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

Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Jan 6, 2017
Jura said:
it's Breaking News
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

at gazeta.ru right now: Russians will [very soon] reduce their forces in Syria, the first to leave is [what I would call] the Kuznetsov CVBG (officially it's like the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet), says
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
Click to expand...
while NOT to leave are AA S-300s and ASh / LA (Nov 15, 2016) Bastions, "an informed source" told Интерфакс:
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

what a revelation :)
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Today at 12:07 PM
Jura said:
Yesterday at 8:39 PM

Government has been under attack recently in Deir Ezzor; I tried to find details ...

very unpopular topic, I know
Click to expand...
two new maps (both should be "clickable"):
  1. Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    932FYSb.jpg

  2. Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    1484478429221-1024x902.jpg
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Yesterday at 7:22 PM
Jura said:
Today at 12:07 PM

two new maps (both should be "clickable"):
  1. Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    932FYSb.jpg

  2. Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
Click to expand...
... and now I noticed pessimism which had arrived into Twitter and the related blog by "Cassad"
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
(pictures inside)
after info claiming ISIL in 'Assad Hospital' (it's the only hospital marked in the above map)
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

which would pretty much mean splitting the Government forces in Deir Ezzor ... now it seems it's not that bad but who knows (maybe just a mood of optimism returned among Internet watchers??)

let's wait and see
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Jura said:
... splitting the Government forces in Deir Ezzor ...
Click to expand...
... now I briefly checked Twitter (plus
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
) and according to what I read it would seem to me ISIL is closest between
'Cementery' (Yesterday at 12:07 PM; ISIL didn't get into it, I approximated the positions in this area by the black line in the map below) and
'al-Maqabis' (a factory? marked in the map below; ISIL-held part of the town is further into the northeastern corner) which Government lost today:
LDMGU.jpg

​
EDIT of course this is unconfirmed, but the situation is getting critical for Government in Deir Ezzor
 
Last edited:
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Today at 12:37 PM
Jura said:
... now I briefly checked Twitter (plus
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
) and according to what I read it would seem to me ISIL is closest between
'Cementery' (Yesterday at 12:07 PM; ISIL didn't get into it, I approximated the positions in this area by the black line in the map below) and
'al-Maqabis' (a factory? marked in the map below; ISIL-held part of the town is further into the northeastern corner) which Government lost today:
LDMGU.jpg

​
EDIT of course this is unconfirmed, but the situation is getting critical for Government in Deir Ezzor
Click to expand...
it's been split by now; the width of the gap ... depends on the map you would look at inside
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
(related to the ISIL action against Government in
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
):

Yesterday at 6:53 PM
Jura said:
Today at 12:37 PM

it's been split by now; the width of the gap ... depends on the map you would look at inside
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
Click to expand...
now I looked there and:
l3o0X.jpg

the most recent is the attack (marked automatically) against the biggest base ... "Cassad" mentions it in the update to the related blog
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!


let me see ... as of now, ISIL probably in Panorama Base, in Cemetery, ...
EDIT after zooming in ... ISIL not in University nor Hospital:
nWg5X.jpg
 
Last edited:
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Jura said:
(related to the ISIL action against Government in
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
):

...
Click to expand...
now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
so I checked the first page of
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

and within around fifty articles there, which appeared during last six hours (majority is Astana, Kazakhstan blah blah and blah), I noticed just three, from sources as varied as
  1. Farsnews Syria: 14,000 ISIL Terrorists Start Advancing in Deir Ezzur, City to Airbase Road Cut off
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    and Hundreds of Fresh Army Soldiers, Hezbollah Fighters Sent to Deir Ezzur to Face ISIL
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    and
  2. The Voice of America
    Fighting Forces UN to Suspend Food Airdrops to Besieged Syrian City
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
(sorry if I missed any, of course Deir Ezzor might be mentioned inside of some other articles, but still)
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Today at 6:30 PM
Jura said:
now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
...
Click to expand...
... actually around that time (17.01.2017, 19:11) gazeta.ru
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

posted surprisingly (yes, even to me) pessimistic (yes, even to me) article "Assad Is Loosing The Last Town In The East"
gosh

EDIT
frigging scary collection of VBIED attacks from yesterday: the vid inside of
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
Last edited:
P

PanAsian

Major
Jura said:
now a thought occurred to me: do main stream media, of any country, cover this?
so I checked the first page of
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

and within around fifty articles there, which appeared during last six hours (majority is Astana, Kazakhstan blah blah and blah), I noticed just three, from sources as varied as
  1. Farsnews Syria: 14,000 ISIL Terrorists Start Advancing in Deir Ezzur, City to Airbase Road Cut off
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    and Hundreds of Fresh Army Soldiers, Hezbollah Fighters Sent to Deir Ezzur to Face ISIL
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
    and
  2. The Voice of America
    Fighting Forces UN to Suspend Food Airdrops to Besieged Syrian City
    Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
(sorry if I missed any, of course Deir Ezzor might be mentioned inside of some other articles, but still)
Click to expand...

Obviously 14K IS fighters advancing on Deir Ezzor has to be an exaggeration though with IS' recent territorial losses elsewhere it isn't surprising that they are able to focus a large number of their forces in this area. Either way this move should have been long expected by the Syrian government, Iran (thereby their earlier insistence on encircling IS in Mosul), and Russia, so they should be as prepared as possible.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top