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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!

Nusra video shows intense urban fighting in Deir ez Zor

by Phantom Ace ( 1 Comment › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Hezballah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamists, Lebanon, Syria at November 24th, 2013 - 2:18 pm

I saw this video on Twitter today by al-Nusra Front and was amazed of the intensity of urban combat showed in it. The video which was filmed in Deir ez Zor in Eastern Syria shows Nusra fighters taking on the Syrian Army, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shias in urban combat.

This shows how deadly and difficult an urban combat environment can be.

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

by Phantom Ace Comments Off on Al-Nusra Front and Free Syrian Army joint operation captures huge weapons depot
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.

 

Israel strikes Syrian air defense base

by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, IDF, Israel, Syria at October 30th, 2013 - 9:16 pm

There are reports Israel struck a Syrian air defense base near Latakia.

A Syrian air defense base near the coastal city of Latakia was reportedly destroyed Wednesday night, with multiple Syrian and Lebanese sources speculating that an Israeli strike from the Mediterranean was to blame.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a loud explosion in a Syrian army base, and Twitter users quoted eyewitnesses who said the blast occurred near Snobar Jableh, just south of the city.

I wonder what was at this base?