Devs Nov 17 >Al Safa:SAA eliminates IS from the region as heavy rain destroyed IS fortifications and hideouts forcing fighters to flee to E Homs desert >DeZ:US-coal killed 40+ civis in IS held Al-Buqa’an town.US denies masacre claims. SDF claims 17 IS members killed, 24 vehicles destroyed in recent clashes in Hajin area >N Latakia:Jihadists rebels kill 18 SAA soldiers >report:6500+ TFSA mobilized for offensive in East Euphrates Valley against YPG >SAA closes Morek crossing in N Hama due to security situation >RU MOD:US responsible for chaos in Rukban Refugee Camp:Frequent theft, prostitution,forced marriages,sexual exploitation of minors,int. org help almost completely goes to the militants >Russia calls Saudi UN resolution accusing Sy of HR violations a politicized resolution detached from reality >SAA uncovers large weapons hub with US-made missiles near Damascus >Afghanistan:40+ pro-government fighters died, 60 others surrendered to Taliban in Farah province >Yemen:Despite Saudi claims of ceasefire in Hudaydah, clashes are ongoing. The Saudi-backed “government of Yemen” blame Iran & Houthis for various things, this time for threatening fishing in the Red Sea
>especially when you consider that their massive initial push was against low morale Iraqi Army and low morale/supplies SAA If it was JUST the Iraqi army they fought against they would have conquered Baghdad and reached all the way to Basra a long time ago but the hashed masses roes to fight, low skilled as they are they stood up and fought. Baghdad was truly ISIS's Moscow lel
This. Hashd was the one that reinvogorated the fight using superb tactics and religious fervour.
Leo Sanders
>Still wouldn't call them the best since most of ISIS is practically dead and in that same time, something like Houtis have done the same thing but with twice the pressure Agreed, the Houthis deserve as much credit as ISIS desu
= NGO’s and hybrid warfare:youtu.be/ro1byfe5vUM = >WikiLeaks: Turkish oil minister links to Isis oil trade -wikileaks.org/berats-box/article Top aide to Hillary Clinton: :Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria -wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225
seems secular armies in the middle east are generally rubbish
Thomas Carter
Secular armies are always rubbish irregardless. Also cant compare ME secular armies as they havent near the decades old stability required to build a functioning system. Saddams army wasnt too bad tho desu.
Colton Gray
Truly was a fascinating time when the opposite force is more nationalistic and religiously inclined to defend the nation against a common foe.
They miss the spark that lights up a movement. Even US invading Iraq was technically under God's watch to protect the world from ebil weapons
>President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." >theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
Julian Turner
Indeed. Tbh i would be just as garbage if i was in the army just as a job or as a conscript with no interest in the conflict
>Saddam's army wasn't too bad tho >Couldn't invade Iran despite being supported by the US and given top tier equipment and intelligence >4th largest in the world in 1990, talked about how they'd be a major challenge >Defeated in a mere month and a half in desert storm >Defeated in the same amount of time in 2003 Wew lad
Hudson Cooper
maybe at their peak, they didnt look too solid when the west got to them, though you could blame that on air superiority
>Fought off a country with 3 times its populationt that fought with extreme religious fervour and human wave attacks. > West funded both countries covertly to extrapolate the war and accentuate Iraqs global debt. > Desert storm lost due to the only superior thing US has which is airpower taking out Iraqs airforce. > 2003 managed to last a month against unfair aerial advantage before splintering into an insurgency on purpose. > Sent many zog puppets home in coffins and was undefeated throughout the insurgency.
If your so tough why dont u invade iran then
Noah Richardson
Yeah that came at the end and will admit was a big part too. Low morale due to not being able to fight just getting bTFOd by aerial power.
Elijah Morris
context in pic?
Nathan Wood
>The soldiers had no will to fight.... Why? Don't they love their country? It's kind of sad that they threw the reason they were living so good under the bus as soon as the struggle to fight for him to return the favor came up.
Tyler Nguyen
for arabs, only religious martyrdom motivates them to fight, not money or nation
Angel Cruz
It wasnt that bad tho, it was just 30 years of war that got to them. That being said you serbs held out longer under US bombing so props to you. Dont forget Iraq is a frankenstein state patched together and is inorganic in ethnic homogenity etc unlike serbiam
Christian Baker
Nah man cus we dont have proper organic blood nations due to sykes picot. Religious fervour is always a x10 multiplier for ALL armies.
Elijah Carter
No one told Bush he was listening to the devil.
>pack your puppet to the teeth with weapons >tell him to invade a mountain inb4 the mountain revolts in iraq and takes over >8 years later >mountain doesnt move >Iraq doesn't gain >millions dead Looks like US got what they wanted all along, weakening 2 of the top 10 biggest armies in the world in less than 2 decades and then having Israel and SA as the regional behemoths turn of the century
Parker Sanders
Not sure of the exact context but its british soldiers standing over dead Iraqi soldiers during the invasion, probably got hit by airstrike or artillery while trying to surrender
Jason Stewart
Yup. But actually Iran is the savage dog they let loose that will turn on its master.
Leo Ross
idk man during gallipoli the turks, kurds and arabs fought side by side against the anglo kufr
John Garcia
>It's kind of sad that they threw the reason they were living so good under the bus as soon as the struggle to fight for him to return the favor came up. I bet you if you ask anyone alive now who was a soldier back then they would gladly give their lives for Iraq. It's just that everyone though that things would get better, they were in the middle of heavy sanctions, decades of war, etc. There were many reasons
Thats different tho man, fighting anglo kuffar during gallipoli DID have religious motivation. Dont forgrt Ottomans held Mecca and Medina at the time and were still respected.
Then the ottoman revolts happened behest of the brits.
Wyatt Moore
People dont understand how badly the sanctions fucked us up, more than the invasions and war.
Christopher Gonzalez
thanks
Aaron Rodriguez
The leash isn't technically off, unless you want to be blue-pilled of course
John Foster
Indeed, air superiority played a major role too. When I went to Syria in 2009 with the family we rode with a taxi driver who crossed the border to Iraq in Jihad against America and it's allies, he mentions how the air superiority was their army's greatest weapons, unchallenged it became clear immediately how decisive of an element it is in war
> Be young 4 yo me, mum and grandparents taking cab to Syria iraq border. > Loudmouth taxi driver cannot shut up about local cuisine and delicacies, dolma you name it > Based granddad asks him why he wont shut the fuck up > Taxi driver explains he is shit scared as mere days ago a family in a cab was pulled up and executed roadside by some criminals. > Everyone shuts the fuck up for the remainder of the trip.
>sources say ISIS organized its withdrawel previous nights They probably went to Al-Tanf or south of Al-Sukhnah >Go to Al-Sukhnah >Get btfo by SAA again >Run away to East Euphrates >Get mad gainz from incompetent Kurds and Arab conscripts
technically they just moved somewhere else to keep their insurgency going, saa lost more than isis there, it cost a lot for them to leave the volcano lol
Oliver Adams
I don't have the courage for that, i just wanted a friend, it was hard enough simply asking if she'd be up for lunch.
I don't get the US foreign strategy right now >haha US never had a strategy I know that but this just seems retarded We are even starting to go against Saudi Arabia slightly whats next we start going against Israel? Our boomer leaders are stocking up bad situations and hatreds for our future generations
>A 25-year-old native of Adygea Karina Spiridonova, registered in the Chelyabinsk region, committed a self-bombing in Grozny. Recently, she lived in Dagestan. She found a note addressed to Allah in which the word “Allah forgive me” occurs 21 times.
>Recall, the woman made a self-detonation on the afternoon of Saturday, November 17, at the checkpoint in Staropromyslovsky district on the outskirts of Grozny. According to interim Chechen Minister of the Interior Apti Alaudinov, a woman in inadequate condition approached the police post. The police asked her to stop, but she did not fulfill their demands. They noticed an explosive device on it, fired a warning shot, after which the woman committed a self-explosion. #FSB
>Lithuanians cried because they gave her a NKVD hat onc i bet they complained to the west about the 1 billion baltoids personally shot by comrade Stalin
