DEVELOPMENTS JUNE 22 Syria/Yemen/Iraq articles and developments (June 21) >Desert Hawks and Syrian Marines left the 555th Regiment at Sufiyah and withdrew all the way to Zakiyah, leaving our men trapped. >Syrian Army steadily advances in Bahariyah amid intensifying battles >Moscow stresses urgent need for Syria peace talks >New ISIS gains have the Syrian Arab Army expelled from Raqqa province >U.S. soldiers wounded in ISIS rocket attack in northern Syria >Syrian Army destroys ISIS HQ in northern Sweida >Syrian Air Force destroys ISIS ammunition depot in southwest Deir Ezzor >Russia pulverizes east Palmyra while ISIS attempts to advance >ISIS captures Khirbat Zeidan in west Raqqa >Islamist offensive in Darayya ends in failure >VIDEO: Russian white phosphorus rains on Islamist rebels in western Aleppo
Well, I guess the lesson here is, "just give all of your new toys to Hezbollah".
Christopher Russell
Why do you keep saying Russia dropped White Phosphorus Op?
It was obviously thermits
Nathaniel Roberts
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Camden Martinez
10th for save the children!
And for a cozy day to ya'll.
Cameron White
Just copied it over.
Anyway WP makes normies pants knot tighter than Thermite does. Probably because they don't know what thermite is.
Nolan Gonzalez
I have not followed in close what happen in syria in the past 3 weeks, is this the same tank that apparently SAA broke the shotra and threw a grenade inside before they run the fuck out?
Jose Wood
>Moscow stresses urgent need for Syria peace talks
Do the Liberators really think Rebel occupied Syria and Syria can coexist?
Why help Assad at all in this shit if they won't at least make an outcome that guarantees a safe Syria to remain allies of Russia?
Wyatt Rogers
KEK. I don't know, maybe.
If they thought that would total the tank, then they're just as untrained to use it as Southfront had feared. Maybe worse.
Justin Ward
Same to you!
Adam Edwards
Why didn't the Russians support the Raqqa offensive? Or at least help out when ISIS counterattacked? Will it create some distrust for the Russians in the SAA?
Aiden Mitchell
ivan is back up
Dominic Gomez
Sandstorms, apparently.
Jayden Nelson
gas kurds. ethnic cleansing now
Benjamin Nguyen
The US should supply heavy arms to Kurdish militias and support the establishment of a Kurdish state.
The US should also bomb Assad into political recognition of Kurdistan.
Matthew Adams
kurds look like a utopian people of peace and progress but they are the most backwards of all in Syria and Iraq.
Just think of Pakistan, in a desert.
But the west and even the russians got their support because free proxy why not
David Ward
Are you implying that's not already happening?
Austin Miller
What happened to all the progress the SAA was making?
ISIS literally regained close to 50% of what they lost to SAA in 6 months just in the last 3 weeks.
Joshua Cruz
you would be fighting for these inbred abominations and dying for ISrael you filthy white barbarian wont you?
Mason Allen
>#Syria Amaq:#ISIS killed 3 #Russia|n soldiers in Athriya-#Raqqa road,these pictures found on their phones
Why did Russia not support the offensive on raqqa?
Adrian Price
Why do we keep getting deleted?
Jonathan Brown
Despite nice propaganda by russian and west media, kurds seem to be the best of the shitskins over there. But in reality they are extremly backwards and inbred.
Syrian sources say Russia has nearly ran out of precision bombs, only has cluster and incendiary munitions left.
Dylan Ross
I think Russians want the Syrians to focus the manpower and equipment on other areas first. It was going to be a waste of Russia's limited capabilities to protect the SAA in another salient.
Their waste and stretch of manpower in this offensive has already put pressure on the southern Aleppo front where they've lost some territory. Their blunder has allowed ISIS to capture more weapons from them so they'll be facing the consequences of that in the future.
Easton Jones
The problem is they didn't give air support to southern Aleppo either, they just let it get taken. There's something fishy going on with the Russians, when SAA is on the offensive they lend no support. Seems like Russia want this to be another frozen conflict, that seems to be their speciality.
Leo Ross
>propaganda by russian and west media Which propaganda are you talking about? They only tell us that Assad is a butcher and al-qaidah are the good guys.
Ryder Morales
The Eurosatory pictures came from /k/ strangely enough.
If you're asking about all the photos they come from all sorts of various forums, news sites, and social media.
Realtree or some derivative/knockoff. Its rare enough to find it being used in a military applications, so this is the first time I ever seen it used on a vehicle.
Owen Fisher
Yeah it looks like Russia is just pretending to be the good guy while actually doing less than it should
Jason Cruz
>Aircraft are landing in #DeirEzzor bringing in reinforcements made up of #SAA, Palestinian militiamen & #Hezbollah fighters >@sayed_ridha Hez sources saying op coming after Ramadan twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/745902763599663105
James White
Xth for based ivan still alive
Samuel Bailey
thats new what happened that they can suddenly land there?
I'm sorry it fell short of your expectations, and not dropped on Syria, hundreds of thousands of paratroopers, we are not going to do the dirty work for idiots in the desert and Europe, we only making our contribution.
Gavin Nguyen
SAA had made a huge fucking mistake on attacking Ithriya-Tabaqa road. they should first take these areas as it will make way for better offensive and more security
in sabburah-ithriyah road SAA is highly vulnerable to a pincer attack from ISIS and Nusra.
Elijah Carter
SAA is fucking inept, finally accept it.
Carter Robinson
Good article on Russia-Iran-Syria disagreements. Basically >Assad more belligerent than people realize, wants to reconquer every single part of Syria. Will crush Kurds eventually. >Russia wants to a negotiated peace settlement but Damascus wants none of it >Iran fully backs Assad, doesn't even want to think about him leaving or making peace >Russia is unwilling to pressure Assad because he can ditch them and fully turn to Iran
Those are hills with a few sunni IS-villages, basically no combat potential. If the saa does anything right, than its that.
Brayden Walker
>Assad more belligerent than people realize, wants to reconquer every single part of Syria. Will crush Kurds eventually. He simply understands that the negotiations is just a ploy order to maintain the West from destruction by its allies and they will never abandon attempts to capture Syria. >Russia wants to a negotiated peace settlement but Damascus wants none of it. Putin just looking for a way to leave with dignity from the place where he recklessly climbed, he realized that his attempts to be "useful" to the West did not materialize. >Iran fully backs Assad, doesn't even want to think about him leaving or making peace Iran hopes that Russia will do all the dirty work, and they also understand that the armistice with terrorists can not be in principle. >Russia is unwilling to pressure Assad because he can ditch them and fully turn to Iran in this case, Assad is doomed, for a couple of months it will destroy, and Iran will not be able to help him.
Robert Carter
it is just to clear them up. once it is dont the Homs-Hama offensive will be done easily without worrying an enemy would attack from the back from that huge bufferzone will be created.
the thing is ISIS response very aggressively on the territory they are being attacked in. if SAA managed to pull some forces from Ithriya-raqqa road to these hills it will weaken IS force a little bit on that road.
Sadly SAA cant into strategy.
Wyatt Flores
The Russian Air Force literally just prevented an ISIS attack on Palmyra while the SAA fled.
Cameron Baker
Maybe the Russians intentionally didn't give them air support in the Raqqa offensive to show Assad that they won't be pushed around into giving him unconditional support. Specifically support for disastrous offensives.
I'm imagining backroom negotiations went something like: >Assad asks Russia for the backing of their Air Force in this >Russia thinks this offensive is a bad move and says they can't give him support and maybe suggest another strategy >Assad is thinking that the Russians will bail him out regardless and goes ahead with the offensive anyways
Now the Russians are probably telling him he should have listened.
Charles Taylor
>greenpeace
Jordan Gutierrez
I'm pretty sure the offensive was Russia's idea.
They wanted to be in Raqqa before the SDF / USA
William Smith
Russia has developed one rather negative trait over the years. You fail to lead your foreign policy projects to their logical end.
>entire Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts not taken >Mariupol attack was stopped >Aleppo offensive is not in sight >Syria intervention officially over
If you begin things you have to finish them.
What would Vlad lose if he sent 20.000 troops in to retake Aleppo and help SAA? What was he so worried about?
He is smart and plays foreign policy game well, but he is to indecisive sometimes.
John Miller
> You fail to lead your foreign policy projects to their logical end. this is the reason I no longer supports Putin, and I think that he should go away he's a good tactician but a poor strategist, he admits serious mistakes because of his personal interests conflict with the interests of the country.
Kevin Myers
If so then why are the Russians only spending their time bombing west Aleppo and not helping defend the SAAs salient to Raqqa from ISISs counterattack?
Jack Perez
>What would Vlad lose if he sent 20.000 troops in to retake Aleppo and help SAA? that would be 20.000 troopes he could potentially lose. russian people do not like having their men killed for nothing.
Ethan Reed
Where did you read they didn't help? Didn't you see Russian helicopters giving air support?
In Aleppo they can basically bomb everything and there is a high chance something gets hit. Also there is a big difference in distance from the Russian airbase.
Oliver Walker
If YPG wins even more will stay. At least you give them little incentive to breed.
Xavier Allen
Seems like the NDF are a whole lot more coordinated than the SAA, especially when it comes to Manbij, you think this is due to US advisement?
Bentley Moore
What makes you think they are more coordinated?
Nicholas King
Disregard my question I'm a bit drunk.
Robert Lewis
NDF was created by syria, why would they want/let the US advise them? I don't think it's to do with the US at all.
Justin Morales
i think he means SDF
Elijah Torres
drinking is haram
Noah Anderson
I don't know. That act would convey a very powerful message of "You see, you see? We stand by our friends." That could have only united Russian people around Kremlin and give them a sense of worth.
Cameron Green
Reading pro-government Twitter posts that are upset by the lack of Russian air support.
Dylan Lewis
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Carson Long
Of course they are blaming the Russian and not admitting it's their own fault.
It's most likely why they aren't helping. they whine so much and so such stupid things, there government must be run by children.
Nathan Thompson
The problem is that many don't realize it's called air SUPPORT.
The major assault still has to be done by ground forces, it's not like air force will destroy everything and the ground forces can just casually march in.
Jaxon Roberts
Greater Syria!
Xavier Kelly
Liberal propaganda from NGO
They could post picture of dead soliders. If they have no pictures (while claim that phone is not damaged) - then information is bullshit.
Carson Miller
Elijah J. Magnier @EjmAlrai #BreakingNews: #SDF #YPG entered #Manbij from south western front supported by #USA Air Force, clashing with #ISIS in the city. #Syria
It's to stop pressure on one front so they can dedicate the troops necessary for a siege of raqqa.
They need a ceasefire because most of the SAA are monkeys so they can dedicate the necessary forces to end the war in the east. They NEED to take out isis in order for them to have the international backing so they can fight the rebels.
John Roberts
Sandstorm = no air support
Leave it up to the SAA to fuck up a withdraw order that was given days ago.
