Syrian Civil War: News #3

"IRGC announced today that eight Iranian servicemen were killed in the past 24 hours in Syria. Fars News Agency quoted Ramezan Sharif, a spokesman for the IRGC, as saying that IRGC members Abdollah Bagheri and Amin Karimi and six other unnamed servicemen were killed in Syria yesterday and today, without giving their ranks. Reports in social media had indicated that actually 15 IRGC serviceman were killed near Aleppo, but IRGC spokesman denied those reports, saying only eight were killed.

Abdollah Bagheri, 33, one of the IRGC servicemen killed in action, was identified as the former bodyguard of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The photos in social media show Ahmadinejad at the late Bagheri’s house saying condolences to his family. Iran was reported to have deployed some 2,000 IRGC Ground Force troops to Syria after the start of the Russian involvement in the country’s civil war on 30 September. They have joined hundreds of Quds Force advisers and specialists already in Syria. The introduction of ground troops into the conflict has changed Iran’s strategy of maintaining a small footprint of advisers to a limited deployment of ground forces directly involved in the conflict. 15 servicemen killed in action, or eight as IRGC says, is the largest number of Iranian casualties in a 24-hour period in more than 4 years of conflict in Syria."



Source: http://www.uskowioniran.com/2015/10/irgc-servicemen-killed-in-syria.html

The SAA/NDF have been defeated in a few battles on the North Hama front and have been forced to retreat from some positions:
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-jaysh-al-fateh-captures-markabah-in-northern-hama/

zorobabel wrote:The SAA/NDF have been defeated in a few battles on the North Hama front and have been forced to retreat from some positions:
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-jaysh-al-fateh-captures-markabah-in-northern-hama/

Some pics from there

Militant Spoils from #معركبة #Markabah
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/657671174730727424

PapaDragon wrote:Suck on this Monarchist, in the meantime the inbred medieval oligarchs you worship are still dead and will be forever...

Graphic!
PHOTO: Top Jihadist commander "Mohammad al-Khatib" was killed today in the Southern #Aleppo front
https://twitter.com/2Rook14/status/657549837647396864


THREE #JAN #JN LEADERS/WARLORDS ASSASSINATED IN IDLIB BY IED AT A MEETING.
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/657645892808351744

I was watching the Monarchists idol on youtube yesterday....what a pathetic performance and was wondering how low can one sink...apparently he is the darling of the Ukrop media these days, predicting doom & gloom and reporting about hundreds of dead Russians already in Syria

PapaDragon wrote:
''Assad’s Army Makes Advances, Kills Hundreds of ISIL Militants in Syria'

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151023/1029031504/Assad-Army-Kills-ISIL-in-Syria.html

Suck on this Monarchist, in the meantime the inbred medieval oligarchs you worship are still dead and will be forever...

Maybe you should learn your mother and sister to stop doing that so you could stop with these personal frustrations of yours.

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This is how your idol ended, retarded, maniac syphillis infested.

Monarchist wrote:15 iranians killed yesterday including Ahmadinejad former bodyguard, all these so called "successfull offensives" are taking the toll on SAA, iranians, Hezbollah, iraqi shia's yet the Kremlin propaganda machine is in full swing, without any major gains too show about so far.


https://mobile.twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/657492378861871104/photo/1

SAA is not an army at this point. They are on same level as those "rebels" if not worse. It is like Ukraine, they forgot about army and now they have consequences. Simple as that. Any gains even tiny ones are good as they were loosing territory before. Islamists are not the strongest enemy too, push them hard and they will break.

The SAA/militia ground operation is not directly assisted by Russian air forces. If Russia was acting like their air force
the ground campaign would progress much faster. Russia should stop with the self-limitation. It should crank up the
number of aircraft and the number of sorties including those called by imbedded special forces. A half-assed approach
only leads to problems and failure.

Nobody is going to give Russia any credit for this timid approach. They will spew hate propaganda against it
regardless of what it does.

Cyberspec wrote:I was watching the Monarchists idol on youtube yesterday....what a pathetic performance and was wondering how low can one sink...apparently he is the darling of the Ukrop media these days, predicting doom & gloom and reporting about hundreds of dead Russians already in Syria

A true Russian hero, giving the enemy false hope.

Monarchist wrote:

I want to have Lenin's stare when I am old.

I think this is important news.. read..
55 US lawmakers requesting Obama a change in policy in Syria.. to end it. Their document
even though use public relations language.. blaming Russia and Assad for all.. but their conclusion of what needs to be done is to stop the war and make peace. Public Opinion is really important. .never underestimate it.. it was public opinion what ended the Vietnam War ,the Korean War ,and what made UK government to refuse to allow Cameron to go to war against
Syria after the chemical weapons attack. IT was also public opinion what provoke Egypt to remove 2 dictators from power peacefully..and same with Crimea ,Public Opinion allowed Russia to take Crimea without firing a shot... Take that number to 200 or 300 US lawmakers and it will be impossible for any President to continue any proxy war in Syria without risk of being impeached . is a good sign. of major changes of public opinion of happening in US congress .

Rebuffing Peace Chances in Syria - October 23, 2015

Exclusive: Official Washington’s neocon-dominated “group think” on Syria is that everything is the fault of President Assad and Russian President Putin, but the actual history shows many missed opportunities for peace because of the U.S. obsession with dictating “regime change” in country after country, as Jonathan Marshall explains.

By Jonathan Marshall

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/10/23/rebuffing-peace-chances-in-syria/

Seeking to disrupt the lethal cycle of foreign intervention and military escalation in Syria, a group of 55 House Democrats recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama, calling for a change in U.S. policy.

“[I]t is time to devote ourselves to a negotiated peace, and work with allies, including surrounding Arab states that have a vested interest in the security and stability of the region,” they wrote. “Convening international negotiations to end the Syria conflict would be in the best interests of U.S. and global security, and is also, more importantly, a moral imperative.”

PapaDragon wrote:
''50 ton-question: Who got US ammo intended for anti-ISIS Arabs?''

https://www.rt.com/usa/319527-ammo-isis-syria-kurds/

As if anyone in their right minds would believe that the US was dropping ammo and weapons for the "good guys".
I bet it was a drop to help bolster stocks for the regime change mercenaries, that the Russian air strikes had destroyed.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Are there defections from rebel militias to SAA?

About 10,000 since 2011 up to before Russia joined.. and about 400 in the very first week that Russia began the campaign. If memory correct.. Russia also said about 5,000 ISIS fighters
leave to turkey.. since they began bombing.

par far wrote:

These bastards are leaving Raqqa because the US is going start bombing it, with Russia bombing the isis terriosts, the US has to do something, so these assholes are trying to take Raqqa.

Quite possibly..

Americans will do a show.. they will ask ISIS to leave raqqa and redeploy elsewhere ,and
later will use it as propaganda in western media to "proof" "they fighting ISIS" and perhaps install a US military base there ,using as shield the Kurds that they know Russia ,neither Syria will bomb.  to allow Kurds take control of Raqqa..a faction that even though is not fighting Syria Government ,they neutral,,but they also have their own territorial disputes with Syria too ,because they want their independence from Syria.

And this is quite a potential strategy US intending to do with their multiple factions created war.
They can steal Syrian territory by just asking their ISIS buddies to move and allow Kurds or "moderates rebels" to take control of it. So in reality is not a fight.. but a change of hands.. a transfer. and use it later for propaganda purposes. IS not less interesting how ISIS is deployed
in the east of Syria and the so called Free Syrian army and moderates in the front line. So effectively to block Syrian Army from direct fights with ISIS and Pentagon to have an excuse and pretext to fly their airforce as close as possible to the Syrian Army fighting frontlines to sabotage their operations or at least provide real time logistic to the terrorist the
Syrian army fighting.


I Keep telling people ,but they don't get it. .the US government is anything but fools.
they are very evil brilliant ,very calculated , very smart ,master of deception in the art of fighting wars without revealing exactly in which side they are ,without doing it directly but by proxy and revealing who they are really fighting. So thanks to ISIS ,that they arm and provide weapons and logistics..it will allow the Pentagon to invade any nation in the pretext of "fighting terrorism.

This also allow US government ,its defense industry ,(which its politicians receive bonuses for weapons sales ),to sell more weapons in middle east to fight the very same terrorist they helping.

US is playing 100% political games in Syria ,always manipulating people opinions to counter
the overwhelming facts they have an illegal war against Syria are supporting ISIS and Alqaeda.

Monarchist wrote:15 iranians killed yesterday including Ahmadinejad former bodyguard, all these so called "successfull offensives" are taking the toll on SAA, iranians, Hezbollah, iraqi shia's yet the Kremlin propaganda machine is in full swing, without any major gains too show about so far.


https://mobile.twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/657492378861871104/photo/1

You can go and kick yourself with your anti Russian propaganda.
Syria is under attack by a very powerful coalition of US ,UK-France -Turkey-Israel-Jordan and Gulf Allies. Thousands of NATO forces are fighting in the side of the terrorist and they provided with all kind of weapons imbecile.  From chemical warfare and drones and even now have NATO Airforces providing logistics from the air ,communications and dropping munitions ,food and supplies to them..  Just recently an Israeli Colonel was captured in IRAQ ,according to IRaquis sources that was leading the fight of ISIS. There are pentagon generals in the ground leading the terrorist.. israeli too.. And according to Syrian sources Turkey army invaded Syria with the take over of IDlib. Is a small scale world war what Syria is facing ,lead by USA.  The Syrian army have been fighting alone in the ground for 4 years with a small help of hezbolah that do not have a big army ,just few thousands soldiers and Iran is not even sending lots of soldiers , just a small force of couple of thousands soldiers with light weapons ,and only because now Russia is helping.

Again is not a war against jihadist with light guns , this is instead a world war what Syria
is facing. With Terrorist from 80 nations.  from 100,000 to 150,000 is estimated their force
since the start of the conflict. ISIS alone Russia own numbers say is about 75,000 fighters.


And Russia Bombing campaign is not even targeting jihadist directly.. but Munitions warehouses, Command Centers and their leaders. But also providing support to Syrian Army when they do an offensive. If you can name a single nation imbecile which its army can face a NATO major powers and Gulf coalition invasion with hundreds of thousands of terrorist army and not lose 15 soldiers in an attack..then be my guest . But until that you can shut the fuck off imbecile with your anti Russian propaganda.

PapaDragon wrote:
''50 ton-question: Who got US ammo intended for anti-ISIS Arabs?''

https://www.rt.com/usa/319527-ammo-isis-syria-kurds/

US policy coherence in action.

PKK are considered terrorists by the US...

PYD, PKK and PJAK are all allies, part of the KCK.

Their respective military wings (YPG, HPG, YRK) SHARE THE SAME LOGISTICS and to a certain extent, command structures.

THIS IS FUCKING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE EVEN WIKIPEDIA IS UP TO DATE ON.

Let's give them tons and tons of ammo I'm sure none of that is gonna be used against Turkey...

"mi-28"? in syria.. apparently.. killing terrorist.

https://twitter.com/LyudmilaKaya/status/657488344557965313


and reports of the most important terrorist leader in Aleppo killed too recently.
and Israeli Colonel captured in Syria helping ISIS fights..

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940730000210

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Colonel Leading ISIL Terrorists Captured in Iraq

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi security and popular forces have caught an ISRAELI COLONEL FROM GOLANI BRIGADE along with a number of ISIL terrorists, a commander disclosed on Thursday.

Noting that he was arrested along with a number of ISIL terrorists, the commander said, "The Israeli colonel's name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the Zionist regime's army with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434."

The Iraqi security forces said the CAPTURED COLONEL HAS ALREADY MADE SHOCKING CONFESSIONS.

Several ISIL militants arrested in the last one year had already confessed that Israeli agents from Mossad and other Israeli espionage and intelligence bodies were present in the first wave of ISIL attacks on Iraq and capture of Mosul in Summer 2014, but no ranking Israeli agent had been arrested.

So much for "Rebels" not being an Army anymore ,who said this is a "rebels war"
This is World war 3 ,wake up zombies . NATO major zionist powers are leading the fight with
real armies forces, logistics and heavy weapons they supply and the rebels is just used as a meat shield and and as cover. BUt Americans, Turkish ,Saudis and Thousands of Israeli-American and other allies special forces in the ground. i posted earlier a video of a pentagon general in Syria being given a tour the terrorist of all their facilities.  and the MacAin visit to Syria and meet all major terrorist leaders including ISIS ,never happened. it was just our imagination.and Syria government is only fighting civilians who one day took a rifle to fight for freedom.  

but back to reality..
According to Syrian sources Turkey Army is on idlib right now ,with thousands of soldiers ,they were key players in the capture of the city with artillery support across the border.. and Israel have sent near a thousand special forces with drones in southern Syria according to some zionist media reports.

Iran attacking Syria rebels with explosive drones


BEIRUT – Iran has attacked rebels in northwest Syria with explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that fly into their targets, according to rebels.

A commander in the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham group told Al-Souria Net that “kamikaze drones thought to be [of] Iranian [origin] were used [on Monday to strike] Syrian opposition military bases in rural Idlib, causing extensive material damage at the targeted location.”

“Five aircrafts loaded with explosives targeted an Ahrar al-Sham base in the town of Ma'ar Shimmareen [near] Idlib province’s Ma’aret Nuaman,” Hassan Abu Hamid claimed.

“The destructive force of the plane was equal to the destructive force of an 82 mm mortar round, but had a higher fragmentation rate,” he explained.

Abu Hamid noted that the UAVs usually record footage of the target area and strike when it has been identified.

“It is difficult to see [these] planes because their low noise and small size, which makes the chances of shooting them [down] very slim.”

Iran attacking Syria rebels with explosive drones

Vann7 wrote:"mi-28"? in syria.. apparently.. killing terrorist.

https://twitter.com/LyudmilaKaya/status/657488344557965313

Not exactly a reliable source....I think we'll know about it pretty quickly if they do deploy them there

Cyberspec wrote:

Vann7 wrote:"mi-28"? in syria.. apparently.. killing terrorist.

https://twitter.com/LyudmilaKaya/status/657488344557965313

Not exactly a reliable source....I think we'll know about it pretty quickly if they do deploy them there

Looks far to accurate to be a helicopter. That looks like S-8 rocket engagement and the grouping is just on a sniping level. If that was carried out by air it was most probably Su-25.

Werewolf wrote:

Cyberspec wrote:

Vann7 wrote:"mi-28"? in syria.. apparently.. killing terrorist.

https://twitter.com/LyudmilaKaya/status/657488344557965313

Not exactly a reliable source....I think we'll know about it pretty quickly if they do deploy them there

Looks far to accurate to be a helicopter. That looks like S-8 rocket engagement and the grouping is just on a sniping level. If that was carried out by air it was most probably Su-25.

Very accurate, Would I be correct in assuming the fire came from the side of the video and the camera was probably on a drone?

Interesting, AFAIK probably first time Su-25 filmed in CAS mode, change in tactics?

Vann7 wrote:

par far wrote:

These bastards are leaving Raqqa because the US is going start bombing it, with Russia bombing the isis terriosts, the US has to do something, so these assholes are trying to take Raqqa.

Quite possibly..

Americans will do a show.. they will ask ISIS to leave raqqa and redeploy elsewhere ,and
later will use it as propaganda in western media to "proof" "they fighting ISIS" and perhaps install a US military base there ,using as shield the Kurds that they know Russia ,neither Syria will bomb.  to allow Kurds take control of Raqqa..a faction that even though is not fighting Syria Government ,they neutral,,but they also have their own territorial disputes with Syria too ,because they want their independence from Syria.

And this is quite a potential strategy US intending to do with their multiple factions created war.
They can steal Syrian territory by just asking their ISIS buddies to move and allow Kurds or "moderates rebels" to take control of it. So in reality is not a fight.. but a change of hands.. a transfer. and use it later for propaganda purposes. IS not less interesting how ISIS is deployed
in the east of Syria and the so called Free Syrian army and moderates in the front line. So effectively to block Syrian Army from direct fights with ISIS and Pentagon to have an excuse and pretext to fly their airforce as close as possible to the Syrian Army fighting frontlines to sabotage their operations or at least provide real time logistic to the terrorist the
Syrian army fighting.


I Keep telling people ,but they don't get it. .the US government is anything but fools.
they are very evil brilliant ,very calculated , very smart ,master of deception in the art of fighting wars without revealing exactly in which side they are ,without doing it directly but by proxy and revealing who they are really fighting. So thanks to ISIS ,that they arm and provide weapons and logistics..it will allow the Pentagon to invade any nation in the pretext of "fighting terrorism.

This also allow US government ,its defense industry ,(which its politicians receive bonuses for weapons sales ),to sell more weapons in middle east to fight the very same terrorist they helping.

US is playing 100% political games in Syria ,always manipulating people opinions to counter
the overwhelming facts they have an illegal war against Syria are supporting ISIS and Alqaeda.

I agree that the various arms of the US Government are well capable of planning all kinds of events often with the left hand not knowing quite what the right hand is up to. However, the Russians seem to be pretty astute in tracking this.

The RuAF has already hit Raqqa, if it were to see movement of ISIS forces there as you describe there is no reason to think that they would not hit them again. That is a big problem for the US if they were to adopt the plan you describe, the uncertainty, which would probably that the 'management' in ISIS, whoever they are, would think twice about it.

Those guys certainly seem to lead from the front. Not often a Western Brigadier gets killed like this. Down to belief and culture I suppose.

TEHRAN, October 24. /TASS/. A top commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) who fulfilled his duty as a military adviser has been killed in clashes in central Syria, the Fars News Agency has reported.

Brigadier General Reza Khavari "was martyred in clashes with Takfiri terrorists in the Northern parts of the province of Hama, Central Syria, Thursday night." This brings the number of IRGC casualties in the war-torn country over the past several days to eight.

The eight casualties have been confirmed by IRGC Public Relations Chief General Ramezan Sharif.