Devs Jan 12 >Israeli attack on Damascus Airport warehouse injured 4 SAA soldiers, 2 in critical condition >Pompeo:US pullout from Syria not to alter capacity to perform military actions >Idlib:Jaysh al-Ahrar(TFSA group) handed over Taftanaz airbase in the E Idlib CS to HTS. This is part of a surrender agreement accepted by TFSA groups few days back >SAA launches heavy attack on jihadist rebels in Al-Taman’ah&Sukeek. This is due to sporadic attacks by jihadists >DeZ:SDF repells IS attempt to reenter Al-Shafah.Backed by french and US strikes SDF attacked IS south of city >Kurdish politician:Washington trying to sabotage talks between SDF and Damasc >Turkish MoD:Turkey will launch eastern Euphrates offensive when ‘time is right’ >SAA deploys more troops to front-lines in Hama as rumors of new operation continue >Kurdish forces kill several TFSA fighters in Afrin region >Syria releases official statement slamming new Israeli attack&accuses US of supporting Israeli strikes >report:SAA prepares to storm eastern Euphrates >Turkish military sends large convoy to it's Idlib CS obersvationpoint after rebels surrender much of province >report:Russian military sends armored convoy to Hama and Idlib
Ruptly youtube.com/watch?v=8C-mLA7uPjY Russian military police delivered humanitarian aid to civilians in Abu Hayj and Jub al Hamir, near Manbij, on Sunday. Footage released on Sunday shows the delivery and distribution of the aid, which included food packages and school supplies. As shown in the video, Russian Military Police continue to patrol Manbij area in the Syrian province of Aleppo near the Turkish border.
Following US President Donald Trump's announcement of the planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) requested that the government in Damascus re-establish control over some territories it previously occupied, including Manbij, with the aim of avoiding clashes with Turkey.
RT youtube.com/watch?v=69S-FRYJYVI The Israeli Defense Forces carried out an operation to destroy what they claimed was the final cross-border tunnel from Lebanon, allegedly built by Hezbollah.
Implying all these ASSmadists who support Bashart are not subconsciously hopping that Syria will continue suffering so that /sg/ continues on for few more months just for amusment
>still waiting for another /ug/ >mfw Motto and Givi are both dead >mfw they didnt get to die honourable deaths EVERY FUCKING UKRAINE NIGGER WILL DIE FOR THIS WHY COULDNT THEM LET GIVI LIVE
With Mattis out of the picture, the mustache man is bound to pull off something.
>Former Defense Secretary James Mattis had "deep concerns" about a request late last year from national security adviser John Bolton for options to attack inside Iran, according to a source close to Mattis.
>The big picture: "There were deep concerns about any efforts to escalate a conflict with Iran," the source told me.
>As the Wall Street Journal first reported, Bolton's request came "after militants fired three mortars into Baghdad's sprawling diplomatic quarter, home to the U.S. Embassy, on a warm night in early September. The shells — launched by a group aligned with Iran — landed in an open lot and harmed no one."
>Behind the scenes: Mattis thought that attacking inside Iran risked escalating a conflict with an Iranian proxy into war with a nation state — the Iranian regime. The source told me that despite Mattis' concerns, the Pentagon provided the White House with options to counterattack against Iran.
>In response to questions for this article, National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said: "The NSC coordinates policy and provides the president with options to anticipate and respond to a variety of threats.
>We continue to review the status of our personnel following attempted attacks on our embassy in Baghdad and our Basra consulate and will consider the full range of options to preserve their safety and our interests."
>And Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning responded: "The Department of Defense is a planning organization and provides options to the president for decision. Discussions between the secretary of defense and the president are privileged."
i cant find the jewtube channel that did the battle coverage videos they had the little beat at the start with subtitles in english and russian throughout the video shoa'd?
The rumor is that President Trump is openly ignoring him, refusing to read anything from John Bolton and deliberately calling him the wrong names like Matt and Mike to his face.
Bolton was foisted on him, President Trump never wanted him and is about to boot him in my opinion. Its another H.R. McMaster scenario.
>Mattis only reason Syria was hit by some cruise missiles instead of being carpet bombed >Bolton prepped to strike Iran and his nemesis there is gone >Bolton also has cucked Erdroach beyond belief on the kurdish question He cannot be contained basically the minute the Iranians do something remotely provocative we're gonna free the fuck out of it and let those batshit iranians he supports take over
that's the one! thanks, could not remember the name of it for the life of me
Jacob Walker
Lel sanctions is a small price to pay to get rid of kurds. Erdo will gladly take it no problem.
Lincoln Morgan
>Still believing this tripe after he was ousted as a neocon? >that strike >what a neocon would want the neocon solution would be assad with a bayonet up his ass and the "moderate opposition" to rule the nation with the kurds. resigning over a total pullout is basically what any non isolationist FP/military person would've done. He's also whats kept the trump iranian policy to autistic shitposting and ripping up the deal. While Bolton is drafting strike plans.
Mattis is basically the average member of the US military/FP establishment, invested in global America and not willing to back down but not going crazy, Bolton is the genuine Freedom spreading neocon
If you thought that's bad, look how he treats White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
>President Trump chastised his new chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, over his handling of shutdown talks, creating an awkward scene in front of congressional leaders of both parties, according to two sources who were present.
>Mulvaney inserted himself into the conversation and tried to negotiate a compromise sum of money, according to the sources in the room. Mulvaney said "that if Dems weren't OK with $5.7 [billion] and the president wasn't OK with $1.3 [the Democratic offer] ... he was trying to say we should find a middle ground," one of the sources said, paraphrasing Mulvaney's remarks.
>"Trump cut him off ... 'You just fucked it all up, Mick,'" the source recalled Trump saying. "It was kind of weird."
>Another source who was in the room confirmed the account. That source said their impression was that Trump was irritated at Mulvaney's negotiating style. "As a negotiator, Trump was resetting," the source said. "Mick was not reading the room or the president."
tell me something I never knew about the Middle East
Leo Ramirez
That greater Syria was what the arabs first really wanted before the anglo got involved
Isaac Reed
The real ownership of the middle east should go to the orthodox Church
Jonathan Rogers
>for him If I was president Bolton would be top on my to purge from government list though he is an absolute meme and fun to use.
Also I forgot to post the batshit Iranians he supported who are literal Islamic Communists, really putting a lie to neocons trotskyists roots there Comrade Bolton >Prior to it being de-listed by the US as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2012, Bolton spoke in favor of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK), in at least one case being paid to do so. MEK has a long anti-American history.[176][177][178] According to the State Department, the MEK "[f]ollow[s] a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam."[178] >On January 25, 2011, Bolton drew a standing ovation at a MEK conference in Brussels for his support of the MEK, giving a speech in which he "backed MEK's legitimacy, and the notion of removing it from the list of terrorist organizations".[179] You should read this groups wiki page, they're practically a cult
Isn't MEK controlled opposition? >the MEK "[f]ollow[s] a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam."[178] IslamBol gang confirmed
Ethan Taylor
There is a reason almost 40% of key leadership positions remain unfilled.
Parker Wright
Is it dangerous to work with the US embassy in Iraq?
Henry Walker
good luck getting those clowns to rule Iran if Bolton's wet dream ever comes true. Either them or they'll do an Iraq and put a bunch of exiles and lackeys with no support in control Wasn't Ghaddaffi pushing the Islam-Marxism meme? so was Siad Barre in Somalia as well I think
Baathism was basically socialism with some arab/muslim things
Zachary Stewart
I thought Syrian Baathism was very secular/Soviet Atheist at least initially
Kevin Butler
I'd imagine it would be
Kevin Reed
it was soviet socialism with a mix of arab nationalism
Gavin Peterson
but it doesn;t really draw upon Islam except say from a nationalist position
Joshua Moore
Baathism is more of a Arab National Socialism, though I think the movement is more about unity of Arabs through momentum of revolution and nationalism. Everything else is just a tool to reach that goal. Protectionist, socially paternal modernist society seems to work best when dealing with unity of ethic groups lol.
Cameron Thomas
Basicallly, although during the Cold War those regimes that aligned with the USSR would have likely emphasized marxist thought as well out of pragmatism or ideological affinity
>Tehran, Jan 13, IRNA -- Yemeni sources announced Sunday that the commander of the Intelligence Organization of Yemen Mohammad Saleh Tammah who had been injured in Ansarullah drone attack succumbed to his injuries.
posting again about turks. aside from some hatreds left over from the ottoman WWI days, most lebanese I would say are either indifferent to, or really like/admire turkey as a secularized ME nation. we both eat tabbouleh, turkish delight, turkish coffee/tea, shawarma, lamb kebab, black olive, feta cheese, etc. I've also heard that turks and levantines share a west asian genetics, though I'm unsure just how far that goes. do you turks like lebanon/lebanese, and do you actually dislike christians or is it mostly larping on pol
Ambassador Jim Jeffrey was knee deep in negotiations with the Turks when Bolton's remarks in Israel upended his discussions. Jeffrey was furious, said people familiar with the talks
I can as well but it takes a long time. my facial hair is basically from my sideburns across my jaw but stops before connecting to my mustache. then my chin and neck have a great amount of hair too. so ive got the chin, mustache, and jaw but none of its connects. it actually kind of fits the middle eastern look to not have the stache connect imo
>Labour MPs have been told to be ready for a vote of no-confidence in the government of Prime Minister Theresa May in case she suffers a defeat over her Brexit deal, a report says.
>Lawmakers are set to vote on the deal on Tuesday, after May shelved plans for a vote last month when it transpired that not enough lawmakers from her own party or others would support the deal she had struck with the European Union.
>Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called an immediate vote of confidence in his government at the parliament after his Defense Minister Panos Kammenos – a coalition ally – announced his resignation in protest against a deal to solve a long-standing dispute with neighboring Macedonia.
>In the 300-member Hellenic Parliament, Kammenos's party has seven seats, which has so far enabled Tsipras's government – with 145 legislators and the support of one other lawmaker – to pass the threshold of 150 deputies needed to run a coalition.
>Kammenos, himself a parliament member, further clearly warned that if any of the other six legislators of the Independent Greeks Party voted in favor of the incumbent administration, they would be expelled from the party.
>On Wednesday, Tsipras, a leftist, said in a televised interview that if his current coalition government broke up, he would prefer to call snap elections rather than head a minority government, which would be "a problem politically."
>However, his Sunday decision showed that he preferred the less risky move of calling for an immediate confidence vote.
mattis is a child fucker on the suadi pay roll don't fool yourself.
Nathan Thomas
>Poland has revealed plans to construct an artificial island in the Kaliningradskiy Zaliv (also known as the Vistula Lagoon), not far from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Polish newspaper Wyborcza reported. The island will be made from earth dug up during the construction of a channel going through the Kaliningradskaya Kosa (also known as the Vistula Spit) to the Baltic Sea.
>The island will be owned by the Polish government, but it remains unclear what purpose it will serve. According to media reports, access to the island will be restricted.
>Poland is planning the construction of an artificial strait through the Kaliningradskaya Kosa as an alternative maritime route for ships going for Elblag. Currently, all ships, sailing to the Kaliningradskiy Zaliv have to cross Strait of Baltiysk, which is located within Russia's maritime borders.
>A southern African regional bloc urged officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday to recount the votes of its recent contested presidential election.
>The Southern African Development Community (SADC) called for a unity government in a statement issued by Zambian President Edgar Lungu, citing examples of similar deals struck in Zimbabwe and Kenya.
>Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi was declared the winner of elections Sunday, but runner-up Martin Fayulu has challenged the outcome of the country's election in court, claiming that his opponent made a deal with outgoing president Joseph Kabila.
>Fayulu's opposition coalition said Friday he captured 61 percent of the vote, citing figures from the Catholic Church, which placed 40,000 election observers across the Central African country. The coalition said Tshisekedi won 18 percent of the vote. By law, only the electoral commission can announce election results in Congo.
>Fayulu, who has members of the Republican Guard deployed outside his home, called for a manual recount of the election.
>Pre-election polls indicated that Fayulu was the favorite to replace outgoing President Joseph Kabila. Kabila backed another candidate, his former interior minister, Emmanuel Shadary.
>Congo has never seen a peaceful transfer of power since winning independence from Belgium in 1960.
>Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been hospitalised after suffering a heart attack, the newspaper Israel Hayom reported, citing Lebanese journalist Jerry Mahar.
>According to Mahar's source, "a senior figure in the Hezbollah organisation was hospitalised" on Saturday in Beirut, while other sources confirmed that it was Nasrallah, adding that he "has been fighting cancer for years".
>Nasrallah has not been seen in public since November, when he criticised a possible ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
>After confirming that Israel bombed an Iranian weapons depot in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that the Jewish state will strike even harder if it proves necessary to prevent Iran from gaining a military foothold in Syria.
>Israel typically refrains from commenting on individual airstrikes in Syria, but does generally acknowledge that it carries out raids against Iranian- and Hezbollah-linked targets in the country.
>Several members of the security cabinet were reportedly frustrated with Netanyahu’s decision to publicly announce that Israel was responsible for the airstrike targeting Syria.
>Anonymous officials told the Kan public broadcaster that Netanyahu’s decision to break with traditional Israeli policy of not publicly discussing such strikes was “dangerous” and could unnecessarily provoke both Russia and Syria.
>Al-Jarida newspaper reported that, in addition to the Iranians, senior Hezbollah and Syrian military officials who had gathered to discuss a Russian-Turkish plan to attack the people of Jabhat a-Nusra in the Adilib region were wounded
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WE GOT BTFO. Our agriculture sector is so corrupt and underdeveloped that we literally cannot afford any economical instability for many years to come. Not even raising the gibs will help since the majority low income population can barely afford fucking potatoes.
There was a video a few years ago, a "found footage" from some FSA or SAA guys fighting ISIS. It showed them holed up in a building while the enemy closed in on them, so more or less their last moments. Quite harrowing. Was later posted as a part of some ISIS propaganda.
Anyone knows where to find this?
Luis Nguyen
but how controllable is this even? Also Turkeys economy might tank even without the US doing anything
