Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

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Breaking: Daesh hast burned the Jordanian pilot alive! These cockroaches know no boundaries. Fu** ISIS and their sympathizers.

Thats just terrible. RIP soldier.

SAA has retaken the hill, and those captured are not SAA. they are called Lujan al Sha'abi, ordinary civilians who are trained for one week in military academy of Aleppo and then stationed in areas liberated by SAA, that's why they either retreat quickly or are taken as prisoners.

They had "Rijal al Nimer" tags (Men of the Tiger). Afaik these are men of the best Syrian commander ever.

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But if u are right and Assad is sending untrained men to frontline, then his situation is worse than I thought.

 

[Serpentine]

They had "Rijal al Nimer" tags (Men of the Tiger). Afaik these are men of the best Syrian commander ever.

No they are not, and the reason for them being chosen is that they only have to guard the liberated areas and not to involve in fighting. It means more SAA troops will be free go go on the fronts.

Rebels on the other hand have launched numerous simiar attacks, hit and run, in Aleppo, without achieving anything. Sometimes, like this particular incident, they manage to take prisoners, lose some soldiers and then withdraw quickly. Others attacks may also end up as disasters, attacking, losing tens of men and then withdrawing. That's their tactic since liberation of Malah.

 

[Syrian Lion]

The benefit is simple: they murdered hundreds of rebels and their families, causing many many more to flee. It also makes very strong moral effect. Same they do with barrel bombs, but chemical weapons effect is much bigger.

During the entire summer Assad could not advance in Ghouta, but soon after chemical attack Assad captured Deir Salman, Shabaa, Huseynia, Buwaida, Sbeneh, Hijeirah...

As for who did this attack there is no any question.

FACT: The attack was made by "Bourkan" rockets which are in possession only of Assad.
FACT: The attack direction is from Assad held areas.

The suggestion that rebels somehow penetrated to Assad areas, captured dozen Bourkan launchers, loaded them with Sarin and then launched them against themselves its ridiculous to say the least.

Similarly u can say that its not Assad who drops barrel bombs on towns, but its rebels capture helicopters and then bomb themselves. Yesterday some 50 civilians were killed in Khan Shekhoun, Douma, Jaseem...

Wow how smart you are... The first day the inspectors arrive, launch a chemical attack... Great logic... Plus I never claimed they got the Rockets at the same day it could have been taken a year ago who knows... Again this attack didn't benefit Syrian government at all, instead it benefited the terrorists you love... They gained more sympathy by killing people... Why would the Syrian government ask the west to attack it??

 

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No they are not

Then why they had "Tiger Men" targs?

and the reason for them being chosen is that they only have to guard the liberated areas and not to involve in fighting. It means more SAA troops will be free go go on the fronts.

What are u talking about? Bureij is a frontline of frontlines. One of the hottest spot in entire Syria if not the hottest. Rebels are advancing there since early January.

Plus I never claimed they got the Rockets at the same day it could have been taken a year ago who knows...

Where they were hiding them and where they disapeared after that? Only Assad uses them.

Again this attack didn't benefit Syrian government at all, instead it benefited the terrorists you love...

As I said period after chemical attack was best period for Assad in Ghouta.

 

[beast89]

It's the joke of the century to see a saudi calling syria an israeli puppet, when his own country owned lock stock and barrel by America. If KSA had the wealth of Syria and the bordered israel what would it do? Maybe KSA would try and pay america to liberate its occupied territory? Then rage when its Master and sustainer of israel, USA says "Sorry" whilst trying to keep a straight face.

Arab national guard sending their love to american funded zionist stooges. They number in the several hundreds are are united with anti imperailism, anti zionism and disdain for arab "monarchies" they come from all over the arab world to dispose of FSA.

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[Hindustani78]

A man gives medical assistance to an injured man as two wounded children wait nearby at a field hospital after what activists said was an air strike by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra

 

[elszADaQ]

No they are not, and the reason for them being chosen is that they only have to guard the liberated areas and not to involve in fighting. It means more SAA troops will be free go go on the fronts.

Rebels on the other hand have launched numerous simiar attacks, hit and run, in Aleppo, without achieving anything. Sometimes, like this particular incident, they manage to take prisoners, lose some soldiers and then withdraw quickly. Others attacks may also end up as disasters, attacking, losing tens of men and then withdrawing. That's their tactic since liberation of Malah.

Insurgents killed 35 regime troops and captured at least 21, as well as destroying two tanks and seizing another. Killing and capturing more than 50 soldiers is not "achieving nothing", if you ask me, considering Assad's limited support base unlike the rebels who have a much easier time replacing losses.

 

[Serpentine]

Insurgents killed 35 regime troops and captured at least 21, as well as destroying two tanks and seizing another. Killing and capturing more than 50 soldiers is not "achieving anything", if you ask me, considering Assad's limited support base unlike the rebels who have a much easier time replacing losses.

They actually captured 1,000,000 and killed 2 million Assad shabiha alawite nusayri infidel kuffars. You underestimate stronkkk rebels.

 

[elszADaQ]

https://twitter.com/x/status/562596397598646273

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[beast89]

Insurgents killed 35 regime troops and captured at least 21, as well as destroying two tanks and seizing another. Killing and capturing more than 50 soldiers is not "achieving nothing", if you ask me, considering Assad's limited support base unlike the rebels who have a much easier time replacing losses.

When is SAA going to be defeated by zionist FSA? There's only 14 in that vid yet 21 are captured as stated.

 

[elszADaQ]

When is SAA going to be defeated by zionist FSA? There's only 14 in that vid yet 21 are captured as stated.

I think others were captured by extremist insurgents that participated in the battle.

 

[beast89]

I think others were captured by extremist insurgents that participated in the battle.

Worrying that FSA are so close to ISIS then?

 

[elszADaQ]

Worrying that FSA are so close to ISIS then?

They are continuing to coordinate with Nusrra out of necessity to successfully push Assad back.

Inside Syria’s Jails

By ALISE MOFREJ
FEBRUARY 3, 2015

BEIRUT, Lebanon — In the spring of 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians rose up in protest to demand democracy and freedom and an end to the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad. The response of the regime was to escalate the methods of repression that had been tried and tested against political opponents since the 1970s: arbitrary detention, disappearance and torture.

I worked as an Arabic teacher in the Damascus suburb of Germana, where my husband and I lived. We were both activists in a left-wing opposition party that had been suppressed for decades. I also founded an organization called Syrian Women for a State of Citizenship, which has been active since the start of the revolution. We worked to create economic opportunities for women and to promote peace and reduce conflict between armed factions at a local level.

I was first arrested on July 20, 2011, for participating in a peaceful demonstration in downtown Damascus. Along with six other activists, I was beaten with fists and an electric rod by members of the shabiha, the Baathist militia loyal to the Assad family. The regime gave these thugs a blank check to terrorize anyone suspected of opposition sympathies. They abused and manhandled us, before handing us over to the police.

We were held by the criminal security branch — in effect, the secret police — for 12 days, and then appeared in court before a judge, who granted us bail. We later received summonses, but we never showed up; eventually, the case against us for an “unlawful demonstration” was dropped.

As the security situation deteriorated through 2012, the regime’s tactics became harsher. By some estimates, more than 200,000 people have been detained as political prisoners, including thousands of women, and even young children.

On Dec. 30, 2013, I was arrested again, when I went to a passport office to apply for a visa to attend a women’s conference sponsored by the United Nations. An arrest warrant was also issued for my husband, but he succeeded in going into hiding for the duration of my second detention. This time, I was fired from my job.

The worst thing about detention was not knowing whether it would ever end. I could have been killed at any time — prisoners die by the score every day from the effects of torture. I feel lucky just to be alive.

We were isolated from the outside world and had no access to lawyers. For more than a month, I shared a prison cell with more than 30 women who were all detained for different charges, either because of their relief activities in the besieged areas, their personal or family ties with members of the armed opposition, or as a result of a false security report. The cell was about 50 square feet, dark and cold, with no ventilation.

Torture was routine. Anyone who has been detained in Mr. Assad’s prisons will know these details. There are about 40 documented techniques, including suspending prisoners by their arms from the ceiling, electric shocks, beatings, cigarette burns and pulling nails. The screams of the tortured were unbearable; I nearly lost my mind in there.

More than 60 men were held in a neighboring cell. Regardless of the charge, the guards called us all terrorists and beat everyone. The number of detainees went down as some died, and up again as more were brought in. Some were forced to sleep next to corpses before the dead were disposed of. Among the living, our exhausted bodies became infested with lice; we got rashes and skin infections.

I was fortunate not to be harmed physically, unlike a doctor held with me who was falsely accused of kidnapping a Syrian Army soldier. They hung her from her hair instead of her wrists, and kept dousing her body with cold water and shocking her with electricity until she lost consciousness for days at a time.

We were interrogated for long hours, and the interrogators kept us in a state of stress all day and all night. I was blindfolded, handcuffed and dragged to the interrogation room. The interrogator would slap me in the face again and again, ordering me to sign blank sheets to which he would later add false confessions.

During this second detention of about 40 days I was transferred from one facility to another, until I was lucky enough to be released in one of the first “reconciliations,” a cease-fire agreement between the army and rebels. These often resulted after the regime had besieged an area and subjected its population to starvation; the armed resistance had to lay down its weapons and cede control of the area under the terms of the deal, which included prisoner exchanges.

Once I was out, my husband — who had stayed only because of our two children — fled across the border to Lebanon. I was confined to Damascus and banned from traveling. Because Syrian law does not recognize women’s rights, I also lost guardianship of our sons. Finally, a judge granted me temporary custody and a temporary travel permit. So we left for Beirut and have applied for asylum, but we are stuck — without work, and with our children out of school.

We who have seen the inside of Mr. Assad’s jails call on the international community to stand against the catastrophic brutality in Syria, and put pressure on all sides to resume political negotiations based on the 2014 Geneva peace talks. The first step toward a solution must be an end to the killings, detentions and disappearances. International observers must be permitted to visit the prisons to monitor the condition of detainees.

Despite the dire security situation, I intend to go back to Syria if I get the opportunity. Eventually, there will have to be an end to this terrible armed conflict, and I believe that to guarantee their rights, Syrian women, too, must have a role in negotiating any final agreement.

Alise Mofrej is an Arabic teacher and Syrian activist.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/opinion/inside-syrias-jails.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&referrer=

 

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They are continuing to coordinate with Nusrra out of necessity to successfully push Assad back.

Same cooperation was done and said about ISIS, sooner or later Nusra core will blow up against FSA remnants.

 

[Dr.Thrax]

Same cooperation was done and said about ISIS, sooner or later Nusra core will blow up against FSA remnants.

FSA remnants? Buddy FSA can clean up Nusra with the flick of a hand. Nusra is needed to destroy Assad and ISIS (10,000 men is nothing to brush off) but they can easily be defeated, as FSA completely surround them, and if Nusra ever go in all-out war with FSA, they will have plenty of coalition airstrikes, too.

Plus, Harakat Hazzm (a big FSA faction) recently just got guranteed protection from the Levant Front. Meaning, Nusra would be at war with 140,000 people if they attacked FSA full on.