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TEHRAN (FNA)- The ISIL executed a number of its own Dutch militants for trying to defect the terrorist group in Raqqa, Syria.
“The ISIL has killed eight Dutch members after they allegedly tied to escape the militant group,” Syrian activists said on Tuesday.
They also said that gaps between 75 ISIL members from the Netherlands and the ISIL leaders in Raqqa city have “widened badly”.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941211001278
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941211000952
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Saudi regime has resorted to the targeted killing of its mercenaries who have changed their stances and defected to the opposition camp in Southern Yemen.
Those assassinated in Lahij province have been killed for changing sides from the US and Saudi Arabia; most of the slain militants have formerly been allies of former fugitive President Mansour Hadi or his former Prime Minister Khaled Bahah.
another theme 2 stories go together.
Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:46
Syrian Army Deploys Forces Few Kilometers from Turkey’s Large Border City
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941211000788
TEHRAN (FNA)- Military sources announced that the Syrian Army and its allies have significantly advanced against the militant groups in the Northern part of Lattakia province and are only 7 kilometers away from a Turkish border city.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/01/453161/Syria-Assad-truce-US-Russia-
Syria patience limited on truce breaches: President Assad
Tue Mar 1, 2016 12:11PM
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria says the army has so far refrained from responding to breaches of the ceasefire in the country but there are “limits” to its patience.
“The terrorists have breached the deal from the first day,” the Syrian president was quoted Tuesday by state media as saying in an interview with German broadcaster ARD’s Weltspiegel Extra program which will be aired in full later.
News reported on the other site.
Anyone noticing the name Izmir as familiar in history knows it was the center of intrigue for the entire “Cuban” missile crisis, where the Jupiter MRBMs were put in & activated in April 1962, facing across Black Sea to Russia of course.
Kruschev was not impressed.
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Published: March 1, 2016 at 12:05 am
Chania, Greece (TFC) According to Greek and Turkish sources, a cargo ship containing thousands of weapons, ammunition, and explosives was seized by Greek authorities on February 28th. The ship– sporting a Togo flag– had reportedly left a Turkish port in Izmir and was traveling to Lebanon as well as the southeastern African coast.
http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2016/03/cargo-ship-from-turkey-full-of-weapons-seized-by-greek-authorities/
Learn something new every day.. It keeps you sharp… MAP of The various demographics of Saudi Arabia..
Article is in French…
http://lecourrierdumaghrebetdelorient.info/saudi-arabia/arab-world-maps-la-realite-religieuse-multiple-de-larabie-saoudite/#prettyPhoto/0/
Ever desperate to take over the last Syrian government held area inside the caliphate..
Bad day for ISIS in Deir Ezzor. Republican Guard reports 32 terrorists killed near the downtown area.
So they are no longer moderate rebels when it happens in other countries?
Violence erupts in Jordan as security forces and “outlaws” clash http://bit.ly/1TmjlJG
Cruise missiles again????? Wonder what the reason is, other than the US not having the time to move out their moderate terrorists out of harms way..
Russian cruise missiles strike Nusra positions in northwestern Hama http://bit.ly/1LSVLfv
So erdo the backstabbing pasha gangsters is offering homestead rights in someone else’s country? Take Chinese migrants and give them local residence inside Syria.. Put them up in your own 200 room mansion punk.
Syrian army prepares for final push to victory
In the meantime, the Syrian Army and Popular Committees gain ground in northern Syria by wresting control of main rebel bastions of Ein al-Ghazal and Maza’la —north-western strategic town of Kensaba, close to key Lattakia-Aleppo highway—. Army soldiers also killed and captured scores of Chinese-Uyghur terrorists and seized several pick-up vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns. Concurrently, the Syrian troops retake strategic heights of Qamoua’a, Kafarsand and al-Koroum Khasat in Latakia’s northern countryside.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-prepares-for-final-push-to-victory/ | Al-Masdar News
Another imperial war college but what the heck..
Russia’s military intervention has proved. Among criticism of the air operations was the absence of sufficient support for the Su-24M bomber downed by the Turkish Air Force, as well as the lack of sniper pairs to target and degrade enemy forces in an urban environment. The author asks why the Turkish or Saudi Arabian militaries might believe they possess sufficient capabilities to achieve their aims by mounting an intervention (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, February 19).
It is unsurprising in this context, that Russia’s greatest military theorist, Army-General (retired) Makhmut Gareev, should offer his perspectives on modern warfare, calling for closing the gap between theory and practice. Gareev returns to a familiar theme, arguing that war is the best way to train an army. Framing his arguments with reference to the Great Patriotic War, in his normal style, Gareev reasserts the notion that Russia’s security is best achieved through the unity of the army and society. He offers opinions on government campaigns to promote patriotism in the nation’s youth before turning to outline threats to Russia. Gareev notes in passing that the United States seems to portray Russia as its main enemy. He briefly considers high-technology developments in modern warfare, admitting they play an important role, including automated command and control, UAVs, as well as weapons based on “new physical principles.” Additionally, he says his Academy of Military Sciences has a role to play in exploring these. But in his view, the tank is not redundant in modern war (Voyenno Promyshlennyy Kuryer, February 24).
Gareev represents the traditionalists within the Russian military, but heads an institution that also contributes to an understanding of modern and future warfare, even assisting with innovation. He advocates creating a ministry for the defense industry and says modern threats require countering using “political, diplomatic, economic, information, technological, psychological and other spheres,” demanding a cross-agency approach under General Staff leadership (Voyenno Promyshlennyy Kuryer, February 24). Although such contradictions offer little clarity for the future, it is apparent that Russia’s actual use of military power Ukraine and Syria is not about using overwhelming force.
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45149&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=e541e940817a6e05fd3be42885792206#.Vta2Meh_Oko
For just as one struggle ends another will begin. John Wight
When future historians sit down to write the history of the Syrian conflict there is a simple test that will determine whether their objective is to mine and reveal the truth, or whether it is merely to shovel more dirt onto the mountain of the stuff that’s been erected over the course of its five long years as a monument to propaganda.
The test will be their depiction of the Syrian Arab Army and its role in the conflict. If said historians credit it with holding the line against the forces of hell that were committed to the country’s destruction as a secular, non sectarian, multi-religious and ethnic state, enduring the kind of losses and casualties placing it among the most courageous, resilient, and heroic of any army of any nation that has ever existed, then people will know that truth rather than propaganda has prevailed.
The glorification of war and conflict is difficult to resist for those living safely many miles away from its horrors and brutality. Those who do glorify it should ake a moment to study and imbibe the words of Jeannette Rankin, who said: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
The war in Syrian confirms the abiding truth of those words when we consider the epic nature of the destruction it has wrought, the tragic human cost, and how it has shaken Syrian society to the very limits of endurance. It means that while the country’s survival as an independent non sectarian state may by now be certain, its ability to fully recover from the earthquake Rankin describes is something that only time will tell.
But the fact the country has managed to achieve its survival and, with it, the opportunity to recover is predominately the achievement of the Syrian Arab Army, whose complexion is a microcosm of the very society and people it has defended – Sunnis, Shia, Druze, Christians, Alawites, etc. In the process of doing so, as these words are being written, it has lost over 60,000 men according to the latest report by Robert Fisk, one of the more estimable Western correspondents based in the region. This is without factoring in the 1000-plus Hezbollah fighters who’ve been killed, along with Kurds and members of the various government-allied militia groups. It also does not include the tens of thousands who’ve been wounded or maimed.
But just think about this staggering statistic of 60,000 killed for a moment. In a country with a population before the conflict began of 25 million, and an army numbering in the region of 220,000 at full strength, the loss of 60,000 troops places the epic nature of the conflict in which they perished on a par with the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
Russian aid and solidarity has of course been a key factor in turning the tide of the Syrian conflict. But all the aid and solidarity in the world amounts little without a people and army’s will to resist the invasion of the country by thousands of extremists whose passions for butchering human beings in the most heinous ways imaginable qualifies their labeling as barbarians.
The salient point lost in the countless columns, reports, and op-eds that have been written and published, equating these barbarians with the Syrian government and its military, is that the Syrian Arab Army and Syrian people are one and the same in that one begins where the other ends and vice versa. The ability and willingness of the army to endure the battering it has, and which no other army in the region could have withstood, has been contingent on the support from the Syrian people. This support has been constant even in the midst of the huge external pressure arrayed against the country from Western powers that at one point were convinced that the army’s collapse and total defeat was only a matter of when and not if.
The current ceasefire, brokered by Russia and supported by Washington, takes place at a time when the conflict has turned emphatically in the government’s favor. During an offensive operation that began in early February, the SAA has smashed its way across the north of the country. Combined with an offensive launched by the multi-ethnic SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) in northern Aleppo province, it has effectively succeeded in encircling Aleppo city and cutting the main supply routes to the opposition forces in control of a large part of the city from Turkey. Given the number of armed factions involved in the conflict, the lack of any central command structure directing its activities, the fact that the ceasefire has thus far held with only a few minor violations is testament to the changed reality on the ground.
The machinations and plotting and mendacity of the Saudis and Turks – not forgetting their Western allies – have all come to naught in a country where every town and street, every hill, village, and road has been touched by war. It is proof that in the last analysis history is made not by governments, diplomats, or functionaries in palatial staterooms and chancelleries. It is made by ordinary men and women willing to fight and die in defence of their people, homes and communities, and whose honour in doing so contrasts with the dishonour of those who made the mistake of regarding Syria as just another piece on their geopolitical chessboard.
No one should ever underestimate the human cost of protecting Syria’s sovereignty and integrity. Do so and you denigrate those who have fallen and those who will undoubtedly fall as and when the fighting resumes. Neither should we underestimate the size of the mountain to climb before Syria is put back together when the guns eventually fall silent.
http://ahtribune.com/history/602-syrian-arab-army.html