Fighting Forces UN to Suspend Food Airdrops to Besieged Syrian City
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(sorry if I missed any, of course Deir Ezzor might be mentioned inside of some other articles, but still)

Obviously 14K IS fighters advancing on Deir Ezzor has to be an exaggeration though with IS' recent territorial losses elsewhere it isn't surprising that they are able to focus a large number of their forces in this area. Either way this move should have been long expected by the Syrian government, Iran (thereby their earlier insistence on encircling IS in Mosul), and Russia, so they should be as prepared as possible.