Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

[Targon]

I have heard that FSA wants to move to Aleppo after Dabiq is taken. This wasn't the plan was it? If they ignore Turkey on this then this whole thing was a huge failure for Turkey.

 

[Ababeel]

Reaching the besieged Aleppo is still to far. Its only the brave leadership of Turkey who is helping the Syrians. Al Bab n Manbij must be the first targets to finish off with IS & SDF/YPG areas because if Turkey goes for breaking the siege then it will be direct clash with Terrorist Russia. So first weaken the YPG n IS as much as possible so that the Asad forces in North of Alepo city wil be easy to deal with. At this stage if Russia try to do something Turkey must deploy, Coral EW system and available short/medium/long range air defence resources. Only Allah is our protector.

 

[OguzSenturk]

Dabik, Sawran, Tilaylan, ihtaymilat, all liberated by FSA. No more IS pocket there

 

[Targon]

Reaching the besieged Aleppo is still to far. Its only the brave leadership of Turkey who is helping the Syrians. Al Bab n Manbij must be the first targets to finish off with IS & SDF/YPG areas because if Turkey goes for breaking the siege then it will be direct clash with Terrorist Russia. So first weaken the YPG n IS as much as possible so that the Asad forces in North of Alepo city wil be easy to deal with. At this stage if Russia try to do something Turkey must deploy, Coral EW system and available short/medium/long range air defence resources. Only Allah is our protector.

Lol what? Turkey would NEVER act againts Russia. We barely repaired the relations. And as long as Russia protects Assad, Turkey cannot act againts him or directly support an assault againts his forces.

Wasn't this a little too fast? Is there any occassion where ISIS put up a real fight so far?

 

[Random111]

Would be symbolic and a nice **** you if we could ship in a Diyanet imam to preach a sermon or two in Dabiq Like those Russian priest paratroopers.

 

[OguzSenturk]

Hazwan-Sousian at eastern defense line of Al-Bab, Qabasin-Bzaah at western defense line of Al-Bab. I don't expect any more hard-defense line until those points.

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Turkish Special Forces with FSA members

 

[mahatir]

Mexicans don't wan Aztland back, and it was never Mexicos in the first place. most of the land was inhabited, except for a few Indian tribes like theComanche,Navajo, Apache, etc

Kurds number in the tens of million across Kurdistan while Native Americans number less than a million in Aztland right now.

I am talking about Mexicans not native. There are over 30 million Mexicans living in southern states . Why not give those guys their independence first ? Turks have been in anatolia for over 1000 years before your country was even discovered . If Kurds want a country then they should claim it from Iran where they originally came from .

This guy C130 is a joke ; he things dividing countries is just like dividing a piece of cake . This is the typical arrogant trash behaviour we get from American red necks .

Yea those peasant cowboys are the only reason the UAE still exists to start with, what a useless argument.

Or the reason why self flagging clowns rule in Baghdad today .

 

[BordoEnes]

Kurds have the problem that they do not have access to sea. This means that even if the become independent, they will rely on their neighbors

It doesnt stop them from claiming Turkish/Arabic/Iranian land as their own purelly so they can reach the coast. They always include Kilis, Gaziantep and Hatay within their maps. If not for that route, they take the entirety of western Iran for the Persian gulf. Sometimes even both. Realistically speaking though yeah in a scenario with an independent "Kurdistan" would be relativly easy to control and gain influence over.

 

[xenon54 out]

It doesnt stop them from claiming Turkish/Arabic/Iranian land as their own purelly so they can reach the coast. They always include Kilis, Gaziantep and Hatay within their maps. If not for that route, they take the entirety of eastern Iran for the Persian gulf. Sometimes even both. Realistically speaking though yeah in a scenario with an independent "Kurdistan" would be relativly easy to control and gain influence over.

They must be high on something.

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Dabiq finally under control of FSA

Syrian rebels seize 'doomsday' village where Islamic State promised final battle

Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from Islamic State on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.

Its defeat at Dabiq, long a mainstay of Islamic State's propaganda, underscores the group's declining fortunes this year as it suffered battlefield defeats in Syria and Iraq and lost a string of senior leaders in targeted air strikes.

The group, whose lightning advance through swathes of the two countries and declaration that it had established a new caliphate stunned world leaders in 2014, is now girding for an offensive against Iraq's Mosul, its most prized possession.

The rebels, backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes, took Dabiq and neighboring Soran after clashes on Sunday morning, said Ahmed Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, one of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions involved in the fighting.

"The Daesh myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished," he told Reuters, using a pejorative name for Islamic State.

The Free Syrian Army is an umbrella group for rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions, dragging in regional and global powers and creating space for jihadists.

An Islamic prophecy names Dabiq as the site of a battle between Muslims and infidels that will presage doomsday, a message Islamic State used extensively in its propaganda, going so far as to name its main publication after the village.

It also chose Dabiq as the location for its killing in 2014 of Peter Kassig, an American aid worker held hostage by the group, by Mohammed al-Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John.

However, it has appeared to back away from Dabiq's symbolism since advances by the FSA groups backed by Turkey had put it at risk of capture, saying in a more recent statement that this battle was not the one described in the prophecy.

The village, at the foot of a small hill in the fertile plains of Syria's northwest about 14 km (9 miles) from the Turkish border and 33 km north of Aleppo, has little strategic significance in its own right.

But Dabiq and its surroundings, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Islamic State had brought 1,200 fighters in recent weeks, occupied a salient into territory captured by the Turkey-backed rebels.



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Ankara launched the Euphrates Shield operation, bringing rebels backed by its own armor and air force into action against Islamic State, in August, aiming to clear the group from its border and stop Kurdish groups gaining ground in that area.

A Turkish military source said that while Dabiq was largely under control, Islamic State fighters were still firing on the FSA groups from outside the village and that some rebels had been killed in blasts by landmines and other bombs.

The rebels and Turkish military were working to secure Dabiq's surroundings to prevent any remaining Islamic State fighters trapped in the area from escaping.

Since early 2016, Islamic State's territorial possessions in Syria have been steadily eroded by the Syrian Democratic Forces, an umbrella group of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by the United States, which in August took the city of Manbij.

Turkey's campaign has since cut the jihadist group off from the Turkish border, long its most reliable entry point for supplies and foreign fighters.

Meanwhile, air strikes have killed a succession of Islamic State leaders in Syria, including its "war minister" Omar al-Shishani and Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, one of its leading strategists and an architect of its shift towards plotting attacks in Europe.

In Iraq, the army backed by Shi'ite Muslim militia groups has this year recaptured Falluja and is now poised for an offensive on Mosul, where Islamic State's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in 2014 declared himself heir to Islam's caliphs.

However the militants still hold most of Syria's Euphrates basin, from al-Bab, 26 km southeast of Dabiq, through the group's capital of Raqqa and to the Iraqi border.

 

[Semerkand]

 

[Yellow-place]

Hazwan-Sousian at eastern defense line of Al-Bab, Qabasin-Bzaah at western defense line of Al-Bab. I don't expect any more hard-defense line until those points.

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Turkish Special Forces with FSA members

Flag at second Turkish SOF on the right reminds me something...

 

[bsruzm]

No apocalypse?

 

[what]

No apocalypse?

Still waiting here. Didnt pay my bills and spend everything on hookers. Pls dont let me down now.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Blue: liberated by FSA today

https://twitter.com/x/status/787693697353781248

 

[u.MP]

Posted this map some time ago before dabiq was captured, I still think Tal Rifat should be retaken from YPG so that Northern Aleppo front against SAA can be reopened