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Reuters / Monday, November 07, 2016
A civil defence member sits at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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Beirut: Syrian government forces were battling rebels for control of a strategically significant district of Aleppo on Tuesday, in what could be the most important advance in the divided city by Damascus and its allies in several weeks.

Combatant sources gave differing accounts of the situation in the 1070 Apartments district on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo, which lies alongside the government`s corridor into the parts of the city which it controls.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that reports on the war, said government forces and their allies had seized full control of the district.

Officials in two rebel groups fighting in Aleppo said the battle was still raging in the area. Yasser Alyousef from the political office of the Nour al-Din al-Zinki group said rebels had recovered positions they had lost on Monday.

A military media unit run by the Damascus-allied Hezbollah meanwhile said the Syrian army and its allies had taken full control of the area. Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shi`ite Muslim group, is fighting in support of Damascus.

Reuters

First Published: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 00:29
 
The Soviet-made rocket was fired on the town in 30 kilometres to South-West of Aleppo

"The town of Ma'arat al-Na'asan, 30 km S-W of Aleppo, was attacked (missed) by an Assad-Putin SS-21 ballistic missile overnight," political editor of German ‘Bild' Julian Roepke wrote today on Twitter. He also published the series of photos, which depict the members of Syrian volunteer civil defense organization ‘The White Helmets' are loading the remnants of the missile on the truck.

The pictures clearly show that the rocket is definitely the Soviet-made tactical ballistic missile OTR-21 ‘Tochka' (NATO reporting name SS-21 Scarab; GRAU designation 9K79) – f.e. by the look of its rudders, but gives no clue whether it was fired by Putin's of Assad's forces. Also the information circulated this year of Hezbollah was given heavy weapons to fight in support the Assad forces in Syria.

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This is not the first time this kind of weapon has been used in Syria, but it was told to be fired by Assadite "Syrian Arab Army". In December 2014 Assad forces fired at least one ‘Tochka' against the insurgents during the battle of Wadi al-Deif in Idlib province. On 26 April 2016 the Syrian Army fired a ‘Tochka' at opposition forces in the Syrian Civil Defense Center in west Aleppo.

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On 14 June 2016 the Syrian Army fired a ‘Tochka' against Islamists groups Al-Rahman Legion and Jaysh Al-Fustat in Eastern Ghouta province.

As reported, Syrian army advances in Aleppo key district, and this type of action keeps claiming infant lives. In Saturday at least 11 civilians have been killed and another 25 injured after Russian aviation shelled parachute bombs in Aleppo.

Published on 5 Jan 2013


The 9K79 Tochka (Точка; 'point') tactical ballistic missile launcher has been identified in a recent (this) video from Syria. It is almost certainly a 9K79, also referred to as the OTR-21 (OTR: оперативно-тактический ракетный комплекс, or 'Tactical-operational Missile Complex'), or by its NATO reporting name, the SS-21 Scarab. This Soviet-produced system has a maximum range of 70km, and a Circular Error Probable (CEP) of approximately 150m. An updated version, the 9K79-1 Tochka-U (Scarab-B), was introduced in 1989 with a maximum range of 120km and a CEP of approximately 92m. Syria is thought to possess both iterations, having received its first deliveries of the earlier 9K79 (Scarab-A) systems from the USSR in 1983. Syria is suspected of supplying 9K79s to North Korea to be reverse-engineered for use in their domestic missile development program.

The presence of these systems is an interesting development; they are certainly a lot more accurate than the 9K52 Luna-M (FROG-7) rockets and R-17/R-17M (Scud-B/Scud-C) missiles which Syria also possesses. Please note that many media outlets are incorrectly reporting any large rocket or missile as a 'Scud'. This confusion is partly due to US government-issued statements referring to 'Scud-type' missile.

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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611081047205648-syrian-army-taking-daesh-oil-gas-fields/
The Syrian Army and its militia allies have regained control of arms caches, oil and gas fields and other strategic near Palmyria in east Homs province, a military source on the front line told Sputnik.

Speaking to Sputnik Arabic, the source said that the Syrian Army has captured a large armory north of Palmyra after a battle with Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), pushing the militants out of the vicinity entirely.

The source added that simultaneously with the campaign to capture the armory, the Syrian army advanced on hills northeast of Palmyra from the Ameria district. During the fighting, Syrian army infantry received air support from the Syrian Air Force and Russian air power.

"A the same time, the Syrian army entered into fierce clashes with Daesh in the immediate vicinity of the Shaer oil field," the source said, a major source of oil and gas in central Syria. "The army succeeded in destroying a number of Daesh bunkers and fortifications in the region," the source added. The military source confirmed that fighting has stretched all the way to the Al-Mahr gas fields in northeastern Homs province. The army consolidated its positions on the approaches to the fields to before conducting its assault.

Syria's oil and gas fields carry a strategic importance for the Syrian economy. At the same time, until the start of a major bombing campaign by Russian air power in late 2015 targeting Daesh oil assets, they served as a major source of income for Daesh and other terrorist groups operating in Syria.

On Sunday, Homs Governor General Tallal Barazi announced that the Syrian Army had established control over 85% of the province, including its main towns, cities, rural settlements, and industrial zones.

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http://tass.com/defense/911032
MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Russian warplanes flew no sorties and delivered no air strikes near Khan Shaykhun in the vicinity of Syria’s city of Idlib on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"The Russian Defense Ministry refutes foreign media allegations that Russian warplanes delivered air strikes in the vicinity of the city of Idlib, near Khan Shaykhun town. Russian warplanes flew no sorties in the mentioned area on November 8 and delivered no air strikes," a ministry spokesman said.

"We recommend foreign mass media which value their reputation not to yield to information provocations coming from organizations identifying themselves as human rights, such as the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," he said.

Earlier, a number of mass media said citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that nine people, including seven children, were killed in Russia’s bombardment of Idlib.
 
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BEIRUT: Air strikes and government artillery killed at least 20 people, including 10 children, in the largely rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor, said Russian or Syrian government warplanes pounded the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, killing seven children and two pregnant women.

Warplanes and government artillery also killed 11 people in the village of Baarbo in the southwest of the province, the monitor reported.

“The Russian Defence Ministry has denied information reported in multiple foreign media outlets about alleged strikes by the Russian Air Force in the region of Khan Sheikhoun near the city of Idlib," Russia`s TASS news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying on Tuesday.

"Russian jets did not fly in the area on Nov. 8 and no missile strikes were carried out.”

Syria`s war pits President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, against an array of mostly Sunni rebel groups, including some backed by Turkey, Gulf monarchies and the United States.

Idlib contains the largest populated area of Syria controlled by rebels - including nationalist groups under the banner of the Free Syrian Army and Islamist fighters including the former al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.

Reuters

First Published: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 03:42
 
An injured girl reacts at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria November 7, 2016. REUTERS
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-raqqa-idUSKBN1340ZJ


The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a U.S.-led coalition air strike killed at least 16 people overnight in a town north of Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

The U.S.-led coalition said it had no information on the report by the war monitor, but would look into it.

The coalition is providing air support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance which includes the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and some Arab groups, in an operation to drive Islamic State from its de facto capital in Syria.

The attack hit al-Heesha, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Raqqa, said the British-based monitor.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Reuters / Tuesday, November 08, 2016
An injured boy lies in a field hospital after a strike on the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
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The Kurdish-led Syrian fighters clashed on Monday with Daesh militants north of Raqqa as they pushed ahead in their offensive aiming to retake the city that has been the de facto capital of the extremist group since 2014.

Members of a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters known as the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) have been on the offensive in the area since late Saturday, aiming to initially isolate and encircle Raqqa. The US, France and Britain said they would provide air support for the offensive, which was announced at a news conference on Sunday in Ein Issa, north of Raqqa.

But the announcement lacked details on how the SDF, dominated by Kurds, plans to oust the militants from the city.
The battle of Raqqa could be long and costly; Daesh fighters are expected to fight until the end since its loss could be an existential threat. It would mean the extremist group would have no full control of any large cities in Syria, just as Iraqi forces are pushing forward against Daesh-held Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.

Earlier this year, it took SDF fighters more than two months to capture the Syrian town of Manbij, which is far smaller than Raqqa.

Raqqa has been under Daesh control since early 2014; it is home to some of the group’s top leaders and is seen as the key to defeating the group militarily.

It has been the extremists’ de facto capital since they declared a caliphate in areas they control in Iraq and Syria in June 2014.

The US commander of coalition forces fighting the Daesh group said the operation to take Raqqa aims at eventually cutting off the extremists from Mosul, where US-backed Iraqi forces have entered the city’s eastern outskirts amid fierce resistance.

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The US-backed Syria Democratic Forces, which include Arab and Turkmen fighters, have driven Daesh from large swaths of territory, but Turkey views the Syrian Kurds who dominate the group as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency raging in its southeast.

“The campaign will continue to be in that form until it enters the city,” Ahmed told The Associated Press. She said the Kurdish-led SDF, as the main force on the ground, is best placed to decide what forces are needed to liberate the city.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that he hoped the US would keep its promise to rein in the Kurdish forces, but noted that Washington had also pledged earlier that the Syrian Kurds would withdraw from the town of Manbij, which has not yet happened.

Cavusoglu said the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, told Turkish officials during a recent visit that the Syrian Kurdish fighters would only have a role in encircling Raqqa and would not enter the city.
“We hope that this will be the case and we expect that our partners keep their promises,” Cavusoglu said.
“We still have weeks to the Raqqa operation,” Cavusoglu said.

“Our advice is for the local forces to be supported by our special forces.”

He suggested that residents of Raqqa, a mainly Sunni Arab city, would not welcome Kurdish forces, saying: “We should not force the people to choose between two evils.”
 
Recent loses on Zeynabiyun brigade in Sheikh Said, Aleppo:

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Tnx, its ion a month though.

can u show picture of Israeli soldier killed in 2006 war? u can not show because Israelis are great warrior in the bed of prostitute and with child.
 
The Soviet-made rocket was fired on the town in 30 kilometres to South-West of Aleppo

"The town of Ma'arat al-Na'asan, 30 km S-W of Aleppo, was attacked (missed) by an Assad-Putin SS-21 ballistic missile overnight," political editor of German ‘Bild' Julian Roepke wrote today on Twitter. He also published the series of photos, which depict the members of Syrian volunteer civil defense organization ‘The White Helmets' are loading the remnants of the missile on the truck.

The pictures clearly show that the rocket is definitely the Soviet-made tactical ballistic missile OTR-21 ‘Tochka' (NATO reporting name SS-21 Scarab; GRAU designation 9K79) – f.e. by the look of its rudders, but gives no clue whether it was fired by Putin's of Assad's forces. Also the information circulated this year of Hezbollah was given heavy weapons to fight in support the Assad forces in Syria.

385889854.jpg


385889859.jpg

This is not the first time this kind of weapon has been used in Syria, but it was told to be fired by Assadite "Syrian Arab Army". In December 2014 Assad forces fired at least one ‘Tochka' against the insurgents during the battle of Wadi al-Deif in Idlib province. On 26 April 2016 the Syrian Army fired a ‘Tochka' at opposition forces in the Syrian Civil Defense Center in west Aleppo.

385889874.jpg


385889884.jpg


On 14 June 2016 the Syrian Army fired a ‘Tochka' against Islamists groups Al-Rahman Legion and Jaysh Al-Fustat in Eastern Ghouta province.

As reported, Syrian army advances in Aleppo key district, and this type of action keeps claiming infant lives. In Saturday at least 11 civilians have been killed and another 25 injured after Russian aviation shelled parachute bombs in Aleppo.

Published on 5 Jan 2013


The 9K79 Tochka (Точка; 'point') tactical ballistic missile launcher has been identified in a recent (this) video from Syria. It is almost certainly a 9K79, also referred to as the OTR-21 (OTR: оперативно-тактический ракетный комплекс, or 'Tactical-operational Missile Complex'), or by its NATO reporting name, the SS-21 Scarab. This Soviet-produced system has a maximum range of 70km, and a Circular Error Probable (CEP) of approximately 150m. An updated version, the 9K79-1 Tochka-U (Scarab-B), was introduced in 1989 with a maximum range of 120km and a CEP of approximately 92m. Syria is thought to possess both iterations, having received its first deliveries of the earlier 9K79 (Scarab-A) systems from the USSR in 1983. Syria is suspected of supplying 9K79s to North Korea to be reverse-engineered for use in their domestic missile development program.

The presence of these systems is an interesting development; they are certainly a lot more accurate than the 9K52 Luna-M (FROG-7) rockets and R-17/R-17M (Scud-B/Scud-C) missiles which Syria also possesses. Please note that many media outlets are incorrectly reporting any large rocket or missile as a 'Scud'. This confusion is partly due to US government-issued statements referring to 'Scud-type' missile.

1031139932.jpg

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611081047205648-syrian-army-taking-daesh-oil-gas-fields/
The Syrian Army and its militia allies have regained control of arms caches, oil and gas fields and other strategic near Palmyria in east Homs province, a military source on the front line told Sputnik.

Speaking to Sputnik Arabic, the source said that the Syrian Army has captured a large armory north of Palmyra after a battle with Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), pushing the militants out of the vicinity entirely.

The source added that simultaneously with the campaign to capture the armory, the Syrian army advanced on hills northeast of Palmyra from the Ameria district. During the fighting, Syrian army infantry received air support from the Syrian Air Force and Russian air power.

"A the same time, the Syrian army entered into fierce clashes with Daesh in the immediate vicinity of the Shaer oil field," the source said, a major source of oil and gas in central Syria. "The army succeeded in destroying a number of Daesh bunkers and fortifications in the region," the source added. The military source confirmed that fighting has stretched all the way to the Al-Mahr gas fields in northeastern Homs province. The army consolidated its positions on the approaches to the fields to before conducting its assault.

Syria's oil and gas fields carry a strategic importance for the Syrian economy. At the same time, until the start of a major bombing campaign by Russian air power in late 2015 targeting Daesh oil assets, they served as a major source of income for Daesh and other terrorist groups operating in Syria.

On Sunday, Homs Governor General Tallal Barazi announced that the Syrian Army had established control over 85% of the province, including its main towns, cities, rural settlements, and industrial zones.

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http://tass.com/defense/911032
MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Russian warplanes flew no sorties and delivered no air strikes near Khan Shaykhun in the vicinity of Syria’s city of Idlib on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"The Russian Defense Ministry refutes foreign media allegations that Russian warplanes delivered air strikes in the vicinity of the city of Idlib, near Khan Shaykhun town. Russian warplanes flew no sorties in the mentioned area on November 8 and delivered no air strikes," a ministry spokesman said.

"We recommend foreign mass media which value their reputation not to yield to information provocations coming from organizations identifying themselves as human rights, such as the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," he said.

Earlier, a number of mass media said citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that nine people, including seven children, were killed in Russia’s bombardment of Idlib.
Every power is testing their weapons practically in Syria. Good advert.
Those ballistic missiles looks cool. :enjoy:
 

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