Sirija

[Krošek]

u proseku, citanje knjiga je najbolji moguci nacin da se nesto nauci.

 

ne razumem sta si hteo reci. da li se sa necim ne slazes (tipa da islam nalaze teokratiju)?

[Prospero]

Zluradi R. Fisk 
 
 

Everyone wrote off the Syrian army. Take another look now
All this is only the beginning of Mr Putin’s adventure in the Middle East

• Robert Fisk
• @indyvoices

A Syrian army soldier flashes a 'V for victory' sign as his tank travels northeast of Damascus Getty Images


While the world still rages on at Russia’s presumption in the Middle East – to intervene in Syria instead of letting the Americans decide which dictators should survive or die – we’ve all been forgetting the one institution in that Arab land which continues to function and protect the state which Moscow has decided to preserve: the Syrian army. While Russia has been propagandising its missiles, the Syrian military, undermanned and undergunned a few months ago, has suddenly moved on to the offensive. Earlier this year, we may remember, this same army was being written off, the Bashar al-Assad government said to be reaching its final days.

 

We employed our own army of clichés to make the case for regime change. The Syrian army was losing ground – at Jisr al-Shugour and at Palmyra – and so we predicted that the whole Assad state had reached a “tipping point”. 

 

Then along came Vladimir Putin with his air and missile fleets and suddenly the whole place is transformed. While we huffed and puffed that the Russians were bombing the “moderate” rebels – moderates who had earlier ceased to exist according to America’s top generals – we’ve been paying no attention to the military offensive which the Syrians themselves are now staging against the Nusra Front fighters around Aleppo and in the valley of the Orontes.

Syrian commanders are now setting the coordinates for almost every Russian air strike. They were originally giving between 200 and 400 coordinates a night. Now the figure sometimes reaches 800. Not that the Russians are going after every map reference, of course. The Syrians have found that the Russians do not want to fire at targets in built-up areas; they intend to leave burning hospitals and dead wedding parties to the Americans in Afghanistan.   This policy could always change, of course. No air force bombs countries without killing civilians. Nor without crossing other people’s frontiers.

 

But the Russians are now telling the Turks – and by logical extension, this information must go to the Americans – their flight coordinates. Even more remarkable, they have set up a hotline communications system between their base on the Syrian Mediterranean coast and the Israeli ministry of defence in Tel Aviv. More incredible still is that the Israelis – who have a habit of targeting Syrian and Iranian personnel near the Golan Heights – have suddenly disappeared from the skies. In other words, the Russians are involved in a big operation, not a one-month wonder that is going on in Syria.

 

And it is likely to continue for quite a time.

 

The Syrians were originally anxious to move back into Palmyra, captured by Isis last May, but the Russians have demonstrated more interest in the Aleppo region, partly because they believe their coastal bases around Lattakia are vulnerable. The Nusra Front has fired several missiles towards Lattakia and Tartous and Moscow has no desire to have its air force targeted on the ground. But the Syrian army is now deploying its four major units – the 1st and 4th Divisions, Republican Guards and Special Forces – on the battle fronts and are moving closer to the Turkish border.

 

Russian air strikes around the Isis “capital” of Raqqa may or may not be hurting Isis, although the Syrians like to boast that they have plenty of intelligence coming to them from the city. Interesting, if true, because Isis personnel are specialists in torturing to death “agents of the regime” and it would be a brave man to pass on information to Damascus. Yet travellers’ tales can be true. There’s a regular civilian bus route from Raqqa to Damascus – buses have an odd habit of crossing front lines in most civil wars – and if passengers prefer not to talk to journalists, they will talk of what they have seen when they get home.

 

All this is only the beginning of Mr Putin’s adventure. He is proving to be quite a traveller to the Middle East – and has already made firm friends of another pillar of the region, that President-Field Marshal who scored more than 96 per cent at the polls and who currently rules Egypt. But the Egyptian army, fighting its little war in Sinai, no longer has strategic experience of a major war. Nor, despite their dalliance in the air over Yemen, Libya, Syria and other targets of opportunity, do the present military authorities in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Jordan have much understanding of how a real war is fought. Libya’s own army is in bits. Iraq’s military has scarcely earned any medals against its Islamist enemies.

 

But there is one factor which should not be overlooked. 

 

If it wins – and if it holds together and if its manpower, which is admittedly at a low level, can be maintained – then the Syrian military is going to come out of this current war as the most ruthless, battle-trained and battle-hardened Arab army in the entire region. Woe betide any of its neighbours who forget this.

 

[mackenzie]

Po međumrežju cirkuliše nekakva ruska mapa.

 

http://s2.uploads.ru/m8LXY.jpg

 

 

Edited October 18, 2015 by mackenzie

[Prospero]

Air strikes on IS convoy in Syria kill 40: monitor

 

 

 

Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes on a convoy of the Islamic State group killed at least 40 jihadists in central Syria at the weekend, a monitoring group said Sunday.

 

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified warplanes hit the 16-vehicles motorcade overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Hama province, killing the jihadists.

 

The Observatory, which monitors the war in Syria and has a network of sources on the ground, was not immediately able to say whether the raids were carried out by Russian warplanes or Syrian regime ones.

 

"But they don't belong to the coalition led by Washington," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.

Charred bodies of IS fighters were found at the scene, he added.

 

Syrian regime aircraft bombard almost daily the eastern countryside of Hama where IS has positions.

Abdel Rahman said the convoy was hit as it was heading from the self-declared IS capital of Raqa in northern Syria to the Hama countryside.

Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, has been carrying out a campaign of air strikes against his opponents since September 30.

 

Last year, a US-led coalition launched an air campaign against IS which controls swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

 

[Marcus Wulffings]

evo kako to iračani rade

 

[Marcus Wulffings]

tako kažu rusi, sve uzeti s rezervom:

 

 

 

TERORISTIČKE skupine u Siriji okrenule su se jedne protiv drugih, uslijed žestokih ruskih napada u toj zemlji, i sada se međusobno bore za teritorij.

ISIS je navodno napao ciljeve Al-Nusre, terorističke skupine bliske Al-Qaedi, bombardirajući ih trima auto-bombama, piše Express. Vjeruje se da se oslabljeni teroristi, koji su, prema tvrdnjama ruskog Ministarstva obrane, ostali bez većine streljiva i oklopnih vozila, sada međusobno bore za teritorij.

Osim toga, pojavile su se informacije da terorističke skupine regrutiraju sve više djece.

Putinovi vojni avioni uništili su 51 metu ISIS-a u posljednja 24 sata, priopćilo je tamošnje Ministarstvo obrane. Uništena su dva podzemna bunkera u Homsu, koja su teroristi koristili za skrivanje oružja te kako bi se neopaženo kretali. Ruski avioni ciljali su i zapovjedni centar u Hami, a džihadisti su se dali u bijeg.

"Većina naoružanih terorističkih bandi je demoralizirana, nezadovoljna zahtjevima svojih zapovjednika na terenu. Sve je više neposlušnih, sve ih više bježi", kazao je ruski general Andrey Kartalov.

[Bane5]

kako uzeti s rezervom kad rusi tako kazu?

nema druge istine osim ove.

[frn1782]

Sto si se ti tako oneraspolozio od kad krenula antiteroristicka akcija?

[Budja]

Sto si se ti tako oneraspolozio od kad krenula antiteroristicka akcija?

 

[ManicMiner]

Interesantna je ova ruska mapa obzirom da pokazuje i broj ljudi po dzepovima opozicije.

 

Ima li tu istine ili su brojke nabacane tek tako?

[Bane5]

Sto si se ti tako oneraspolozio od kad krenula antiteroristicka akcija?

 

ma bravo care, ako si od svega samo to uspeo da povezes.

dobices neku medalju kada se budu delile zahvalnice za podrsku svetim ruskim ciljevima u siriji.

[Prospero]

CoD Modern Warfare

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q60yBQG8XI

[katamaran]

Rus pobediJo

 

[Marcus Wulffings]

aaa jeste baš, šišaju i tuki i oko bulje, tako će biti još manje upadljivi

[Marcus Wulffings]

ova ruska mapa deluje zbunjujuće