Developments Feb18 >Tu-95 bombs ISIS in Raqqa >SAA 15km from Palmyra >SDF liberate prison on the outskirts of Raqqa >UsAF propels SDF in taking Balash,Bir Adman,Jarwan >SAA ambush insurgents at Jobar district in E Damascus >Journalist: IDF enter Syrian territory to fight jihadist who came to close >SAA begin important offensive in E Damascus suburbs of Al-Qaboun and Barzeh >SAA foils IS attack in Deir Ezzor >IS attempts to halt SAA advance by flooding east Aleppo villages >British commander: Kurds will take ISIS-held Raqqa, not Turkey >Pakistani forces exterminate 100+ jihadists in Afghanistan >Scores of Sudanese, Emirati soldiers killed by Houthi missile strike in W Yemen-near Mocha Port >IS kills 17 Afghan Army soldiers >W.Mosul offensive begins.
Our city news has been shilling the "horror of the US raid" in Yemen on Al-Qaeda there by interviewing/quoting this guy who is admittedly a long time family member of top Al-Qaeda operatives.
Goddamnit fake news can we not interview terrorists just to score talking points against Trump
Isaac Nelson
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William Kelly
yeah yeah And then what? assault the city and create a mosul battle 10 times worse?
Chase Harris
An israeli drone strike kills five civilians at chibana village near rafah in sinai
Adrian Jones
yeah how media twisted that story is hilarious, they literally took info and pics from AQ members and used it to shill against Trump (especially that pic of the girl in the red dress)
Jason Long
i wonder if nobama handed him the mission knowing it was flawed?
Michael Thompson
YPG have little heavy weapons and little experience sieging cities and doing urban fighting Their numbers are inflated They got wrecked in manbij
Even their foreign fighters admit they are all going to die in raqqa
Isaac Smith
So kurds will probably be in a stalemate with isis. Will they pull forces from deir ezzor?
Henry Barnes
I mean that operation was a fucking failure indeed
But Trump has nothing to do with it. President has like 3 hours to approve or dissaprove of the operation.
Same shit could have happened under Obama
But the media using Al Qaida officials as sources to discredit trump is just pathetic
Brayden Flores
THE FIRE RISES
Aiden Campbell
He knew civilians would die (or even if they don't, that it would be claimed by whatever group) so yeah, better pass on this one.
Parker Watson
Hold ground and attack somewhere to the East.
Camden Flores
How fares the war boys. We winning yet?
Gabriel Stewart
Was there ever an actual attempt to take mosul? Seems like it is still in ISIS hands.
Elijah Ortiz
Nice use of a proxy friend, kek'd
Andrew Rodriguez
Liberation of palmyra is coming
Logan Baker
east half is in iraqi hands now. they lost a lot of soldiers i guess though
Kevin Smith
Isn't Raqqa much smaller than Mosul?
Raqqa should be easier to take than Mosul, no?
Josiah Nguyen
who's we?
Benjamin Butler
yeah, December was the month they had to rethink their strategy or waste their entire army in one city
Christian Gutierrez
Team assad of course
Isaiah Russell
Yep I noticed this aswell. Wasn't a particular good fight for iraq.
Colton Robinson
Can't believe it's been 5 years. I remember vividly that half of Sup Forums thought Assad would be ousted and executed within a year. Holy shit time flies.
Hunter Mitchell
> UN says civilians at extreme risk as west Mosul offensive begins
Early advances by Iraqi forces meet limited resistance but Isis thought to have prepared ambush points in urban centre
> The battle for Mosul: 'I have never seen such hard fighting like this'
Iraqi forces have been trying to oust Isis since October but they must fight among, protect and win over the many thousands of civilians in the city, finds Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in a report made in collaboration with PBS’s Frontline
>SVBIEDs should be banned Edition Can someone explain the title? Did someone really say this?
Christopher Powell
5 years, 11 months and 4 days, you mean.
Parker Robinson
Since Russia decided to help Assad, i knew he would not get ousted
Oliver Bell
Funny how the media leaves out all of Obama and US operations in Yemen with Saudi Arabia, only to act all surprised when there is an op under Trump. We get NOTHING, literally NOTHING about Yemen here in the States on any mainstream media.
got that pic? I haven't seen it.
Grayson Powell
i thought Sup Forums didn't exist when it kicked off
also it's been 6 years
Jonathan Ward
OP's pic is results of SVBIED.
Luke Parker
>At Florida rally president refers to attack in Sweden that did not happen, possibly confusing it with Sehwan in Pakistan Kek, Trumpftards BTFO
Liam Hughes
I distinctly recall being in Arab Spring threads. They were on Sup Forums back then, if I recall correctly.
I saw a 2016 video of all the weapons police seized in one MONTH, shit looked like it was from fucking iraq.
Only thing missing from the typical middle eastern mix is carbombs now
Andrew Cox
just type "yemen raid girl" into google she got killed during the raid (I think there was a heli doing some very hot air support because the situation was SHTF, but the story presented it as if a us death squad broke into her house and executed her)
Nolan Jones
Oh shit oh shit oh shit. They will start liberating airport tomorrow. Fucking glorious.
David Reyes
What are the turks up to?
Jayden Jones
attacking the Kurds again, what else is new?
their whole incursion is just an excuse to stop Rojava expanding
Wyatt Jones
In other news how is the Mosul and Haditha dam still operating?? Both have estimates to catastrophic failure any day now killing 1M people or so. I think they're only still operating because ISIS actually started maintaining it whereas local gov never gave a shit and just looted the dams and misspent the maint money.
Yeah it all seemed really weird how Turkey was being blamed for funneling ISIS troops and material into Syria and then when the Kurds get cut off from Turkey, the Turks decide to "intervene" and pretty much connects up with ISIS territory again.
Charles Russell
ye its funny cause the attack was supposedly planned and scheduled to be done under Obama's admin, but because of some weather conditions (they wanted a moonless night) it was postponed and eventually greenlighted under T so it became "Trump's raid on Yemeni civilians"
Brody Martin
Just the usual retaliation. I remember some info how Tiger allowed one guy from his unit to behead nusrat that killed that soldier's borther.
When IS overran the remaining ISF positions in Ramadi in May 2015 and captured the entire city, close to 30 up-armored SVBIEDs were used in the offensive.[23] In multiple instances the up-armored SVBIEDs were preceded by up-armored front-end loaders and bulldozers that removed concrete blast barriers in order to clear the way for the SVBIEDs. In one such case, an up-armored SVBIED based on a front-end loader barreled through two layers of concrete blast barriers protecting an ISF position, before detonating right on target. The up-armored SVBIED that came afterwards took the same route, and the subsequent detonation caused the 8-story building to collapse. This is a clear demonstration of the important function that heavy construction equipment can serve in conjunction with or in use as up-armored SVBIEDs, especially when attacking fortified targets.
Colton Gray
>the Kurds cut off ISIS from Turkey*
John Anderson
The Mosul dam is under Kurdish control and there an Italian army unit stationed there which guards an Italian construction company that works on the dam. It' safe. Dunno bout the other one you mention.
Chase Gutierrez
The media interviewing these terrorist family members is the icing on the propaganda cake though "The Americans never went into any buildings" is what they keep repeating trying to peddle that the mission was a failure and no 'intel' was found
Angel Reyes
i am amazed how people are still surprised when turkey attacks kurds. like erdog is not constantly saying about it. my god you two are absolute idiots. a pan written "we will attack manjib" would smash you guys in the face you would still be surprised when we attack kurds.
Colton Rivera
I'm surprised anything serious hasn't happened yet in Sweden. Their legal system is more intent on punishing some random cop who ranted about immigrants committing too much crime, than actually stopping the killings in Malmö.
Jonathan Roberts
butthurt because of al-bab.
>lets see if we can kill other guys more efficiently, we dont like.
Is it really that bad? I expected the memes to be overblown.
Yeah first pic, damn, she was a qt too.
Yeah, whoever gets the money together for a non meme media outlet that can cover the middle east in English will have a market to tap. Only problem is people being too apathetic, but good media gets people to care.
Noah Murphy
Sweden yes!!!
Brandon Edwards
>youtube.com/watch?v=SPbxU1KIGhc How well trained are the newly trained recruits? How do they compare to real militaries in the area?
Or do they just basically know how to roll and fire their weapons somewhat accurately? I wonder what kind of tactical training they get
Luke Martin
How many men did iraq lose durong the battle of west mosul i recall that it was around 2000 after that armored column was ambushed but i don't have an estimate of the total numbers
Dominic Bailey
Today Haditha dam is the only dam under isis control. Mosul dam is in Iraqi hands. the dams even while under the control of isis have been service by government engineers for the duration of the war. the current engineers for the dams are still paid by the Iraqi & syrian governments, altho they are held under armed guard by isis. they had to move in close the dams with their families.
we have some americans and an italian or argentinian on these threads who claimed to be heading of on some maintenance contract.
if the dams had been unmaintained they would have collapsed by now.
the problem is one of geology, with the bedrock being of a porous nature. Lots of gypsum if I remember properly. Water just leaks through the floor and dissolves away the gypsum. cavities are refilled as part of maintenance. also if u do a search on youtube you will find a mass media documetary covering mosul dam
Jack Taylor
Sven always with the obvious on his mind.
Brandon Harris
>5 fucking years That's insane, I need reavulue my life
Dylan Hill
Considering how they can't even walk in sync, I doubt they've any real training.
Josiah Miller
>Trayvon was 5 years ago
Jaxon Reed
You don't need training when you have allah, he will guide your bullets. :)
Mason Thompson
>usual retaliation
the seed of the endless cycle....
Evan Nelson
Well they could be valueing other things than marching
Nathaniel Morris
At least 6000
Matthew Torres
Just a human nature dear Afrikano.
Thomas Evans
Malmo IS really that bad.
Crime is skyrocketing, police dont have the manpower to deal with the situation, many are deserting/leaving the job cause they dont want to work such a shitty job etc.
2000 crimes unsolved in 2016
a week ago a 16 year old got shot dead
I mean i wish i could find the pic
the police seized AK-47s, RPGs, grenades
Only thing that was missing was ATGMs and ISIS flags
Then you could think ISIS is preparing an insurgency there top kek
Justin Sanchez
You're fucking joking
Ryan Baker
No wonder the terrorist attacks stopped (for now). ISIS is getting blown up left, right and center.
David Rodriguez
Don't pretend you never drew immature shit as adolescents? Your inability to joke about this tells me something about you guys. Closet homos much?
Well, the Caliph will have to move somewhere, you know.
Wyatt Turner
Fuck me sideways it's true
Parker Johnson
Nah I was only sending dick pics to qts I was texting with.
Easton White
>after that armored column was ambushed
sauce? Was it the one which the female reported got caught in? Do I dare go to that website? its a painful feel I know, feels like yesterday
Dorner was 4 years ago
Carter Davis
>Tonight #BBCNews10: @sommervillebbc on Iraq's frontline vs IS, Sweden asks the US to explain Trump comments + excl intv with Angelina Jolie
Jordan Carter
>Tu-95 bombs ISIS in Raqqa
Good old fashioned carpet bombing?
Nolan Torres
>Do I dare go to that website?
What? Just tell me if that is you who wrote this? I am impressed.
Justin Lee
the romans are closer to us than the romans were to the ancient egyptians
Carson Roberts
Nah, name too spooky I'm afraid i get put on some list
Jaxon Sanchez
That's purpleolive
I follow him on twitter, he is one of the best sources for ISIS related in syria and iraq
Jace Sullivan
>torture videos emerge sandniggers gonna sandnig. as long as they are clean shaven they are /ourguys/
Ryan Foster
dont u think hed recognize his own website? i think purpleolive's personality is pretty distinct from our local swede
Isaac Robinson
Oh, my mistake, will follow then.
Kek
Nolan Richardson
#SyAAF Su-24's stroke today a meeting of #JaishALIslam in #EastGhouta killing 9 top leaders of that terrorist organization.
Chase Fisher
The shitskin areas of Malmö is a great example of what is to come to the rest of the country and a great way for right wing politicians to push harder punishment/stop importation of these shitters. >gets pampered like babies by Sweden >free everything >muh dik mode kicks in via violent american hip hop culture >fuck swedes an shiet >drug gangs fight eachother and the police
Deportations soon inshallah.
We still have the villas and middle class areas, so it's mainly our expendables/unwanted people that gets sacrificed to these barbarians.
Cooper King
so, everytime a torture video gets released, they start a big ass offensive?
