Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

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Russian Helicopter is down .
Seems like a lot of anti air activity is happening lately.
Some planes and now this attack chopper.
A few more and shias from Iran will make a run to tehran.

It was Mi-28 that crashed on airshow last year. Most probably crashed itself.

 

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By:www.japantimes.co.jp
Syria regime sends reinforcements to Aleppo; Iran troop deaths reported

BEIRUT/AMMAN – The Syrian army was on Monday reported to be sending reinforcements to Aleppo, where renewed fighting is threatening a fragile truce in the run-up to the next round of peace talks.

Underlining the conflict’s regional dimensions, Iranian media announced the first deaths of members of its regular army in Syria, a week after Tehran said army commandos had been deployed in support of Damascus. Iran’s military support has so far mostly been provided by the elite Revolutionary Guard Corps.

An eruption of fighting near the ancient city of Aleppo in the last two weeks marks the most serious challenge yet to a “cessation of hostilities” brokered by the United States and Russia with the aim of facilitating peace talks.

Pointing to the frayed state of the truce, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is visiting Damascus, that Turkey and Saudi Arabia were behind violations of the deal.

He said they had ordered insurgents to stage attacks aimed at foiling planned Geneva talks. There was no immediate response from Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

The two nations have backed the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, providing insurgents with arms and money. Assad is supported militarily by both Iran and Russia.

The U.N.-sponsored talks, which resume on Wednesday, aim to end a five-year-old conflict which has killed more than 250,000 people, created the world’s worst refugee crisis and allowed for the rise of Islamic State. The first round made little progress, with no sign of compromise over the key issue of Assad’s future.

Underlining Assad’s confidence, the Syrian government is due to hold parliamentary elections in state-held parts of the country on Wednesday. The opposition has called the vote a sham.

FIGHTING FOR ALEPPO

The fighting near Aleppo has focused around a cluster of towns along the main road to the south.

Rebels say the army has also intensified bombing, and Russian warplanes have resumed air strikes in the area.

The army has accused rebels of taking part in attacks by the Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked group, which along with Islamic State was not included in the truce agreement.

Russia said on Monday that Nusra was massing around Aleppo ahead of a major offensive.

Syria’s Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki was quoted on Sunday as saying the government, backed by Russia’s air force, was planning an operation to retake Aleppo, but the Russian defence ministry said there were no plans to storm the city.

Local media on both sides reported a large build-up of troops and equipment by the Syrian army and its allies around Aleppo, with the pro-Damascus al-Mayadeen TV reporting it had seen tanks and rocket launchers heading towards the city.

The government and its allies have mounted major operations against insurgents to the north and south of Aleppo in the six months since Russia began air strikes in support of Assad and cut the most direct supply route to Turkey earlier this year.

But rebels still hold territory in and around the city, including its western approaches.

The two fiercest fronts in fighting around Aleppo in recent days have been in the towns of Telat al-Eis, Zitan, Zirba and Khan Touman on the main highway south to Damascus, and around the Handarat camp on a main road running north to Turkey.

The Aleppo front is one of the areas where Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have deployed in support of the army.

The Iranian Tasnim news agency said four soldiers in Iran’s regular army had been killed in Syria, without saying when or where. “Four of the first military advisers of the Islamic Republic’s army … were killed in Syria by takfiri groups,” it said, referring to hardline Sunni Islamists.

TRYING TO PROTECT CEASEFIRE

Both Damascus and the opposition’s High Negotiations Committee have held the other to blame for breaches in the truce, which came into effect on Feb. 27.

De Mistura was in Damascus for meetings with senior government officials before travelling on to Iran in an attempt to revive the peace talks after negotiations in March failed to make much progress.

The next round will focus on a political transition, de Mistura said. Moualem said the government would be ready to take part.

Meanwhile, fighting also erupted between rebels and Islamic State on Monday, as the group reclaimed the town of al-Rai near the border with Turkey, about 50km (30 miles) from Aleppo, only days after it fell to the Turkish-backed rebels..................See more

 

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Persian 65th airborne in Syria

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Hezbollah assault on Al-Eis in southern Aleppo repelled by Jabhat al-Nusra



Grank attacks salafists in Latakia province

 

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safalists draw their strength from Allah in their battle with Grank

 

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salafists fight Grank at Eis

 

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salafists use a drone to capture footage of Grank warriors running from Eis

 

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By:www.reuters.com
Turkey shells targets in Syria after rockets hit border town: sources

Turkey's military returned fired into an Islamic State-controlled area of Syria after rockets hit the southeastern Turkish border town of Kilis for the third straight days on Wednesday, security sources said.

There were no casualties in Kilis after multiple rockets landed in an empty field, Mayor Hasan Kara told Reuters. The security sources said the Turkish military fired howitzers into Syria in response.

"We go to sleep to the sounds of rockets and we wake up to the sound of rockets," Kara told Reuters by telephone.

Kilis is home to an estimated 110,000 Syrian refugees and is frequently targeted by artillery from across the border, a region controlled by Islamic State militants.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that 21 people had been wounded so far this week in shelling. Hospital sources later said that one of the wounded had died.

In March, two people, including a young child, were killed by rocket fire into the city.

The Turkish armed forces often respond to such attacks by firing at targets in Syria.

Turkey is facing multiple security threats. As part of a U.S.-led coalition, it is fighting Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq. It is also battling Kurdish militants in its southeast, where a 2-1/2-year ceasefire collapsed last July, triggering the worst violence since the 1990s............See more

 

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Some of Hezbie invaders killed by Syrians while trying to sieze El Eis yesterday:

+ some Iranians and lots of Afghans and Iraqis

 

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Zahra’s Paradise(Tehran's largest cemetery): The human cost of Iran’s intervention in Syria cannot be ignored, there are just too many public funerals these days in Iran,

Iran is intent on making Syria its graveyard for a psychopath Baschar al Assad.......

 

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Zahra’s Paradise(Tehran's largest cemetery): The human cost of Iran’s intervention in Syria cannot be ignored, there are just too many public funerals these days in Iran,

Iran is intent on making Syria its graveyard for a psychopath Baschar al Assad.......

For every Persian warrior fallen in battle, 10 more replaces him. Sun provides energy to people reproducing more people. Sun is endless. People is endless. War is endless.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/720255747334938625

 

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^^^^ Al Nusra dogs


U.S. Government Reveals 3,000 Ton Delivery Of Weapons To Al-Qaeda-Linked Syrian Rebels

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/09/2016 12:32 -0400



U.S. Delivers 3,000 Tons Of Weapons And Ammo To Al-Qaeda & Co in Syria

The United States via its Central Intelligence Agency is still delivering thousands of tons of additional weapons to al-Qaeda and others in Syria.

The FBO has released two solicitations in recent months looking for shipping companies to transport explosive material from Eastern Europe to the Jordanian port of Aqaba on behalf of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command.

Released on 3 November 2015, the first solicitation sought a contractor to ship 81 containers of cargo that included explosive material from Constanta in Bulgaria to Aqaba.

The cargo listed in the document included AK-47 rifles, PKM general-purpose machine guns, DShK heavy machine guns, RPG-7 rocket launchers, and 9K111M Faktoria anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) systems. The Faktoria is an improved version of the 9K111 Fagot ATGW, the primary difference being that its missile has a tandem warhead for defeating explosive reactive armour (ERA) fitted to some tanks.

One ship with nearly one thousand tons of weapons and ammo left Constanta in Romania on December 5. The weapons are from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania. It sailed to Agalar in Turkey which is a military pier and then to Aqaba in Jordan. Another ship with more than two-thousand tons of weapons and ammo left in late March, followed the same route and was last recorded on its way to Aqaba on April 4.

We already knew that the "rebels" in Syria received plenty of weapons during the official ceasefire. We also know that these "rebels" regularly deliver half of their weapon hauls from Turkey and Jordan to al-Qaeda in Syria (aka Jabhat al-Nusra):

Hard-core Islamists in the Nusra Front have long outgunned the more secular, nationalist, Western-supported rebels. According to FSA officers, Nusra routinely harvests up to half the weapons supplied by the Friends of Syria, a collection of countries opposed to Assad, ..

U.S. and Turkey supported "rebels" took part in the recent attack on Tal al-Eis against Syrian government forces which was launched with three suicide bombs by al-Qaeda in Syria. This was an indisputable breaking of the ceasefire agreement negotiated between Russia and the U.S. It is very likely that some of the weapons and ammunition the U.S. delivered in December were used in this attack.

Millions of rifle, machine-gun and mortar shots, thousands of new light and heavy weapons and hundreds of new anti-tank missiles were delivered by the U.S.. Neither Turkey nor Jordan use such weapons of Soviet provenience. These weapons are going to Syria where, as has been reported for years by multiple independent sources, half of them go directly to al-Qaeda.

From historic experience we can be sure that the consequence of this weaponizing of takfiris will be not only be the death of "brown people" in the Middle East, but also attacks on "western" people and interests.

Skyscrapers falling in New York and hundreds of random people getting killed in Paris, Brussels, London and (likely soon) Berlin seem not enough to deter the politicians and "experts" that actively support this criminal war on Syria and its people.

U.S. Government Reveals 3,000 Ton Delivery Of Weapons To Al-Qaeda-Linked Syrian Rebels | Zero Hedge

Source: US readies 'Plan B' to supply heavy weapons to militants: Report

 

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Today its elections day in Syria: