Devs Jan 18 >Damascus warns it may shoot down Turkish planes attacking Kurds within Syrian borders >Idlib:No IS in Sinjar. SAA offensive limited due to wind storm. IS advances against HTS >S Aleppo:SAA liberates Qaytil& Umm Salasil en-route to Abu Duhur airport >Yarmouk Camp:IS attacks& advances against HTS in Haifa Street >Kurdish forces come under attack by Turkish troops in Afrin & Manbij >“Afrin will be your graveyard Erdogan” – Thousands protest the Turkey’s aggression in N Syria >TFSA prepare for offensive against Kurds in N Syria >DeZ:IS attempts to break SAA lines with a car bomb. SAA stopped it >RU DM meets Turkish generals to discuss SY ahead of peace talks >E Ghouta:4thArmoured Division gears up for an upcoming offensive to liberate Harasta district >Washington in denial:Tillerson says US has no plans to form syria border force >Tillerson:US to keep military presence in syria to remove Assad from power >Cavusoglu:Turkey will coordinate military operation in Afrin with Iran and Russia >Turkey demands Syrian Army halt all operations in Idlib >British AF attacks ISIS drone teams during SDF operations in DeZ gov >Yemen claims ballistic missiles hit two key targets in southern Saudi Arabia
So where the fuck did IS get the manpower, equipment and motivation to do this? The cell literally pops out of nowhere, does fuckall for a bit and is now steamrolling its way through territory HTS has held for months. Were they a sleeper cell? If so then why start fucking shit up now, why not do it as you're being fucked in south east syria to draw attention away? And how the fuck are they making the gains they are, I thought attacking the SAA during an offensive would be a little too much for them, evidently I'm mistaken. Did they start pulling MBTs and Manpower out of their magic hat?
Mason Turner
as long as israel and usa exists there will always be a war in the middle east
Dylan Scott
clebrate the failure of iran's plans
Adam Sanchez
I don't know who they are by name. But they're a Kurdish captain and major (or some rank close to those) after the fall of Kirkuk.
Hunter Long
To be fair the middle east has been at war thousands of years before the USA .
Jayden Johnson
We move on to the next war. /sg is a concept, a constant general on the war with the most attention. The other current wars don't have as much coverage or changes happening, so they likely will not be it, but given the events witnessed last year, we could be seeing some new conflicts start soon. One of those new conflicts, may become the new /sg
Joseph Lee
HTS and ISIS believe in almost the same things. Mass defections are inevitable, especially with how fractured the entire rebel movement is.
Chase Ortiz
Jej, Maghrebased.
Jason Cook
you're new
Daniel Foster
It's HTS defections, m1334864567-1334864559
Logan Jackson
>ISIS fully expels jihadist rebels from northeast Hama BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:50 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels have once again been expelled from the northeastern countryside of the Hama Governorate, following another large-scale advance by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).
ISIS resumed their offensive in northeastern Hama, Friday, attacking Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s positions near the Idlib axis.
Unable to withstand the Islamic State assault, HTS and their allies were forced to withdraw from northeastern Hama, leaving behind several areas for the terrorist group to capture.
>Entire Republican Guard brigade heads to Idlib for Abu Dhuhour Airport offensive BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:15 P.M.) – A large force from the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) Republican Guard has been redeployed to the Idlib Governorate, a military source told Al-Masdar News this afternoon.
According to the military source, the entire 128th Brigade of the Republican Guard has been redeployed from the Qalamoun Mountains to the Idlib Governorate, as they were given orders to aid the Tiger Forces in the ongoing offensive to capture the strategic Abu Dhuhour Airport.
The 128th Brigade was one of the main forces behind the Syrian Army’s successful campaigns in the Qalamoun Mountains; they are a battle-tested and well-trained combat unit.
>The cell literally pops out of nowhere Uqayribat pocket and sleeper cells. >steamrolling its way through territory HTS has held for months HTS evacuated the pocket. >Did they start pulling MBTs and Manpower out of their magic hat They have technicals and ATGMs, nothing heavier.
Jaxon Campbell
virgin HTS vs chad ISIS
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Don't
Brody Campbell
But why would you defect to an entirely new group, specifically a group that is getting it's arse handed to it in the same fucking war? That's what I don't get, you've got an advancing SAA from the North, East and South and instead of trying to unify and mount a co-ordinated defence you split your force in half with defections to a dying group and start attacking your own blokes and the SAA at the same time? And it's still fucking working, thing's a bloody clusterfuck of gains and losses.
Luke Baker
he needs some milk
Joshua Roberts
this is untrue. it has had much longer periods of peace when compared to europe for any comparable period in history. this is a meme started by zionists to confuse the lazy.
Alexander Long
2late
Ryder Russell
Hey snus, you said "your military source" says afrin starts tonight at 8, that's syria time i presume ?
Easton Diaz
the middle east during the 50's and 60's was mainly controlled by liberal governments and it was peaceful for the most part, this whole era of no peace in the middle east is the result of burgers foreign policy.
Jordan Garcia
thats not nice, take it back
Jonathan Walker
Syria: Qamishli, Suwayda and Idlib provinces.
Gabriel Martinez
>military source I was being ironic >says afrin starts tonight at 8, that's syria time i presume ? I suppose.
Landon Adams
Erdogan status: still a watermelon seller
Josiah Morris
I completely agree with everything you've said. It makes no fucking sense. Nobody really understands why they are doing this, but doing it, they are.
Brayden Rodriguez
>Russian Reporter on the ground confirms Russians left Afrin today due to “Mass Bombardment” they moved to the vicinity of Shahba Village & Turkish Operation is scheduled to begin the night of 1-20 / 1-21
Jackson Cook
do you think i'm joking?
Luis Myers
no one takes you seriously.
Ian Perez
>#Syria #Afrin #AfrinOperation #Efrin Russian Reporter on the ground confirms Russians left Afrin today due to “Mass Bombardment” they moved to the vicinity of Shahba Village & Turkish Operation is scheduled to begin the night of 1-20 / 1-21 twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/954362480075165698
Lucas Scott
Sandstorm all over Qamishli region today* beautiful
Ryan Diaz
It's Happening!
Angel Gonzalez
>why would a herd of inbred salafist monkeys that are getting cornered and slowly getting their asses handed to them not panic and gravitate to what they perceive in their confusion to be the stronger power in the area
Brandon Murphy
Reminder that ISIS is SAA proxy force in Idlib and this will happen. When time is right IS will either leak through a gap in encirclement or teleport to the new grounds like they did from Uqayribat
Easton Martinez
Aight ima tune in than, sorry for ragging on you earlier, im a bit hyped, i jut really hate kurds i suppose
Juan Fisher
>1-20 / 1-21 >we're already nearing the end of january >tfw another year is passing by before our eyes
>Breaking: Syrian government rejects Kurdish PYD’s proposal to restore state institutions in Afrin
The Kurds are getting desperate and are doing whatever they can to get the Syrian Government to ensure they are guaranteed protection from the Turks.
Jayden Cooper
>gets split in 2 by erdomeme instead Whoa
Owen Ross
Fucking G up, this'll be good fun to watch unfold >Picking a side Nah, this one of those times when you just sit back and let them fuck each other up. Like an episode from a tv show where both the villains are fighting and you don't care who wins because they're both shit. At the end of the day, the enemy of my enemy is still my fucking enemy. Why fucking not? They're the shittiest group in the middle east, constantly bitch about oppression and serve Israel at every turn. And to top it all off they're fucking communists.
Julian Hill
>Not just hoping for both sides to genocide each other to no end
>government that's not how puppet regime is spelled
Nathaniel Powell
why is the US supporting them if they are communists? And i find it ironic that a westerner can get charged for going to fight with the YPG but its perfectly okay for our governments to supply them with weapons.
Samuel Turner
>Harbaji farhaji we will grant you the privilege of opening your institutions in Afrin so that you can serve us for free and protect us from Turkey, but we dont want any detachments from your security apparatus. Biji wiji risk a war with a NATO country and expect nothing in return twitter.com/ischark/status/954354296518299653
Angel Smith
>Iranian Deputy FM visits Moscow ahead of Syrian peace talks BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:30 P.M.) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Ansari to discuss the Syrian peace process in Moscow on Friday.
“It is very important for us to hold our final consultations on this [Syrian] issue with our Russian and Turkish partners. I’m sure these consultations will contribute to our joint cooperation for the purpose of supporting and quickly resolving this question,” Ansari said of the preparatory trilateral meeting on Syria with Russian and Turkish officials, due to begin later on Friday in Sochi.
“Our meeting today in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very important for us to clarify the details and agree on the complex issue of the Syrian settlement, the situation in Syria and around it,” Bogdanov added.
Ansari will travel to Sochi to take part in the preparatory meeting, together with Russia’s Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz.
I am the enemy of my enemy. Does that make me my enemy?
Isaiah Collins
I didn't imply that at all
Jaxson Reed
ok im going to bed, ive had enough of pol for a day.
Landon Brooks
Yeah, I do agree, a mutual shoah would be okay, but if you see two terrible things, it doesn't reduce your contempt for one of them if you assess it as being slightly less bad than the other. /sg/ is still fairly split
Jason Gutierrez
>why is the US supporting them if they are communists? at the core of it it never is about ideology
Sebastian Jackson
I wonder how arab baathist would see it. >RIP in piss
Adrian Hernandez
good night
Jordan Cooper
The US couldn't give a shit what they believed in, provided their interests were to never fly in the face of their shamble of a foreign policy and Israel's plans for regional dominance. Right now the US funds and trains both the YPG and YPJ for the sole reason that they're an agent of chaos, a destabilising force comprised of disgruntled minorities for them to exploit. Any pseudo-communist society they attempt to etch out would be heavily dependent on American aid to stay afloat, and therefore would act accordingly. The United states is looking to create one more puppet state in the ME, legitimate or not, legal or not, they don't care. They're interested in seeing this emerging axis of resistance smothered in its cradle, and will exploit and manipulate however many ethnic groups it takes, before dropping them on a dime when it bests suits them (see what happened to egypt in 2011)
Aiden Watson
The safest route now is to kill yourself at this point, it's a guaranteed win
Jonathan Martinez
G'night lads. Can't wait to wake up the chaos in Afrin. FamiliaNews signing off.
Josiah Torres
APOLOGIZE I told you that you Eurocucks were sucking Kurdish cock on /sg/, none of you really want to see Assad win, I'm the only one here who does.
Sleep well mate, might hit the hay soon myself How's your holiday been?
Aiden Lopez
>#FSA troops, displaced from their home region #Hasaka by the #YPG some years ago, prepare to take part in the #Afrin offensive near the Syrian-Turkish border. #Syria twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/954366700195139586
Asher Davis
This is why istishahada is a thing
Kayden Thompson
>How's your holiday been? I'm not really the Arab Baathist, just memeing m8
William Brown
Putting 100$ on Biji Biji's
Joseph Jenkins
Who does he support?
Christian Fisher
Kek
Matthew Adams
Yes, because I'm the real Arab Baathist APOLOGIZE FOR USING MY NAME
Asher Robinson
>istishahada What the nani? >He went to fucking Kuwait from the UK Oh fuck lmao, first I'd heard of it
Justin Kelly
>mfw I put >Arab Baathist in the "options" field, not the name field
I think I need to take a break now...
John Campbell
Last time i saw him arguing that assad should drop pootang and go full erdomeme camp so id expect a true shitstorm
John Jenkins
I need to knock off for the evening, good night lads Here's hoping I don't miss the Afrin shitshow
