Syrian conflict.

[Mighty_Zuk]

5 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

Looks like one of missiles didn't managed to get to the target for some reason.

 

Could be a SAM. There were reports that SAA allegedly shot down some missiles.

[Donward]

So Trump doesn’t want to “fucking kill Assad” after all. 

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/405205-trump-pushes-back-on-woodward-book-assassinating-assad-was-never-even

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More of SAA AA toys

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Northen Hama as was reported, airstrikes

 

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Clearing last area from ISIS leftovers, trapped on Tal Al-Safa mount.

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Interesting charachters

[Kal]

20 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

Interesting charachters

North europeans?

South african?

Aussie?

 

Their hats look like different origins.

[LoooSeR]

2 minutes ago, Kal said:

North europeans?

South african?

Aussie?

 

Their hats look like different origins.

   No idea, but not south africans. Most likely from rebels Ukraine, although could be somebody else. Left one and 4th and 5th looks like wearing unifroms that i saw frequently on ISIS Hunters, so they could be Russians as well. 2nd and 5th are probably Russian PMC.

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Army recon in Syria

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SMAW-D (M141 Bunker Defeat Munition) found in Quneitra

[Mighty_Zuk]

3 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

SMAW-D (M141 Bunker Defeat Munition) found in Quneitra

Possibly Israeli.

Israel recently acknowledged that among the humanitarian aid, it has also supplied some weaponry to local small rebel groups. It came amid a report that approximately 1,000 ISIS fighters have been killed in either direct confrontation with Israel, or through assistance that Israel has provided in intel (to Egypt, the coalition operation in Syria and Iraq, and to rebel groups along the border).

This leads me to believe that there was no real ceasefire between the ISIS enclave in the Golan and the other gangs, terrorists, and rebels.

[LoooSeR]

4 minutes ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

Possibly Israeli.

Israel recently acknowledged that among the humanitarian aid, it has also supplied some weaponry to local small rebel groups. It came amid a report that approximately 1,000 ISIS fighters have been killed in either direct confrontation with Israel, or through assistance that Israel has provided in intel (to Egypt, the coalition operation in Syria and Iraq, and to rebel groups along the border).

This leads me to believe that there was no real ceasefire between the ISIS enclave in the Golan and the other gangs, terrorists, and rebels.

ISIS member that was captured gave interview to ANNA news, he said that they were fighting with other groups until SAA started operation in Southern Syria. HTS and ISIS made an agreement, but HTS later left via greenbus service.

 

"supplied some weaponry to local small rebel groups", lol.

 

 

 

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More Airstrikes in Nothern Hama

 

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[Mighty_Zuk]

11 years later, the IAF is putting stickers on aircraft that participated in 'Operation Orchard' or more recently 'Outside the Box' (known mostly in Hebrew, while abroad referred to as Orchard).

As part of operation Orchard the IAF destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor.

 

[Mighty_Zuk]

18 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

ISIS member that was captured gave interview to ANNA news, he said that they were fighting with other groups until SAA started operation in Southern Syria. HTS and ISIS made an agreement, but HTS later left via greenbus service.

 

"supplied some weaponry to local small rebel groups", lol.

 

Well yea, small groups and not a lot of weaponry. I understand that many countries are concealing their military aid to their respective proxies, because of the very nature of proxy warfare, but Israel has never really concealed its own involvement because its strategy there is not really proxy warfare. It doesn't need to, because it intends to create a certain degree of deterrence. Thus proxy warfare would really make no sense for the IDF.

It happened before in Lebanon - the Lebanese SLA allied with the IDF, and when it was time to withdraw from Lebanon, they were all transported to Israel and given citizenship and proper residence. The relations were out in the open.

And about when the humanitarian aid started, it was already reported, by officials, that there is also some cooperation with local groups, chiefly the Fursan al Jawlan, which are by all means very small groups and by nature incapable of operating outside their territory.

 

The IDF's stated goal is to create a buffer zone in the Golan, to prevent Iranian and Hezbollah presence from extending there, and that has pretty much defeated the whole purpose of having a proxy army as opposed to having an acknowledged local ally.

And where FAJ could not help, or the other groups they allied with in the region, an IDF's official statement was that direct military intervention would be made.

 

The report on transfer of weaponry was actually just a side note officials gave when they talked about how they gave intel to all sorts of state-actors and non-state-actors who fought against ISIS.

 

Overall it may seem like a small detail, but it's very important, and explains why Israel always chose to publicly acknowledge its local allies, instead of denying or maintaining ambiguity for the sake of proxy warfare.

Keep in mind that Russia and the US could not acknowledge to have confronted militarily, directly, each other because that would be an easy and open path to escalation between the states, which is why proxy warfare became so prevalent in the cold war, but other than the states with whom Israel had signed a peace treaty with, all its neighbors are officially at war with Israel, so there is no legal limitation on Israel, nor political one, to operate freely in the region.

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Sukhois over Syria

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Hama, Kafr Zita

 

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Suweida. NSFW.

 

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Northen Hama

 

Southern part of Idlib province

 

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FSA in At-Tanf

 

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