Al-BAB is just a town , you cant compare it to a big city like Mosul .
Mosul is Isil capital in iraq , they will fight to death to keep it .
I expect AL-BAB town to be taken in 2 weeks , while mosul will take atleast 3-4 month to be liberated .
The iraq army lost dozens of Tanks and Armored...
Correct 1,000 extra rebels were trained on urban warefare for Al-BAB offensive .
These were rebels from Sultan Murad and Hamza groups .
Remaining rebel forces will focus on capturing villages around Al-BAB .
Assad and his father had a long history of supporting and training PKK terrorists .
The Baath party believes that Liwa-eskandaroon " Hatay " belongs to Syria in addition to that they wanted a larger share of water from Euphrates river source in Turkey .
The best scenario to deal with such...
Pictures of dead SDF fighters after failed offensive against isil near tanaah in northern aleppo countryside
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As expected most "SDF" fighters in syria are actually pkk volunteers .
According to SDF sources , recent defeat at the hands of Isis stopped their campaign towards Al-BAB . We should add to that now most of their resources are directed towards fighting isil in Riqqah .
This is the best time to attack manbij after Al-BAB is liberated .
SDF are wasting resources and manpower fighting for Al-Riqqah which will be a long bloody operation that will take several months to complete .
Turkey should focus first on completing Euphrates shield securing Al-BAB and Manjib which will ultimately put an end to the dream of connecting...
AL bab is more important than riqqah . AL riqqah will be a headache and waste of resources for pyd. good they will be busy the next few month wasting their resources on a lost battle . this time could be utilized by turkey to take AL bab then menbij
Erdogan announced that Euphrates shield next move is Al-BAB and menbech then Al-Riqqah . There is no mention of Tel-Refaat at all and he insisted that this operation will not include Aleppo city .
Today Euphrates shield forces captured 4 villages towards Al-BAB and 2 Villages in the direction...
I do not think Turkish leadership would do that , lets leave carpet bombing when operations starts directly against Kurdish cantons which will not be any-time in the near future .
Shiek Essa is a well fortified town , they have been building trenches and earth walls for the past 6 month around this town and also Tell Refaat . These battles will only be over once these fortifications are destroyed which requires concentrated air-strikes and heavy artillery support ...
Why are you making a big fuss out of nothing , the main aim of Euphrates shield was to fight and end Kurdish dream of connecting Afrin with Kobane . Fighting isis is just a head cover for this operation , the main aim is PKK .
As long as these rebels are killing PKK dogs I am more than happy ...
I know its hard to achieve but I hope the long term Turkish geopolitics would aim to have influence in the following region covered in Syria and Iraq , this would secure Turkey from PKK terrorism.
I think Euphrates Shield is only the first step on the ground to realize this project , it will...
They should be moved to southern eastern turkey , most of these people were farmers and would be better to have them there atleast also to balance demographics with kurds . If not then they should be sent to the safe zone in syria .
I think the agreement is about neutralizing pro American SDF forces west of Euphrates in Riqqah , Hassaka and the 2 cantons in Aleppo in return for Turkish support for Russian backed political resolution .
What seems to be happening here Turkey and Russia are dividing Syria into zones of...
I am talking about Mexicans not native. There are over 30 million Mexicans living in southern states . Why not give those guys their independence first ? Turks have been in anatolia for over 1000 years before your country was even discovered . If Kurds want a country then they should claim it...
why not give back new Mexico ; California ; Texas and Arizona back to Mexicans after peasant cowboys conquered it by force 100 years ago ? Your current government policies will eventually unite everyone against you