Syrian War: News #15

Russian SF in operation, interesting second little video at link (today?). More of them or just more pictures?

Russian SOF/SSO are now participating in battle on border with Deir Ez Zor east of Sukhna. Video show them firing ATGMs at IS targets.

https://twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/903971785481363457

This looks like a prepared fight to the death site.

Ivan Sidorenko‏ @IvanSidorenko1 3h3 hours ago

#Syria #Hama 3 Hrs AGO : #Uqayribat is still not Taken - Strong #ISIS resistance & large number of "Devils With suicide Belts still inside"

Whilst on a brighter note. further east



EDIT

Moved faster than I thought

Within Syria‏ @WithinSyriaBlog 5m5 minutes ago

Russian Mod Confirms that Uquirpat is under SAA control

Big advance today 25km to Deir and 16km to Al shoula

https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-makes-huge-advance-towards-deir-ezzor-25km-lift-siege/

And it seems that the UN has faith in SAA and kurds they expect Raqqa and Deir to be liberated by October or early October.

https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/un-expects-deir-ezzor-raqqa-liberated-october/

KiloGolf wrote:hobo level expert unlocked

OMG, an El Camino in Syria? That is awesome! That is not Hobo level, that is Redneck level. I would imagine the driver having a mullet and wearing a wife beater shirt.

closing in even further...

-GEROMAN ????????@GeromanAT 2 minutes ago

miketheterrible wrote:

KiloGolf wrote:hobo level expert unlocked

OMG, an El Camino in Syria?  That is awesome!  That is not Hobo level, that is Redneck level.  I would imagine the driver having a mullet and wearing a wife beater shirt.

Fun fact: "El Camino" means "The Camino" in Mexican   

KiloGolf wrote:closing in even further...

-GEROMAN  ????????@GeromanAT  2 minutes ago

The moment SAA hits that intersection it's showtime for real 

Can someone please describe this "weapon" which is mounted on a tuck.
It was used by Hezbollah in Aarsal.
How effective is it?
I mean the repulsion is enormouse and let the whole vehicle shacke, can a shot be precise with it?

PapaDragon wrote:

KiloGolf wrote:closing in even further...

-GEROMAN  ????????@GeromanAT  2 minutes ago

The moment SAA hits that intersection it's showtime for real 

Maybe they will go east now. 2 more roads without any obstacles on them.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.322409&lon=39.887238&z=12&m=b&gz=0;396936035;352781374;2990341;1033551;2279663;1310620;2132034;1159503;1023101;644374;1376724;484729;1641082;515540;2313995;523943;2756881;465121;2283096;523943;1586151;512739;1356124;490331;1040267;644374;0;0&search=Hama

Looks like it's a mater of days. Maybe tomorrow.

Video geolocation:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.040446&lon=37.473260&z=18&m=h&gz=0;374734639;350108772;750;298978;6168;299374;6168;299374;6866;295113;0;293972;1176310;0

Just 18 km left to Deir. More advances are expected today.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Just 18 km left to Deir. More advances are expected today.

Tiger the White pushing through darkness.  

https://streamable.com/rivh6

They are taking the shortest route, but pushing to Sholah in the same time.




BREAKING: #Syria's Tigers liberate Bi'r Qusaybah, Tar Tarfawi, Qasr Turayfawi (~108 km²), continue advance on #Sholah.

I am just not getting the sense that Daesh is offering much resistance from these developments. Russia probably broke
Daesh's back when it bombed their oil convoys. No money, no mercenary jihadis. To think that Uncle Scumbag claimed
that no effort was made to oil convoys was to save the environment. Smelliest BS ever.

retardation ride still popular in EU

Military Advisor‏ @miladvisor  16 hours ago
In May 2017 Danish cargo ship with containers with weapon & OT-64 SKOT was spotted in the Bosphorus en route from Bulgarian Burgas to Jeddah

Military Advisor‏ @miladvisor  17 hours ago
OT-64 SKOT APC from #EU Czech Republic/Poland was illegally delivered to rebels in Daraa,Syria through Bulgaria.

SAA letting it rip

Once you have an enemy in full fallback mode it is very difficult for them to make a stand and fight particularly when you have control of the sky and it is over open countryside like a desert. If you are the army of a sovereign state and that enemy, like ISIS, is in effect a semi trained rabble with its 'good' units far away, destroyed or holding a more important position, its days are numbered.

As the besieged parts of Deir are no longer in any real peril it is going to be interesting to see if the SAA just stops there for the PR coup photos and a cup of tea and then immediately pushes on, perhaps bypassing the main ISIS positions in the town, heading NE as fast as it can to head off any SDF/US move south. Easier to keep them out of territory than to take it back later.

New Peto map, but a few hours old.

17km left
At this pace they may actually make it in a matter of 24 hours, a day or two tops.

Islamic World Update‏ @islamicworldupd 10 minutes ago
More Pic of #SAA Tiger Forces at Ayyash crossing & soldiers of 137th Brigade on Sanouf Hill #DeirEzzor #Syria

What's this? I thought the Coalition air power stayed east of the Euphrates. Maybe an invite by the Russians? If correct we don't see strikes on this scale often from the RuAF.

Within Syria‏ @WithinSyriaBlog 2h2 hours ago
Replying to @WithinSyriaBlog

US said it killed 80 ISIS fighters and destroyed 40 vehicles of ISIS between south Raqqa and east Homs , Great more advance for SAA ????????????

EDIT

Is this related to the ISIS coach convoy now stuck in the middle of nowhere?

EDIT 2

Definitely, this is from Reuters

The coalition said it had contacted Russia to deliver a message to the Syrian government that it would still not let the convoy pass, and that it had offered suggestions on how to save the civilians in it from suffering.

“Food and water have been provided to the convoy,” it said, without giving further details.

The coalition has said it will not target the convoy directly while it contains civilians, but said in its statement it had struck about 85 IS fighters near the convoy.

It had also struck about 40 IS vehicles near the convoy including a tank, an artillery system, armed vehicles and transport vehicles seeking to help move the fighters in the convoy into its territory, it said.

Geopolitics‏ @BrazilAleppo  4 minutes ago





#SAA captured sixth comunication tower in AShulah and units is 10km from #DeirezZor

War in Syria‏ @SyriaWar2  14 minutes ago

UNCONFIRMED: #SAA liberated Shulah and Kawajeb