Developments Aug 15 >DeZ:clashes ongoing as IS pushes towards airport from Al-Ta’meen Base&Thardeh Mountains >SAA advances in Homs prov & attempts to cut off IS supply line between Homs/Raqqa and close in on Uqayribat >Raqqa CS:SAA liberates Kawm oasis, 30 km to Sukhnah >Raqqa:IS penetrates SDF defences in Rumaniyah district >Jobar:SAA capture several sites >Ayn Tarma:video emerges of Faylaq Al-Rahman detonating tunnel bomb under SAA, 10 dead >JaI assasinates HTS leader in retaliation for commander’s murder, E ghouta >SAA surrounds Humaymah village, W of T2 >US-backed-SDF release 75 IS members >US Boosts Military Aid To Lebanon:Close air support aircraft along with 100+ vehicles >Lebanese Army convoy arrives near Sy border for IS offensive >Turkish Army renews offensive on Kurdish-held villages in N Aleppo >17soldiers dead, 35 injured in IS Pakistan attack >Is claims shelling in Tal Afar(iraq) killed 2 US soldiers,5 injured >IS kills&captures Houthis in central Yemen raid >Houthi forces attack Saudi Coalition warship off Yemeni coast
The Houthes are my favorite Syrian military squadron so I hope they get along well with Lebonnon FUCK MUSLIM LONG LIVE BESHAR #MAGA
Brandon Hughes
How about something relevant in the 21st century instead of 20th century Marxist delusions that have been proven incorrect simply through the passage of time?
Jonathan Nguyen
Dude, imagine having a set of action figures of the Tiger, the Druze Beast and Assad. That would be cool.
Jace Anderson
Iraq starts bombing ISIS-held Tal Afar, west of Mosul – report Iraq has begun an aerial bombardment of Tal Afar, a town under Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) control west of Mosul, Baghdad-based al-Sumariya TV said on Tuesday, citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman. The ground attack to try to take the city should start when the air campaign is over, the spokesman, Mohammed al-Khodari, said, according to the TV channel. Iraqi authorities had said Tal Afar, 80km west of Mosul, will be the next target in the war on the Islamist militant group that swept through swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. IS’s self-proclaimed “caliphate” effectively collapsed last month, when US-backed Iraqi forces completed the recapture of the militants’ “capital” in Iraq, Mosul, after a nine-month campaign. (Reuters)
Jeremiah Myers
hahahaha fuckig epic bro
Michael Lee
Taiwan says on high alert after recent Chinese Air Force drills Taiwan’s military is on a high state of alert following three straight days of drills by the Chinese Air Force near to the self-ruled island which Beijing claims as its own, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Chinese aircraft, which have included bombers and advanced fighter jets, have been staging exercises flying through the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines and up to the north of Taiwan by Japan’s Miyako island, according to Taiwan’s government. “Our Air Force and Navy will stay on high alert to prevent them from intruding upon our territorial waters or airspace or even engaging in hostility,” said ministry spokesman Chen Chung-ji. China has yet to comment on the exercises, though has in the past described them as routine. (Reuters)
Brody Ramirez
Modi urges India to reject violence in name of religion Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged India on Tuesday to reject religious violence, after a series of attacks against minorities sparked debate about whether a surge of Hindu nationalism is undermining the country’s secular ideals. In a speech from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort marking the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, Modi also listed his government’s achievements, including a fight against corruption. The speech was light on foreign policy, making no mention of arch-rival Pakistan or of China. India has for nearly two months stationed hundreds of troops along its northern border with China because of a territorial dispute. (Reuters)
Robert Ross
Assad a cute
Asher Sullivan
Iran could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if new US sanctions imposed – Rouhani Iran could abandon its nuclear deal with world powers “within hours,” if the United States continues to impose new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. “If America wants to go back to the experience [of imposing sanctions], Iran would certainly return in a short time - not a week or a month but within hours - to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations,” Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television. (Reuters)
Lincoln Robinson
Or Asma waifu pillow! Here, a solution how to get money for rebuilding Syria
Wyatt James
Suspected ISIS terrorist kills Turkish police officer in Istanbul A suspected Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist stabbed a Turkish police officer to death while being taken to the Istanbul police headquarters, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The man, suspected of preparing a bomb attack, had been detained in an operation by anti-terrorism police. The wounded officer succumbed to his stab wounds after being taken to hospital. (Reuters)
Joshua Lopez
8 foreigners among dead in Burkina Faso attack – minister The “terrorist” attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso killed at least 18 people including eight foreigners and seven locals, the country’s Foreign Minister Alpha Barry said Monday. The foreigners killed in Sunday’s attack included one Frenchman; one Canadian woman; male victims from Senegal, Niger, Lebanon and Turkey; and two Kuwaiti women, while three victims remain unidentified, he said. (AFP)
Parker Perry
Migrant arrivals in Italy fall in July, rise in Spain – Frontex The number of African migrants arriving in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean from Libya dropped by more than half in July from June, the EU’s border agency Frontex said on Monday. But the number of migrants on a secondary, western Mediterranean route to Spain rose sharply last month. Frontex said 10,160 migrants arrived from Northern Africa on Italy’s southern shores in July, 57 percent fewer than in June and the lowest level of arrivals in July since 2014. The agency said 2,300 migrants made it to Spain in July, more than four times as many as a year earlier. Arrivals in Spain in the first seven months were “around 11,000, already exceeding the number for all of 2016,” it said. (Reuters)
Austin Roberts
S on all of you
Levi Hernandez
Iraqi Shiite militias pledge to take part in next ISIS fight Iraq’s Shiite militias say they will participate in the next major battle against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) group after the Iraqi forces’ victory in Mosul last month. The Shite militias did not fight in the urban part of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, but were key in clearing far-flung villages of IS and capturing supply lines in the desert west of Mosul toward Iraq’s border with Syria. The spokesman for the government-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces, mostly made up of Shiite militias says the participation of the militiamen is “essential” in the upcoming fight for the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul. The militias have been accused of sectarian killings and other abuses against Sunni civilians. (AP)
Blake Allen
>A custom Suheil dakimakura I unironically want one.
Blake Flores
Conflict leaves millions hungry in DR Congo – UN Nearly eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of conflict, especially in the central Kasai region, UN food agencies said Monday. “Food security and nutrition… are deteriorating in many parts of DRC, but nowhere is the situation more alarming than in Kasai,” said Claude Jibidar, director of the World Food Program’s operations in the country. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said about 7.7 million people were on the verge of starvation overall in the vast central African country, a 30 percent surge over a year ago. A rebellion has been raging in the diamond-rich Kasai region for the past year, with both the government and rebels accused of atrocities. (AFP)
Anthony Martinez
>Lavrov Says All Intermediary Efforts on Libya Should be UN-Based
All intermediary efforts on Libya should be based on the United Nations and contribute to a dialogue between the Libyan parties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with head of the Libyan National Army Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
"The situation in Libya remains complicated, unfortunately, and the extremism threat has not been countered yet," Lavrov noted. "Though we know about those actions taken to eliminate it."
Moscow supports the tendency "to galvanize processes for political settlement and overall restoration of the statehood of your country," the top diplomat said, TASS news agency reported.
The minister also reiterated about the appointment of a new special representative of the UN secretary-general who is due to visit Moscow soon.
"It is very important now to concentrate all intermediary ideas around the UN, in a political sense," he said. "In this respect, we see this activity as not aimed at developing policy prescriptions, but as contributing to the creation of most favorable conditions for a dialogue between Libya’s key figures so that they could negotiate their country’s future themselves."
Australia drops asylum-seeker secrecy laws Australia is scrapping secrecy laws designed to stop whistleblowers from speaking out about alleged abuse at offshore asylum-seeker detention camps, in a move which campaigners Monday hailed as a victory for free speech. Asylum-seekers who try to reach Australia by boat are either turned back or sent to remote camps in Nauru and on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Refugee advocates and medical professionals have long criticized conditions in the camps, where some detainees have been held for years. The secrecy provisions were introduced in 2015. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last week moved an amendment to the law to restrict the definition of unauthorized disclosures to information relating to the national or public interest. (AFP)
Aiden Moore
we weren't harsh enough on them
Samuel Rogers
So you can dream that he ravages your boiupucci?
Camden Ortiz
>Dunford says US military options are for if sanctions fail – S. Korea US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford said on Monday US military options being prepared against North Korea would be for when diplomatic and economic sanctions failed, South Korea’s president’s office said on Monday. Dunford made the comments to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in a 50-minute meeting to discuss recent issues, office spokesman Park Su-hyun said. Dunford was in Seoul speaking to South Korean military officials, including Defense Minister Song Young-moo. He was due to leave South Korea later on Monday and will make stops in China and Japan this week. (Reuters)
Jose Wilson
>Yemen CB: Saudi-led coalition strangling economy Yemen’s Central Bank, based in the country’s south, is accusing a Saudi-led coalition of blocking flights bringing cash to the country and “strangling” its economy. Governor Mansr al-Qaiti says the blockade deprives Yemen’s internationally-recognized government of the ability to pay salaries for 1 million civil servants. He says the coalition, which is fighting Shiite Houthi rebels to restore al-Qaiti’s government, banned 13 flights carrying cash to the southern port city of Aden since April, “without justification or clear reason.” Al-Qaiti’s remarks reflect deep divisions between the coalition and the government. (AP)
Robert Powell
Why are Russians so much better than Americans at MENA foreign policy when they spend the same amount of money per capita on their military as the Netherlands?
Because Russia isn't trying to destroy the Middle-East.
Connor Campbell
Take all of the Tiger. Asma and Dima are mine!
Liam Carter
diplomacy Russia is better diplomaticly because they actually have to use diplomacy, the US could basically enforce their will on countries without dialogue
Blake Mitchell
Not really, the Iraqis aren't doing what the Americans want at all.
Oliver Nguyen
>Asma and Dima are mine! Go ahead, they're sluts anyway.
Luke Allen
>fuck up their country >think they will obey Uh-oh.
Anthony Robinson
Well it proves my point that's all I'm saying. The Americans have the closest military links with Iraq yet the Iraqis are humiliating them by allying with the Iranians.
Chase Bailey
And will be their pimp, thank you very much.
Colton Wright
New Ukrainian T-72A modernization, the T72AMT
Oliver Gutierrez
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Blake White
Nice camouflage.
Adrian Davis
but national socialism also advocates anti imperialism?
Jaxson Thompson
Exactly, because they tried to enforce their will through military means This doesn't get you anywhere in the region
Jesus, I've done too much hunts. 1st thing to cross my mind: "ok those buildings are in that and that direction,and the trees... WHAT THE FUCK MAN, IT'S SAA" Thanks, crew.
Justin Parker
Is this really the biggest encirclement since ww2 ?
Ryder Peterson
Mongol watch your tongue
Christopher Wilson
>No sloped ERA blocks on the turret ABSOLUTE TRASH
Jaxson Johnson
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Charles Jenkins
No, the area outside and way beyond DeZ is. Because ISIS did not trapped Issam. It's Issam who trapped them.
Brayden Bailey
>Syria’s Assad has become an icon of the far right in America
Assad’s politics — and those of his father before him — have historically been associated more with the left than the right. His late father, President Hafez al-Assad, was the closest Middle East ally of the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. The son has enjoyed the stalwart support of international leftists throughout his attempt to crush the six-year-old rebellion against his rule.
>In recent months, however, Assad has also become an icon for the far right, whose leaders and spokesman have heaped praise on the ferocity with which he has prosecuted the civil war, his role in fighting the Islamic State and his perceived stance against Muslims and Jews.
That Assad’s harsh methods have resulted in tens of thousands of civilian casualties seems only to have enhanced his stature. In a video posted on Twitter, three men who participated in the Charlottesville protests hailed Assad’s use of barrel bombs to subdue communities that turned against him. One is wearing a T-shirt that says: “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.”
In the streamed live video, the men defend Assad.
“Assad did nothing wrong,” said alt-right social-media activist Tim Gionet, who is also known as “Baked Alaska” on Twitter and YouTube.
“Barrel bombs, hell yeah,” he can be heard saying in the same video.
>Assad’s emergence as a popular hero for the right appears to have followed a series of tweets in March by the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in which he lavished praise on the Syrian president, describing him as an “amazing leader” — and more.
Logan Perez
>No sloped ERA blocks on the turret Look at it a bit longer, user.
Ryan Sanders
Please be nice!
Kevin Smith
Other right-wing leaders have long expressed their support for the Syrian president and clearly hoped that President Trump, who made flattering comments about Assad on the campaign trail, would strike up an alliance with him. Such hopes were also based on the backing Assad has received from some far-right politicians in Europe. France’s Marine Le Pen, for example, has said that keeping Assad in power is “the most reassuring solution.”
After Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical attack in northern Syria, numerous right-wing commentators expressed their dismay on Twitter. Shortly after the attack, right-wing protesters opposed to the military intervention, led by white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, faced off against a group of anti-fascist protesters outside the White House.
Although Trump has continued to refuse to directly back Assad, even calling him “truly an evil person” in an April TV interview, the far right’s apparent fascination with seeing the Syrian president hold on to power has persisted.
The far right’s love affair with Assad might not be entirely unpredictable. His Baath Party is fiercely nationalist and ethnocentric, focused on the promotion of Arab identity. One of the few political parties permitted by his regime and one of his staunchest supporters in the war is the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, which drew the inspiration for its logo from the swastika.
Why would the alt right support a regime that is openly aided by radical Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah and the fundamentalist anti-American Iranian regime? I theyre sucking Putin's cock, so already like the taste of being traitors to the country, but....a manlet like Assad?
Jeremiah Parker
Doesn't matter how much km2 are being encircled matters how many troops are being encircled
Jace Jenkins
>drew the inspiration for its logo from the swastika wtf i hate Bashar now!!
Mason Howard
exactly
Daniel Fisher
Snus, get the rake.
Isaiah Campbell
>drew the inspiration for its logo from the swastika oh no
Asher Butler
>US coalition killing little girls almost everyday
Ethan Powell
>One is wearing a T-shirt that says: “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.”
Excellent taste in movies, Hans. Tho they still fucked it up. But only a bit.
Christopher Taylor
>137549653 >muh ebuil muooselums >based israhell Looks like King Kike's zoinist brainwashing is in full effect.
Blake Lee
Whole of Isis is encircled from salami-front way into iraq is one big fucking encirclement. The question with these arab cauldrons is, is how tight they are. Remember when a whole faction of fighters defected to Isis in idlib and strolled over SAA Aleppo-homs road to get to Isis land? I don't have any trust in those cauldrons in the region given the local commanders obvious capability of backroom deals, corruption and plain old incompetence
I knew they were pathetic but this? Maybe they don't want us Eastern Europeans to give video likes? To write support comments and to raise awarness?
Parker Gutierrez
Not available in my country and I refuse to torrent vice trash they stopped being interesting 3 years ago when they did nice stuff on Liberian cannibals not left slanted reporting.
Christopher Barnes
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John Martin
Just use a free VPN? I tried the inbuilt Opera (yeah I know Chinese botnet etc) one, worked for Singapore.
>According to Sham FM reporter: Syrian Army liberated Twainat village 30km South of Ithriya Again, can't be found on any map. Closest name is Tuwaynan (alt names: Bîr Toueïnâne, Bir Tunwaynah, Bi’r Tuwaynān). wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.052484&lon=38.333402&z=14&m=bs&show=/28257266/Bi-r-Tuwaynan Was previously raided by ISIS Hunters (destroyed a technical and killed a couple of terrorists) which means the reporter is probably confused and informed only about the name of the village.
Blake Robinson
Its blocked in Germany aswell.
Henry Gutierrez
>Freedom of speech is a pillar of western society
Kevin Stewart
It's blocked here aswell, it's probably only available in Burgerstan (HBO).
Mason Reyes
I dont know if it is because i was raised on civil war propaganda but i feel that a govt crushing dissent that wants to topple the govt is completely fine
Robert Walker
How challenging is it going to be to keep the kotel closed?
Parker Powell
Oh I thought that was a topography map never mind.
Jacob Hughes
IT'S NOT THAT HARD
Joshua James
You are confusing something lanka-bro. Freedom of speech is an American thing, not a Western thing.
Blake Diaz
Tunnelbear is also good for that sort of thing. Not as good as other VPN's, but I went with it, because it has a charming and pluckish name.
Cooper Nguyen
Prove him wrong.
Blake Evans
>Al-Sharq Al-Awsat: Qatar has reduced funding to the Syrian opposition coalition aldorars.com/en/news/1111
