Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

[HAIDER]

Out of over 2 million Aleppo city population barely third remained. Towns like Safira and Hader are completely cleansed by Khamenai thugs.

Liberation of Aleppo goes on:

seems lots of info in hard drives...

 

[50cent]

That's Bullshit I'm afraid,. SAA "secular forces" are almost powerless and incompetent, the Syrian regime has been surviving all thanks to foreign Shias militias (recurited by Iran from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan etc ), troops from Iran, and massive Russian military support (air force, special forces, advisers, troops). Without them the regime would have collapsed/lost the whole country long ago(as they were already doing before these foreign forces intervened).
Similarly, the rebels also have many foreign fighters in their ranks.

In short, Syrians now have little to no say or control over the future of their country all thanks to one man's greed for power. The country's future and end of conflict will be (and is being) decided by foreign powers.

Search in YouTube foreign fighters In syria. This will increase ur knowledge i. SAA is currently outnumbered by thease foreign terroist.everone is allowed to practice his own religion in Syria . That's why all sunnis of aleepo stayed in SAA military areas in aleepo even though they are not Sunnis whereas rebels are targeting all minorities in syria

 

[mike2000 is back]

Search in YouTube foreign fighters In syria. This will increase ur knowledge i. SAA is currently outnumbered by thease foreign terroist.everone is allowed to practice his own religion in Syria . That's why all sunnis of aleepo stayed in SAA military areas in aleepo even though they are not Sunnis whereas rebels are targeting all minorities in syria

LOL you even got what I wrote ?
You are just ranting the same thing over and over again without even understanding what someone wrote in reply.
I know you support Assad regime (which is normal since everybody is free to supply the side they want according to their feelings/inclination), but that doesn't means you shouldnt be rational.
It's clear from your posts that you are biased for one side, just like some other members here are biased for the other..Doesn't means we shouldn't be rational.
At the end of the day the Syrian sectarian geo political civil war started due to one man's(dictator) greed for power , and the blody repression that followed the uprisings and as I said Syria's future and how the county might be carved out(into probably zones of influence) will be and is being decided) by foreign powers/players . Period. Those are the facts on the ground today.

 

[Hindustani78]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is “completely besieged” in its last major stronghold in Syria’s Aleppo province, a war monitor said on Feb. 6, after pro-regime forces cut a road on the south of the town, while the rest of it surrounded by Ankara-backed rebel forces.

ISIL fighters were cut off in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab after forces loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad severed a road into the northern town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, according to Agence France-Presse.

“Al-Bab is now completely besieged by the regime from the south, and the Turkish forces and rebels from the east, north and west,” said the Britain-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground for its reports.

It came after “the regime’s forces and allied militia seized the only and last main road used by the jihadists between al-Bab and Raqqa,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, referring to the jihadists’ de facto capital in Syria.

Regime forces were backed by fighters from Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and by Russian artillery, said the Observatory.

The town of al-Bab, 25 kilometers south of the border with Turkey, is seen as a prize by nearly all sides in the complex war.

Since December last year, Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel fighters have edged toward al-Bab from the north wing with the backing of Turkish forces, artillery and air strikes.

In January, Turkey’s air force began carrying out joint bombing raids around al-Bab with al-Assad’s ally Russia.
The two parties back opposing sides in the war but have joined forces in recent months to try to bring an end to the conflict.

U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition forces have also recently conducted air strikes in the al-Bab region in support of Turkey.

Al-Assad has refocused on ISIL since fully recapturing Aleppo city in December 2016, in the biggest blow to rebel forces fighting to topple his regime for nearly six years.

As Ankara-backed forces and Syrian regime troops edge closer to al-Bab from different sides, the Turkish military said on Feb. 6 in a written statement that a total of 21 ISIL militants were “neutralized” in northern Syria as part of its ongoing Euphrates Shield operation.

Authorities use the word “neutralized” to refer to militants who are killed, incapacitated or captured.
In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces also said 256 ISIL targets, including defensive placements and shelters, had been hit.

Turkish jets destroyed 65 ISIL targets in al-Bab and Bzagah, including 59 buildings used by militants, the statement added.

In addition, a total of 57 mines and 3,704 improvised explosive devices have been defused since the start of the operation on Aug. 24, 2016, according to the statement.

The Euphrates Shield operation aims to tighten border security, eliminate terror threats along Turkish borders and support FSA opposition forces in Syria.

ISIL is among several jihadist movements that have shot to prominence during the Syrian war, which has left more than 310,000 people dead and has forced millions more from their homes.

Al-Assad’s forces were also locked in fighting with ISIL in the central province of Homs on the weekend, the observatory said.

On Feb. 4, U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters comprising the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced a new and third phase in their campaign to capture Raqqa, but said they needed more weapons to win.

The SDF launched their offensive for the key jihadist stronghold in November last year and have taken some ground further up the Euphrates Valley but are still some distance away.

SDF fighters have received training and air support from the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL. Last week Washington said it had provided them with armored sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for the first time.

February/06/2017

 

[925boy]

At the end of the day the Syrian sectarian geo political civil war started due to one man's(dictator) greed for power , and the blody repression that followed the uprisings and as I said Syria's future and how the county might be carved out(into probably zones of influence) .

how was Assad greedy by staying in power(with at least 50% of populations support throughout the conflict too)? if he just ditched power and ran to Iran people would have said he let extremists take over the country.
THis is a question i have for all the anti assad people- Humans tend to fight back/defend themselves when attacked right? So why is it not normal for a govt(which is made of people too,esp. when they have at least decent/ok amt of support amongst population) to "fight back"against violentforeign backed extremists? just seems illogical and unrealistic. There's usually little value in whats easy and it was easier for Assad to throw in the towel and ditch Syria. You call it his greed BECAUSE you are trying to understand a different country using YOUR own western democracy standards(which like legalized gay marriage, only really works for westerners, sorry). People should put their thinking caps on and realize human realities are mostly relative. At the end of the day, this syrian war is a savage war that some crazily think Assad is exempt from participating in AS IT IS. Assad wont get the whole syria back, but he will keep and control the most important parts and his enemies will never see a UN hall. Rebels/rebel supporters in the end will always look for someone/something to blame(e.g @500 ) because when they achieve something "valuable" they find out its actually useless in the grand scheme of the war.And besides, their pupppet masters will decide everything not them so wtf r they kiddin that they actually stand for anything? gimme a break. Assad is wrong but he prefers to win than be right, and he has played some good card that kept him in control. u want assad to leave? to be replaced by who though? an unknown person with unknown untrusted capabilities AT a sensitive time in a country's life? smfh

 

[Aramagedon]

LOL you even got what I wrote ?
You are just ranting the same thing over and over again without even understanding what someone wrote in reply.
I know you support Assad regime (which is normal since everybody is free to supply the side they want according to their feelings/inclination), but that doesn't means you shouldnt be rational.
It's clear from your posts that you are biased for one side, just like some other members here are biased for the other..Doesn't means we shouldn't be rational.
At the end of the day the Syrian sectarian geo political civil war started due to one man's(dictator) greed for power , and the blody repression that followed the uprisings and as I said Syria's future and how the county might be carved out(into probably zones of influence) will be and is being decided) by foreign powers/players . Period. Those are the facts on the ground today.

Shut Up and stop Personal insults

No one gives a fck for a delirious terrorist like you


All the statistics even by those by CIA shows Assad's popularity in Syria is more than 60% minimum. I don't give a damn about anyone but the fact remains the sane Syrian people prefer currect Syrian government over terrorists at any rate.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article178779.html

https://www.rt.com/politics/official-word/320261-assad-france-poll-figaro

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-support-assad-western-propaganda

 

[Awan68]

Old boy this war is a total mess. Everybody is fighting for their own share of the cake

Again with the old boy, how hard ur indian asss must be trying to appear a brit..

 

[500]

All the statistics even by those by CIA shows Assad's popularity in Syria is more than 60% minimum. I don't give a damn about anyone but the fact remains the sane Syrian people prefer currect Syrian government over terrorists at any rate.

2 questions Assadists never answered:

1) If Assad is so popular, why they never made any elections in 40 years of full control?
2) If Assad is so popular, then why he needs to mport sectarian thugs from all over the world to fight for him?

how was Assad greedy by staying in power(with at least 50% of populations support throughout the conflict too)? if he just ditched power and ran to Iran people would have said he let extremists take over the country.
THis is a question i have for all the anti assad people- Humans tend to fight back/defend themselves when attacked right? So why is it not normal for a govt(which is made of people too,esp. when they have at least decent/ok amt of support amongst population) to "fight back"against violentforeign backed extremists? just seems illogical and unrealistic. There's usually little value in whats easy and it was easier for Assad to throw in the towel and ditch Syria. You call it his greed BECAUSE you are trying to understand a different country using YOUR own western democracy standards(which like legalized gay marriage, only really works for westerners, sorry). People should put their thinking caps on and realize human realities are mostly relative. At the end of the day, this syrian war is a savage war that some crazily think Assad is exempt from participating in AS IT IS. Assad wont get the whole syria back, but he will keep and control the most important parts and his enemies will never see a UN hall. Rebels/rebel supporters in the end will always look for someone/something to blame(e.g @500 ) because when they achieve something "valuable" they find out its actually useless in the grand scheme of the war.And besides, their pupppet masters will decide everything not them so wtf r they kiddin that they actually stand for anything? gimme a break. Assad is wrong but he prefers to win than be right, and he has played some good card that kept him in control. u want assad to leave? to be replaced by who though? an unknown person with unknown untrusted capabilities AT a sensitive time in a country's life? smfh

Assad did not fight extremists, he CREATED extremists. Thats all his strategy. Thats why 90% of Russia and Iran attacks are directed against the rebels and not against ISIS for example. As for his so called support - see above.

 

[500]

Khamenai aka Putin aka Assad massive bombing of Idlib despite cease fire. Thats their plan: displace people to Idlib, rob their houses, then murder them there.

 

[Draco.IMF]

Khamenai aka Putin aka Assad massive bombing of Idlib despite cease fire. Thats their plan: displace people to Idlib, rob their houses, then murder them there.

500 is a troll, arguing with him makes so much sense like arguing with a women, just dont, ignore it.....

 

[50cent]

2 questions Assadists never answered:


2) If Assad is so popular, then why he needs to mport sectarian thugs from all over the world to fight for him?


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both side use foreign soldiers both side use barrel bombs rebels arent pure as honey and milk they are far more worse than. Isis here is how rebels hide their.foreign soldiers

they secretly burry them to hide their casualties

bit don't worry Hezbollah reconnisence unit will soon discovered them

 

[Solomon2]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/syria-detains-opponents-as-it-reasserts-control
Syria Detains Opponents as It Reasserts Control
The regime is using mass detentions as it takes over areas previously held by rebels, the opposition says

Aleppo residents this month passed buses that were used as barricades during the battle for the city, which the Syrian regime regained full control of in December.PHOTO: YOUSSEF BADAWI/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

By
RAJA ABDULRAHIM
Feb. 7, 2017 6:25 a.m. ET

Weeks after he disappeared while fleeing the devastated city of Aleppo, Abdulhadi Kamel of the Syrian civil-defense group White Helmets turned up last month in an online video posted by a Russian-language news agency.

His hair and beard disheveled, Mr. Kamel denounced the work of his Nobel Peace Prize-nominated organization in opposition-held areas of the country, saying it was all staged to implicate the Syrian government and its Russian allies in the killing of civilians.

“I hope our state forgives us,” Mr. Kamel said, in what his former colleagues said was a forced confession while under detention by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The White Helmets said he is still being held by the regime and called for his immediate release.


As the regime regains territory from weakened rebels six years into the Syrian war, opposition activists and residents say it is using mass detentions and other security-state tactics to snuff out dissent in places that were out of its control for years.

Critics say it is part of a long-running pattern of abuse. A report released Tuesday by Amnesty International said the government pursued a policy of “extermination” in the military-run Sadnaya prison, hanging as many as 13,000 prisoners there since the uprising against the Assad regime began in March 2011.

At least once a week—and often twice—authorities executed prisoners in the middle of the night in groups of up to 50, according to the report, which Amnesty said was based on dozens of interviews with former detainees, prison guards, judges and lawyers.

Mr. Kamel was one of nearly 1,500 people caught up in a regime dragnet in the final month as Aleppo fell to the government and its allies, according to the opposition group Syrian Network for Human Rights.

Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen and Syrian soldiers at a checkpoint stopped the convoy, which was escorted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to people who were in the convoy and the White Helmets. Mr. Kamel was shot in the shoulder and arrested by regime forces along with several others, according to the White Helmets.

Most of those caught in the dragnet were men wanted for compulsory military service, according to the network. They also included many women and 17 families, including children.

A convoy of buses and ambulances evacuated Aleppo in December. PHOTO: HASAN KATAN/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES

Those who have recently been imprisoned are in addition to tens of thousands of detainees who human rights groups allege have been forcibly disappeared in the regime’s labyrinth of notorious prisons over the course of the war.

The regime has long denied such allegations. But it reports regularly on wanted people turning themselves in and “settling their legal status”—surrendering and reconciling with the government.

Syrian officials had no immediate comment on the recent wave of arrests in Aleppo.

Former residents of Aleppo and activist groups say that since the regime consolidated control over the entire city, it has arrested people who took part in protests, nurses and doctors who treated the victims of Russian and regime airstrikes and humanitarian workers.

“The regime went from house to house with militiamen from the same neighborhoods with lists of those wanted,” said Mahmoud Ahmad, an antigovernment activist who left the city in December. “They arrested men because they had demonstrated against the regime or had repaired a car for the rebels.”

Syrians waved the national flag during a January gathering in Aleppo to express support for President Bashar al-Assad. PHOTO: GEORGE OURFALIAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

Detaining dissenters is a policy “that has been going on for decades and it could continue for years after the conflict,” said Diana Semaan, a Syrian researcher for Amnesty International.

Ghadeer, a former Aleppo resident who did humanitarian work in the rebel-held side of the city, said she spent 20 days in regime-controlled areas of the city after being forced to flee her home during the government assault. She said she left the house only once and hid her face with a niqab, or face veil, fearing she might be identified and arrested by regime soldiers or their allies.

Soon after the regime regained control of Aleppo, it posted checkpoints manned by informants, said Ghadeer, who asked to be identified only by her first name. After nearly three weeks, she said she paid a man to smuggle her out to the nearby countryside still under rebel control.

Four of her former colleagues have been arrested, she said.

“They went to the regime areas believing that they would be OK because they had never carried a weapon,” she said. “Whomever worked in charity or used to distribute bread or was in any organization is wanted. It’s like a fishing expedition and in the end they were fishing us out.”

In December, the United Nations said it was deeply concerned over the fate of hundreds of men reported missing after fleeing into government-controlled areas given the regime’s “terrible record of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances.” The U.N. said in January it had yet to verify their whereabouts.

At Syrian peace talks last month, rebel leaders said they had secured a guarantee from Russia that 13,000 female prisoners would be released by the regime as part of an agreement to secure a shaky cease-fire. None have been released yet.

—Nour Alakraa and Noam Raydan contributed to this article.

 

[Solomon2]

SYRIA: HUMAN SLAUGHTERHOUSE: MASS HANGINGS AND EXTERMINATION AT SAYDNAYA PRISON, SYRIA
By Amnesty International, 7 February 2017, Index number: MDE 24/5415/2017

At Saydnaya Military Prison, the Syrian authorities have quietly and methodically organized the killing of thousands of people in their custody. Amnesty International’s research shows that the murder, torture, enforced disappearance and extermination carried out at Saydnaya since 2011 have been perpetrated as part of an attack against the civilian population that has been widespread, as well as systematic, and carried out in furtherance of state policy. We therefore conclude that the Syrian authorities’ violations at Saydnaya amount to crimes against humanity. Amnesty International urgently calls for an independent and impartial investigation into crimes committed at Saydnaya.

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[925boy]

2 questions Assadists never answered:

1) If Assad is so popular, why they never made any elections in 40 years of full control?
2) If Assad is so popular, then why he needs to mport sectarian thugs from all over the world to fight for him?


Assad did not fight extremists, he CREATED extremists. Thats all his strategy. Thats why 90% of Russia and Iran attacks are directed against the rebels and not against ISIS for example. As for his so called support - see above.

1)- 1) He didnt need elections. He was ruling with enough unspoken consensus from the poplation. 2) Islam and western democracy are not full compatible so lets not ignore the regional/national/cultural context. but can u tell me how syria was for citizens then versus now? i bet u wont.

2)He needs to import thugs because many enemy countries ALSO imported men, weapons, money into Syria...obviously how could soo many people rise up so effectively and violently without external support. even your ISrael supported rebels or/and ISIS(thats why when ISIS did its first attack on ISrael last year everyone said - "ah, why ISIS Di that?".lol).
If Assad created extremists then why would they fight him now then?why would they turn against their "master"? it doesnt make sense. The ME has always had an extremism problem but when its syria and assad its assad who created them. give me a break.

Look, i am not saying that there isnt legit opposition to assad(its part of nationhood),but without skechy external support they couldnt have put the SAA in such problems. what are your rebels going to hold in their hand at the end of their savage jihad in syria and be proud of?u know it.....nothing.

 

[mike2000 is back]

how was Assad greedy by staying in power(with at least 50% of populations support throughout the conflict too)? if he just ditched power and ran to Iran people would have said he let extremists take over the country.
THis is a question i have for all the anti assad people- Humans tend to fight back/defend themselves when attacked right? So why is it not normal for a govt(which is made of people too,esp. when they have at least decent/ok amt of support amongst population) to "fight back"against violentforeign backed extremists? just seems illogical and unrealistic. There's usually little value in whats easy and it was easier for Assad to throw in the towel and ditch Syria. You call it his greed BECAUSE you are trying to understand a different country using YOUR own western democracy standards(which like legalized gay marriage, only really works for westerners, sorry). People should put their thinking caps on and realize human realities are mostly relative. At the end of the day, this syrian war is a savage war that some crazily think Assad is exempt from participating in AS IT IS. Assad wont get the whole syria back, but he will keep and control the most important parts and his enemies will never see a UN hall. Rebels/rebel supporters in the end will always look for someone/something to blame(e.g @500 ) because when they achieve something "valuable" they find out its actually useless in the grand scheme of the war.And besides, their puppet masters will decide everything not them so wtf r they kiddin that they actually stand for anything? gimme a break. Assad is wrong but he prefers to win than be right, and he has played some good card that kept him in control. u want assad to leave? to be replaced by who though? an unknown person with unknown untrusted capabilities AT a sensitive time in a country's life? smfh

what are you even talking about??lol
So according to you the Arab uprisings were all a false flag revolt by evil western powers isnt it? Arab populations are all naive foolish puppets who have been manipulated by evil foreign powers to rise up against their governments from Egypt to Tunisia to Yemen to syria etc etc they were all manipulated by the west to rise up. lool You people should keep dreaming and blaming the west for all your ills and incompetent brutal dictators. Assad could have left power(well, more like be forced to do so, since i know its never an easy thing to do after ruling for so long and thinking the country belongs to you.) like Mubarak was forced to do, at least that prevented Egypt from going the way of civil war like Syria, same with Tunisia.If it was done on time and in a rational manner Syria will definitely not be in the current situation it is today. They might have been so civil unrest after that, but things would have stabilise after sometime.

Your theory, reminds of how what i heard in some African countries i visited where a few people(especially the naive ones and those who are benefiting from the current regime) were saying how any protests or complains the public carried out were all labeled by the regime and its sympathizers as terrorists or puppets being manipulated by dark foreign forces. These dictators will say things like : i'm the only one who can rule this country until my death, so its ether me or total chaos. I have heard it several times, it's now boring to be honest. Funny thing is these dictators will make sure they eradicate any opposition to their rule(they will often keep a symbolic weak useless opposition party to show that they have an opposition party at least. lol) and destroy and make their country's institution as weak as possible, so as to ensure the country relies only on them to rule. Its a very sad state of affair, especially when the people live in poverty and are deprived of opportunities/mass unemployment. They have no way to voiced their discontent less they be labeled as foreign agents trying to cause chaos in the country and treated accordingly . lol Reading comments like yours makes me laugh.

Anyway, there is something i have to admit though, the people get the government they deserve(well, most of the time at least). So i do agree with some people who say its up to the public to decide what type of rule they want for their country after a revolution/uprising, just like the Tunisian did after they successful overthrow their brutal Tyrant(guess according to you it was also engineered by the almighty West. lol) Ben Ali who had ruled the country with an iron fist for decades. Hopefully many other countries in the region will follow Tunisia's example and established a better democratic system,even though i know its never an easy thing to do especially after a violent uprising and all the chaos that comes with this.However i believe with time the country will be better off and will stabilize. Its up to the people to decide what kind of rule they will want their country to have. No uprisings starts for nothing, its merely an accumulation of years/decades of frustration,oppression, anger and inability to make their voice heard/taken into consideration.