International Isis/syria/iraq thread

[whougonnacall]

SAA advancing east/NE in northern Aleppo in order to reash YPG held area to block Turkish forces from advancing further.

To be fait i dont think that was ever the point ...this was all set in play by those edrogan -putin meetings
The turks are apparently gearing up....for manbij!!!
Trump needs to jump in now and sort shit out between these 2 or the dream of taking out isis in 2017 ends ina turk -kurd war

 

[Videer]

AQ deputy leader Abu Khayr al-Masri believed to have been droned in Idlib.

Munition (probably Hellfire) does not appear to have detonated, death by kinetic energy.

 

[whougonnacall]

Clashes reported between iranians/tiger forces vs fsa-turks just below al bab at tadef

 

[Videer]

Due to recent SAA and SDF gains the Turkish led Euphrates Shield is blocked from further advances unless it fights SAA or SDF in northern Aleppo.

In Iraq road rage has reached the boiling point as a IS SVBIED is filmed trying to chase down a PMU bulldozer in Tal Afar.

 

[whougonnacall]

-shit just got real edrogan announces manbij is next target of his forces
U.s troops have been seen there as a sort of buffer to try and warn turks off
Meanwhile kurd fighters seen pouring in from iraq to start the planned push on isis in deir el zour

-meanwhile in deera fsa making progress vs isis in south west

-isis reportedly arrest 15 men in raqqua in connection to isis troops dying behind the lines....sounds like resistance there still alive.

-geneva talks predictably go nowhere

-back and forth palymyra battles between isis and pro regime militas ,rolling blackouts in damascus
Rumours assad has asked iranians and russia to proritize a push on oil fields.

-white helmets win oscar ,82k humans pulled from rubble and you win a piece of tin at the worts orgainised oscars ever...seems fair

 

[whougonnacall]

China and russia veto sanctions on syrian regime.over chem weapon use

Centecom says it never promised sdf/ypg protection from turks as they take 2 villages in assault on the kurds..
So assault on isis in raqqua seems off now!

 

[Jim Bob]

Ralph Peters

 

[whougonnacall]

So un aleppo report released and has been interesting
-aleppo forced removal officaly a war crime...add it to regimes list

Russian propaganda gets pwned at un today too in aleppo report
Russia: un aid convoy set on fire..
Offical report details its strike from air

Russia:west bombed aid convoy if anyone ....report details russia and syria complete control of skies only planes in area at time

Russia: no hospitals targetted....report: hospitals systematucly targetted

Russia: people had plenty of food...report : aid convoys blocked and bakeriesand food supply areas targetted!

Not that any of this will go anywhere!

Other news turks bombing menagh airport and may already have taken 2 villages from kurds

-russian and iranian efforts to retake palmyra for regime close to paying off , 5 seperate pro regime militas have flown in and been coordinating with huge russian airstrikes and ka-52 close air support to push the back and forth battles for the area towards the town...now it seems the air power has paid off and the town may fall again.

-turkey has offered u.s assurance over raqqua anti isis push..that if they are allowed to push kurds back they will replace plannwd kurd -arab sdf march on raqqua after with 7k turk forced and 15k fsa

 

[Videer]

It is hobby drones for everyone! powpow!



Palmyra re-captured by SAA and its allies, they'll probs lose it again unless they clear the north and push towards Deir ez Zor.

 

[whougonnacall]

Tensions high as turks not backing off manbij idea , kurds may have reached out to regime for temp alliance and offered them villages around the city...in return they clearly hope the edrogan putin deal protection will extend to them.

-various fsa factions in daara unite in pledge to finaly wipe out isis pocket there

 

[whougonnacall]

- rumours mabij will be handed over or spilt with regine to block turks

-geneva talks break down as regime adds dealing with 'terrorists' as part of any transition deal...givem they have defined that as anything resisitng it himts thiss has all been useless

 

[Videer]

Peshmerga attacking Yazidi militia that is affiliated with PKK in Sinjar (PKK gained a foothold in the area during IS onslaught in 2014 when Pesh ran and PKK sent in aid and trainers). For a good read the following is a nice Twitter thread explaining the situation:

 

[Undying Poster]

Peshmerga attacking Yazidi militia that is affiliated with PKK in Sinjar (PKK gained a foothold in the area during IS onslaught in 2014 when Pesh ran and PKK sent in aid and trainers). For a good read the following is a nice Twitter thread explaining the situation:

Extremely interesting but I would prefer if he wrote an article instead of 80 tweets of 140 characters. Well, I wrote that because he was giving a lot of background that would be better suited to an article but he had to write it to make current events have some context.

 

[Videer]

T-62's and T-55's captured by IS destroyed by US airstrikes inside hardened aircraft shelters in now re-captured Palmyra airport.

Spoiler: pics

 

[GhostZ06]

french spec ops

 

[whougonnacall]

Muddled reports from manbij
Some say turk and sdf forces engaged in clashes
Talk of russian arms and food convoys arriving as well as u.s troops (rangers) deployed to deter turk-fsa assault on place
Rumours The turks themselves may have started talk of sdf handing over town/half the town to regime to cause civilians to flee it.

Rebels down mig 21 over idib attacking civilians....more likely system failure

Russian general loses limbs and eye to isis landmine in palmyra

 

[GhostZ06]

Muddled reports from manbij
Some say turk and sdf forces engaged in clashes
Talk of russian arms and food convoys arriving as well as u.s troops (rangers) deployed to deter turk-fsa assault on place
Rumours The turks themselves may have started talk of sdf handing over town/half the town to regime to cause civilians to flee it.

Rebels down mig 21 over idib attacking civilians....more likely system failure

Russian general loses limbs and eye to isis landmine in palmyra

i see the russians getting more involed now....


lol@ them bring down a mig-21..

 

[whougonnacall]

i see the russians getting more involed now....


lol@ them bring down a mig-21..

Id say the russians are as involved as they wanna be ..they want things to settlw down not keep dragging on or get worse


Yeah no way anything but fluke aa round took it down, far morire likely to be poor maintenence

 

[Videer]

Someones been gifted a bunch of T-90A's.

 

[RIPWarrior]

Does anyone know how the SAA is doing in Deir ez Zor?