Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

[Metanoia]

Israel is going more rabid than usual in view of the recent developments in Syria.

 

[Ceylal]

Israel is going more rabid than usual in view of the recent developments in Syria.

All their plans to divide Syria fell on their face..They have to worry more since the Syrian army gained in experience fighting a non ending terrorists who have their own AirForces...

 

[Aramagedon]

Israel is going more rabid than usual in view of the recent developments in Syria.

Terrorist scums, real plague cancers of the ME ....

 

[Simbabw]

All their plans to divide Syria fell on their face..They have to worry more since the Syrian army gained in experience fighting a non ending terrorists who have their own AirForces...

They owned themselves. Iran is more present than ever in the area

 

[Ceylal]

They owned themselves. Iran is more present than ever in the area

Iran over smarted them...They put too much credence on Trump....

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...deir-al-zor/article19650514.ece?homepage=true

A member of Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with his fellow members in Deir al-Zor province, Syria. | Photo Credit: Reuters



U.S.-backed Syrian militias have launched an operation against Islamic State in the north of Deir al-Zor province, a statement said on Saturday.

Assaults would aim to drive the jihadist militants out of areas they hold north and east of the Euphrates river, close to the Iraqi border, said the statement from the Deir al-Zor Military Council, which is fighting as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF).

A senior SDF official told Reuters on Friday they would launch attacks from the south of Hasaka, which is controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, as part of a wider offensive to drive Islamic State out of Raqqa city and territory to its southeast.

With U.S.-led air cover and special forces on the ground, the alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias is fighting to seize Raqqa, upstream along the Euphrates River.

Spearheaded by the YPG, the SDF says it has taken 65 per cent of Raqqa city from Islamic State.

In the Deir al-Zor assault, the SDF would push towards the Euphrates River from the east of the province, which borders Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that the SDF had already made advances against IS in Deir al-Zor after fierce clashes and seized several hills and a village in the province's northwestern countryside.

The operation will likely bring the U.S.-backed militias into closer proximity with the Syrian military and allied forces, who have advanced on Deir al-Zor city.

The Syrian army reached its enclave in Deir al-Zor city this week, on the western bank of the Euphrates, breaching an Islamic State siege that had lasted three years.

With the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, the advance capped months of steady progress east against Islamic State across the desert.

The eastwards march has on occasion brought the Syrian army and its allies into conflict with U.S.-backed forces.

Still, the rival campaigns have mostly stayed out of each other's way, and the U.S.-led coalition has stressed it is not seeking war with Damascus.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1158231/middle-east

BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies recaptured an oilfield from Daesh near the eastern city of Deir Al-Zor on Saturday in further advances against the militants, state TV reported.

Government forces also seized part of a main highway running from Deir Al-Zor down to the city of Al-Mayadeen, to which many Daesh militants have retreated, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

The Syrian army this week broke through Daesh lines to reach a government-held enclave of Deir Al-Zor besieged for years by the jihadists, and is fighting to reach a nearby air base which Daesh still surrounds.

On Saturday, the army and militias fighting alongside it seized the Teym oilfield in desert south of Deir Al-Zor, state TV said. Deir Al-Zor is in an oil-rich area of Syria.

To the east of Teym and south of the air base, government forces also recaptured part of the main road running from Deir Al-Zor to Al-Mayadeen, downstream along the Euphrates river and closer to the Iraq border, the Observatory reported.

The British-based monitoring group said that advance would block potential Daesh reinforcements from Al-Mayadeen.
The advances put yet more pressure on Daesh’s shrinking caliphate, which once stretched across northern and eastern Syria, and northwestern Iraq.

In Syria, the group holds much of Deir Al-Zor province and half the city, as well as a pocket of territory near Hama and Homs in the west of the country.

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http://www.arabnews.com/node/1158276/middle-east

BEIRUT: US-backed Syrian militias have launched an operation against Daesh in the north of Deir Al-Zor province, a statement said on Saturday.

Assaults would aim to drive the jihadist militants out of areas they hold north and east of the Euphrates river, close to the Iraqi border, said the statement from the Deir Al-Zor Military Council, which is fighting as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF).

A senior SDF official told Reuters on Friday they would launch attacks from the south of Hasaka, which is controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, as part of a wider offensive to drive Daesh out of Raqqa city and territory to its southeast.

With US-led air cover and special forces on the ground, the alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias is fighting to seize Raqqa, upstream along the Euphrates River.

Spearheaded by the YPG, the SDF says it has taken 65 percent of Raqqa city from Daesh.

In the Deir Al-Zor assault, the SDF would push toward the Euphrates River from the east of the province, which borders Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that the SDF had already made advances against Daesh in Deir Al-Zor after fierce clashes and seized several hills and a village in the province’s northwestern countryside.

The operation will likely bring the US-backed militias into closer proximity with the Syrian military and allied forces, who have advanced on Deir Al-Zor city.

The Syrian army reached its enclave in Deir Al-Zor city this week, on the western bank of the Euphrates, breaching an Daesh siege that had lasted three years.

With the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, the advance capped months of steady progress east against Daesh across the desert.

The eastwards march has on occasion brought the Syrian army and its allies into conflict with US-backed forces.
Still, the rival campaigns have mostly stayed out of each other’s way, and the US-led coalition has stressed it is not seeking war with Damascus.

 

[Metanoia]

Now the US has turned more rabid than usual as they have stated that they "won't be allowing SAA and allies to cross the Euphrates from East to West."

https://twitter.com/x/status/906624779997765632

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1158611/middle-east

JEDDAH: The noose tightened around Daesh militant forces in both Iraq and Syria on Saturday as US-backed militias and the Syrian Army advanced in Deir Ezzor and the Iraqi air force and the US-led coalition stepped up airstrikes on the Daesh-held town of Hawija.

In Syria, Assad regime troops broke the Daesh siege of Deir Ezzor military airport, days after ending another siege on residential districts of the eastern city.

The breach came “after the forces advancing from the cemetery southwest of the city linked up with the forces holding the airbase,” the state news agency SANA said.

The troops had launched a new push on Friday toward the besieged military airport, as part of its multi-pronged offensive to retake the whole city from the militants.

Since 2014, Daesh has held swaths of Deir Ezzor province, which borders Iraq, and about 60 percent of the provincial capital.

They had encircled two regime-held enclaves in the western half of Deir Ezzor city, and the army on Tuesday broke through one of them.

“By breaking the siege on the military airport, regime forces have been able to link up all the neighborhoods they hold in western parts of Deir Ezzor city,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitor based in the UK.
In the eastern Syrian desert, Assad regime forces also advanced past the 11-bus convoy of Daesh terrorists and their families who left the Lebanon-Syria border last week in a controversial deal brokered with Hezbollah. This means the militants will be unable to join the fighting in Deir Ezzor.

“From the start of this situation on Aug. 29, we have placed responsibility for the buses and passengers on the Syrian regime,” said Brig. Gen. Jon Braga, director of operations for the coalition. “The regime’s advance past the convoy underlines continued Syrian responsibility for the buses and terrorists. As always, we will do our utmost to ensure that the terrorists do not move toward the border of our Iraqi partners.”

The dueling battles for Deir Ezzor highlight the importance of the oil-rich eastern province, which has become the latest center of the international war against Daesh. The race to reach the Iraqi border will shape future regional dynamics, determining whether the US or Russia and Iran will have more influence in the strategic area once the extremist group is defeated.

In Iraq, meanwhile, government forces are pushing Daesh out of the remaining pockets of territory the group holds after the liberation of Mosul in July, in preparation for a ground assault on the town of Hawija.

“There are large operations underway ahead of the liberation of Hawija and surrounding areas,” Iraqi Defense Minister Erfan Al-Hayali said. His forces were working closely with Kurdish peshmerga fighters as well as the coalition, he said, and had begun radio broadcasts and leaflet drops on Hawija warning civilians of the coming attack.

The stepped-up coalition airstrikes are targeting Daesh territory in western Anbar as well as Hawija, said US Army Col. Ryan Dillon, the coalition spokesman.

 

[Hindustani78]

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© Russian Defense Ministry/TASS
http://tass.com/defense/964424

DAMASCUS, September 7. /TASS/. Russian military instructors have trained 1,200 Syrian recruits and reservists at the Dreij training center located near the country’s capital of Damascus, Syrian Army General Mansoor Nabih told reporters.

"Thanks [to the Russian instructors], we have trained military servicemen who will participate in the upcoming offensives towards the positions of the Islamic State terror group," he said. "A total of 1,200 people have been trained," he added. According to the general, troops who were trained at the center participated in the liberation of Palmyra, the offensives towards Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo, they also liberated the southern part of the Raqqa province. "Our soldiers continue to liberate Syria from terrorists," he said.

A training course lasts 15 to 20 days, after the first week, soldiers are divided into groups to receive weapons training, tactical course, engineering or medical training.

"While working with Syrian troops, we have achieved outstanding results in weapons training, engineering and tactical training," Russian military instructor named Alexei told reporters. "The troops have acquired good weapons skills that could be used during offensive and defensive operations. They are ready to defend their country, their morale is high," he added.

 

[500]

LOL whats heroic there? Thousands armed to teeth asadists with air support (including massive US air support) against several hundred peasants with rusty AK.

Zahreddine is a war criminal, sadist beheader and corruptioner who demands bribes from poor people who want to escape to safety and steals UN aid.

Here’s How Syria’s Regime Is Profiting From People Under Siege
In the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, regime officials line their pockets by charging exorbitant amounts for exit fees, tolls, and international aid while residents starve and suffer.

ISTANBUL — Sara Khaled and her family had finally had enough. She had withstood more than four years of revolution and civil war, culminating in the siege by ISIS of her regime-controlled neighborhood. The misery was too much too bear: Food was scarce, medicine even scarcer. She and five members of her immediate family decided to leave the city of Deir Ezzor late last summer.

But first they had to pay a toll — a fee of 300,000 Syrian pounds per person, or about $1,300 — to Major General Issam Zahreddine and Major General Mohammad Kaddour, Syrian regime commanders of the military in the area — to get past the first checkpoint. Then they arrived at a second checkpoint, where regime soldiers also demanded a bribe.

“You have to claim that your relative is dying,” the 24-year-old petrochemical engineer told BuzzFeed News from Germany. “‘I have a sick person; he’s about to die,’ so they feel sorry for you and give you permission to leave. But none of this is free. When we left, we paid hundreds of thousands of Syrian pounds so that we and our car and our family could leave safely.”

The regime of Bashar al-Assad has come under international scrutiny for imposing crippling sieges on rebel-held areas, leading to the starvation deaths of scores of civilians, including children. Such sieges are a time-honored method of warfare, an attempt to force a rebellious population to submit or die. The U.N. is currently investigating whether the Syrian regime’s deprivations amount to war crimes as Assad’s forces, backed by Iranian militias and Russian airstrikes, are on the verge of placing the country’s largest city, Aleppo, under siege.

"Such methods of warfare are prohibited under international humanitarian law and violate core human rights obligations with regard to the rights to adequate food, health and the right to life, not to mention the special duty of care owed to the well-being of children," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission investigating war crimes in Syria, said in a letter to Reuters.

Less scrutinized are the mechanics of how the regime and its denizens are profiting financially from sieges, including from those under its own authority in loyalist neighborhoods.

The city of Deir Ezzor is effectively divided into two sections: The western part is held by the regime and an eastern part is under ISIS control. The regime-controlled districts have been under siege by ISIS for 13 months, leading to a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in those neighborhoods. But what’s hurting civilians even more is the profiteering by regime officials purporting to be their protectors.

According to interviews with more than half a dozen people from Deir Ezzor, regime officials are behind the exorbitant prices that drive people to leave those areas while at the same time profiting by charging ever more exorbitant fees to those who exit. Since Khaled’s departure last summer, the price to get out of Deir Ezzor has jumped from between 400,000 Syrian pounds per head (almost $2,000) to 1 million Syrian pounds (over $4,500) for a seat on a helicopter, say residents.

“After losing the oil fields in Deir Ezzor, [the regime is] profiting from those leaving, and it’s allowing them to stay strong in the city,” said Karam al-Hamad, a political activist from Deir Ezzor, speaking to BuzzFeed News from southern Turkey.

In addition, regime officials jack up prices for food and fuel and sell international aid at a profit, forcing civilians to pay for goods donated by relief organizations such as the Red Cross or the United Nations. Pro-regime businessmen buy homes and cars on the cheap for those desperate to finance their escapes.

“There’s a huge extortion racket going on in Deir Ezzor, where the regime takes bribes for getting people onto helicopters to safety,” said James Sadri, director of the Syria Campaign, a Beirut- and New York-based advocacy group campaigning for the protection of civilians.

The eastern, ISIS-controlled section of Deir Ezzor has witnessed a rise in prices, but nothing near the skyrocketing costs under the regime. For example, under ISIS, a pound of sugar costs about 50 cents, compared to $10 in regime-controlled neighborhoods, residents said. The disparity in prices is in large part due to the regime taking over any type of resources or aid, hiking up the prices, and selling them for a profit.

There is no evidence that Assad himself or those at the center of power in Damascus are profiting from the sieges. The money potentially fills empty local government coffers or at least lines the pockets of regional officials and well-connected merchants.

Many said they suspect ISIS or its hangers-on are collaborating with and profiting alongside the regime in the trade of supplies into the area. But uniformed members of Assad’s armed forces remain the biggest financial beneficiaries. “The smuggling business was overseen by military men themselves,” said Shadi, a Deir Ezzor journalist now based in Turkey, who asked that his full name not be used out of fear for his safety. “The men of the regime are benefiting. All business is happening under their supervision.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/borzoudara...-under-siege?utm_term=.imXEq6G4Yq#.pyn9Xg5OdX

Another proof that Assadist hero Zahredine is a scum and war criminal:

 

[T-55]

Three days before Deir ez-Zor.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1159236/middle-east

AFP | Published — Monday 11 September 2017
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BEIRUT: Tribal figures linked to a US-backed alliance announced plans Monday for a council to run Syria’s Deir Ezzor, as both the alliance and regime troops battle jihadists in and around the city.

Held by the Daesh group, the city is the capital of the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, regarded as a strategic prize by both Syrian troops and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

With Russian backing, Syrian regime forces have seized western parts of the province and breached Daesh’s years-long siege on parts of the city.

SDF fighters are waging a separate offensive that has captured swathes of territory from Daesh east of the Euphrates River, which cuts across the province.

The SDF has not reached Deir Ezzor city itself, but on Monday its media office said a “preparatory committee” would begin laying the groundwork for a civil council to run the city after Daesh’s defeat.

Local figures would announce “the preparatory committee of the Deir Ezzor Civil Council and the support of the tribes for the SDF,” the media office said in a statement.

It remained unclear whether the Deir Ezzor Civil Council would coordinate with, or rival, government authorities already present in other parts of the city.

Since 2014, Daesh has held swathes of the province and about 60 percent of its capital, encircling two regime-held enclaves in the western half of Deir Ezzor city.

Government troops have broken both jihadist sieges and were preparing on Monday to launch an offensive on the eastern districts still held by Daesh.

“Military reinforcements have been arriving since Sunday night to begin the operation to seize control of the city,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.

He said the SDF had advanced to six kilometers (four miles) from the eastern banks of the Euphrates River across from Deir Ezzor city.

The SDF’s advance is backed by the US-led coalition battling Daesh in Iraq and Syria since 2014.

The coalition, the SDF, Syria’s government and Russia have agreed on a “de-confliction line” in northeastern Syria to prevent the two offensives from clashing.

 

[chatterjee]

Dair al-Zoor sustained one of the longest sieges in modern history, against one of the dirtiest, most ruthless and criminally insane enemies seen in history, an enemy that even poisons their bullet projectiles to kill upon wounding; a fact that was overlooked by the international committee just like many others.

But today, September 2017; the Syrian Arab Armed Forces aided by their allies lifted the siege off of Dair al-Zoor, crossed the Euphrates and established control points on the Eastern side.

For our Western-based followers, and for the rest of the world: Take a look at these men, without them, none of you would be safe in your own homes; these men foiled the agendas of your politicians and policy makers. But let’s not throw accusations here, we only speak of facts.

Last year around this time, specifically on the 17th of September 2016; the so-called “US-Led” coalition raided SAA positions in Tharda Mountains overseeing many strategic points in Dair al-Zoor and its airbase. Two US A10s, Tow US F-16s, Two Danish F-16, number of British Reaper drones, and Australian F-18A launched 37 air raids in 61 minutes while guided by a RAAF E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft; all done during an ISIS attack at the same locations that were bombed in what they allegedly called a mistake.

It was not a mistake, it was an act of aggression that took the lives of 61 Syrian heroes, and injured over a 100 more. That day, the so-called “US-Led Coalition” deliberately took-out every piece of heavy military equipment, and put the besieged Syrian troops in a positions unable to restore the points they lost because of the attack.

Since then, and the heroes of the 104th Airborne Brigade of the Syrian Republican Guards, aided by troops of many other formations and local volunteers held their ground against all odds; fought bravely and made an example for every military around the world; that numbers, weapons, supplies and rest are although crucial, but not the only means to survive, it is also within one’s morals, within one’s cause, believes and the will to do more with less.

We stand here today because of heroes that refused to surrender, heroes that could have abandoned their cause and their people, but chose their homeland above all, they chose to be the unknown, and unmentioned guardians of the country.
Today, the souls of the 61 Syrian Soldiers murdered by the so-called “US-Led Coalition” and the souls of hundreds more officers, soldiers and civilians who defended the city of Dair al-Zoor, not its stones not its streets not its buildings but its people, can rest in peace knowing that their sacrifice did not go in vain.

As a great Syrian commander once said: “Today you are not from Damascus, Aleppo, the Coast, Sweida, Homs, Hama, or anywhere else, today you are Syrians fighting on a Syrian land. Don’t run away from death it will come for you, chase death and it will run away from you.”

Source: https://www.facebook.com/syrianmilitary/

 

[TheCamelGuy]

So how much of the SDF are actually non-Kurdish fighters?