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

... They send the naval task force home. ...
actually they had the CIA trained (
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) Libyan visitor
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on board this week:
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(more pictures, video inside
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Monday at 8:28 PM
... Iraqi units still willing to fight

(for example entering the now fortified campus of the University of Mosul: in the middle in the map below)

...
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... just an update:
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the Iraqis got to the next bridge from the south ... are saying they're getting ready to storm the campus;

to check the above view (coming of course from
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as of right now) found this exotic map in a pro-Iraqi Twitter account
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the location of the campus indicated by the Mosul University logo:
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(plus by the text, I guess, which I can't read though :)
 
Nov 27, 2016
... as in
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By
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24/11/2016

(emoticon of wink)
I expect those Egyptian planes to arrive, if they arrive at all, in about two months time.
in the meantime By
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- 12/01/2017 brought F-35 in:
Video footage of Israeli jets attacking Damascus
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Nov 27, 2016

in the meantime By
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- 12/01/2017 brought F-35 in:
Video footage of Israeli jets attacking Damascus
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JEts? F35's? Another "News Agency"
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Of course investigating what happened is not as fun as pointing Fingers at Israel, It's not like there is a War going on or anything.



WARNING WARNING HIGH LEVELS OF SARCASM!!!
 
Yesterday at 8:16 PM
Monday at 8:28 PM
... just an update:
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the Iraqis got to the next bridge from the south ... are saying they're getting ready to storm the campus;

...
... and now I went through sources again ... optimistic view:
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for example the Iraqis up one more bridge; in the campus (I guess the TV says things are great)
... less optimistic views in Russian Internet:
I'll wait to see what actually happens
 
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the map (
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) is from yesterday, which means obsolete, but shows the shear size of Mosul on the west bank, too
(the Tigris in the area where the bridges are appears to be about 500 m wide)
 
Nov 20, 2016
Oct 30, 2016

... was the last in a long "carving Eastern Ghouta Pocket" series, now:
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(it's
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an update (it's
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it's above me how incomparably bigger Aleppo fell in coupla weeks

EDIT
now I kept clicking back from the above post until I got to
Dec 8, 2015
and of course it's been holding for two (?) years already at that time (and I hadn't heard of it until then)
 
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Yesterday at 8:39 PM
now
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another "forgotten" battlefield:
... (
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Government has been under attack recently in Deir Ezzor; I tried to find details (also watched Government combat video from yesterday) and it seems ISIL pushed against, ironically, 'Cemetery' (the area in the green ellipse I put into the map I quoted above) and the inner perimeter of 'Airport'
(in the blue ellipse is the checkpoint which fell to ISIL ... according to what I read in Twitter):
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very unpopular topic, I know
 
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