Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

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Iraqi Kurds join fight against ISIS in Kobani
Free Syrian Army fighters return to Turkey after dispute with Kurdish leaders

The battle for the border town has also demonstrated the Turkish government’s unease at the presence of autonomous Kurdish regions and fighters on its borders.

As a precondition for allowing Iraqi Peshmerga to reinforce the town, Ankara insisted that they be accompanied by fighters from the armed wing of Syria’s Western-backed Syrian opposition, the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

However, sources say that this had led to friction between the FSA and Kurdish fighters.

A senior source within the Supreme Military Council of the FSA, who requested anonymity because he were not authorized to brief the media, told Asharq Al-Awsat, however, that there were currently disputes between the FSA and the Kurdish fighters from the YPG.

The source said around 20 of the original 52 FSA fighters who had joined the fight just days ago had now left the area as a result of the disputes, adding that they had now re-entered Turkish territory.

Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, a senior source from the YPG did not confirm or deny the allegations, saying only that “the FSA fighters who joined us [the YPG] recently in Kobani were motivated more by political goals than military ones,” accusing them of following orders from Ankara.

The source added: “The group of FSA fighters who have been with us from the beginning of the battle [for Kobani] are still by our side, and around 30 of them have been killed in the fighting. But those who joined recently, who are under the leadership of Gen. Abdul Jabbar Al-Akidi and came [already] supplied with weapons, are still hesitant and have not yet decided whether to join the fight or not, despite our opening the door fully to any help they might offer.”

In contrast, Munthir Silal, a member of the opposition Syrian Council for the Protection of the Revolution, told Asharq Al-Awsat around 200 fighters under the leadership of Gen. Akidi had entered the fight in Kobani in the last two days.

Speaking of the accusations the source from the YPG had leveled at some of the FSA fighters under Akidi, he said: “Maybe it is in the Kurds’ interest to devalue the role the FSA is playing [in the fight]. It is they who did not want the FSA’s presence, [and the FSA would not have entered the fight] if it wasn’t for Turkish pressure.”

He added: “Despite all this, we want to ensure everyone that our [FSA] fighters in Kobani are in good shape and are getting ready to enter the battle in Kobani with full force, since the fight for the town is now getting a lot of attention and support, and [victory there] can therefore act as a springboard for the liberation of the towns of Manbij, Jarabulus and Tel Abyad [from ISIS].”

Iraqi Kurds join fight against ISIS in Kobani « ASHARQ AL-AWSAT

 

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Liwa Usud al-Islam attacked Assad militia position in Dalak near Salamiyah, killing 17 Assad militias, losing 6 from their own ranks. Seized a T-55 tank and various small firearms

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Rebels declare that they occupied Al-Dalak, Tel al-Muzayri'ah and Al-Sutahiat. (Located west of Salamiyah, Hamah Province)

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The ‪#‎FSA‬ gains control of villages and checkpoints in ‪#‎Hama‬ countryside

The Free Syrian Army gained control of the villages of al-Kareem, Qaber al-Fidaa, and Arramla of western Hama countryside following fierce clashes against Assad troop.
Moreover, revolutionary forces took control of three regime checkpoints in eastern Hama countryside (Addalak, al-Mozeraa, and Assathiat) near the city of Assalamiyiah after violent clashes that left several regime soldiers and militiamen killed. Revolutionaries also seized a regime tank, machine guns and ammunition.

#RFSThe #FSA gains control of villages... - المكتب الإعلامي لقوى الثورة السورية R.F.S | Facebook

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/529282607851122688

FSA captured Qabr Fiddah and Al-Kareem near Hama.

 

[atatwolf]

Same like how mullah supporters are the majority here while the few drops of sane and honest Iranians are the minority.

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[dhul-aktaf]

Same like how mullah supporters are the majority here while the few drops of sane and honest Iranians are the minority.

lol. look who is telling what. a brainless Turk left in the idea of grey wolf and brainfucked by ideas of a fuckhead called kamal.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

Has the Islamic State set its eyes on T4 (Tiyas)?

The recent Islamic State offensive in Homs supposedly now also threatens Syria's largest and most important airbase; T4. Sharing the name of the nearby pumping station, T4 is often incorrectly named Tiyas or even Tayas, Tayfur, Al Tifor or Al Tifour due to the Arabic rendering of 'T4'.

The release of a video by a Pro-Assadist YouTube channel confirms daily operations still continue at T4. The video, intended to boost the morale of regime fighters, reflects the tense situation North of the airbase.When a similar video showing Tabqa airbase remaining firmly in regime hands was released, the base was overrun just a day later.

T4 houses a total of fifty-eight Hardened Aircraft Shelters (HAS) and two additional large hangars. Most of the HASes, once built to protect the legacy MiG-25 fleet from the Israeli Air Force, now remain empty, but could be used as strongholds to be used in the event of a possible attack by fighters of the Islamic State.

The airbase is currently home to a large portion of the Syrian Arab Air Force's (SyAAF) fighter-bomber fleet and the now decommissioned MiG-25 fleet, of which thirty-two can be seen on satellite imagery. Although the MiG-25's career was shortly revived in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, reintroduction of the fleet of MiG-25PDS interceptors, MiG-25RBT reconnaissance-bombers and associated MiG-25PU trainers has not taken place and most remain storedaround the airbase.

T4 also used to see regular detachments of MiG-29SMs, flown by 697 Squadron based out ofSeen (sometimes also incorrectly described as Sayqal). It is unknown if these detachments still continue during the now almost four-year long Syrian Civil War.

Most importantly, it is home to the SyAAF's 819 Squadron flying Su-24M2s, the most important air asset of the Assad regime. The once twenty-two aircraft strong Su-24 fleet (including two examples given by Libya in the nineties) suffered the loss of two aircraft, leaving twenty aircraft. The whole fleet was recently upgraded by Russia to M2 standard. The upgrade provides for improved targeting, navigation and fire-control systems and compatibility with newer versions of the KAB-500/1500 guided bombs, Kh-31A, Kh-31P and Kh-59 air-to-ground missiles and R-73 air-to-air missiles in addition to the Kh-25, Kh-29L, Kh-29T and Kh-58 air-to-ground missiles and R-60 air-to-air missiles already carried. The carriage of S-24 and S-25 air-to-ground rockets, unguided rocket pods, FAB, OFAB and RBK bombs and KMGU-2 munitions dispensers is also possible.
The SyAAF, orginally destined to fight a fierce but short war with Israel, never anticipated to fight a war that nears its four year anniversary, and is believed to enjoy a fresh supply line of spares from Russia to keep its aircraft operational. This theory is strengthened by the regular sighting of the SyAAF's Il-76s in Russia. Although in Syrian Air colours, the Il-76s are de-facto under Air Force command.

A second Squadron (677 Squadron or 685 Squadron) operates Su-22M4s, another important strike asset of the SyAAF. This plane is also rigged for the carriage of S-24 and S-25 air-to-ground rockets, unguided rocket pods, FAB, OFAB and RBK bombs, KMGU-2 munitions dispensers, Kh-25, Kh-29L, Kh-29T and Kh-58 air-to-ground missiles and R-60 air-to-air missiles. One Su-22M4 armed with two B-8 rocket pods, two KMGU-2 munitions dispensers and two fuel tanks can be seen taxiing at T4 below. Another shot shows two of them parked in a double HAS.

While the SyAAF should have no problem evacuating most of the Su-22M4s and Su-24M2s if the Islamic State attacks, it is yet to be seen if they would manage to evacuate the extensive stock of spare parts, armaments and irreplaceable personnel also present at the base. If not, it is unlikely the SyAAF would ever recover from such a major loss.

As seen at Tabqa, the SyAAF had great difficulty evacuating the remaining personnel and weapon systems, and failed even in destroying the MiG-21s undergoing maintenance, which would have prevented possible future use by the Islamic State.

T4's direct line of defence is provided by various checkpoints manned by the National Defence Force (NDF) and numerous anti-aircraft gun emplacements that can be used to slow down assaults by the Islamic State. As seen at Tabqa, fighter-bombers stationed at the airbase or detached SA-342 Gazelles and Mi-25s can provide another layer of protection from the skies.

Two S-75 and three S-125 SAM sites are tasked to defend T4's air space, although their operational readiness can be questioned. One RSP-7, two P-12/18 ''Spoon Rest'' and two P-35/37 ''Bar Lock'' radars are responsible for detecting any plane flying in mid-Syria.

The fighter-bombers and the possible deployment of SyAAF attack helicopters at T4 complicates any future offensive undertaken by the Islamic State in the Homs Governorate and makes T4 a priority target to take out.

Even though it remains to be seen if T4 will be attacked soon, the offensive in the Homs province, leading to the capture of the vital Shaer gas field, comes at a time when the rest of the world remains distracted by the Islamic State's offensive on the city of Kobanê and once again shows the flexibility of the Islamic State to carry out offensives on multiple fronts.

Oryx Blog: Has the Islamic State set its eyes on T4 (Tiyas)?

 

[atatwolf]

lol. look who is telling what. a brainless Turk left in the idea of grey wolf and brainfucked by ideas of a fuckhead called kamal.

Are you better than ISIS?

 

[Alienoz_TR]

SYRIA DIRECT: NEWS UPDATE 11-3-14
IS captures another gas field

The Islamic State captured a gas field near the historical ruins of Palmyra in east Homs province from the regime on Monday, reported Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya.

This is the second gas field victory in the Palmyra area for the Islamic State over the past week and the third in the past four months.

IS also claimed to capture the nearby government gas company known as Jihar, according to IS-affiliated social media accounts Monday, circulating pictures of tanks and heavy weaponry reportedly taken from the gas company.

The Jihar gas company is one of the largest in Homs province and supplies the rest of the province with fuel.

Last Tuesday, IS killed 30 regime soldiers before taking control of three gas fields near Jabal Shar in the same area.

In July, IS briefly seized control of the Jabal Shar gas fields, killing 300 regime soldiers before being pushed out by the Syrian army 10 days later.

IS inspects spoils from gas field takeover on Monday. Photo courtesy of alplatformmedia.

Checkpoint capture may break regime cordon in Homs

Rebels with the Feilaq a-Sham brigade captured the Dalak village checkpoint in the northeast Homs countryside from the regime Sunday, which they say will allow the movement of humanitarian aid and weapons into rebel-held areas north of Homs city, reported pro-opposition Smart News agency.

The goal of the surprise attack on Dalak was to open up “a path, or gaps” in the regime military cordon stretching across the northern Homs countryside “to facilitate the entry of military supplies, food and medicines” coming south from Turkey into rebel-held areas north of Homs city, Seif Abu Yazin, the alias of a media activist living in the Homs countryside, told Syria Direct Monday.

Feilaq a-Sham seized a Russian-made T55 tank and an ammunition cache after the battle, in which 17 regime soldiers and six rebel combatants died, reported Feilaq a-Sham's media office.

Jobar holds out, barely

Syrian army forces supported by Hezbullah and National Defense (shabiha) fighters engaged in a fierce firefight with rebels along the edges of the rebel-held neighborhood of Jobar in Damascus late Sunday night, after pounding the area with artillery shells and machine gun fire during the day, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“The armed forced intensified their operations in the northern side of Jobar, continuing their progress after capturing a number of building blocks and destroying terrorist dens,” reportedpro-regime al-Khabar Press Sunday.

Meanwhile, regime forces “were unable to advance towards Feilaq a-Rahman positions” during the assault, the rebel group located in Jobar wrote on their Facebook page Sunday.

The latest regime attack comes amidst unconfirmed rebel accusations that the Syrian army has launched canisters filled with chlorine gas into the neighborhood.

Yusuf al-Bustani, the alias of a media activist located in Jobar, uploaded a video to YouTube Sunday allegedly displaying a gas canister filled with chlorine recovered from inside Jobar.

The opposition frequently accuses the regime of launching chemical weapons attacks in contested areas. Such accusations, like the most recent concerning Jobar, are difficult to independently verify.

2,000 detainees reportedly dead in 2014

Nearly 2,000 Syrians have died in regime prisons and detention centers, including many from torture, since the beginning of 2014, according to a report released by the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday.

The report sheds light on the extent of what many activists say is an undercovered issue.

“The regime returned some of the bodies to their relatives,” said the report, “and then forced the families to take out a death certificate for the [deceased]…and sign permits saying the opposition killed them.”

SOHR said it used “documentary” sources to collect the information. The casualties could not be independently confirmed.

The London-based Observatory is one of the few organizations that still attempts to count the death toll of the Syrian war. The UN stopped updating its toll in January,citingincreasing barriers to independent verification.

Syria Direct: News Update 11-3-14 - Syria Direct


SHIA CELEBRATE ASHURA IN DISPLAY OF POWER

ASHURA IN DAMASCUS: Groups of Shia took to the streets of Damascus Saturday to celebrate Ashura – one of the most sacred Shiite holidays – in a powerful display of the Shiite presence in Syria’s capital, reported pro-opposition news agency Syria Mubasher.

Here, around the tomb of Sayyida Zaynab in southern Damascus, lines of flag-waving women and children march through markets in the direction of the revered tomb.

The Sayyida Zaynab tomb is one of the most important Shiite landmarks in Syria and has served as a major rallying point for Shiite governments and militia groups in their support of the Assad regime.

The Iraqi and Iranian government, as well as the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah, have all invoked the protection of the tomb from Sunni extremists as one of the explanations for sending troops to Syria.

“For you, oh Husayn,” the flags say, invoking the death of Husayn ibn Ali that the holiday commemorates.

While groups of religious tourists from Shiite countries have always visited Damascus to pay homage to the Sayyida Zaynab tomb, the Shiite presence in the city has greatly increased during the war as foreign fighters in support of Assad stream in from neighboring countries.

“There are many Shiite fighters from Hezbollah and other militias,” a Damascus-based activist who wished to remain anonymous told Syria Direct in late October. “You find them everywhere in Old Damascus. They are Lebanese and Iraqi mostly.”

Prior to the outbreak of the revolution in 2009, Shia made up 13 percent of the Syrian population.

Before the war, Shia never marched publically in Damascus, even for a holiday as important as Ashura. Photographs from this year’s march appear to show that that they took place inside the Old City and around the Umayyad Mosque, reported London-based Arabic news agency a-Sharq al-Awsat.

The public spectacle of Shiite power in Damascus could potentially stoke the flames of further sectarian conflict in a war already shaped by religious divisions.

Shia celebrate Ashura in display of power - Syria Direct

 

[dhul-aktaf]

Are you better than ISIS?

no. we are better than Armenian mass-murderers indeed.

 

[dhul-aktaf]

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The Turkish people don’t look favorably upon the U.S., or any other country, really | Pew Research Center
The Turks dislike Israel,Iran,Russia,America,Brazil,China,NATO or any other country really...
As U.S. and Western-led airstrikes continue to target Islamic State fighters for control of the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobane,questions have been raised about the U.S. and Turkey’s 60-year alliance. But even prior to the Islamic State’s push there, Turks have held decidedly negative views of the U.S. going back over a decade, and, additionally, do not much like other foreign powers either.

Since we began polling the Turkish people in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, never have more than three-in-ten said they have a favorable view of the U.S. But anti-Americanism really spiked in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War, when 83% of Turks held a negative view of America. Today, only 19% in Turkey like the U.S., while nearly three-quarters (73%) share a dislike of their NATO ally. (Unfortunately, we do not have comparable data for American views of Turkey).

But Turkish distaste for foreign powers does not begin and end with the U.S. On balance, around two-thirds or more Turks express unfavorable views of the European Union, China, Brazil, Russia, Iran and Israel. Turks even dislike Saudi Arabia (53% unfavorable and, notably, the highest favorability percentage (26%) among all countries we asked about). The people of Turkey also hold negative views toward NATO specifically (70% dislike the organization). In fact, it is hard to find any country or organization the Turkish people really like, except, of course, Turkey itself. According to our spring 2012 poll, 78% of Turks said they had a favorable view of their country.

However, along with distaste for foreign allies, Turks also reject extremist groups and their tactics. Although we do not have measurements of Turkish opinion of the Islamic State, 85% in Turkey have a negative opinion of its al Qaeda forbearer, with similarly poor views of other extremist groups like Hamas (80%) and Hezbollah (85%). Additionally, a majority of Turkish Muslims, who comprise 98% of the population, say suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are never justified (58%).

Despite the negative inclinations of the Turkish public toward world powers, roughly half the public (53%) in Turkey still wants to join the European Union. And while many in Turkey remain unhappy with national conditions, there has been a substantial increase in overall life satisfaction there since 2002.


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[dhul-aktaf]

but I know who they like:
ISIS, JN,

 

[Alienoz_TR]

A number of SAA and 3 NDF killed in Deir Ez-Zor. Meanwhile IS still controls northern parts of Hawija Sakhr (Sakhr Island).

https://www.masarpress.net/استمرار-المعارك-في-دير-الزور-وتنظيم-ال/

 

[Alienoz_TR]

IS destroyed 2 armored vehicle belonging to SAA and launched Grad rockets on Tayfour/Tiyas airbase in eastern Homs Province.

من جهة أخرى، تصدى تنظيم الدولة لمحاولة قوات الأسد فك الحصار عن مطار تيفور العسكري بريف حمص الشرقي، حيث جرت اشتباكات في محيط المطار بين الجانبين أدت إلى تدمير آليتين عسكريتين ودبابة، ترافق ذلك مع قصف بصواريخ “غراد” من قبل التنظيم على المطار.

https://www.masarpress.net/قصف-على-عدة-مناطق-بحمص-وتنظيم-الدولة-يح/