ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

Jura said:

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I realized the tide was turning toward

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and recalled one of my scariest posts ever:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-328#post-386888

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Ammos consumption or fired

FORBIN said:

Interesting numbers, RAF do good job
RAF has expended 1337 Paveway and 208 Brimstone in Op Shader from Tornado GR4 and Typhoon. 468 Hellfire from MQ-9 Reaper.

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"On Saturday 3 September, a Reaper kept close watch on a Daesh vehicle check-point in north-western Iraq, in the Tall Afar region, which was being used by the terrorists to harass local civilian traffic. The Reaper’s crew waited patiently until there were no civilian vehicles in the area, then destroyed the check-point with a direct hit from a Hellfire. The following day, Typhoons patrolled over western Iraq and engaged a group of terrorists who had been spotted several miles north of Ramadi. Although they attempted to seek cover beneath some trees, the extremists were struck accurately by a Paveway IV".

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Now French but less infos !
800 strike one represent severalt fighters a flight considering 4 fighters in general with dépends types minimum 8 or up to 24 bombs not all fired sometimes.

For consumption bombs sent to Daech, it is similar. At most, weekly EMA keeps track of the number of strikes. Two this week, a little more than 800 since the beginning of Chammal. But no way to read the reality of this business. A consoeure who interviewed EMA Thursday on consumption bombs had no answer, as the issues that preceded his.

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In France, the staff will book any details on what is yet the real fight against Daech (SPOs are not left out either). We know that the account Scalp-EG now exceeds blithely fifties in half a dozen keystrokes, the rest of the 800 and a few keystrokes, so it's good old bomb with an American guide head (GBU-12 , GBU-49) or French from home (AASM), and sometimes, some 30 mm in the lot.
The body controls bombs (dedication to HC) to repeat the last two years, but these guide heads, show that the Air Force (and Navy when the service is PACDG) send the wood.

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Jura said:

... as of "now", the bulge (shown in red in the map above; in blue: approximate positions before the game began) looks something like this:

1. widens to the north-west from "Al-Hamami" (top-left corner, see?); from there
   
2. follows the road to "Muhradah" (it's
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   ); from there
3. gets around Muhradah, down to the vicinity of "Al Majdal" (
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   ) LOL still with me? four more points, then
   
4. the bottom is north to "Khattab" (it's Khitab from https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...o-oped-no-politics.t6913/page-421#post-412920 and Government is there)
5. marks a presumably important hill "Mount Zayn al-Abdeen" (
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   ), overlooking "M5" Highway https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...o-oped-no-politics.t6913/page-420#post-412846 and of course Hama, ...; then from that area
   
6. the bulge goes north toward "Ti'an" which is Maan (yes, that's what I think) from https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...o-oped-no-politics.t6913/page-421#post-413019 and Government holds up there; from there
   
7. widening toward
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   etc.

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Jura said:

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(reportedly "Artillery College" under attack as I write)

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[Breaking] Rebels ignore ceasefire to launch new assault in northern Hama
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- 13/09/2016

Hama, Syria (7:00 A.M.) - The Free Syrian Army (FSA), backed by Jund Al-Aqsa (Al-Qaeda franchise), launched a new assault in the northern Hama countryside on Tuesday, targeting the small town of Zour Al-Masalq near Khattab.

According to a field source in northern Hama, the Free Syrian Army's "Jaysh Al-Izza," alongside Jund Al-Aqsa, stormed their Syrian Arab Army's defenses at Zour Al-Masalq this morning, resulting in the second violation of this ceasefire by the rebel forces.

No gains have been reported thus far; however, the jihadist rebels have forced to the Syrian Arab Army to strengthen their positions all over northern Hama in anticipation for another attack.

The ceasefire in Hama lasted for a total of 12 hours before the jihadist rebels broke the agreement by launching their offensive.

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delft said:

From AMN:

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Is this the only large violation of the cease fire?

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Jura said:

related to the area to the north from Hama:
now I noticed in Twitter accounts of both sides

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was under attack (from what I figured, it's an important part of the Government defense formation), and instead of trying to follow the usual taken/counter-strike/retaken/... series, I put the blue question mark in the map:

I think the remaining lines pretty much stay (feel free to tell me if they don't); the description:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...o-oped-no-politics.t6913/page-421#post-413183
I'm going to update this post.

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Syrian Army sends large convoy of reinforcements to Golan Heights after Israeli attack
By Leith Fadel - 13/09/2016

Golan Heights, Syria (2:15 P.M.) - The Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) High Command sent a large convoy of reinforcements from Damascus to the Golan Heights this afternoon, following the Israeli airstrikes that struck their positions last night.

According to a military source in Damascus, most of the reinforcements were sent to the Golan Heights, while a small unit was deployed to the northern Dara'a countryside.

Recently, the jihadist rebels attempted to capture the strategic hilltop of Tal Taranjeh on three different occasions this past weekend; however, they were repelled after a violent battle with the Syrian Armed Forces.

Most of the groups involved in this jihadist offensive were supposed to partake in the nationwide ceasefire, but they later opted out in order to attack the government forces in the Golan Heights.

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The Israel Defense Forces have rejected Syrian military claims to have downed an Israeli warplane and drone over southwest Syria Tuesday morning as "completely false."
The General Command of the Syrian Armed Forces said in a statement that the incident occurred at 1:30 am local time Tuesday (6:30 p.m. ET Monday), after Israeli warplanes attacked a Syrian army position in al-Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights .
The statement said that Syrian air defense shot down a warplane southwest of al-Quneitra, and a drone west of the town of SaaSaa.
But the IDF spokesman's office called the claims "total lies."
Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said that "overnight two surface-to-air missiles were launched from Syria after the mission overnight to target Syrian artillery positions. At no point was the safety of IDF aircraft compromised."
The Israeli mission had been conducted to strike Syrian regime targets after a projectile launched from Syria had struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. No casualties had resulted from the Syrian strike on the Golan Heights, the IDF said.
The Golan has been repeatedly struck with projectiles fired from across the border in southwest Syria, as fighting in the country's five-year civil war drags on. Last week,

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The Israeli strike on Syria came hours

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, brokered by the United States and Russia, came into effect in the war-ravaged country.
In the first 24 hours of the deal, the second concerted attempt this year to halt the grinding civil war, the peace appeared to be holding, although a monitoring group reported a number of violations in and around Aleppo in its early hours.
Israel seized parts of the Golan Heights, a strategic, rocky plateau to its northeast, from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
The international community considers the Golan Heights to be occupied territory and Israeli settlement-building there to be illegal. Syria wants the return of the territory that UN peacekeeping forces have monitored for decades.

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