DEVELOPMENTS JUNE 4 >Ajnad al-Sham break local Darayya ceasefire (which was for SARC aid convoys) >ISIS assault on southwest Deir Ezzor (Thardeh mt.) >Syrian Armed Forces, IRGC recapture several points in south Aleppo, stabilize frontline. No towns retaken.
JUNE 3 >At night ISIS VBIED hit SAA sawmill checkpoint in east Palmyra, several soldiers martyred >SDF inch closer to ISIS stronghold Manbij >Syrian Army enters Raqqa province >Government frontline collapses in southern Aleppo after blitz offensive by rebels
Jihadist attack, the frontlines fell yesterday, they captured several towns
Additional troops have arrived and seem to have stabilized the frontline, recapturing several points
But if Khan Touman is any indication, the recapture of the towns might not be an immediate priority
Samuel Carter
is RuAF back to bombing yet in full effect? the "peace talks" failed, didnt they?
Jaxson Perry
some news from turkish media, used both pro and anti government sources >despite the statement from marmara university, the discussion on erdogans university diploma continues >erdogan: germany was ordered(to carry out the genocide acceptance) by a higher authority >heavy storms in istanbul bring the life to a standstill. flights canceled >finland is deporting a group of kurds/arabs who have said that they come from afghanistan >aselsan develops a robotik hand to be mounted on armored vehicles that will be used to remotely detonate explosives in the south-east. the system also includes a radar to detect possible ieds >erdogan: there have been some problems in the agreements about the gaza embargo with israel >there are some reports about isis using tunnels in kilis as a route to syria >german historian says what the turkish german parliamentarians couldn't ; between 1770-1923 5 million muslims were deported from caucausus, russia, romania, bulgaria and greece, but the european history books wouldn't talk about this.also 2 million turks died during the events of ww1. forced migration is a necessity of war. turkish government tried 1673 people for crimes against armenians, 67 of whom were executed. deportation is a heavy crime, but not every war crime is genocide (i like this guy) >operations against pkk are starting in lice diyarbakir. curfew declared in some areas >syrian army enters rakka under the control of isis terrorist organization with russian air support
Jayden Brooks
RuAF did bomb south Aleppo terrorists last night, see top Featured video in OP
I think RuAF will intensify bombings next week, as they said before: this week was the deadline for rebel groups who can seperate themselves from al-Nusra or have no al-Nusra presence to contact Hmeimim with their location, Lavrov said after that the remaining groups will be bombed
Mason Ward
>syrian army enters rakka under the control of isis terrorist organization with russian air support Will nobody stop this madmans rampage!?
Jace Fisher
>this week was the deadline meaning tomorrow is the last day?
Jeremiah Rodriguez
I guess, we'll see what happens
Mason James
>the "peace talks" failed, didnt they?
Dozens of rebel organizations surrendered in the downtime, so the peace talks were a boon to Assad. I would hardly call that a "fail".
Xavier Young
youtube.com/watch?v=OrntOAF_GRE >FSA-aligned reporter covering al-Nusra/Ahrar al-Sham attack in southern Aleppo but muh secular revolution amirite xD
Gabriel Ramirez
bump
Colton Young
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Andrew Jenkins
So what are the implications if the US backed Kurds reach Raqqa before the SAA do?
Jacob Rogers
Iraqi Army Hashd (PMU) Iraqi Federal Police
fully recapture Al-Saqlawiyah town in Fallujah northwestern countryside
Jack Kelly
The Kurds probably will not try to claim that Raqqa is their lands
So odds are, America sees this as an opportunity to establish its own "moderate opposition" in the form of the Arab element of the SDF.
With SDF having such strong ties with America/Kurds, offensives against them would be much more difficult or even "not done" At that point SDF represents basically an "FSA that cannot be attacked" yet holds parts of Syria with direct American backing
Adrian Johnson
This,
because of the Peace talks, moderate groups were not bomb, and they stopped attacking eachother. This also gave change for humaniterian aid to arrive.
Also SAA could relocate their forces to fight ISIS and other extremist groups.
People who would claim Muh moderate Rebels, would be silenced because moderate opposiotn argreed to the cease fire.
Hunter Brown
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Justin Edwards
Bump & repost
The image in the most extreme cases of western media is "a brutal dictator who kills his civilians". Its easy to tackle this image.
>Does a brutal dictator: - Ship medical/food supplies all over his country - Harbour thousands of internal refugees in refugee camps (preventing further emigration to EU!) - Win a presidential election that is monitored by dozens of countries, and refugees vote in embassies all over the world? - Have pro-government rallies and groups ABROAD? (see American Syrians FB page support Assad, or rally in Frankfurt (germany) pro-Assad - Be secular (army is 70% Sunni, government has Sunni ministers, christians (leaders) support Assad, Druze support Assad) - Change his political system to have an opposition coalition and independents in its parliament
>Does a healthy democratic secular Syrian revolution: - Ally with salafist extremists (al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Islam) - Be represented at the UN by people who are seated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (an archenemy of Syria?) - Need the UK to pay PR contractors in Istanbul to make media for them - Be extremely sectarian (>95% Sunni, only holding Sunni majority areas, FSA commanders have stated "ethnically cleansing" Alawites is fine) - Be geared by USA/Gulf states, trained in Jordan or Turkey and sent back into Syria
Its good for anyone to ask yourself these questions.
Good luck to the Shia, Christian, Druze, Alawites and the thousands of Sunnis who had any link or relation to the government. RIP.
Matthew Diaz
>Does a brutal dictator:
You would be surprised, but the thing you listed are not mutually exclusive with being a brutal dictator.
What really sets apart Assad from being a brutal dictator is that he is going pretty darn softly against the opposition. He is not a strongman who just bombards everything into shit then calls it a day (like his father), but a typical western politician who dances around the problem trying to defuse it with... random stuff (you can see Merkel doing this with the rapefugees), then cries in the media about not succeeding, blames others, and bends over for a bigger power (Russia in this case) to save his ass.
The biggest tragedy of this civil war is that Assad had a chance to survive by having a "healthy democratic secular Syrian revolution", because that's how it all started. But he get caught by the storm and he was simply not the man who could make things right. Good Hero, Wrong Apocalypse, so to speak. >If he hadn't released those Islamic Brotherhood fuckers back in 2001. >If he had denied support to the Iraq Ba'ath >If he had tried to defuse the Qatar pipeline with inconvenient conditions rather than outright refusal >If he had treated the drought properly >If he had sided with the rebelling intellectuals (the intellectuals his modernizing eforts had produced in the first place) and thus isolate the islamist subversion If...
Carter Collins
SAA and YPG clashes when?
Elijah Long
its really sad but I fear the war will make him into a proper dictator and have a zero tolerance policy to dissidents
John Davis
soon faggy Kurds need to removed the PKK maybe secular/atheist but normal Kurds are just your usual scum
Robert Cox
>but I fear the war will make him into a proper dictator
Nah, he is just not the guy who can ever become a proper dictator. If he had been, he would have made the change and end the civil war in the first two years or so.
Adrian Gutierrez
you. i like you.
Kevin Carter
who doesn't like Bulgaria are your Turk infestation bad or are they chill
Maybe we should nuke them once or twice to speed it up
Jace Miller
kek
Tyler Ross
>standing in the open in such a large and packed group near the frontlines
And this guys have survived 4 years of war?
Jaxon Lewis
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Jackson Green
Bump
Nicholas Harris
Putting the "Arab" in "Syrian Arab Army"
Ethan Lewis
>that last second when the guy on the right saw the lazer and started to turn to run
Carter Rogers
there is no visible laser on any ATGM system. The beamriding stuff (most of them are wireguided) uses wavelengths invisible to the human eye. Also the laser of beamridign ATGMs is mostly blocked by the rocket itself, it tries to stay in its center after all.
Adam Adams
cuz it so based lion with a sword is bretty kewl
Christopher Martin
He mightve heard or seen the actual rocket I guess Why does it show up red on the camera? Wouldnt it show up purple or blue?
Gabriel Butler
>standing in the middle of a desert near a front line no wonder the SAA got its ass kicked until russian came around these people cant war they are violent..but cant war
the red dot is actually the rocket, that just seems to how the exhaust on these things looks like. The wireguided ones have an infrared and in some cases an additional UV lightsource in the back, but shouldn't be able to see that (at least cameras without filters tend to show IR light as purple-ish if i remember correctly).
Levi Collins
>Government frontline collapses in southern Aleppo after blitz offensive by rebels Why does it keep happening?
Evan Hall
>purplish
Yeah it is, look at the bulb in your tv remote through your phones camera and press a button
William Williams
>"guys we keep getting buttfucked by rebels. why don't we start raqqa and deir ez zor offensive?"
Christian Robinson
nice, thanks for sharing that. Wanted to spend a vacation in syria but then the war broke out. Probably going to jordan in the close future now, petra looks interesting
yeah, i tried that with my phone some years back, wasn't sure if i remembered correctly or if it's uniform for all devices. shouldn't matter though, as long as you have no filter the light of the rocket exhaust should be way brighter
Ethan Myers
Allahu Akbar!
The U.S. must take Monroe Doctrine now. The U.S. must withdraw American Forces from all Foreign Countries now.
DEVELOPMENTS JUNE 4 >Ajnad al-Sham break local Darayya ceasefire (which was for SARC aid convoys) >ISIS assault on southwest Deir Ezzor (Thardeh mt.) >Syrian Armed Forces, IRGC recapture several points in south Aleppo, stabilize frontline. No towns retaken.
JUNE 3 >At night ISIS VBIED hit SAA sawmill checkpoint in east Palmyra, several soldiers martyred >SDF inch closer to ISIS stronghold Manbij >Syrian Army enters Raqqa province >Government frontline collapses in southern Aleppo after blitz offensive by rebels
Don't be so sure about that. The reason the Kurds shifted their attention to Manbij could be that they are expecting the SAA to fail the offensive, leaving a bled-out ISIS behind. It is a pretty good gamble if you ask me.
Oliver Bennett
Some "Tigers" and Kamazes on their way to Raqqa
Brody Hall
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William Diaz
they need to get out of Raqqa and into south Aleppo. this is one of the few times when I really disagree with the SAA's military logistics.
Jose Gomez
Pretty sure that it is too late now. Aleppo will have to endure
Ayden Phillips
Godspeed, Ivan.
Andrew Butler
They did so before SAA even started their offensive. Raqqa offensive was to drag ISIS away from Manbij making it easy for Kurds to cut them off from Turkey..
Kurds havea way easiert team shifting their foces around. ISIS has to go the long way all around Lake Assad while Kurds control Tishrin Dam.
Of course now with the SAA offensive and ISIS trying to capture Mare Kurds have an even easier time.
Anthony Richardson
Assad has his own lake, the guy is based
Brandon Torres
Good to see at least someone understand their military tactics.
Justin Moore
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Carter Lewis
Assad and Putin are the people holding up western civilisation
Carson Brooks
Raqqa soon
Angel Adams
Soon
Nicholas Ramirez
So beautiful...
Blake Bell
Yes, it all fits a bit too well. I wouldn't expect the Kurds to set up such a good win/win situation all by themselves. Something tells me that the newly arrived US "advisors" are advising pretty hard for the Kurd leadership.
I wonder whether Putin likes this turn of events or not. The Kurds getting the better end of the deal is cool because it will surely teach Turkey a lesson or two in the future. On the other hand, this little game might weaken Assad's positions in the short run.
Ayden Bennett
Assad is likely in on this. Goverment did several bombing runs on Manbij before the SDF started their offensive.
Parker Russell
>3,000 Russians arrived in Syria lately.
>Russian joint command staff, which coordinated aerial support operations last fall, had returned to the Hmeimim military base in Latakia province to begin preparations for new operations.
