Syrian Civil War: News

Russia: U.S., Britain, France and Jordan refuse to list ISIS on Security Council’s sanctions list as standalone organization
‪#‎Moscow‬, ‪#‎SANA‬ – The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the ‪#‎US‬ ‪#‎Britain‬, ‪#‎France‬ and ‪#‎Jordan‬ shot down a ‪#‎Russian‬-backed ‪#‎Syrian‬ request to add ‪#‎ISIS‬ to the Security Council’s sanctions list as a standalone organization.
In a statement on Friday, the Ministry said the Americans and their proponents insist that changing the name in the sanctions list from “Al ‪#‎Qaeda‬ in Iraq” to ISIS “doesn’t reflect the actual reality of things” and that ISIS is included in the list under the aforementioned name.
The Ministry said that the obvious political motivation for such a position is attempting to dodge responsibility for the growing threat of ISIS, with these sides trying to prove that it isn’t a new organization that resulted from plots to topple the Syrian government by clinging to the idea that it’s just Al Qaeda in Iraq, so that they can claim that the coalition that is against the Syrian government doesn’t bear any responsibility for the rise of ISIS.
The statement said that these claims being made by Washington aren’t convincing, noting that the U.S. is using the excuse that its State Department changed the name of “Al Qaeda in ‪#‎Iraq‬” to ISIS in a bid to justify their position in the UN, with the Ministry bringing back to mind the fact that Al Qaeda in Iraq emerged due to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. ‪

ShahryarHedayatiSHBA wrote:

According to Al-Jazeera, Israeli fighter jets bombed bases in the Al-Qalamoun mountains, where strategic bases are located housing long-range missiles; ....possess weapons such as Scud missiles.  The attacks allegedly targeted multiple targets in the area.

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

Werewolf wrote:

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

As soon as ISIS manages to get hands on it we already know that there will be NATO boots walking like old bodies next to ISIS, because that is always what happens through out history of those so called "terrorist" groups. Then you will have the ultimate proof that ISIS is Israelis and US terrorist boogeyman used to justify the attacks of other countries via proxy and pretenciously to use "air strikes" but not against ISIS but against Syria,Lybia, Iraq and co.

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

Hizbullah airstrip revealed

Lebanon's militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed an airstrip in the northern Bekaa Valley for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an analysis of satellite images suggests.

Located in a remote and sparsely populated area 10 km south of the town of Hermel and 18 km west of the Syrian border, the airstrip was built sometime between 27 February 2013 and 19 June 2014, according to imagery that recently became publicly available on Google Earth.

It consists of a single unpaved strip with a length of 670 m and width of 20 m. Material has been excavated from a nearby quarry to build up the northern end of the strip so that it is level. It is built over a shorter strip that had been in existence since at least 2010.

The short length of the runway suggests the facility is not intended to smuggle in weapons shipments from Syria or Iran as it is too short for nearly all the transport aircraft used by the air forces of those countries. One exception could be the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC's) An-74T-200 short take-off transports, but landing one with a useful load on a 670 m strip in the mountains would be considered dangerous by most operators.

An alternative explanation is that the runway was built for Iranian-made UAVs, including the Ababil-3, which has been employed over Syria by forces allied to the Syrian regime, and possibly the newer and larger Shahed-129.

Hizbullah sources have confirmed to IHS Jane's that the organisation is using UAVs to support operations against rebel forces in Syria, particularly over the mountainous Qalamoun region on Lebanon's eastern border.

An antenna is located on a hill 430 m south of the strip and linked by a track. While this looks like a standard Lebanese mobile telephone tower, it could potentially be used to extend the range of a UAV ground control station.

There are six small utility buildings next to the strip, but none are large enough to accommodate a UAV the size of an Ababil-3, which has a wingspan of around 7 m. However, there is a facility constructed in a valley 2.5 km west of the airstrip that includes two utility buildings large enough to house UAVs.

The site, which is guarded by a checkpoint and swing gate, resembles other Hizbullah facilities scattered around the Bekaa Valley.

Hizbullah has operated UAVs from Lebanese airspace since at least November 2004, when it dispatched one that it identified as a Mirsad-1 for a brief reconnaissance mission over northern Israel. It then flew attempted to fly at least three UAVs into Israel during the July-August 2006 war.

Hizbullah said it was responsible for the UAV that was shot down over southern Israel on 6 October 2012. It said it used an Iranian-made aircraft that it had designated as the Ayoub for the incursion.

Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces, subsequently said the UAV was of a type that had been in existence for a decade, a possible reference to the Ababil-3.

Iranian UAVs have been spotted on numerous occasions in Syrian airspace, mainly the Ababil-3 variant, but also the smaller Yasir-type.

The Saudi Al-Watan newspaper claimed in March 2014 that Hizbullah had built a "military airport" for its UAVs in the Bekaa Valley. Lebanese media reports erroneously claimed the location was at Iaat in the central Bekaa Valley, apparently mistaking a long-abandoned Second World War-era Royal Air Force airfield for the Hizbullah facility.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

Israeli airstrikes would be doing more damage against the anti-ISIS campaign then sending the S-300's, your conclusion that they would be totally worthless is pure speculation. So tell me again why are the Israelis carrying airstrikes on SAA positions, who does it benefit, and for what purpose?  

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

Israeli airstrikes would be doing more damage against the anti-ISIS campaign then sending the S-300's, your conclusion that they would be totally worthless is pure speculation. So tell me again why are the Israelis carrying airstrikes on SAA positions, who does it benefit, and for what purpose?  

By all means, send them. Shoot down Israeli F-16's at the end of their runways. However, it wont change the fact that the SAA is losing ground to hordes of terrorists with pickup trucks, and the SAA doesn't have the manpower and weapons to deal with it. S-300's are not going to turn the tide for the Syrian government.

The only way to resolve this problem is to break ISIS in Iraq with Iranian support, force them into a two front war, and cut a bloody swath strait west through ISIS-stan until you reach Aleppo.

Werewolf wrote:

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Zivo wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:And yet there's still people saying Russia should not deliver S-300's to Syria...

Send thousands of S-300's, ISIS will love to have them when they overrun the SAA's positions with their Toyota's.

Israeli airstrikes would be doing more damage against the anti-ISIS campaign then sending the S-300's, your conclusion that they would be totally worthless is pure speculation. So tell me again why are the Israelis carrying airstrikes on SAA positions, who does it benefit, and for what purpose?  

By all means, send them. Shoot down Israeli F-16's at the end of their runways. However, it wont change the fact that the SAA is losing ground to hordes of terrorists with pickup trucks, and the SAA doesn't have the manpower and weapons to deal with it. S-300's are not going to turn the tide for the Syrian government.

The only way to resolve this problem is to break ISIS in Iraq with Iranian support, force them into a two front war, and cut a bloody swath strait west through ISIS-stan until you reach Aleppo.

You missunderstand the situation. SAA is not losing to Toyota pick up trucks, whenever FSA/ISIS terrorists of Israel and US can not go anywhere there is an shitty Israeli air strike that opens path and they only target SAA because ISIS is their little terrorist organisation.
S-300 would make it easier to deal with terrorists if they could be safe from the sky, not to mention keep sky clear from weapon cache drops from the terrorists we call USA.

ShahryarHedayatiSHBA wrote:Good old days
Syria rebel leaders (FSA, Tawhid, Ahrar al-Sham) on a private jet, likely in 2013