Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)

[mike2000 is back]

Islamic Jihad Organization, Dawa, Islamic Amal - all these are Hezbies under other brands. Mastermind of these attacks was Imad Mignieh, the founder of Hezbollah.

ISIS, HEZBOLLAH, PKK, Hamas and other sunni extremists groups are all terrorist groups. No question about that. PERIOD.

 

[ptldM3]

ISIS, HEZBOLLAH, PKK, Hamas and other sunni extremists groups are all terrorist groups. No question about that. PERIOD.

Then we might as well include the farmers with pitchforks such as FSA and other "moderates" that behead children and regularly cooperate with ISIS.

 

[NADIM.NAZI]

ISIS, HEZBOLLAH, PKK, Hamas and other sunni extremists groups are all terrorist groups. No question about that. PERIOD.

USA and UK are terrorist country.

 

[boca120879]

USA and UK are terrorist country.

now all of them want to win the title of "World Best Terrorist"

 

[Hindustani78]

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world...ff-car-bombs-in-new-syria-battle_1947176.html

BEIRUT: Islamic State militants have set off five car bombs targeting U.S.-backed Syrian armed groups attacking Raqqa, a Kurdish source said on Monday, saying the fight to drive IS from its stronghold city would "not be easy".

The operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), including the Kurdish YPG militia, that began on Saturday aims to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa, adding to the pressure on IS as it faces a major assault in Iraq.

Islamic State has also drawn heavily on suicide car bombs in its efforts to fend off the assault on Mosul by Iraqi forces.

The Kurdish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S.-led coalition was providing "excellent" air support for the operation dubbed "Euphrates Anger".

"It is difficult to ... put a time frame on the operation at present. The battle will not be easy," the source said.

The attack so far appears focused on areas north of Raqqa near the town of Ain Issa, 50 km (30 miles) away. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organisation that reports on the war, said the SDF forces had so far captured a number of IS positions, but there had been "no real progress".

The Kurdish source said a number of villages had been captured. "Daesh is resorting to attacks with car bombs to a great degree," the source said.

The SDF has been the main partner on the ground in Syria for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, capturing swathes of northern Syria with coalition air support.

Planning for the Raqqa assault has been complicated by factors including the concerns of neighbouring Turkey, which does not want to see any further expansion of Kurdish influence in northern Syria.

Additionally, Raqqa is a predominantly Arab city, and Syrian Kurdish officials have previously said it should be freed from IS by Syrian Arab groups, not the Kurdish YPG.

A U.S. official told Reuters in Washington there was "no available force capable of taking Raqqa in the near future", and U.S. officials cautioned the process of sealing off and isolating the city could take two months or longer.

Reuters

First Published: Monday, November 7, 2016 - 17:42

 

[Hurshid Celebi]

“We always knew the SDF wasn’t the solution for holding and governing Raqqa,”

Dunford stated,

“What we are working on now is to find the right mix of forces for the operation.”

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/071120161

 

[Hindustani78]

Russia has supplied Syria with a considerable amount of hardware and weaponry, and no deliveries are currently underway, Alexander Fomin, director of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, told RIA Novosti on Monday.

 

[mike2000 is back]

USA and UK are terrorist country.

I can see you don't agree with those Islamic extremists groups being called terrorists. Maybe because they are 'muslims'?
Anyway who cares, some of them are present in poor Bengladesh, seems they also want to bring 'real islam ' to Bengladesh. Hopefully they suced in their endeavour, since it seems you agree with them.

 

[Madali]

Claims that offensive for Raqqa is starting by the SDF with the support of the Americans.

 

[Hurshid Celebi]

I can see you don't agree with those Islamic extremists groups being called terrorists. Maybe because they are 'muslims'?
Anyway who cares, some of them are present in poor Bengladesh, seems they also want to bring 'real islam ' to Bengladesh. Hopefully they suced in their endeavour, since it seems you agree with them.

Dear Mike. I realy don't like discussing about religion in a worldwide respected military-and science forum.

But let us differentiate between Islam and perverted so called " Islamic Terror Organizations".

I know for sure that you are aware that pure and real Islam is based on science;
remember that modern Mathematics is based on Arabic numbers, that Islam scientists made complex eye surgery 1000 years ago, that Islam scientists also worked on complex Astronomy 1500 years ago. Cordoba in Spain was a place of paradise. Of course Islamic scientists worked also together with Far East scientists from India and China.

Please let us agree not to judge on a religion , otherwise we have to open bloody chapters of mass murder of Christian Countries in Amerika , Afrika and Asia up to the 21 th century.

 

[Hell NO]

Dear Mike. I realy don't like discussing about religion in a worldwide respected military-and science forum.

But let us differentiate between Islam and perverted so called " Islamic Terror Organizations".

I know for sure that you are aware that pure and real Islam is based on science;
remember that modern Mathematics is based on Arabic numbers, that Islam scientists made complex eye surgery 1000 years ago, that Islam scientists also worked on complex Astronomy 1500 years ago. Cordoba in Spain was a place of paradise. Of course Islamic scientists worked also together with Far East scientists from India and China.

Please let us agree not to judge on a religion , otherwise we have to open bloody chapters of mass murder of Christian Countries in Amerika , Afrika and Asia up to the 21 th century.

Sticking your head in the ground isn't gonna change reality. Islamic terrorism is based on Islamic jihad which is believed by many to be the sixth pillar of Islam. No one out there blows himself up with a slight doubt that he isn't doing exactly what God wants and that he might go to hell. And no they aren't stupid huge number of terrorists are highly educated
And they justify every action from Islamic text.
The first step towards fixing any problem is admitting that it exists so don't compare Islamic terrorism (Islamic because they base their actions on Islam) to actions committed by people (just happens that they were Christians/jews)that can't say and did not say Jesus ordered us to do this+saying that others did it doesn't mean you are not guilty.

 

[Hurshid Celebi]

Nothing justifies TERRORISM,

but do you want ignore that Millions of people were killed in the name of God from Christian Crusaders, without differentiating whether they were Jews, Muslims or other believing ?

Let us agree on it that every radical and blinded individual /s can fulfill terrorist crimes.

Some examples : WACO Siege-David Koresh, Oklahoma City Bombing

 

[Hindustani78]

Ain Issa: A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqa in Syria while Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives progressed against the two Islamic State group strongholds.

After announcing the launch of the long-awaited assault on Raqa on Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance said it had moved south towards the city despite fierce jihadist resistance.

South of Mosul, Iraqi forces retook Hamam al-Alil from IS, a key objective in their three-week advance on the city.

Iraqi forces said yesterday they found a mass grave in the area containing around 100 decapitated bodies.

Raqa and Mosul are the last major cities in Syria and Iraq under the jihadists' control.

Their capture would deal a huge blow to the self-styled "caliphate" IS declared in mid-2014.

The US-led coalition that launched operations against IS two years ago is providing crucial backing to the offensives, with air strikes and special forces advisers on the ground.

SDF spokeswoman Jihan Sheikh Ahmed told AFP that the alliance's forces had advanced on two fronts towards Raqa amid heavy fighting.


SDF fighters had pushed at least 10 kilometres (six miles) south towards the city from the towns of Ain Issa and Suluk, she said.

In both cases the SDF was still some distance from Raqa -- on the Ain Issa front at least 30 kilometres away.

"The offensive is going according to plan," said Ahmed, adding that the SDF had captured at least 10 villages.

An SDF commander said IS was fighting back with its favourite tactic of sending suicide bombers in explosives-packed vehicles against advancing forces.

"IS is sending car bombers but coalition planes and our anti-tank weapons are limiting their effectiveness," the commander said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

After taking Abu Ilaj north of Raqa, SDF fighters dug trenches and piled sandbags at the entrance to the village.
"In every area that we advance we are digging trenches with tractors and bulldozers to protect the front line, to prevent the jihadists from getting in and to stop car bombs," one fighter said.

The SDF says some 30,000 of its fighters are taking part in operation "Wrath of the Euphrates", which aims to surround and isolate IS inside Raqa before making an assault on the city itself.

Officials have warned that the battle is likely to be long and difficult.

"As in Mosul, the fight will not be easy and there is hard work ahead," US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said.

PTI

First Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 15:21

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-aleppo-idUSKBN133125

Syrian government forces battled 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 weeks.

There were conflicting 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, calling it the most significant gain by the government in Aleppo since September.

But 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.

"There is still a battle and the result has absolutely not been decided," added the second official, Zakaria Malahifji, head of the political office of the Fastaqim rebel group.

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.

Syrian government forces backed by allied militias and Russian air power launched a major assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in September, after besieging the area that the United Nations says is home to 275,000 people.

Insurgents launched a counter attack aimed at breaking the siege on Oct. 29, targeting government-held western districts of Aleppo in an offensive that included jihadist groups and insurgents fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner.

But their progress slowed after early gains.

Russia says its air force has been observing a moratorium on air strikes on the rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo since Oct. 18. The Observatory and emergency workers in eastern Aleppo said heavy air strikes had killed hundreds of people, and hit hospitals and other civilian facilities prior to that.

Insurgent shelling of government-held western Aleppo has meanwhile killed dozens of people, the United Nations said last week in an update on the humanitarian situation in the city.

(Reporting by Tom Perry; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

 

[notorious_eagle]

There were conflicting 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.

SAA has taken them, its confirmed.

The offensive capabilities of the rebels is severely diminished. Their offensive failed spectacularly, opening the way for Tiger Forces to drive down deep and smack the Rebels out of the 1070 Apartments. SAA seems to be improving with improved tactics, and most importantly the used of combined arms. That's the key if they want to win Aleppo, disciplined axis of advancement with combined use of arms. I still remember the days when SAA would just send out Armour out in the open without any artillery or infantry and get slaughtered by the ATGM's.