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So, U.S has air dropped weapons to ISIS territory in Kobane by 'mistake':
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Your forgot to mention, USA, NATO,Israel raids and the GCC's deep pocket . For the SAA performance, it is always hard for a regular army to adapt to an unconventional warfare, but they have adapted, and survived the wabism onslaught.
True, but they adopted and reversed the tide.
Pakistan who is a lot stronger had problem to stamie her own Taliban, and she have an ongoing problem still. Good armies adapt, and SAA has.
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That the thinking that will sink Turkey...It happened before and history has an uncanny way to repeat itself...
Erdogan: The Man Pulling The Strings In A Middle Eastern Puppet Show
Turkey certainly didn’t invent ISIS, but the Turkish government under former Prime Minister, current President Erdogan has been stoking Islamic radicalism to further its own political goals -- namely, the fall of Assad and the return of something reminiscent of the Ottomans.
By Catherine Shakdam | October 21, 2014
Pointing an angry finger at Turkey, among others, Biden said, “Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria.”
He explained: “[Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates] were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war” that they channeled “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” toward anyone who would fight against Bashar Assad. “And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them.”
While Biden has since issued a series of apologies to the various states he singled out in his tirade, the idea that governments could be playing and trading terror as a commodity to assert, serve and carry out their hegemonic ambitions has taken center stage in a new discussion among analysts, bringing into focus an emerging new Middle East order.
With Kobani fast attracting the world’s attention, especially in light of Turkey’s refusal to engage ISIS troops, even though its very border stands to be breached by the formidable black army, Ankara’s strategy and its officials’ positions toward Islamic radicalism have drawn not only criticism but suspicion.
As noted by Veli Sirin in a report for the Gatestone Institute, “Turkey under a stronger Erdogan presidency may become more Islamic, more neo-Ottoman, and more directed to the East rather than the West.”
“Neo-Ottoman” and “Islamic” seem very much the order of the day when referring to Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign agenda, which supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, which later merged with the Nusra Front and ISIS — especially vis-a-vis the rise of ISIS in the greater Levant.
According to many, Erdogan’s alleged shadow games with ISIS represent little more than the manifestations of a desire to see rise a new Ottoman Empire, the impetus of which will be fed by ISIS crusaders. Egypt’s foreign ministry issued a statement in September, slamming Erdogan for his promotion of terror in the region. The statement read, “The Turkish President, who is keen to provoke chaos to sow divisions in the Middle East region through its support for groups and terrorist organizations … Whether political support or funding or accommodation in order to harm the interests of the peoples of the region to achieve personal ambitions for the Turkish president and revive illusions of the past.”
Even more damaging was the April publication of Seymour Hersh’s work, “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” in which the veteran journalist argues Turkey would have orchestrated the Ghouta sarin gas attack in order to drag the United States into a war.
The very existence of the Free Syrian Army has also been pinned to Turkey, raising some questions as to the group’s intentions, motivations and methods, as noted by Aron Lund, editor of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace’s Syria in Crisis Blog in an article titled, “The Free Syrian Army Doesn’t Exist.”
Erdogan’s imperial nostalgia
Erdogan is described as a keen geo-strategist and astute politician by Marwa Osman, a PhD candidate and political analyst based in Beirut. She told MintPress News, “Recep Tayyip Erdogan has the ambition and the drive of the Ottomans.”
“Erdogan has been actively dismantling Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s secular legacy by eroding at the republic, slowly reshaping Turkey’s political and institutional apparatus in view of introducing a neo-Ottoman empire. Erdogan’s Islamic narrative is but a platform for his imperialistic ambitions. He seeks to re-establish Turkey as the center of the Sunni Islamic world and eclipse both Saudi Arabia and Iran in terms of religious and political influence in the region,” she continued.
Erdogan’s imperialistic drive was also underscored by Robert David Kaplan and Reva Bhalla in analysis for Stratfor in August, which stated: “Erdogan … has stressed the soft power of cultural and economic connections to recreate in a benign and subtle fashion a version of the Ottoman Empire from North Africa to the Iranian plateau and Central Asia.”
Very much in keeping with what late Marshall G.S. Hodgson of the University of Chicago described as Islam’s merchant-religion phenomenon as the basis of Islamic expansion and political patronage in the Middle Ages, Erdogan has worked to expand Turkey’s commercial and diplomatic network to better lean on its partners and affirm its position as the region’s main axis.
“The use of terror as a neo-imperialistic weapon has been seen as opportune to Erdogan’s plan,” said Alissa Haddad, a political researcher based in Paris, to MintPress.
She added, “I would say that Ankara is playing terror to further its ambitions. It’s not so much the case it engineered the inception of ISIS, but rather that it nurtured its rise to achieve immediate political gains — namely, the fall of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in Syria.”
Complicit in the rise of ISIS?
Finian Cunningham, a journalist and well-known commentator, wrote in a report for Global Research: “At the same time Erdogan was denouncing Syria as a ‘terrorist state,’ some 400 members of the self-styled Free Syrian Army were gathering in Turkey’s Hatay Province for a three-day summit. The agenda? How to sharpen their campaign of terror on Syria to overthrow the government in Damascus.”
Cunningham essentially argues that Erdogan has willingly and knowingly abetted militants to further his political goals in Syria, regardless of the risks it would ultimately pose to the greater region. He also suggests that Erdogan’s Islamic views are not as remote from ISIS ideology as Erdogan would like the world to believe — especially when it comes to using violence and repression as tools on civilian populations.
“For the past 17 months, the Turkish government and military have been brazenly assisting the armed militias waging a foreign-backed covert war of aggression against the neighboring Syrian state and people. Turkey has provided the criminal war effort with land bases, logistics and surveillance, personnel training and weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, according to recent reports,” he writes.
As lines have been blurred between ISIS militants and the Free Syrian Army, both entities have more often than not appeared as two faces of the same terror coin, with only variable degrees of terror to differentiate them.
Back in February, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote a damaging report which asserted that Turkey “has become a principal financial hub for terrorists under the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government has helped Iran skirt sanctions, supported jihadi groups in Syria.”
The case of Kobani
Commenting on what she describes as Turkey’s terror puppet show in the Middle East, Osman, the PhD candidate in Beirut, told MintPress she believes Turkey’s refusal to actively intervene in Kobani only serves to prove its guilt and underscores its affiliation to radicalism.
“Turkey has become the epicenter of Islamic radicalism … I don’t actually like to refer to this radical movement as Islamic, since it bears no resemblance or even links to Islam, but the truth of the matter is, President Erdogan has had a hand in the promotion of terror in Syria and beyond ever since 2011.”
Osman added, “Should further proof still need to be set forth, I’d like to refer to the murder of Serena Shimby Turkey’s Intelligence Services this Sunday. Serena uncovered proof of Ankara’s ties with ISIS while reporting for Press TV in Kobani and upon her return on Turkish soil she was murdered. Turkey is hoping with her death to prevent evidence of its dealing with ISIS from being made public. This is what Turkey is really up to in Kobani, this is why Ankara has not lifted a finger.”
Yet Ankara presents a different version of these events.
President Erdogan told the press on Sunday that, “Turkey would not agree to any U.S. arms transfers to Kurdish fighters [PYD] who are battling ISIS militants in Syria,” as Ankara understands the Syrian Kurdish group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey sees as a terrorist group.
“The PYD is for us, equal to the PKK. It is a terror organization,” Erdogan stressed.
While Erdogan might understand his position as legitimate within the framework of his political narrative, Ankara and ISIS have nevertheless increasingly become associated. At times, the latter is even referred to as the ideological extension of the former.
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Islamic State wins ground from Syrian government in east: monitor
(Reuters) - Islamic State won territory from Syrian government forces in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, its first gain there in about two months, a group that tracks the civil war reported.
Fighters from both sides were killed during the clashes in Deir al-Zor city, about 450 km (280 miles) northeast of Damascus in a province bordering Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said without giving a death toll.
Islamic State, which is being targeted by U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria, seized large areas of Deir al-Zor's industrial region, meaning it now controls more than half the city, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory.
The Islamist militant group, which is also battling Kurdish forces for control of the town of Kobani at the Turkish border, brought reinforcements to Deir al-Zor in recent days, Abdulrahman said.
The U.S. air force dropped arms to Kurds defending Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, on Monday. Washington has ruled out such cooperation with the government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
Islamic State wins ground from Syrian government in east: monitor| Reuters
(Reuters) - Islamic State won territory from Syrian government forces in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, its first gain there in about two months, a group that tracks the civil war reported.
Fighters from both sides were killed during the clashes in Deir al-Zor city, about 450 km (280 miles) northeast of Damascus in a province bordering Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said without giving a death toll.
Islamic State, which is being targeted by U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria, seized large areas of Deir al-Zor's industrial region, meaning it now controls more than half the city, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory.
The Islamist militant group, which is also battling Kurdish forces for control of the town of Kobani at the Turkish border, brought reinforcements to Deir al-Zor in recent days, Abdulrahman said.
The U.S. air force dropped arms to Kurds defending Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, on Monday. Washington has ruled out such cooperation with the government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
Islamic State wins ground from Syrian government in east: monitor| Reuters
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Syria air force strikes 200 times in 36 hours: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere.
The intensified strikes by President Bashar al-Assad's forces will add to the fear among his opponents that the government is taking advantage of the U.S. raids on Islamic State to attack other foes, including opposition groups that Washington backs.
Analysts say the increase could be because the Syrian military wants to weaken rebel groups before they get training and equipment promised by the United States.
Since midnight on Sunday, the Syrian military carried out at least 210 raids, including barrel bombings, on provinces in the east, north and west of the country, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said there were many casualties but did not give an exact figure.
The military concentrated the strikes in the "western corridor" that stretches from the southwest up through Damascus towards the Mediterranean, according to the information from the Observatory, which says it gathers details from all sides of the conflict.
The air raids struck areas in the Hama, Daraa, Idlib, Aleppo and Quneitra provinces as well as the Damascus countryside, it said. It also hit the eastern Deir al-Zor province where U.S.-led forces have also been bombing Islamic State, the Observatory added.
Before the surge in Syrian air force raids, the military had carried out 12-20 raids a day, according to the Observatory.
Damascus has not raised objections to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State, which is mainly based in the east and north of the country, far from the most populous areas near Damascus and the Mediterranean coast.
The United States says it does not want to help Assad's government despite bombing Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has become one of the most powerful insurgent groups in the more than three-year conflict.
Syria air force strikes 200 times in 36 hours: monitor - Yahoo News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere.
The intensified strikes by President Bashar al-Assad's forces will add to the fear among his opponents that the government is taking advantage of the U.S. raids on Islamic State to attack other foes, including opposition groups that Washington backs.
Analysts say the increase could be because the Syrian military wants to weaken rebel groups before they get training and equipment promised by the United States.
Since midnight on Sunday, the Syrian military carried out at least 210 raids, including barrel bombings, on provinces in the east, north and west of the country, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said there were many casualties but did not give an exact figure.
The military concentrated the strikes in the "western corridor" that stretches from the southwest up through Damascus towards the Mediterranean, according to the information from the Observatory, which says it gathers details from all sides of the conflict.
The air raids struck areas in the Hama, Daraa, Idlib, Aleppo and Quneitra provinces as well as the Damascus countryside, it said. It also hit the eastern Deir al-Zor province where U.S.-led forces have also been bombing Islamic State, the Observatory added.
Before the surge in Syrian air force raids, the military had carried out 12-20 raids a day, according to the Observatory.
Damascus has not raised objections to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State, which is mainly based in the east and north of the country, far from the most populous areas near Damascus and the Mediterranean coast.
The United States says it does not want to help Assad's government despite bombing Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has become one of the most powerful insurgent groups in the more than three-year conflict.
Syria air force strikes 200 times in 36 hours: monitor - Yahoo News
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i think isis is not immobile .they are switching place costantly. their main aim to capture turkey border door and thats why coalition forces may bombing indispensable yellow places
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Daraa Rebels seize shells and ammunition from Assad Army in Naseeb.
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Syrian Army Captures Al-Samdaniyya in Quneitra; Rebels Capture ‘Umm Mayaazan in Dara’a
The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) 7th Division backed by the National Defense Forces (NDF) has captured the village of Al-Samdaniyya in the Al-Quneitra Governorate after 3 days of fierce clashes with the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF). The NDF led the charge into the western flank of the village, breaking through the SRF’s frontline defense and taking control of the western sector of Al-Samdaniyya. The 7th Division followed the NDF’s advance with an attack of their own, taking control of Al-Samdaniyya earlier this morning. Riyad Haza’a Al-Khalid, a field commander from the SRF was identified among the dead.
Following the success at Al-Samdaniyya, the 7th Division broke through the SRF’s defenses in the neighboring village of Al-Hamidiyya, killing scores of militants in the process. According to a military source, the NDF has arrived in Al-Hamidiyya and continues to push deeper into the village, despite heavy resistance from the SRF. Clashes are still ongoing between the NDF/SAA and the SRF; however, the 7th Division has reached officially reached the Al-Hamidiyya Cemetery.
After 4 days of intense firefights, the SRF has captured the village of ‘Umm Mayaazan in the Dara’a Governorate from the NDF. The SRF stormed this area over the weekend, overwhelming the NDF entrenched in this village with a large group of fighters. Yesterday, the NDF withdrew east from this village, despite killing a multitude of militants from the SRF:
Identified SRF militants killed at ‘Umm Mayaazan:
1. Yahya Ibrahim Issa
2. Umran Mahmoud Al-Hareeri
3. Hussam Al-Jawaabra
4. Mohammad Ahmad Jaarash
5. Mohammad Anwar Al-Sayyid
6. Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Majareesh
7. Mohammad Ali Al-Haraaki
8. Khalid Mohammad Sa’ayyid Qaweedar
9. Ahmad Al-Raqqa Al-Raadi
10. Mohammad Fawaz Al-Fawarass
In village of Nawa, the Syrian Arab Army killed the leader of the Umar Al-Farouq Brigades (SRF contingent), Hassan Qadah (AKA ‘Abu Ahmad”) during an ambush yesterday. Qadah was killed along with 5 of his personal bodyguards in this Dara’a Governorate village.
The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) 7th Division backed by the National Defense Forces (NDF) has captured the village of Al-Samdaniyya in the Al-Quneitra Governorate after 3 days of fierce clashes with the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF). The NDF led the charge into the western flank of the village, breaking through the SRF’s frontline defense and taking control of the western sector of Al-Samdaniyya. The 7th Division followed the NDF’s advance with an attack of their own, taking control of Al-Samdaniyya earlier this morning. Riyad Haza’a Al-Khalid, a field commander from the SRF was identified among the dead.
Following the success at Al-Samdaniyya, the 7th Division broke through the SRF’s defenses in the neighboring village of Al-Hamidiyya, killing scores of militants in the process. According to a military source, the NDF has arrived in Al-Hamidiyya and continues to push deeper into the village, despite heavy resistance from the SRF. Clashes are still ongoing between the NDF/SAA and the SRF; however, the 7th Division has reached officially reached the Al-Hamidiyya Cemetery.
After 4 days of intense firefights, the SRF has captured the village of ‘Umm Mayaazan in the Dara’a Governorate from the NDF. The SRF stormed this area over the weekend, overwhelming the NDF entrenched in this village with a large group of fighters. Yesterday, the NDF withdrew east from this village, despite killing a multitude of militants from the SRF:
Identified SRF militants killed at ‘Umm Mayaazan:
1. Yahya Ibrahim Issa
2. Umran Mahmoud Al-Hareeri
3. Hussam Al-Jawaabra
4. Mohammad Ahmad Jaarash
5. Mohammad Anwar Al-Sayyid
6. Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Majareesh
7. Mohammad Ali Al-Haraaki
8. Khalid Mohammad Sa’ayyid Qaweedar
9. Ahmad Al-Raqqa Al-Raadi
10. Mohammad Fawaz Al-Fawarass
In village of Nawa, the Syrian Arab Army killed the leader of the Umar Al-Farouq Brigades (SRF contingent), Hassan Qadah (AKA ‘Abu Ahmad”) during an ambush yesterday. Qadah was killed along with 5 of his personal bodyguards in this Dara’a Governorate village.
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ISIS Launches an Attack on Al-Sina’a in Deir Ezzor; SAA Continues Offensive on Sakr Island
By Leith Fadel on October 21, 2014 Middle East
Earlier today, the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) attacked the Syrian Arab Army’s 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard at the Al-Sina’a Quarter in Deir Ezzor City, attempting to infiltrate from the east. The attacked was repelled by the 104th Brigade, resulting in the death of 23 militants from ISIS (var. ISIL). Among the dead ISIS fighters was the leader of the Al-Ansar Brigades, Zakaria Al-‘Aboush; he was a former member of Free Syrian Army.
Al-Sina’a is the industrial quarter of Deir Ezzor City that was besieged in late August by ISIS – the attack was repulsed, with the 104th retaking lost ground. Opposition sources reported that ISIS broke through the SAA’s frontline defenses; however, this was denied by a military source in Deir Ezzor.
The ISIS militants identified among the dead:
1. Hani Faysal Ahmad Al-Hayo
2. ‘Ali Malaa Al-‘Abid
3. Ahmad Zaher
The 104th Airborne Brigade is on the offensive in Haweeja Sakr (Sakr Island), taking control of another ISIS den located southeast of the SAA’s initial attack. Brigadier General Issam Zahreddine is leading the attack on Sakr Island as his troops aim to build a buffer between ISIS militants and the Old Military Airport District in Deir Ezzor. According to a military source, over 60 ISIS fighters were killed since Saturday night, including a field commander named “’Abdel-Wadood”.
ISIS fighters identified in Hajeewa Sakr:
1. Fouad Sattam
2. Yasser Subhi ‘Abdullah
3. Jamaal ‘Abdel-Majeed Mohammad
4. ‘Ali Moussa
5. Ballah Nasser
6. Hamada Wahaab Al-Mustafa
7. ‘Umar ‘Abdel-Latif Al-‘Abdullah
8. Khalid Manaf Mansour
9. Majd Nouraldeen Al-Anwar
10. ‘Anas Talib Al-Heewani
11. Zi’ad Ayoub ‘Issa
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Elephant bomb incoming... From Assad.
Rebels took over the western parts of Samdaniyah. There are also graphic videos and photos which I excluded.
Rebels took over the western parts of Samdaniyah. There are also graphic videos and photos which I excluded.
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Kobane is the slaughter house of IS terrorists, whether they want to capture it or not, they have spent too many fighters and resources on this city and many rats have already been killed.
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