USA strikes Syria again

[gaiusmarius]

the Syrian government is reporting another US strike on it's forces in that general area of Syria. apparently 20 government pmu's got killed. the US is denying that it struck at Syrian government forces.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Little pokes here and little pokes there as the USA/Israeli forces hassle the Syrian army trying to get them to retaliate and attack invading USA/Israeli forces, then they can mount an even bigger attack...

Escalation of war I call it.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Business as usual

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

War Is A Racket by Smedly Butler

War Is A Racket by Smedly Butler

Here is a link to a free download. Quick and easy to read. Highly recommended.


https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket


RMS

 

[gaiusmarius]

remember when i was posting how the Syrian government always goes in and sweeps the newly liberated areas for booby traps, unexploded bombs and removing the dead for decent burial. remember how i was telling you that even just a few short weeks ago, there was still bodies rotting all over Raqqa, bombs everywhere and boody traps killing and or maiming civilians trying to rebuild their lives on a almost daily basis? well guess what, it's STILL the same in Mosul, almost a full year after the US leveled the old historic quarter of Mosul nothing has changed. if you want the unexploded US ordinances removed from your roof or garden or from the spot your house used to stand on, then you will have to remove it yourself, same goes for the dead and any booby traps. even now folks are still getting killed by these booby traps.

here we have Angela Jolie crying about Mosul, when she was all for the intervention in Libya and Syria...

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give her her due, she is a very sexy lady, just sad that she lets herself get used for pro war propaganda purposes. i bet she thinks the white helmets are saints who risk their lives daily to help others survive. lmao, never mind al qaida white helmets setting off chlorine bombs to make it look like the government did it. never mind using kidnapped kids as the victims in the first so called chemical weapons attack in eastern Ghouta back in the beginning of this regime change war. she needs to research more before she lets herself be used for pro war propaganda.

 

[packerfan79]

My cousin's ex-husband wants to take their kids to a town near Raqqa. He thinks it's fine. The kids don't want to go, they look like any other 12 and 14 year old blonde blue eyed girls. You would never know they were half Syrian. Not my kinda family vacation

 

[gaiusmarius]

yeah you get Syrians that look totally white, they have about 20 different ethnicities in Syria. thats why it's vital to keep the place away from any religious governments. the only fair solution is the one they have, secular government with freedom of religion and equal rights for all religions as well as for both sexes.

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

CFR

CFR

remember when i was posting how the Syrian government always goes in and sweeps the newly liberated areas for booby traps, unexploded bombs and removing the dead for decent burial. remember how i was telling you that even just a few short weeks ago, there was still bodies rotting all over Raqqa, bombs everywhere and boody traps killing and or maiming civilians trying to rebuild their lives on a almost daily basis? well guess what, it's STILL the same in Mosul, almost a full year after the US leveled the old historic quarter of Mosul nothing has changed. if you want the unexploded US ordinances removed from your roof or garden or from the spot your house used to stand on, then you will have to remove it yourself, same goes for the dead and any booby traps. even now folks are still getting killed by these booby traps.

here we have Angela Jolie crying about Mosul, when she was all for the intervention in Libya and Syria...

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give her her due, she is a very sexy lady, just sad that she lets herself get used for pro war propaganda purposes. i bet she thinks the white helmets are saints who risk their lives daily to help others survive. lmao, never mind al qaida white helmets setting off chlorine bombs to make it look like the government did it. never mind using kidnapped kids as the victims in the first so called chemical weapons attack in eastern Ghouta back in the beginning of this regime change war. she needs to research more before she lets herself be used for pro war propaganda.

That is the reason why she is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. They wouldn't grant her membership because she's good looking.....


RMS

 

[St. Phatty]

yeah you get Syrians that look totally white, they have about 20 different ethnicities in Syria. thats why it's vital to keep the place away from any religious governments. the only fair solution is the one they have, secular government with freedom of religion and equal rights for all religions as well as for both sexes.

Kelly Slater the freakishly dominant pro surfer is part Syrian.

Off the 'court' he is much less aggressive. Probably one of the more prominent business men in terms of using "being nice" as a negotiating tactic.

 

[Storm Shadow]

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/06/17/565236/Syria-Damascus-Jobar-Synagogue

Artifacts from Syrian synagogue end up in Israel: Activists

Artifacts from the ancient Jobar synagogue in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta suburb have been smuggled out of Syria and surfaced elsewhere, including in Israel, activists say.

Local activists said the artifacts had been put into safety back in 2013 to avoid theft and damage by Takfiri terrorists, but Syrian officials discovered later that some of the items had disappeared.

The first missing cache, which contained torahs, tapestries and chandeliers, was given to the Faylaq al-Rahman militant group by Jobar's local council for safe keeping earlier this year, according to the activists.

However, the militant outfit later said that it was not in possession of the objects taken from the Jobar synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanaviuntil synagogue.

The second cache, the activists said, had been stolen in 2014 by a Syrian guardian entrusted by the local council to hide the items from the synagogue.

Hassan al-Dimashqi, who lived near the synagogue until March, said, "Some of the items that went missing in 2014 and this year have started surfacing now in Turkey."

He also quoted some local officials as saying that the man, who stole the second cache, reached Europe and the artifacts he had taken ended up in Israel.

Dimashqi further said that some of the items entrusted with the Faylaq al-Rahman militants, including carpets, chandeliers and historical scripts, have surfaced in Turkey. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the information.

In March, Syria filed an official complaint with the UN, accusing Israel of stealing valuable artifacts from the Jobar synagogue in cooperation with Turkey and terrorist groups.

Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari wrote to the Security Council that there was “credible evidence” showing that “the terrorist groups ... active in the area of Jobar, near Damascus, cooperated with the Turkish and Israeli intelligence services to loot artifacts and manuscripts from the ancient synagogue there.”

“The items were then smuggled through local and foreign intermediaries to Istanbul, where they were received by antiquities experts who certified that they were extremely valuable antique objects. The items were subsequently smuggled to New York," the letter read.

The Jobar synagogue, which dates back to 720 B.C., was mostly destroyed during fierce clashes between Syrian government forces and foreign-sponsored militants in May 2014.

Takfiri terrorists have lost much of the territory they once held in Syria in the face of sweeping gains by government forces on the ground.

In April, Syrian forces managed to retake the Eastern Ghouta and Eastern Qalamoun regions near the capital.

For years, the areas had served as a launch pad for deadly terror attacks against civilians in Damascus.



So when ISIS needs to get fixed up in Israeli Hospitals..they bare gifts..not surprised...

 

[gaiusmarius]

i should have thought about this option when the US denied involvement, of course it's Israel, they probably used US transponders to trick Syrian radar, which is why the US was blamed initially. man the SSA needs to get it's air defenses up to scratch. of course thats a part of Syria thats far away from the more valuable infrastructure, so i guess it's not protected with much if any of their better air defense systems. poor Syria, still facing horrible odds, they have the US, Britain, Israel, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Kattar, UEA and Turkey all wanting the Syrian government to fall into the hands of takfiri, extremists who believe Syria must be under an extremist version of sharia and everyone else will be a second class citizen, while woman will go back to being the property of men. the irony is so extreme that it defies belief. it's a miracle that Syria is still standing when you think of what they face, it's the full on Biblical David verses Goliath. the sheer amount of money thats been put in to destroying Syria is incredible, when you add all of it up it must boggle the mind. someone is paying for those giant weapons stocks that each of the thousands of grouüs has stashed away. if Assad didnt have so much support, he would never have managed to survive and even take back ground, even with Russian help. if his army wasn't willing, he'd be out and they are mostly a conscripted army, they have the draft, every one able has to do military service. but still they are winning and every year that asses sees them getting better and better, they have learned how to get the terrorists out of urban population centers. thats about the hardest thing there is, specially when the terrorists have a incredible network of fortified tunnels and firing positions from the cellar of high buildings which could be bombed to fuck without reaching the bottom. but they learned how to do t and they have gotten it down to a routine.


Syria strike blamed on Israel kills 22 Iraqi fighters
with Sylvie Lanteaume in Washington, Maya Gebeily,AFP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dozens-pro-regime-fighters-killed-east-syria-strike-083239237.html

Beirut (AFP) - More than 20 fighters from an Iraqi paramilitary force key to the battle against the Islamic State group were killed Monday in an eastern Syria air raid the United States linked to Israel.

The bombing raid hit Al-Hari, a town controlled by regional militias fighting in Syria's complex seven-year war alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

Both Syrian authorities and Iraqi forces pointed the finger at the US-led coalition, which denied it was involved in Sunday night's attack.

"We have reasons to believe that it was an Israeli strike," a US official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The raid slammed into a regime-controlled position in the border town and left at least 52 fighters dead, according to a Britain-based monitor.

Among them were fighters from Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi military alliance, some of whom have crossed into Syria to fight against IS.

The Iran-backed Hashed claimed that "US planes fired two guided missiles at a fixed position of Hashed al-Shaabi units on the border with Syria, killing 22 fighters and wounding 12."

The bodies of three Iraqi fighters killed in the raid were returned to their hometowns for burial, said AFP's correspondent in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a total of 30 Iraqi forces were among the dead in Al-Hari, as well as 16 Syrian forces and six unidentified fighters.

- 'No strikes' -

The attack was first reported overnight by Syrian state media, which cited a military source accusing the coalition of bombing one of its positions in Al-Hari.

It said several people were killed and wounded but did not give a specific number or their nationalities.

A military source in Syria's Deir Ezzor province where the targeted area lies later said coalition warplanes hit "joint Iraqi-Syrian positions in Al-Hari".

The coalition's press office said it had received reports of a strike in the area that had killed and wounded Iraqi fighters, but denied it was involved.

"There have been no strikes by US or coalition forces in that area," it said in an email.

Syria's army has been gutted by the country's seven-year conflict and has relied heavily on reinforcements from local militias and from regional allies.

Those groups have played a key role in the fight against IS, helping Syrian government forces recapture swathes of the country that the jihadist group had overrun in 2014.

Hashed was vital to the fight against IS in Iraq, but has also battled the jihadists across the border in their eastern Syria bastions.

Separate offensives have since whittled down IS territory in Syria to just a handful of pockets in the eastern desert, including in Deir Ezzor province.

A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters and Russia-supported regime forces are carrying out separate operations against those IS-held pockets.

The two forces have mostly avoided each other thanks to a de-confliction line that runs across the province along the winding Euphrates River.

- 'Highest toll' -

Syrian troops are battling IS on the western river bank, while the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fight on the east. Iraqi warplanes also have occasionally bombed IS positions in eastern Syria.

Al-Hari lies on the western side, close to the river and the de-confliction line.

The buffer has largely been successful in keeping the two offensives apart, but there have been exceptions.

The deadliest incident was in February, when US-led coalition air strikes killed at least 100 pro-regime fighters in Deir Ezzor province, including Russians.

"The strike on Al-Hari produced the highest death toll for regime forces since the February incident," Observatory head Abdel Rahman said.

Syria's conflict began in 2011 with protests against Assad, but then spiralled into a full-blown war that has drawn in world powers and given rise of jihadists like IS.

The strike on Al-Hari came a day after the US-backed SDF announced it had ousted IS from Dashisha, a village to the north in Syria's Hasakeh province.

The village had been one of the last IS-controlled areas in a corridor linking Syria with Iraq.

"For the first time in four years, Dashisha, a notorious transit town for weapons, fighters and suicide bombers between Iraq and Syria, is no longer controlled by ISIS (IS) terrorists," said Brett McGurk, the US president's special envoy for the war against IS.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

The Syrians are fighting invading forces in their own lands, those that stayed to fight for what they thought was worth fighting over have proven to be determined to liberate all of Syria.....and get their country back out of the hands of occupying forces from the west, its allies and Israel.

The wolves have gathered around and within Syria....and we shall see in the coming months/years if they continue to tear that nation apart, or just leave Assad alone to build his country back up again after so much war and devastation.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

How much to install a Shah?

 

[gaiusmarius]

here we have a different take from the yahoo story lmao, you decide who is more credible. anyway what ever the truth is, the fact that 20 Iraqis volunteers were killed while manning the border, means something big is coming from that area. i tend to agree that it's gonna be an effort to distract the SSA from liberating the south.



Syria - Ready To Start The Daraa Campaign

By Moon Of Alabama

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49683.htm

June 19, 2018 "Information Clearing House" - There are signs that the long expected liberation of the Daraa region in southwest Syria is about to begin. After a month of negotiations between Russia, Israel, Jordan and the U.S. no peaceful solution has been found. The various terrorist forces in the (green) area, including al-Qaeda aligned HTS and groups loyal to the Islamic State, have rejected all negotiations. For over a month Russian negotiators tried to convince locals to give up and to reconcile with the government. But the hardliners under the rebels have killed anyone who talked with the Russians. The U.S. government has warned against a Daraa operation and threatened to intervene.

First airstrikes were launched by the Syrian government today against villages in the eastern part of the Deraa area. Some local fighting is ongoing. This is not yet the expected all out attack on the 'rebel' held areas but the testing of enemy forces. The Syrian army has assembled a large force to liberate the southwest. It includes ten thousands of soldiers, more than 100 tanks and lots of artillery. Short range air defenses have been moved into the area to protect the Syrian troops. A well coordinated attack on several front and multiple axes should allow for a quick victory.

Israel, with U.S. backing, might intervene in such an operation even if it makes little sense to do so. The current state can not continue indefinitely. Any intervention might well lead to a war for which Israel is unprepared. The Syrian army is willing and able to hit back into Israel. After seven years of war it is not afraid of a fight.

The Russian military is warning of a false-flag "chemical incident" in Deir Ezzor governorate. The Syrian Observatory reports that Islamic State remnants in the southeastern desert and in the Rukban camp, both under cover of the U.S. occupied zone around al-Tanf, prepare for a large attack on Syrian government forces. It claims that such an attack is an attempt to occupy the zone between al-Tanf and Albu Kamal at the Euphrates. Both operation would be planned diversions intended to draw Syrian forces away from Deraa and could provide excuses for U.S. intervention on the opposition side.

Late Sunday an airstrike destroyed a building in the Harri area near Albu Kamal directly on the Syrian-Iraqi border. The building was used as a headquarter for the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) who are securing the border in coordination with the Syrian army in the fight against the Islamic State. More than 20 fighters were killed and more than 10 were wounded. This may have been in preparation for the reportedly planned large ISIS attack.

The strike makes otherwise little military sense. The PMU are nominally under command of the Iraqi government. They used a house on the Syrian side, some 200 meters from the border, as there was no adequate space on the Iraqi side. While they may have Iranian support and may help the Syrian army in some of its operations they are neither Iranian troops nor do they belong to the Lebanese Hezbullah.

The Syrian government accused the U.S. of having attacked the building. One U.S. source claims to CNN that the Israeli air-force attacked the site. I doubt that this is true. The U.S. has previously attacked Syrian government aligned forces in the area. It obviously continues to use ISIS to disrupt Syrian army operations. But as the U.S. needs Iraq it can not admit that it hit Iraqi forces. That would practically guarantee that the incoming Iraqi government would tell it to leave. It might have asked Israel to provide a cover for the strike.

Technically Israel could have done the attack. It would have needed tanker support and Jordanian compliance for overflight. Over the weekend Netanyahoo announced that Israel would hit Iranian forces all over Syria. But even CNN notes that the strike is untypical for Israel and does not make any sense.

Whoever committed the strike did so in an airspace that is controlled by the U.S. military. The leaders of the PMU in Iraq will use it to rally their forces against any U.S. bases in the country.

In north Syria Turkey is continuing its colonization of Syrian towns and regions. Turkish post offices, Turkish teachers, policemen and imans are pushing the population to adopt Turkish culture. It will more difficult to dislodge than the few thousand 'rebels' in the Deraa region.



The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.

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[gaiusmarius]

newer developments...

newer developments...

only the first part seems to be about Syria...


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[gaiusmarius]

looks like the SSA generals don't intend to wait for the expected provocations from Deir Ezzour or al Tanf area. still it won't be an easy fight in the south, isis/al qaida and company had years to dig in and build fortifications, there will be tunnels allowing them to strike unexpectedly and disappear again down the tunnels before counter attacks can be mounted. i imagine the SSA will be using the new golan 1000 plus the old Russian mine clearing tank thing to pulverize fortifications. if Israel gets involved on the Islamists side the Syrian Army will pay a heavy price in blood. at this point only time will tell. the SSA needs to break the jihadists defenses so fast that the US and Israel don't have time to really do much before the battle is already lost, otherwise it will be a long protracted stand off.


Rebels in northeast Daraa find themselves besieged as Syrian Army makes big advance

https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...elves-besieged-as-syrian-army-troops-advance/

By Leith Aboufadel - 2018-06-20

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:30 P.M.) – The rebel forces in northeast Dara’a have found themselves besieged by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) after an intense battle today.

The Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) Southern Front Brigades and their allies from Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham were rudely awakened last night, when a large number of Syrian Arab Army troops stormed their positions in the Al-Lajat region.

Led by the Taha Group of the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army started their operations in northeast Dara’a last night, when their troops attacked the Air Defense Base that was under jihadist control.

The Syrian Army would take control of the Air Defense Base during the twilight hours last night; this would pave the way for their advance this afternoon.

According to the National Defense Forces (NDF), the Syrian Army has since imposed fire control over Al-Museikah and Al-Dallafa after a fierce battle with the jihadist rebels in the Al-Lajat region.

Following this advance, the Syrian military worked their way around Busra Al-Harir, where they managed to seize several farms near the town.

With this advance, the Syrian Army was able to impose fire control over Busra Al-Harir, while also cutting the main supply to the rebel forces in the Al-Lajat region.

Busra Al-Harir is an imperative town in northeast Dara’a that is located directly east of the Syrian Army’s stronghold, Izra’a.

The jihadist rebels have now issued distress calls to their allies around Dara’a in an effort to help alleviate the pressure on their forces.

Despite this latest attack, the Syrian Army has yet to launch their large-scale offensive in the southwestern part of the country.

The Syrian Army is expected to kickoff their southwestern Syria offensive in the coming days, as all of their forces are now present in the Al-Quneitra and Dara’a governorates.

 

[gaiusmarius]

some more insights into the whole Syrian situation, this time it's NowYorkTimes propaganda rather then the Syrian/Russian/Iranian propaganda. still, as i said, you have to look at every ones propaganda and sort out the truth for yourself using rational thinking and logic.

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[Hermanthegerman]

On this side, you are well informed.

https://syria.liveuamap.com/

 

[gaiusmarius]

On this side, you are well informed.

https://syria.liveuamap.com/

that looks like a very useful site, who is producing it? very cool way to report from what i see there. everything sourced to where they get it.

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Hallo Gaiusmarius, weiß ich leider nicht wer die Seite produziert, erscheint mir aber neutral und gut. Ich verfolge da den Bürgerkrieg schon 2-3 Jahre. Auch Ukraine und ISIS, als die Konflikte noch "heiß" waren.