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

Jura said:

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if you decided to look, then from left to right in the map:

1. (number is in red above) Government may get encircled in Mahardah;
2. (number is in blue above) Government lost Maarzaf and Majdal yesterday, and I don't know (the ugly question mark in blue most to the left) how close the current line is to Asilah;
3. (number is in blue above) Government lost Khattab and Arzeh yesterday, and I don't know the current lines around those places (two ugly question marks in blue);
4. (number is in red above) Government is under attack in Qomhana, the part of the 'arc' (it's the inner perimeter of the defense of Hama town ... you may look at the map I quote above in this post; I put the 'arc' schematically as the red dots, and I know they don't go where they should which would be to 'Hama Airbase' more to the south);
5. (number is in blue above) Government lost Kawkab today, but reportedly is counterattacking in that area; south to Maardas, which Goverment lost yesterday in the evening, I put yet another ugly question mark in blue, as I don't know how close anti-Government forces got to the two mountains (Mount Zayn is not marked in the above map, while Mount Kafraa is)

let's wait and see

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SampanViking said:

Despite pressure around Damascus (which seems to be now contained) and around Hama (which is now being stopped and reversed), The big news of the day must be the SAA taking the town on Deir Hafer in East Aleppo, which they took without needing to storm, after they launched a lighting flanking move south and West that successfully encircled the town.
It seems that ISIS legged it before the trap was fully set.

The capture of Deir Hafer is big news!

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Jura said:

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SampanViking said:

Care to be a bit more specific?

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Hassan Ridha Retweeted SouthFront

Not true, SAA has not captured Deir Hafer yet

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SampanViking said:

Despite pressure around Damascus (which seems to be now contained) and around Hama (which is now being stopped and reversed), The big news of the day must be the SAA taking the town on Deir Hafer in East Aleppo, which they took without needing to storm, after they launched a lighting flanking move south and West that successfully encircled the town.
It seems that ISIS legged it before the trap was fully set.

The capture of Deir Hafer is big news!

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Jura said:

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24/11/2016

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delft said:

I expect those Egyptian planes to arrive, if they arrive at all, in about two months time.

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Jura said:

LOL I guess you know what I'm going to do, which is to quote your post in about three months

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Jura said:

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in north-to-Hama area ... Government is under a heavy attack as I write


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Jura said:

... so delft did the Egyptians arrive yet?

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Jura said:

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if you decided to look, then from left to right in the map:

1. (number is in red above) Government may get encircled in Mahardah;
2. (number is in blue above) Government lost Maarzaf and Majdal yesterday, and I don't know (the ugly question mark in blue most to the left) how close the current line is to Asilah;
3. (number is in blue above) Government lost Khattab and Arzeh yesterday, and I don't know the current lines around those places (two ugly question marks in blue);
4. (number is in red above) Government is under attack in Qomhana, the part of the 'arc' (it's the inner perimeter of the defense of Hama town ... you may look at the map I quote above in this post; I put the 'arc' schematically as the red dots, and I know they don't go where they should which would be to 'Hama Airbase' more to the south);
5. (number is in blue above) Government lost Kawkab today, but reportedly is counterattacking in that area; south to Maardas, which Goverment lost yesterday in the evening, I put yet another ugly question mark in blue, as I don't know how close anti-Government forces got to the two mountains (Mount Zayn is not marked in the above map, while Mount Kafraa is)

let's wait and see

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• concerning the area marked by 2 in blue above, saw a vid from Maarzaf yesterday, and this place is probably the western-most part of the anti-Government protrusion toward Hama;
• "3 blue": saw a vid from Khattab yesterday;
• "4 red": Government repelled attacks on Qomhana EDIT this is probably the most important point
  
• "5 blue": Kawkab either was until recently, or still is, the eastern-most part (yesterday in the evening I read, in some group on reddit, Government so far had mounted six attacks to regain it)
• in totally pro-Government Twitter account found the pictures of Government reinforcements on their way to the area, of this type:
  
  
  
• the most recent "peto lucem" map (it's
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delft said:

BBC Radio 4 is talking this morning about heavy civilian casualties in Mosul as a result of US and coalition air attacks. Attack on air raid shelter?

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UN fears 200 died in coalition airstrike on Mosul

• 24 March 2017

The United Nations has raised grave concerns about reports of high civilian casualties in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

A senior UN official in Iraq said she was stunned by accounts of "terrible loss of life", after claims that at least 200 people had been killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition.

US warplanes are supporting the Iraqi Army's mission to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).

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say an investigation is under way.

It is not known exactly when the deaths are alleged to have happened.

However, reporters in western Mosul's Jadideh neighbourhood said they saw 50 bodies being pulled out of buildings on Friday, after they were razed in air attacks earlier in March.

Iraqi forces have been waging a months-long offensive to recapture Mosul, the last IS stronghold in Iraq, which has been occupied since 2014.

The New York Times quoted US military officials saying the coalition was investigating reports of civilian deaths from a strike between 17-23 March.

Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led command in Baghdad, said that "the coalition has opened a formal civilian casualty credibility assessment on this allegation" from Mosul.

"This process takes time, though, especially when the date of the alleged strike is in question," he said.

The UN estimates that 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the Old City of Mosul as government forces battle to re-capture it.

More than 180,000 civilians have fled the west of the city in the past month, amid fears that an additional 320,000 may follow in the coming weeks.

Residents who have managed to flee say the militants are using civilians as human shields, hiding in houses and forcing young men to fight.

US officials believe there are about 2,000 IS fighters left in Mosul.

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