Devs Aug 10 >250 civilians dead after Russian+SAA indiscriminate bombardment on Idlib and Orum al-Kubra >Tiger Forces to begin moving to Al-Ghaab Plain in NE Hama, will lead op to cap Jisr Al-Shughour >SyAAF has begun targeting positions in N Hama/S Idlib, preliminary bombing towns of Al-Tamanah/Sukayk >Raqqa tribal fighters begin heading towards Idlib, shelling and airstrikes on rebel fronts near Morek/Ghab Plains >Militants in Idlib de-escalation zone state they are planning to launch offensive against SAA >Russian source; Lavrov's Ankara visit next week could pertain to possible agreemt between parties to take control of Idlib with minimal damage >UN envoy to Syria states they are preparing for Idlib battle in regards to refugees, request Turkey keep borders open for fleeing civs >SAA reinforcements headed to Aleppo to open up a front simultaneously with Idlib >DeZ; 12 buses carrying Hezbollah troops departs Deir Ezzor headed towards Aleppo >Afghanistan; Taliban attacks Ghazni (near Kabul) seize several points in city, allegedly repelled by US aircraft, however clashes continue
>as army surrounded al-safa from west - south west and south west -also army advance from north toward al-safa and capture tlul Rgheila -also army advance from Jabal Seis and Khibrat Raqaba ( east and north east al-safa) toward al-safa
Even though i am well versed in the Syria war, how did IS manage to occupy that area? IS cells hiding underground in conjunction with IS cells from the rest of Syria converging on said location for the creation of a local bastion?
there are not that many proper AK variants, most "Variants" are AKMs, the only actual difference is between the AK-47, stamped reciever but poor quality, AK-49, milled reciever but difficult to mass produce, and the AKM, introduced in 1959, which had a stamped reciever but was optimized for mass production.
Lincoln Walker
If you guys dont mind, i'll take care of the next thread, i havent made one in months and would love to make one again.
I'm a geopolitics noob. When it comes to the Middle East's problems, what % are the direct result of Western intervention? What would the Middle East look like without the constant meddling of (((Western))) powers?
Christian White
>what % are the direct result of Western intervention? define western intervention, but a lot can be traced to western powers, though there are other factors
>What would the Middle East look like without the constant meddling of (((Western))) powers? the same, the region is simply too valuable to leave alone both for resources and for control of strategic waterways and it's a primary door to Central Asia
Thomas Brooks
>IS cells hiding underground in conjunction with IS cells from the rest of Syria converging on said location for the creation of a local bastion? May very well be like this yeah. When the SAA were fighting the FSA-niggers this area was untouched. But nah, i don't think there was anyone hibernating there until the Yarmouk-district niggers were green bussed there. There's no houses, just historic ruins and nothingness. More likely after the Yarmouk niggers showed up, (((somebody))) smuggled them technicals, heavy weapons, ammunition and explosives from the Tanf area. and/or they had caches in the area (unlikely they could hide technicals though).
I doubt they have any way of keeping it hidden, considering their organization is a rag-tag bunch of fighters and they've got spies walking around in their cities. Probably better to try to spike up morale by making these claims. At least give the troops a tangible mission, instead of keeping them waiting and unaware.
>An explosive device exploded shortly before in the city of Manbaj opposite the electricity center on the road to the city of Aleppo, without information about casualties or injuries twitter.com/Qendil_kobani/status/1028367507076337664
Clashes continue as Taliban press Afghan city south of Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) - Fighting continued around Ghazni in central Afghanistan on Saturday, a day after Taliban fighters stormed the city in a stark show of force, with at least 25 police and one journalist killed, officials said.
Many telecoms masts were destroyed during heavy fighting on Friday, making it difficult to establish contact with the city, some two hours drive south of the capital Kabul, and there were conflicting accounts from government and Taliban spokesmen.
The attack on Ghazni, a strategically important center straddling the main highway linking Kabul with the south of the country, was the most serious blow struck by the Taliban since they came close to overrunning the western city of Farah in May.
The insurgents have failed to take any provincial center since they briefly seized the northern city of Kunduz in 2015 although they are active across much of the country and control many rural areas.
Defense ministry officials said Ghazni was under complete control of the security forces. But at the same time, they said clearance operations were continuing and additional troops were being sent to boost the city’s defense.
“Afghan National Army reinforcements are making their way to Ghazni city to help the Afghan National Police search and clear the city of insurgents that may still be hiding in the city,” said Major Mohammad Farooq, Afghan army 203rd Corps spokesman.
However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the insurgents held a number of strategic locations in the city and had captured a large quantity of weapons and equipment as well as taking more than 100 prisoners among the security forces.
“We are in talks in various areas with the rest of the enemy forces to surrender instead of putting their lives in danger,” he said in a statement.
One security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said both sides were fighting to control commercial centers and arterial roads around the city.
There was little clear information on casualties, but Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said that 25 policemen had been killed, along with one Afghan journalist, whom he did not identify.
Friday’s attack came as a shock after hopes had grown of a possible start to peace talks, although Ghazni has been under pressure for months with insurgents increasingly active in nearby districts.
“The city was relatively quiet last evening and people were observed moving freely on the streets,” Lt Col. Martin O’Donnell, spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, said in an emailed statement. “That said, clearing operations are ongoing and we have received reports of sporadic clashes.”
He did not say whether U.S. aircraft, which had helped Afghan forces resist the initial attack on Friday, had conducted any strikes against the Taliban.
The government had been considering a ceasefire over this month’s Eid al Adha holiday to match a similar truce during the Eid al Fitr holiday in June which saw unarmed Taliban fighters mingling with soldiers on the streets of Kabul and other cities.
Zabihullah Mujahid said in a social media post that the group had captured Ghazni’s main prison and freed many inmates, but Afghan officials could not immediately confirm or reject the statement.
>Breakup of Ottoman empire leading to arbitrarily-drawn borders in some places, leading to ethnic/religious conflicts
>Britain facilitating the creation of an Israeli state and then basically kicking it over to the UN and making it their problem to deal with
>British and American Oil greed making them fuck up the internal politics of Iran
>Cold War autism on the part of Soviets and Americans turning Afghanistan into the modern-day shitshow it is today
>Saddam waging 2 wars of conquest on his neighbors to try and acquire more oil, failing miserably both times
>The west then removing Saddam in Iraq and subsequently leaving it open to being destabilized (AKA: Islamic State)
>The west basically carpet-bombing Ghaddafi into submission and letting some literally-who rebels run the country for about 3 years before letting it fall to shit and not even caring
Blame also falls on Places like KSA, Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey for waging proxy conflicts, though.
Owen Nguyen
>der ewige anglo trying to make it look like the German was scared Just standard anglo media things.
EU seeks details from Saudi Arabia on women human rights arrests amid Canada row: RTRS
Joshua Sullivan
>trusting kurds You can bet your ass that a significant part of those 1300 militants are undercover american military and intelligence personnel who want to watch closely what happens there. Besides, after all that shit they've pulled off, it would idiotic to trust them.
Justin Rivera
>the virgin democratic option >the chad military option
Liam Cruz
>saudis use cheaper equipment and vehicles >still get BTFO by cheap IEDs
I should probably go back to doing updates for various other countries as well. I stopped when the protests broke out in Iraq and I was like "Fuck this, this is too much shit for me to post" but things have calmed down a lot. So, Iraq updates
#Salahaddin
#Isis attack on the #Bajari area in #Baiji district, after cutting off electricity and killing and wounding 12 members of the tribal crowd in an initial outcome..
Today #Egypt: a suicide bomber failed to enter St. Mary’s #church near #Shubra ended up blowing himself over a nearby bridge, no casualties except for him. Church was crowded for Virgin Mary feast celebrations #Egypt
Egypt security forces thwart a suicide attack at church near Cairo
Egypt security forces thwarted an attack targeting a church near Cairo on Saturday, state television said.
According to media outlets, the security forces on Saturday thwarted a suicide attack near a Coptic Orthodox church in Shubra al-Khaimah, in Qalyubiya, near Cairo, Egyptian media reported.
The terrorist, who was wearing an explosive belt was trying to infiltrate through worshipers who were celebrating the occasion of Virgin Mary day at the church of the “Blessed Virgin Mary”.
The security forces could spot him and thwart his attempt to blow himself up among the large crowd of Christian Coptic.
He was killed instantly while to two civilians were wounded.
ISIS have claimed several attacks on Egypt’s large Christian minority in recent years, including two deadly bombings on Palm Sunday in April 2017 and a blast at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral in December 2016 that killed 28 people.
The most recent attack came last December, when a gunman fired on worshippers at a Coptic Orthodox church in a Cairo suburb, killing 11 in an attack claimed by ISIS.
The country has fought an insurgency led by ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since mid-2013 - although no official death toll has been released to date.
>Unidentified armed men opened the fire on the car of Abu Saleh Muslim, a military commander in SDF for the Western sector in the city of Raqqa, which led to his death. twitter.com/Bosni94/status/1028383371360182274 dat nepotism doe
Isaac King
>A professional army can't protect its own country's borders from rebel fighters from an adjacent country's civil war
we're reaching levels of incompetence that shouldn't even be possible.
Five members of IRGC were killed on Friday near Bana city in western Iran by members of Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). Comes after Iran arrested two PAK Peshmerga fighters and broadcasted their confessions on TV.
Kurds claim the unit of Peshmerha engaged in last night clash in Sheno (Oshnavieh) belonged to KDPI. The Kurds claim to have killed 12 members of IRGC. Eight peshmerga were also killed in the clash.
>not mercenaries for an offensive. yeah, given their equipment they were probably higher end mercs or imported slaves from a Saudi ally, I can't imagine that the Saudis would still be using their own troops at the border posts that get raided regularly
This is from the other day but still illustrates how precarious the Saudi coalition is >36 people were killed and wounded in clashes between 35th brigade/Abu Abbas (AQAP-linked) against pro-Hadi forces 22th brigade in Taiz city twitter.com/YemeniObserv/status/1028236579775688704
Do you really think that kurds act on their own? Even when they go to the bathroom they report that to their american "guests" retard Lol, an open invitation to the turks.
Jacob Reyes
>Do you really think that kurds act on their own? you misunderstand, I meant that someone claimed that k*rds were going to idlib but it isn't actually true
Parker Ortiz
Nice D30 Kanye, want to bring it to the White House?
Ethan Peterson
Ah ok.
James Wood
>we're gonna be selling them off to some el-presidente del chimichanga in no time
>a troop transport that can't transport troops >a reconnaissance that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance >a half-baked tank that has the armor of a snowblower, but enough firepower to level half of DC >we're building this?
US federal government, everyone. paragon of efficiency and common sense
You can sum up his entire twitter wall as "Me Neocon Turkey good fuck commie PKK Kurds we still live in Cold War bad PKK Stalinists remember Turkey Cold War ally still live in past never change hur dur"
Juan Robinson
b-but it killed 7000000000000000000000000000000 t-72s in the gulf war!!! t. Jow Forums retard
Kayden Lee
>Abu Abbas (former AQAP) used Oshkosh M-ATV in last fights in Taiz.
It's ignorant satire though. Bradley's got a shitty 25mm gun, more armor than its contemporaries, is well capable of armored reconnaissance. The only valid complaint is that it can't transport a full rifle squad.
Luke Barnes
sorry iraqi brother in here, but killing a whole bunch of middle eastern soviet surplus is basically the equivalent of stepping on an ant farm. seriously, US needs to fix it's fuckin demographic decline before trying to mess in other people's business
Parker Reed
To be fair that's a classic problem of most APC/IFV platforms. None of them are actually any good at getting troops to the front nor fighting anything beyond providing fire support. At least you haven't yet caught the Russian version of this autism where all our IFVs must float and have turbines for moving in water.
>tfw family member works in vehicle design for DoD >shit like that happens on a regular basis >some officer got obsessed with having them come up with designs for "electric powered" tanks just like those "cool tesla cars" so the army wouldn't need to worry about logistics >another was obsessed with Israeli designs and insisted that they either start buying Israeli vehicles or outsourcing design work to Israelis
