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

Jura said:

some time ago
Nov 3, 2016

and since then Rebels/Turks have been very slowly closing on Al-Bab ...:

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Jura said:

... purports to show what ISIL put up:

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Combat flights are expected in the nearest future.

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Russia’s Tu-160, Tu-95 Strategic Bombers On Combat Alert, Being Loaded with Missiles for Syria Strikes

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Jura said:

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Saturday at 7:50 PM

here's the map from yesterday (it's my lunch break so don't have time right now to look for a better one):

and now it seems confirmed they (Rebels/Turks) began shelling (just not to forget what they're up to:
Aug 25, 2016
) anyway my prediction is they'll encircle first (Mosul, Iraq hasn't been encircled yet, something I'm not getting ... nonsensical "storming" from the east, for the show of TV crews feeding gullible public,

EDIT actually not even the photo-ops always went as planned: https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...o-oped-no-politics.t6913/page-467#post-423476

had happened there instead)

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delft said:

A few minutes ago BBC Radio 4 News said that aircraft from Adm K attacked rebels in the provinces Idlib and Homs and that other aircraft attacked East Aleppo for the first time in three weeks.

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Jura said:

link to the Kremlin denial of bombing Aleppo today:

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(says they have not been striking Aleppo at all for 28 consecutive days already; also says not a single target of today's cruise missiles attacks has been in Aleppo)

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Russia redeploys anti-aircraft missiles to Aleppo
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- 15/11/2016

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (5:15 P.M.) - The Russian military reportedly redeployed their S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to the Aleppo Governorate on Tuesday after a pulling them back over the summer.

A military source in Aleppo told Al-Masdar News on Tuesday that at least 7 batteries belonging to the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were redeployed to the city of Al-Safirah in southern Aleppo.

Al-Safirah is the primary location of the Hezbollah and Iranian forces in southern Aleppo; it is also the site of one of the Syrian Army's largest bases in the province.

No reason was given for this recent move by the Russian military; however, on Tuesday, their navy began launching cruise missiles towards the jihadist defenses in the Aleppo Governorate.

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Jura said:

link to the Kremlin denial of bombing Aleppo today:

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(says they have not been striking Aleppo at all for 28 consecutive days already; also says not a single target of today's cruise missiles attacks has been in Aleppo)

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The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a moratorium on Russian air strikes against targets in Aleppo remained in place for the time being, a day after the Russian military said it had not bombed the Syrian city for 28 days.

Russia on Tuesday launched coordinated missile strikes against rebels in other parts of Syria, and Moscow for the first time used its only aircraft carrier in combat.

When asked whether the moratorium on strikes against targets in Aleppo was still in place, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters it was.

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