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The Fall of Idlib

by Phantom Ace ( 189 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey at March 30th, 2015 - 7:00 am

Obama’s Iranian/Shia Axis buddies suffered a defeat over the weekend in Syria. Last week the Free Syrian Army, Nusra Front and other rebels who united under the name Jaish al-Fath (the Army of Conquest) have captured the city of Idlib which is the provincial capital of the province with the same name. The rebels took it in a 5 day assault where they used firepower they previously did not have as it is apparent that the Saudis and other Sunni nations are now arming the rebels with every weapon available against Iran’s client state.

Here is a comparison of the before and after he Idlib offensive.

The Syrian opposition will now use Idlib as the capital of their provisional government

BEIRUT: Syria’s opposition-in-exile vowed Sunday to launch efforts to turn the newly seized provincial capital of Idlib into its base of operations, in a bid to maintain the momentum generated by a five-day battle that resulted in a shockingly sudden regime withdrawal.

Supporters of the regime and the opposition spent much of the weekend digesting the news that government forces had abandoned the northwestern town, amid reports that the regime would soon launch a fierce counter-offensive.

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“The Syrian provisional government will strive to make the free city of Idlib an example to the entire world about what Syrians want for the future of their country,” it said. “It will begin sending its [government bodies] to work inside the city, along with the local council for the province of Idlib, to begin coordinating with its partners and with the [militias] and influential forces to make the city a headquarters for administering liberated regions of Syria.”

Idlib fell after a battle that cost just over 70 rebel lives, according to the “Army of Conquest” coalition of militias that announced the campaign last week. A spokesman for the Army of Conquest told The Daily Star Sunday that the precise number of regime dead remained unclear, due to the presence of many bodies under the rubble of destroyed buildings, adding that 53 troops and paramilitaries – all Syrians – were taken prisoner by the rebels.

This is the 3rd major defeat for Assad, Hezbollah and Iran in the past month. There was a failed offensive in Aleppo that attempted to encircle the rebels, but ended in disaster. In Quinetra province, Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted an offensive to reach the Israeli border. They were defeated by Nusra Front and the FSA’s Southern Front Army with alleged Israeli assistance in the forms of intelligence.

The turning of the tide in Syria is related to this Pan Sunni front against Iran and its clients. Saudi Arabia and other Sunni nations have had enough of Iran’s attempt to dominate the Mideast via its Shiite clients. With intervention in Yemen and the flood of weapons to the Syrian rebels, the Sunni-Shiite conflict has entered a new phase. Sadly, Obama is on the side of Iran who is viewed as threat by the Sunnis and Israelis alike.

Watch this video on YouTube.

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Syrian rebels shows evidence of Assad-ISIS ties; ISIS forms Palestinain branch called Al-Dawla al-Islam

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Filed under Al Qaeda, Gaza, Headlines, Islam, Islamists, Palestinians, Syria at February 12th, 2014 - 12:20 am

For months many members of the Free Syrian Army and Nusra Front have alleged that the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) was coopertaing with the Assad regime. In many battles, ISIS would just withdraw and leave the FSA and Nusra exposed. ISIS which evolved out of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was helped in its early days by the Assad regime. Last Spring, whne the rebels had the upper hand, ISIS appeared and tried to take over Nusra. AL-Qaeda central ordered them to back off and they disobeyed. Since then, al-Qaeda has disassociated with them.

Syrian opposition groups now present evidence that ISIS indeed cooperates with Assad. In fact some of its leaders are Syrian intelligence or military officers.

Syria’s main opposition group says it has found proof that al-Qaeda’s affiliate – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS — is jointly working with the government in Damascus to undermine rebel groups fighting to overthrow president Bashar al-Assad.

According to documents revealed by the Syrian National Coalition, several field commanders of the al-Qaeda affiliate were former military or intelligence officers of the Syrian army.

These commanders are coordinating military operations with the Assad’s forces, providing them with information about rebel fighters and facilitating the recapture of areas previously controlled by the rebel Free Syrian Army.

The opposition notes that Assad’s air force never targeted the usually conspicuous and large camps operated by ISIS in several parts of the country.

The Syrian soap opera continues.

In other news, ISIS has now created a Palestinian branch in Gaza called Al-Dawla al-Islam.

Watch this video on YouTube.

I wonder if the Nusa/al-Qaeda vs. ISIS fight will reach Gaza and what Hamas will do?

 

 

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Assad supporters mad at Hezbollah

by Phantom Ace ( 2 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Hezballah, Islam, Islamists, Syria at November 24th, 2013 - 10:25 pm

Although reports are sketchy, the news coming out of Syria confirms that Hezbollah, Syrian Army and Iraqi Shia Militias have suffered a defeat in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus at the hands of the Free Syrian Army’s Islamic Front and al-Nusra Front. The word going around was that Hezbollah disobeyed orders from the Syrian Army which led to the defeat. Now Assad’s supporters are mad at Hezbollah for cusing this defeat.

Pro-Assad activists have accused Hezbollah of treason Sunday due to the disobedience of Syrian Army orders what cost large number of causalities within regular army  in eastern Damascus suburbs .

Assad’s Servant, well-known facebook page loyal to Bashar al-Assad, said more than 60 soldiers of regular army have been killed today due to the disobedience of Syrian Army orders by Hezbollah amid news of rebels’ advances in 6 towns east Damascus, according to Zaman Alwasl’s reporter.

Heavy clashes between Syrian troops and rebels trying to break a government siege in the suburbs of Damascus have killed at least 160 fighters over two days, activists said Sunday, AP said.

Here are pictures of Hezbollah fighters that were captured by al-Nusra Front in East Ghouta.

Captured Hezzies

Fill up your popcorn bucket, the Syrian War drama continues!

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Al-Nusra Front and Free Syrian Army joint operation captures huge weapons depot

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Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Hezballah, Islamists, Jihad, Syria at November 8th, 2013 - 1:17 am

The Syrian War continues ups and downs. Assad’s frocs now composed mostly of Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iraqis and Houthi Yemenites have made some advances in the southern Suburbs of Damascus against the Free Syrian Army. Meanwhile, about 100 miles to the north in Homs, al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army in a complicated operation seized a huge weapons depots that includes Missiles, anti-tank weapons and other munitions.

BEIRUT/AMMAN: Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fought rebels in a small town 100 km north of Damascus Thursday after video footage showed the opposition captured a huge weapons cache.

The looting of hundreds of weapons in the town of Mahin will aid rebels who are based there, halfway between the capital and Homs, two cities where the opposition has tried to take territory during the civil war.

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Eliot Higgins, a U.K.-based researcher who trawls daily through online videos of Syria’s civil war and verifies weapons in them, said he had not seen a “big ammo cache like this for several months.”

He said that in addition to mortar bombs, artillery and tank ammunition, the size and length of some of the boxes in one video posted online by rebels indicated there were rockets.

“This will help [the rebels’] war efforts. In that one room there is a very significant amount but, depending on the intensity of the of the fighting, they could burn through these in a couple of weeks,” he said.

According to some Nusra sources the cache consisted of:
10,000 grad rockets10,000 107mm rockets

20,000 120mm mortar shells

10,000 tank shells

“Thousands” of RPG rockets and AA (presumably 23mm/14.5) rounds

“Millions” of 7.62×39 and 7.62×54 bullets

4,000 Konkurs ATGMs

“Tens of thousands” of 130mm shells

4 million litres of diesel fuel.

If the amount captured is correct, then this will give a significant boost to Nusra and the FSA. Al-Qaeda (ISIS) was kept out of the operation as Nusra and the FSA no longer trust them. Al-Qaeda is also too busy getting it’s asses handed to them by the Kurdish PKK in North Eastern Syria.
This is the patten of the Syrian War, Assad makes gains in one theater only to have the rebels make gains elsewhere. AT the end of the day, humanity wins as the forces of evil consume themselves.
Here is a video of the captured weapons depots. Warning, some graphic images.

 

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