Devs Feb 12 >DeZ:SDF captures Shajilah area, IS still resisting in Baghouz village >overseen by RU MP's, SAA&TFSA exchange 20 prisoners each near the city of Al-Bab >SAA reinforces border along occupied Golan Heights >On Monday, the IDF attacked 3 sites inside the Al-Quneitra Governorate; this resulted in the destruction of two Syrian Army garrisons and the former Al-Quneitra Hospital. >Russia demands immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria >UN Special Envoy speaks of need for ‘new beginning’ in Syria, nationwide truce, focuse on IS & Israel bombs are another issue needs addressing >300+ former rebels join SAA ranks in Daraa >SAA foils HTS infiltration attempt from Idlib. In response SAA shells HTS positions >SOHR:US demands IS handover 40 tons of gold in eastern Euphrates region >4 IS members were reportedly executed as they attempted to flee terrorist group’s positions in Euphrates valley >Nearly 70 people killed in US airstrikes on eastern Syria village of Baghuz(last IS village in E Euphr) >Both Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition accuse each other of violating the ceasefire regime in al-Hudaydah
Twenty-seven members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard were killed in a suicide attack in the southeast of the country on Wednesday.
"This incident will not damage the resolute will of the people in defending the Islamic revolution, and the national resolve for an unrelenting battle against terrorism will become more resolute than ever," said Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency.
The province, which lies on a major opium trafficking route, has seen occasional clashes between Iranian forces and Baluch separatists, as well as drug traffickers.
Baluchi's getting frisky
Christian White
May be Socotra Edition on the next please. Still triggered for the tree robbery
"Looming threat However, Abu Jaber said SDF and ISIL were in fact engaged in talks. He said ISIL seemed divided over what it wanted in return for freeing the captives.
"The battle stopped to negotiate for the captives, but Daesh stalled the talks and were trying to gain more time," he said. "We tried to listen to them and fulfil their demands to whatever extent we could, but the problem is that they themselves don't know what they want. Some are willing to surrender, while others are not."
Tens of al-Shaitat tribesmen could be among the hostages. Some Westerners, British journalist John Cantlie, and Italian priest Father Paolo Dall'Oglio are also said to be among them.
The SDF struck a deal with ISIL in Raqqa in 2017 and under the US-led coalition's watch gave safe passage to thousands of ISIL fighters with their weapons and family members.
Those fighters have spread across Syria and may have even left the country, raising the possibility they may eventually pose a threat within Syria and to the outside world. In that case, such deals would do more harm than good.
SDF suspects there are 400 to 600 ISIL soldiers still in the tiny enclave. The debate about what to do with them is even more relevant, with current concerns the group could revive itself within months through a guerrilla rebellion in both Iraq and Syria.
SOHR estimated another 4,000 to 5,000 ISIL fighters were hiding in Syria's Badia desert, to the west of the Euphrates River.
General Joseph Votel, commander of US forces in the Middle East, said on Tuesday that ISIL still had "leaders, fighters, facilitators, resources and the profane ideology that fuels their efforts".
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David Morris
Cont.
" Nicholas Heras, Middle East Security Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Al Jazeera: "ISIS has established a large network of operatives and supporters in eastern Syria that is [it] expects to use to renew its influence over this region."
Bassam Barabandi, a former Syrian diplomat currently based in the US, enumerated several reasons why ISIL's resurgence seems imminent.
He said all the factors that led to the formation of the group in the first place were set to return, enabling them to go on another recruitment drive and enlist disaffected youth from around the world.
"ISIL's ideology, its strategy is based on a feeling of Sunni victimisation," he said. "Today ISIL has been defeated, and the day after, once US withdraws, who will fill the vacuum?"
"In Iraq, the Shia are taking over," Barabandi added. "In Syria, the Russians or the Shia militias or Iran or the Kurds are looking to replace them. Won't the Sunnis of the Shaitat ask, did we fight ISIS to be ruled by the Kurds?"
Levi Brooks
CONT.
Post-ISIL phase The view resonated with other Syria experts.
Joshua Landis, director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, said once the battle against ISIL was won, historical rivalries among the Arabs and Kurds would resurface.
"The Jazeera region of Syria is framed with minorities, ethnic and religious," he said. "It has always presented a difficult challenge for rulers whether Ottoman franchises or Damascene. Today the situation is even more challenging because there has been so much violence, destruction and impoverishment. And Arabs and Kurds are bound to compete and come to blows over political and economic power."
Throughout the nearly eight-year Syrian war, Arabs and Kurds have fought ISIL together. There are no guidelines or agreements on how to move forward when ISIL has left.
Abu Jaber said the Arab-dominated governorates of Raqqa and Deir Az Zor would one day be administered by Arabs such as himself.
"Of course Arabs will govern Deir Az Zor," he said. "They have paid blood to liberate it, but our Kurdish brothers will be our allies as they too have given martyrs to achieve this victory."
The post-ISIL phase will have its own set of challenges and the road to stability is a long one.
For now, the armed men of the al-Shaitat are holding their breath, counting the minutes before they secure their victory over the ISIL invaders. Only then can they go back home with pride restored, the al-Shaitat say.
"Daesh is resisting but in vain," Abu Jaber said as fighting resumed. "They are few, we are many, and we are backed by America's air power."
Dylan Lewis
>UAE steals old and rare trees from Socotra Island Followers of the events of Yemen described the theft as being carried out under the guise of re-legitimacy where the theft of Yemen’s civilization and its benefits and the occupation of its islands and resources. waagacusub.net/articles/4373/UAE-steals-old-and-rare-trees-from-Socotra-Island
" At least 37 members of Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir in one the deadliest attacks on government forces there, police said on Thursday, February 14.
The suicide bombing outside Srinagar claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed Islamist group is likely to ratchet up tensions between the two countries, with New Delhi long accusing Islamabad of supporting militants.
“The sacrifices of our brave security personnel shall not go in vain,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, calling the attack “despicable.” "
" India’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement late Thursday, blamed Pakistan.
“This heinous and despicable act has been perpetrated by Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based and supported terrorist organization proscribed by the United Nations and other countries,” the foreign office said. “India is firmly and resolutely committed to take all necessary measures to safeguard national security. We demand that Pakistan stop supporting terrorists and terror groups operating from their territory.”
Islamabad, however, rejected the suggestion that it was involved.
“We have always condemned acts of violence anywhere in the world,” the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said. “We strongly reject any insinuation by elements in the Indian media and government that seek to link the attack to Pakistan without investigations.” "
Noah Williams
Espere hasta la promo de año nuevo chino para comprar un par de juegos a 20 pesos por pago facil forro La mayoria de juegos q juge en mi vida fueron en la Play 3 de mi primo y un de un amigo y en mi Play 2 chipeada Mi compu lloraria lagrimas de dolor si pongo algo hecho en los ultimos 10 años que no sea indie
>De seguro peronista I'm not but you better not be a Cambiemos nigger
>que mierda te importa syria?! I'm just a cheto from provincia that likes geopol stuff, you can thank that on me playing Metal Gear games as a lil shit
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that >Russia, Turkey and Iran had agreed to take unspecified extra steps to clear Syria’s Idlib region of what he called “a hotbed of terrorists,” but the Kremlin said there would be no military operation there, Reuters reports.
>Presidents of Iran, Russia, and Turkey Hassan Rouhani, Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan agreed to hold next round of talks on Syrian crisis settlement in Astana in April.
So then, more assessinations and less idlib gains.
Expect the usual >Terrorist try to infiltrate >They fail >SAA responds with artillery >Doesn't acomplish much Maybe they'll try so send spies to sabotage them from the inside or stir up the local population, like those students that protested infront of the school
ayo, jewtube deleted the "god syria bashar" remixed with the circulation meme anime opening(the whole channel got deleted apparently) does anyone have any news on this or links to an archived of the channel? it had some great stuff
Why on earth would Visegrad group ever want, not to even imagine NEED, to convene in Israel of all places? Why not Washington? Australia? Somalia? Why Israel?
Blake Gutierrez
Damn... And Natalia somewhere in the back
Lucas Murphy
CAN YOU ASK THE AMERICANS TO START PAYING YOU GUYS JIZYA BUT LIKE JEWISH STYLE?
Have the Iranians realized yet that Israel along our Sunni Arab brothers are going to defeat the Sh*as and holocaust them once and for all? Tick tock. The time is coming soon.
India to ‘isolate’ Pakistan after suicide car bomb attack on police convoy kills 44
India has threatened to completely isolate neighbor Pakistan on a global scale following a suicide car bomb attack which killed 44 paramilitary police officers in the disputed Kashmir region.
The suicide attack on a large convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was the deadliest attack on security forces in the disputed region since the 1989 insurgency began.
Sure you are kike... Try confronting someone other than Palestinian children armed with stones and then we'll talk. As for Sunnis, they can barely hold against the piss poor Houthis. You're both incompetent shit hiding behind Amerimutts for protection. I'd hide in shame if I was you.
Russo-belarus union all but confirmed, annexation soon
Ian Myers
I think it's a false flag attack, just like Uri. MBS is about to visit Pakistan for the first time and invests billions of dollars. We simply cannot be this stupid to attack them at this very moment.
They have deployed 700k military personnels in Jammu and Kashmir. How on earth was a militant able to carry 200 kg of explosives in an SUV?
Don't get me wrong though. I have no issues with killing IA personnels in kashmir because of how they treat the muslims there. I don't trust modi even one bit after the surgical strike drama in 2016.
Nicholas Gomez
>Islamic State recaptured big parts of the Safaa mountain area in the eastern Suweida countryside from the #SAA.
>This is the current situation in the Eastern Suweida countryside, according to Druze Suweida sources the #SAA warplanes attacked IS the last several days between Dayatahah and Al-Kiraa and further east southern Safaa mountain.
this place has really gone down the shitter, hasn't it? BBCs syria producer claimed that, while the douma attack did happen, pretty much everything around it was staged for maximal propaganda value. Now everyone's going apeshit at him and he hid his twitter profile
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he and Putin “are ready to go as far in the union of the peoples of the Russian Federation and Belarus as the citizens of both countries are ready.”
David Hernandez
>this place has really gone down the shitter, hasn't it? sadly yes
Landon Jenkins
Will we see white Russians return to their homeland?
Justin Rodriguez
only because some faggot keeps spurting out and begging for some gay shit called /ug/
never russia is the churka ethnostate now, all native nikitas have died from krokodil abuse.
Grayson Gray
t. diaspora zoomer islamist who thinks he isn't shitting up the threads with his posts
Matthew Thomas
>this place has really gone down the shitter, hasn't it? This place is under constant fluctuation. Currently it's on downward scale but not nearly the peak.
Ryan Baker
I only visit sporadically anymore since about half a year, and back then it had already been getting constantly worse for at least a year. Doesn't look like fluctuations to me, more like a gradient
Jack Powell
>islamist nice try
>who thinks he isn't shitting up the threads with his posts >shitting up threads >says the boomer that literally BEGS for more bloodshed and conflict in a country not even his own just so he can be mildly entertained from pixels on his screen
