Syrian Civil War: News #7

PapaDragon wrote:
Peto Lucem ‏@PetoLucem 2h2 hours ago

NEW MAP: #SAA captured Turdah Mountain from #ISIS and advances towards Thayyem oil field. #DeirEzzor #Syria



https://twitter.com/PetoLucem

NEW MAP:#SAA imposed fire control over Thayyem oil field. #DeirEzzor #Syria #SAA

JohninMK wrote:Just a reminder that the SyAA has holes in its persona. This link contains the tale of Islamic State capturing on the 20th Jan the Ayyash weapons depot in Deir ez-Zor,the largest arms haul of Syrian Civil War. Some may smile at the way ISIS just seemed to acquire US 'gear' fairly easily in Iraq, yet here they are doing the same a long time later in Syria.

There is an embedded link to an ISIS video. If you choose to watch it the first 5-6 minutes gives you an idea of what the SyAA are up against. WARNING It is NWF from 8 minutes and downright gruesome around 12 minutes. From 13.15 or so it is the arms dump, lots of individual buildings. Why the RuAF did nor attack it at that point to destroy it is an interesting question.

http://spioenkop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/islamic-state-captures-ayyash-weapons.html

From:  Jared Cohen [mailto
Sent:  Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:21 PM
To: Burns, William J; Sullivan, Jacob J; alec.ross
Subject: Syria


Deputy Secretary Burns, Jake, Alec,

Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool on Sunday that will publicly track and map the

defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from. Our logic behind this is that while
many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we

believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition. Given how hard it
is to get information into Syria right now, we are partnering with Al-Jazeera who will take primary ownership

over the tool we have built, track the data, verify it, and broadcast it back into Syria. I've attached a few visuals
that show what the tool will look like. Please keep this very close hold and let me know if there is anything eke
you think we need to account for or think about before we launch. We believe this can have an important

impact.

Thanks,
Jared

Dima wrote:^ Yes, saw that on Alexey's blog, but whats the reason for it to happen?


Leith Abou Fadel ‏@leithfadel  22 minutes ago
Breaking: Syrian Army, Hezbollah have liberated Tal Areen near Palmyra
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-hezbollah-liberate-tal-areen-northern-palmyra/

The Russian and Syrian air forces have launched their most powerful series of airstrikes over the Al-Raqqa Governorate on Saturday morning, hitting several Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) targets between the provincial capital and the city of Tabaqa.

According to a senior officer from the Syrian Air Defense, the Russian and Syrian air forces have struck the ISIS courthouse, Faculty of Arts building (weapons depot), the Al-Fardous District, Al-Tawleed Hospital (ISIS base), and several other military targets belonging to the terrorist group in the Al-Raqqa Governorate.

The source added that Russian and Syrian fighter jets have not yet dissipated the frequency of their airstrikes.

This latest air campaign over the Al-Raqqa Governorate is meant to disrupt ISIS’ main supply route from their capital (Raqqa City) to the city of Palmyra (Tadmur).

The Syrian Armed Forces and their allies have begun a massive offensive in the Homs Governroate’s eastern countryside to liberate the city of Palmyra; it is currently ongoing.