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

Yesterday at 3:11 PM
commenting on the remaining enclaves in the Government-held territory Aug 24, 2016
now it looks like the time has come:
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today Government began a large scale ground offensive:
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Today at 5:34 PM
Yesterday at 3:11 PM
today Government began a large scale ground offensive:
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Today, Syrian Government forces commenced long awaited Operation
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in order to clear the East
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pocket near
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city.
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advanced swiftly and secured Hazrama, Salihiyah, Nashabiyah and important Farzat hill.
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Dizasta1

Senior Member
Pilot error?!! Ha ha ha .... yeah and I am the next President of the United States. Their hubris is so ridiculous it's even funny anymore. Take the risk, if success is achieved, then gloat about it till the end of time. And you fail, then deny it till your dying breath.

Israel blames F-16 downing in Syria operation on ‘pilot error’

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet, shot down by Syrian air defenses during Israeli raids on Iranian targets earlier this month, apparently crashed only because its pilot made a mistake, an Israeli Air Force investigation has claimed.

On February 10, the Israeli Air Force lost one of its supersonic fighters while striking Iranian targets on Syrian territory. Tel Aviv had launched the biggest air raid operation in over three decades after intercepting an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace. Swiftly reacting to the ongoing “retaliatory attack,” the Syrian government activated its air defenses in order to try and intercept incoming missiles – and eventually hit one of the Israeli F-16 fighter jets which had breached Syrian airspace.

On Sunday, the Israelis confirmed that the F-16 was taken down by the Soviet-built S-200 surface-to-air (SAM) missile system, known to NATO as the SA-5.
Following the incident, in which both pilots of the Israeli aircraft survived, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched its own investigation into the causes of the crash. After analyzing the chronological order of events during the Israeli strikes and the Syrian response to it, the internal review of the Israeli experts
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that a pilot mistake was responsible for the F-16 takedown.

“On the balance of completing the mission versus defending themselves... the aircrew failed to adequately defend itself. Its actions did not match the needed order of priorities to address the missile threat it faced,” the report
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, according to Haaretz. Furthermore, Israeli pilots were well aware that they would be exposed to enemy fire during their mission to destroy the Iranian drone command and control center.

“In the operational theatre, there were a number of planes that did indeed defend themselves against the Syrian launchings while completing their mission. One of the planes that did not defend itself, was hit,” a senior Israel Air Force officer
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reporters, commenting on the conclusion of the probe, Reuters reports.

At the same time, the IAF said that the pilots did the right thing by ejecting from the plane, calling it a decision that saved their lives. The conclusion of the probe, made public on Sunday, revealed that the crew possessed the adequate intelligence to complete the mission. It also added that the F-16’s warning systems had behaved properly at the time of the incident.

Israel remains undeterred by the takedown of its F-16, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared following the incident, using the events of February 10 to issue new threats against Iran, whose forces are involved in the Syrian conflict at Damascus' invitation.

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Yesterday at 5:22 PM
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now I see I could've waited for it (
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), but didn't Yesterday at 2:50 PM
actually Turks got into the northernmost corner (
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area) since yesterday
later Turks fully cut off Kurds from the Syria-Turkey border (I post this map as now I saw it repeatedly retweeted; its source is
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timepass

Brigadier
Over 400 people have been killed in Syria in the last five days.

150 of them were children.....Why is the world in silence now ?


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Today at 5:34 PM
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Today, Syrian Government forces commenced long awaited Operation
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in order to clear the East
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pocket near
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city.
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advanced swiftly and secured Hazrama, Salihiyah, Nashabiyah and important Farzat hill.
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and here's that pro-Government source again:
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doesn't confirm the Government gains, so let's wait and see
 

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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Moderator - World Affairs
The news reportings in the West never mentioned which group of jihadists the rebels in Eastern Ghouta belongs to. I assume they are from Al Nusra? If so, all those people should surrender or deserve to be killed.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Over 400 people have been killed in Syria in the last five days.

150 of them were children.....Why is the world in silence now ?


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Because the white helmets have been caught out exaggerating or even staging and fabricating civilian casualties (often by rounding up and killing civilians themselves) far too many times in the past for most seasoned observers to keep falling for their cookie cutter propaganda tricks?

The next phase of the terrorist propaganda playbook involve chemical weapons attacks on militarily utterly worthless targets on such a small scale as to have absolutely zero affect other than provide a perfect pretext for western military intervention. So of course it makes perfect sense that only Assad would order such attacks.

The Saudis have killed far more civilians in single air strikes in Yemen before, not to mention the humanitarian catastrophe they are wilfulling inflicting upon the civilian population there.

The ‘world’ (read western governments) only care about civilian casualties when it suits and profirs them to care.

The kinds of people fighting in Syria won’t hesitate for a second to murder as many civilian women and children as they can find it they think sending perfectly composed ultra HD pictures of their corpses will help their cause.

By falling for their propaganda tricks, all that is done is create more incentive for them to maximise civilian casualties by any and all means necessary.

Please do not be naive in thinking Assad is the only monster involved in this butchery, or that he is even remotely the worst.
 
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