Syrian Civil War: News #6

short_fuze wrote:

VladimirSahin wrote:

short_fuze wrote:One for the weapon id. specialists. What is the weapon held by the man on the right of this group of SAA troops? It looks pretty old to me (but what do I know - nothing!)

DP-28, Pretty old

WWII old?  

MOSCOW, 16 Jan — RIA Novosti. Saudi Arabia might start supplying the Syrian "moderate" rebels with great features efficiency, said in a telephone interview the Agency Sputnik Advisor to the Minister of defence of the Kingdom Ahmed Asiri.

According to Asiri, the Kingdom with other countries, the patron of the moderate groups, coordinate assistance through a single control center in Saudi Arabia. "If a decision will be made about qualitative change in the nature (supply) of weapons, we will discuss this with the countries that support the moderate Syrian opposition," said Asiri.
"The Kingdom will continue supporting the moderate Syrian opposition, while the Syrian people will not get their rights," said Asiri.

wilhelm wrote: Older. The 28 in Degtyaryov DP-28 stands for the year 1928.
But that is the design. As somebody mentioned, China made a version in the 1950's.

It uses the same cartridge as the Dragunov and PKM, so it will kill you just as well whatever the device used to fire it.

Militarov wrote:







SAA underground complex of command bunkers underneath Damascus.



Full video report by Jaish al Islam.

chinggis wrote:

Militarov wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbSVU0SWcAAjJss.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbSVUqFW0AEhw0X.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbSVUYFXEAU7wrR.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbSVVUBWwAAdqFp.png

SAA underground complex of command bunkers underneath Damascus.



Full video report by Jaish al Islam.

I do not understand what is a story about that bunker? is it captured now or it is captured long time ago?

Bolt wrote:But aren't the Kurds in sort of a coalition with the SAA? I know that they aren't attacking each other at least? So why would there be a problem to let the SAA pas through the Kurds' newly gained territory?

Dima wrote:Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha  3 hours ago
#SDF take control of Mare' following a deal in which Mare' Op Room groups evacuate city v .UniteKurdistan

short_fuze wrote:A short video of something you don't want to see at a MLRS launch site. Unless it is the takfiris.  

https://twitter.com/Azematt/status/698851295218765824

KiloGolf wrote:

short_fuze wrote:A short video of something you don't want to see at a MLRS launch site. Unless it is the takfiris.  

https://twitter.com/Azematt/status/698851295218765824

BM-21 Grad on Kraz (6322?), I wonder who supplied them these.... Ukropia?

Moscow. February 17. INTERFAX.RU - Turkey would like to conduct a ground operation on Syrian territory, informed the world's media with reference to the statement of the official Turkish representative in Istanbul.

"We want to carry out a ground operation in conjunction with our international allies," a Turkish official said to reporters.

According to him, "without a ground operation to stop the war in Syria is impossible". However, he acknowledged that it "will not be a unilateral operation of Turkey against Syria.

Earlier readiness to conduct jointly with the U.S. and other members of the international coalition led by Washington, a ground operation in Syria, said Saudi Arabia and the UAE. According to the Pentagon, Saudi Arabia after the break, resumed its participation in air strikes on positions of the terrorist group "Islamic state" (IG, is prohibited in Russia - if) in Syria.

The Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the Saudi authorities that the deployment of troops on Syrian territory without consent from Damascus would be a violation of international laws.

However, as reported by the Supervisory Board for human rights in Syria, on Tuesday Turkish artillery continued on Saturday the shelling of Syrian territory.

The blows were concentrated on the Kurdish militias, which this week took the town of tal Rifat, considered one of the strongholds of the rebels-Islamists in the province of Aleppo. After this, the Kurds drove the rebels from near tal-Rifat small settlement Kfar-Nasekh.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called the Syrian Kurds "Legion of Russian mercenaries".

A number of countries, including the U.S. and Russia, and the UN security Council yesterday condemned the Turkish artillery attack and demanded from Turkey to stop the shelling.

JohninMK wrote:BM-21 GRAD ‏@bm21_grad 2h2 hours ago

Rebel in Latakia with an IGLA-1(?) MANPADS. Functional?