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

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PanAsian

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Jura said:
LOL delft I guess the Kremlin goes farer that you:
‘Deal with the devil’: US ‘ready to ally with terror’ to overthrow Assad – Russia Foreign Ministry
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That's been part of the major issue since the Syrian civil war started, nothing new. The other part has been which factions to work with or not work with, which is a question that also continues to this day without answer.
 
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Jeff Head

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PanAsian said:
That's been part of the major issue since the Syrian civil war started, nothing new. The other part has been which factions to work with or not work with, which is a question that also continues to this day without answer.
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Hillary and her Arab spring were all about this.

A blight on US honor, and led directly to the deaths of the US personnel, including the ambassador, in Libya.

And Stephens was a very loyal Obama and Clinton state department employee.

But when they were betrayed by whomever they were working with...the betrayal ended up working right up both chains.

I would highly recommend to anyone to watch the movie "13 hours."

Heck of a movie. They work hard to not make the thing political, but if you watch in light of this information...it is clear what happened.

And those few guys, who disobeyed orders to save lives, probably saved every one at the Annex addition to the few they were able to get out of the consulate.
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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now Syrian army says it will reduce Aleppo air strikes
Syria's army will reduce air strikes and shelling on rebel-held eastern Aleppo on humanitarian grounds, it said on Wednesday, after mounting international criticism of it and Russia.

Last month, the army - backed by Shi'ite militias from Lebanon and Iraq, and by Russian jets - launched a new offensive involving one of the five-year-old war's heaviest bombardments in eastern Aleppo after a week-long ceasefire collapsed.

Air strikes and shelling on rebel-held eastern Aleppo, and insurgent shelling of the government-held west of the city, have killed hundreds of civilians since the offensive began on Sept. 19, according to residents and war monitors.

The ferocity of the bombardment, which has included repeated air strikes on hospitals in rebel-held areas, has drawn intense criticism from aid agencies, with the U.N.'s rights chief on Tuesday warning it may amount to a war crime.

It has also created new friction between the United States, which backs some rebel groups, and Russia, which supports President Bashar al-Assad and led to Washington breaking off talks with Moscow over renewing the ceasefire.

In a statement distributed by a Syrian military source, the army's general command said its decision on Wednesday to reduce air strikes and shelling came after it had succeeded in cutting off all entry roads into Aleppo used by insurgents.

It said the decision had been taken to improve conditions for civilians, whom it said were being used as human shields, and to allow people who wanted to leave to get to safer areas.

The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced half the country's pre-war population.

The rebel-held eastern zone of the city has been effectively besieged by the army and its allies since mid-September, and about half of its approximately 275,000 inhabitants may want to leave as food and fuel runs short, the U.N. said on Wednesday.

Since the offensive began, the army and its allies have made territorial gains in the northern part of Aleppo, capturing the Handarat refugee camp, and have also taken control of smaller areas in the south and in the city center.


The Syrian military source also said the army had on Wednesday gained control of several factories in the industrial district of al-Oweija, south of Handarat camp.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, confirmed the government's gains in that area and said that fierce battles were raging on other fronts in Aleppo, including around Bustan Pasha and Suleiman al-Halabi.
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Jura The idiot

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(related to north-to-Hama lines)
Monday at 8:56 PM
Jura said:
Saturday at 12:23 PM

... and so far this map is probably relevant ...
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... and today I read about Rebels trying to get to
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    ("Jubbayn" in the blue ellipse below) and
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    ("Tell Mallah" in the blue ellipse below):
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so the map seems be useful, sort of (I admit I wasn't sure while creating this on Saturday :)
 
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delft

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I quote from
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Put differently, Russians are inclined to agree with what Tehran has been saying all along. Moscow, therefore, switched tack and put its resources behind the Syrian operations to capture the strategic city of Aleppo. The military campaign is within sight of victory.

That is, unless there is a US intervention in the coming days to tilt the military balance in favour of extremist groups that are trapped in the eastern districts of Aleppo with supply lines for reinforcements cut.

The main thrust of the multi-pronged attack by government forces, backed by crack Hezbollah units and Shi’ite militia, is from the southeast of Aleppo with massive Russian aerial bombardment and a brigade-strong Russian contingent positioning itself reportedly in the rear to reinforce the main attack if need arises.
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U.S. military strikes against the Assad regime will be back on the table Wednesday at the White House, when top national security officials in the Obama administration are set to discuss options for the way forward in Syria.
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Is that Russian force intended to deter air attacks on the Syrian army while it fights to destroy the Al Qeada force in East Aleppo?
 
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taxiya

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solarz said:
If so, then Syria will truly become a proxy war between the US and Russia.
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I think it would be a direct war than proxy war because it is Russian soldiers on the ground, airstrikes on them from any airforce (US in this IF) is a direct war action.

But so far, it is just a big IF, let's wait for some confirmation of the "brigade size deployment".
 
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