Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

[pak-marine]

Only thing coming out of this god damn nasty sectarian murderous mayhem is kurds getting autonimy besides that its a mess , tragedy of this century

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Patience my dear, exactly what we did in Al-bab, we didn't rush.

In Al-Bab, you had Russian and American political and military support, neither of which you have for Manbij.

Look, I don't like arguing with the Turks about the Kurdish issue because, believe it or not, I actually like the Turks and sympathize with the helpless Turkic minorities in Crimea, Northern Cyprus, East Turkestan, Tatarstan, etc.

Believe it or not, I like the Turkic peoples. So this whole thing pains me.

But I'm not going to lie to you. You are fooling yourself if you think you can prevent Kurdish autonomy/self-rule in Syria. The Russians back it, the Americans back it, and even Assad is beginning to come to terms with it. Even the Turkish president, Erdogan, is okay with Kurdish autonomy in Syria, provided it's ruled by Barzani's Rojava Peshmerga instead of the PKK.

So you're wasting your time if you think you can silence the Kurds forever. They won't be silenced, especially in this era of globalization where all minority voices around the world are being heard and recognized. Plus, there's the demographic factor. Trust me, it'll be much better for Turkey to accept Kurdish autonomy to its south than to have your country swamped with a Kurdish majority by 2040. Losing a small part of Syria is better than losing your whole country.

 

[Hiptullha]

Jarabulus was never taken by the Kurds.

The Kurds were salivating about capturing Jarablus and linking up their territories. Then the US announced that they publicly backed a Turkish invasion and all those Kurdish delusions about being a new regional power disappeared in an instant.

And Manbij is now occupied by American troops.

A lot of good that's done. TFSA fighters are clashing with Kurdish terrorists as we speak.

There's not going to be a betrayal. The Americans achieved exactly what they wanted.

Yeah right.

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

The Kurds were salivating about capturing Jarablus and linking up their territories. Then the US announced that they publicly backed a Turkish invasion and all those Kurdish delusions about being a new regional power disappeared in an instant.



A lot of good that's done. TFSA fighters are clashing with Kurdish terrorists as we speak.



Yeah right.

I think you need to improve your geography.

Jarabulus is next to the Turkish border, to the north of Manbij. Capturing it wouldn't have helped the Kurds connect with Afrin canton one bit.

The Turks were worried about having the Kurds right next to their border especially since the border near Jarabulus wasn't protected by any walls or barriers, so they decided to enter Jarabulus under the pretext of fighting ISIS and the US supported that move since fighting ISIS was (and continues to be) the number one priority.

The Americans and Russians are both situated in Manbij and its surrounding countryside right now, which is exactly why the Turkish prime minister said that an offensive against Kurdish-held Manbij was not feasible without American or Russian cooperation and consent. In other words, Turkey's plan to take Manbij from the SDF has been dashed by Moscow and Washington.

This is why I said you clearly don't understand geopolitics.

Neither America nor Russia want to betray the Syrian Kurds. The Americans will enjoy playing the Kurds and Turks off against each other as that would ensure that both sides continue to depend heavily on America for political support and security assurances. Why on Earth would the Americans want to give up this kind of leverage for the sake of Erdowie? And why would the Russians want to do that either?

America has the Turks and Kurds exactly where it wants them. Both are trying to kiss up to the US for help. This is why I find it rather ironic that the Turks accuse the Kurds of being Western puppets when the fact of the matter is all sides in the Middle East are kissing up to Western powers lol.

The Kurds don't care. All that matters to them is that they gain recognition in Syria, just like how the Iraqi Kurds gained recognition in the 1990s, despite a lot of Turkish and Iranian opposition.

 

[Hamzza]

In Al-Bab, you had Russian and American political and military support, neither of which you have for Manbij.

Look, I don't like arguing with the Turks about the Kurdish issue because, believe it or not, I actually like the Turks and sympathize with the helpless Turkic minorities in Crimea, Northern Cyprus, East Turkestan, Tatarstan, etc.

Believe it or not, I like the Turkic peoples. So this whole thing pains me.

But I'm not going to lie to you. You are fooling yourself if you think you can prevent Kurdish autonomy/self-rule in Syria. The Russians back it, the Americans back it, and even Assad is beginning to come to terms with it. Even the Turkish president, Erdogan, is okay with Kurdish autonomy in Syria, provided it's ruled by Barzani's Rojava Peshmerga instead of the PKK.

So you're wasting your time if you think you can silence the Kurds forever. They won't be silenced, especially in this era of globalization where all minority voices around the world are being heard and recognized. Plus, there's the demographic factor. Trust me, it'll be much better for Turkey to accept Kurdish autonomy to its south than to have your country swamped with a Kurdish majority by 2040. Losing a small part of Syria is better than losing your whole country.

Of course sister we know you Kuwaitis watch lots of Turkish shows.

But don't say stuff like "silencing Kurds". Like I said majority Kurds and Turks live peacefully, even Kurds have a problem with other Kurds who try to divide us.

We don't have a problem with Kurds living in our country, stuff like "swamped by Kurdish majority" is like it's something bad. Nothing changed, we always lived with Kurds since the Ottoman Era.

That's why it's better if Kurds just live in turkey peacefully, if there is a independent Kurdish state that is formed then it will divide Turks and Kurds for good and it will lead to a war in Turkey.

If you really like us, you would support our cause against PKK terrorism, because after all... they're causing violence against the Turkic peoples that you like.

 

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Ivan Sidorenko destroys Assad clown propagandists:

https://twitter.com/x/status/839275049605611522

 

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Khamenai keeps exterminating Muslims in Syria. For 7th year in row:

 

[50cent]

3 more Fsa gangster

mission accomplished

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

https://twitter.com/x/status/839558073891049472

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

https://twitter.com/x/status/839573370295435264

 

[ptldM3]

Khamenai keeps exterminating Muslims in Syria. For 7th year in row:

The "white helmets"? They are more of Bollywood actors and terrorists at this point then first responders. I wounder how much they paid those people to run around.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://zeenews.india.com/americas/us-marines-arrive-in-syria-to-join-anti-is-war_1984757.html
Damascus: US Marines arrived in northern Syria with artillery to support Washington-backed local forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) terror group, according to top officials.

The US-backed fighters are preparing to move in the coming weeks to assault the city of Raqqa, IS` self-declared capital, the officials told CNN on Wednesday.

However, the Pentagon and the Marine Corps have declined to confirm the deployment due to security concerns in the region. They have also declined to specify the exact location of the forces or how many are there.

The deployment of the Marines was revealed in a Washington Post report on Wednesday.

"The deployment marks a new escalation in the US war in Syria, and puts more conventional American troops in the battle," the report said.

The force is part of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which left San Diego on Navy ships in October.

The Marines on the ground include part of an artillery battery that can fire powerful 155-millimeter shells from M777 Howitzers, the officials said on the condition of anonymity.

A similar deployment last year near Mosul, Iraq involved several hundred Marines equipped with artillery guns that fire shells to provide covering fire for advancing forces, CNN reported.

This is the second major expansion of US ground forces in northern Syria with over 100 Army Rangers were deployed in and around Manbij, Syria.

IS could have as many as 4,000 fighters in Raqqa, according to US estimates.


First Published: Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 10:18

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/official-couple-hundred-us-marines-go-into-syria

A contingent from the 11 th Marine Expeditionary Unit has deployed within artillery range from the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa, a military official told Marine Corps Times on Wednesday.

A senior U.S. official says the detachment includes a couple hundred Marines

The Marines are pre-positioning howitzers to provide artillery support to friendly ground forces, who are in the process of isolating Raqqa ahead of a planned offensive to retake the city, the official said.

U.S. military officials have not yet been determined which faction of local forces on the ground will launch the offensive.

Whether or not Raqqa is taken by Kurdish or Syrian Arab forces could determine whether U.S. troops are needed afterward in the city.

A small number of U.S. troops is currently in the Syrian town of Manbij to keep the peace between the Kurdish and Turkish forces. Turkey invaded Syria in large part to prevent the Kurds from linking up their two autonomous enclaves inside Syria.

The deployment of Marines is temporary, so they will leave Syria as soon as their support is no longer needed, the official said. News of the Marines arriving in Syria was first reported Wednesday by the Washington Post.

This marks the second time in as many years that Marines have provided artillery support for allied forces fighting ISIS. In March 2016, about 180 Marines from the 26 th Marine Expeditionary Unit spent about 60 days at the Kara Soar Counter Fire Complex in Makhmour, Iraq, near Mosul.

Known as Task Force Spartan, the Marines used four 155 mm M777A2 howitzers to fire more than 2,000 rounds in support of Kurdish and Iraqi troops. The firebase was 15 miles from ISIS forces, which often fired rockets at the Marines, Col. Robert Fulford, commander of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said last year.

On March 19, 2016, one ISIS rocket attack killed Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin and wounded eight other Marines.

Task Force Spartan returned to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on June 3. They were replaced by about 200 soldiers with soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

The Associated Press and Military Times reporter Shawn Snow contributed to this story.

 

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The "white helmets"? They are more of Bollywood actors and terrorists at this point then first responders. I wounder how much they paid those people to run around.

There are swarms of graphic pics and videos which i cant and dont want to post.

Meanwhile Khamenai thugs liberate East Aleppo (from its civilians):

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.businessinhttp://www.bus...sider.com/us-army-rangers-inside-syria-2017-3
Several days ago, a convoy of U.S. troops was spotted crossing the border into Syria from Iraqi Kurdistan.

The convoy, comprised mostly of hulking Stryker armored fighting vehicles, was en route to the Syrian village of Manbij, which was recently liberated from ISIS.

Until now, the American mission in Syria has been limited to training, advising, and equipping local forces, and the occasional clandestine raid. But the troops who just arrived in Syria do not specialize in standing up or bolstering indigenous armies (a mission set known as Foreign Internal Defense, which is exclusive to certain units under the military’s Special Operations Command). They’re not Green Berets, or Navy SEALs, or MARSOC Raiders. They are members of the U.S. military’s premier raid force — the 75th Ranger Regiment.

The Rangers have a storied history of spearheading brazen offensives behind enemy lines. In 1989, the entire 75th Ranger Regiment — which is currently composed of four battalions — parachuted into Panama the day before the bulk of conventional U.S. military forces arrived on the ground. Several years later, 3rd Ranger Battalion fought a savage 18-hour battle alongside Delta Force in Mogadishu — an event immortalized in Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down.”

the 75th Ranger Regiment. “Their capabilities include air assault and direct action raids seizing key terrain such as airfields, destroying strategic facilities, and capturing or killing enemies of the Nations,” it reads. “Rangers are capable of conducting squad through regimental size operations using a variety of infiltration techniques including airborne, air assault, and ground platforms.”

The Rangers who entered Syria in a convoy of those “ground platforms” were identified by Jack Murphy, the editor-in-chief of SOFREP, a subscription-based website that covers U.S. military special operations from an insider’s point of view.

Murphy, a former Ranger himself, was able to identify the Rangers as members of 3rd Battalion by the callsigns plastered on the backs of their vehicles; in doing so, he sparked outrage (of the Facebook and Twitter variety) from people in the special operator community who believe he violated the classified information non-disclosure agreement that all operators sign when they leave Special Operations Command.