Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

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Grank bombed rebel part of Aleppo today and targeted a medicine storage and a water treatment facility

Grank deployed Podnos 82 mm mortars in Latakia province

https://twitter.com/x/status/726484838090432514

Shia guy manning a Toophan anti tank missile launcher in southern Aleppo

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Shia pickups mounted with Kord heavy machine gun

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Grank attack Nusra and allies near Kabani

 

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Grank attack IS on the way to Deir es Zor

 

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Russian Su-30SM or Su-34 attacking Nusra and allies in Aleppo province

Russian planes attack Nusra and allies in southern Aleppo province

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russian-air-force-strikes-nusra-southern-aleppo/


Grank attack Nusra and allies in East Ghouta

https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...inue-offensive-east-ghouta-ceasefire-expires/

 

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Shia wasting ammo trying to hit Nusra and allies warriors near Kabani

 

[Solomon2]

Some perspective: historically, how accurately does the U.S. government assess reality in the Mideast?

"On scales we have Israel, an unviable client state whose ties, value to US primarily emotional, balanced with full range vital strategic, political, commercial/economic interests represented by [viable] Arab states. The folly of US pursing present policy obvious without further elaboration."

- Hugh Smythe, U.S. Ambassador to Syria, June 1st, 1967, urging the U.S. to "not honor" its commitments to Israel after Nasser's Egypt evicted U.N. peacekeeping forces to move armor to Israel's border and blockade the Straits of Tiran, while Syrian leaders declared a "war of liberation that will not end except by Israel's abolition." Ten days later, Israel, armed mostly with French aircraft and upgraded WWII-era tanks. had totally defeated the combined U.S.- and Soviet-supplied modern Arab militaries attacking from Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt.

It's been nearly five decades. Which countries, exactly, have proved to be "unviable client states"? And have American gov't attitudes towards Israel changed much since?

 

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Grank captured al Rikabiyah in East Ghouta from Army of Islam


Grank Mi-24 helicopter bomb Nusra and allies in Hayan

Grank captured some mountains on the way to Deir es Zor from Islamic State

https://twitter.com/x/status/726685910272774144

 

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Mi-35M over Tartus

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[Dr.Thrax]

Mufti Hassoun calls for extermination of Aleppo civilians:
http://www.middleeastobserver.org/assads-top-cleric-hassoun-calls-to-exterminate-aleppo-civilians

He's the same guy that wanted to send suicide bombers to Europe in 2011.

Still not a word of condemnation from any Assad supporter on this thread on Assad's crimes.

 

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a tactical ballistic missile hit Nusra and allies part of Aleppo tonight

 

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FSA thwarts PYD gains in Syria’s Aleppo

 

[Serpentine]

Mufti Hassoun calls for extermination of Aleppo civilians:
http://www.middleeastobserver.org/assads-top-cleric-hassoun-calls-to-exterminate-aleppo-civilians

He's the same guy that wanted to send suicide bombers to Europe in 2011.

Still not a word of condemnation from any Assad supporter on this thread on Assad's crimes.

Show me where he said 'civilians':

“I call upon the Syrian Army to show us its rage and I also call upon our leader to show us their rage in exterminating those criminals.”

 

[Solomon2]

Turkey's Fake War on Jihadis
by Burak Bekdil
The Gatestone Institute
April 28, 2016

Although nominally participating in the international coalition fighting the Islamic State, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has covertly aided its advance.



In theory, Turkey is part of the international coalition that fights the Islamic State (IS). Since it joined the fight last year, it has arrested scores of IS militants, made some efforts to seal its porous border with Syria and tagged IS as a terrorist organization. Turkish police have raided homes of suspected IS operatives.

More recently, Turkey's Interior Ministry updated its list of "wanted terrorists" to include 23 IS militants, and offered rewards of more than 42 million Turkish liras (more than $14 million) for any information leading to the suspects' capture. But this is only part of the story.

On March 24, a Turkish court released seven members of IS, including the commander of the jihadists' operations on Turkish soil. A total of 96 suspects are on trial, including the seven men who were detained but released. All are free now, although the indictment against them claims that they

engaged in the activities of the terrorist organization called DAESH [Arabic acronym of IS]. The suspects had sent persons to the conflict zones; they applied pressure, force, violence and threats by using the name of the terrorist organization, and they had provided members and logistic support for the group.​

The release of terror suspects came in sharp contrast with another court decision that ruled for a trial, but while under detention, for four academics who had signed a petition calling for peace in Turkey's Kurdish dispute. Unlike the IS militants, the academics remain behind bars.

The Turkish government, which controls the judiciary almost in its entirety, relies on Islamist grassroots supporters of various flavors -- from Islamists and 'lite jihadists' to radicals.

Last year the Turkish pollster MetroPOLL foundthat one in every five Turks thought that theCharlie Hebdo attack in Paris was the natural response to people who insulted Prophet Mohammed [only 16.4% of Turks thought of the incident as an attack on freedom of expression]. Among the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) voters, the rate of approval of the attack was 26.4%; and only 6.2% viewed it as an attack on free speech. Only 17.8% of AKP voters thought the attack was the work of radical Islamists. Three-quarters of AKP voters thought Muslims were aggrieved by the attack; while as few as 15.4% thought the victims were the cartoonists who were murdered. Two-thirds of AKP voters thought attacks on Islam by Christian Crusaders were continuing.

Key IS suspects have been freed to appease the government's Islamist supporters.

The fact that key IS suspects are now free because the government may fear looking mean to its Islamist supporters only partly explains the appalling judicial rulings on jihadists and academics. "The suspects may be holding the Turkish government hostage ... What if they threatened the authorities that they would reveal the government support for their organization in the past? You normally don't walk free over such serious legal allegations," observes one western diplomat in Ankara.

Russia has been claiming that Turkey keeps supporting the Islamic State through trading the jihadists' oil, their main source of income. A new report claims that total supplies to terrorists in Syria last year was 2,500 tons of ammonium nitrate; 456 tons of potassium nitrate; 75 tons of aluminum powder; sodium nitrate; glycerin; and nitric acid. The report stated:

In order to pass through the border controls unimpeded, effectively with the complicity of the Turkish authorities, products are processed for companies that are purportedly registered in Jordan and Iraq ... Registration and processing of the cargo are organized at customs posts in the [Turkish] cities of Antalya, Gaziantep and Mersin. Once the necessary procedures have been carried out, the goods pass unhindered through the border crossings at Cilvegozu and Oncupinar.​

Turkey keeps playing a fake war on jihadist terrorists. At a March meeting with top U.S. officials, King Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey of exporting terrorists to Europe. He said: "The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook."

In fact, the Turkish government's secret love affair with various Islamist groups is not always so secret. In March, thousands of supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a global Islamist group, gathered at a public sports hall in Ankara -- courtesy of the Turkish government -- to discuss the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate. In his speech, Mahmut Kar, the media bureau chief of Hizb ut-Tahrir Turkey said:

Infidels who were enemies of Islam thought they buried Islam in the depths of history when they abolished the caliphate on March 3, 1924 ... We are hopeful, enthusiastic and happy. Some 92 years after ... we are shouting out that we will re-establish the caliphate, here, right next to the parliament.​

(Hizb ut-Tahrir, viewed by Russia and Kazakhstan as a terrorist group, defines itself as a political organization aiming to "lead the ummah" to the re-establishment of the caliphate and rule with sharia law.)

Turkey's official religious authority recently issued comic books to the nation's children telling them how marvelous it is to become an Islamic martyr.



Guess what else Turkey is doing while pretending to be fighting jihadists?

Apparently, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declared political ambition to "raise devout generations" seems to have geared up. Turkey's Religious Affairs General Directorate (Diyanet), the ultimate official religious authority in the country, recently issued comic books to the nation's children telling them how marvelous it is to become an Islamic martyr.

One comic strip is a dialogue between a father and his son. "How marvelous it is to become a martyr," the father says. Unconvinced, the son asks: "Would anyone want to become a martyr?" And the father replies: "Yes, one would. Who doesn't want to win heaven?"

And this is the country its Western allies believe will help them fight jihadists? Lots of luck!

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based columnist for the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily News and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

 

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Grank bombed an IDP camp in Idlib province today

7 Russian Hinds on the way to attack IS in eastern Homs province

 

[UniverseWatcher]

Mufti Hassoun calls for extermination of Aleppo civilians:
http://www.middleeastobserver.org/assads-top-cleric-hassoun-calls-to-exterminate-aleppo-civilians

He's the same guy that wanted to send suicide bombers to Europe in 2011.

Still not a word of condemnation from any Assad supporter on this thread on Assad's crimes.

Would mine explaining were did he mentioned to "exterminat Civilians" in his speech...
Or maybe you need @500 to back you on everything on this thread....like baby sitting each other...

Hassoun said on Assad regime’s news channel al-Akhbaraya, “I call upon the Syrian Army to show us its rage and I also call upon our leader to show us their rage in exterminating those criminals.”

 

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Hassoun said on Assad regime’s news channel al-Akhbaraya, “I call upon the Syrian Army to show us its rage and I also call upon our leader to show us their rage in exterminating those criminals.”

Assad indiscriminately bombs Aleppo, murdering hundreds of civilians. And his "Mufti" calls to murder more.

Good guy indeed.