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[Maximus]

You asked a question, I gave you an answer.

The video says that the Caliphate, or the Islamic state, or what is known today as Turkey spills blood, takes other peoples land, does not leave and demands protection money from Christians, jews, etc for their life....

Is that true Lordo?

[miltiades]

" Syria: Assad loyalists take Aleppo's Old City as rebels plead for ceasefire
Pro-government forces are closest they have ever been to seizing entire city as rebels beg for five day ceasefire to allow civilians to leave "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... s-withdraw

Let us hope that this wretched war soon comes to an end. The rebels are beginning to realize that the coalition has abandoned them, their struggle is all but over, at least in Aleppo. Figures put the number killed since the conflict begun over five years ago at almost 500,000 and millions displaced.
Was this war, a war that the West should never have got involved , necessary? The West encouraged and actively supported the rebels with one aim. Regime change, Assad must step down the West demanded.

The West should now be held accountable for the catastrophe and human tragedy of Syria.
No doubt our ...democratic friendly nation of Saudi Arabia, a brutal dictatorship, will be supported fully by the west against any likely insurrection , telling the world loudly that we must support our Saudi allies. Hypocrisy at its highest level. Let us also hope that President elect Trump will sever once and for all US involvement in the ME. Let the people decide , and choose their own DICTATORS.

[miltiades]

" Bashar al-Assad: Aleppo victory will be a 'huge step'
Syrian president rejects opposition ceasefire offer as his army tightens the noose on rebel-held part of the key city."

" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a victory for his army in the second city of Aleppo would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's devastating five-year civil war.

Defeating rebels in Aleppo, however, would not put an end to Syria's conflict, Assad said in an interview with Syrian daily Al-Watan to be published on Thursday, an early copy of which was seen by AFP news agency. In a blistering three-week offensive, Syrian forces have seized about 80 percent of east Aleppo, a stronghold for rebel groups since 2012."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/b ... 53890.html

[yialousa1971]

Syrian rebel leader thanks Israel for its attack on Damascus

By Paul Antonopoulos -
07/12/2016

Syrian rebel leader thanks Israel for its attack on Damascus
By Paul Antonopoulos -
07/12/2016


Israeli media service i24 News, based in Tel Aviv and Jaffa Port, has reported that a Syrian rebel commander has thanked Israel for its attack on Mezzeh airbase in southwest Damascus.

Khaled Khalaf, a lawyer and a high-ranking member of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council, told i24news' Arabic channel that "If Israel repeats what it did this morning [referring to the alleged strikes], in the coming days we will achieve victories."

"We thank the Tel Aviv for bombing those missiles bases at Mezze Airport, these were equipped to kill the children of Aleppo in Syria."

Khalaf however seemed in denial about the severity of the situation in Aleppo against the jihadist forces.

"Our men on the ground do not flee. It is very easy to fabricate films that emphasize these words, but it's untrue. The Syrian resistance, fighters of the revolution welcome martyrdom," he said.

He further added "there is always advancing and retreating in war," all the more so "when facing many thousands of bandits and mercenaries, Iranians, Russians, and Chinese, who are fighting alongside the regime, the Russian fighter jets are also bombing day and night. It is normal to re-arrange our affairs."

He overlooked that many of the militant fighters are international jihadists and that there is no Chinese military presence in Syria.

https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article ... -damascus/

[Robin Hood]

Syrian rebel leader thanks Israel for its attack on Damascus

By Paul Antonopoulos -
07/12/2016

Syrian rebel leader thanks Israel for its attack on Damascus
By Paul Antonopoulos -
07/12/2016


Israeli media service i24 News, based in Tel Aviv and Jaffa Port, has reported that a Syrian rebel commander has thanked Israel for its attack on Mezzeh airbase in southwest Damascus.

Khaled Khalaf, a lawyer and a high-ranking member of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council, told i24news' Arabic channel that "If Israel repeats what it did this morning [referring to the alleged strikes], in the coming days we will achieve victories."

"We thank the Tel Aviv for bombing those missiles bases at Mezze Airport, these were equipped to kill the children of Aleppo in Syria."

Khalaf however seemed in denial about the severity of the situation in Aleppo against the jihadist forces.

"Our men on the ground do not flee. It is very easy to fabricate films that emphasize these words, but it's untrue. The Syrian resistance, fighters of the revolution welcome martyrdom," he said.

He further added "there is always advancing and retreating in war," all the more so "when facing many thousands of bandits and mercenaries, Iranians, Russians, and Chinese, who are fighting alongside the regime, the Russian fighter jets are also bombing day and night. It is normal to re-arrange our affairs."

He overlooked that many of the militant fighters are international jihadists and that there is no Chinese military presence in Syria.

https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article ... -damascus/

He must be the guy that Paphitis gets all his information from? I wonder when the predicted counter attack will happen? As the comment in the article said, China has no forces on the ground and also Russia has not bombed Eastern Aleppo for well over a month. But no doubt he and his compatriot terrorists will get their wish for martyrdom ...... bad news ..... Paradise has run out of virgins!!!

[Robin Hood]

Now it looks as if Egypt is joining Assad and his coalition partners against the Islamic terrorists........... and their partners maybe? Next stop for Assad/Russia is Idlib and Raqqa.

The Current Phase of Conflict in Syria

And the fundamental political and strategic factor is that now the Egyptian forces are entering the Syrian region. The reason is simple: President al-Sisi rightly believes that every jihadist success in Syria is a vital threat to Egypt.

The United States have always supported the Muslim Brotherhood - suffice to read the very detailed book by Ian Johnson, A Mosque in Munich, published in 2010.

Al-Sisi’s only other option was turn to Russia.

Hence the US strategy of negotiating with the Islamic fundamentalism and de facto relinquishing the US traditional friendship with the Maghreb countries and with Iraq, the country "liberated" a few years ago, was formidable in its inanity.
Hence now Egypt is entering the Syrian scene, siding with Russia and Bashar al-Assad’s alliance with Iran - an intra-Islamic religious paradox which has its own perfect strategic logicality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45987.htm

[Robin Hood]

An interesting piece ........ reading between the lines it looks as if Iraq and Syria are cooperating to prevent a US take over of the oil fields?

Regime Change By Takifirs Fails - Lobbyists Call For U.S. Occupation of Upper Mesopotamia

As that plan for handing the eastern Syrian and western Iraqi areas to some "moderate ISIS" has now failed, the usual "expert" suspects, starting with Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, now argue for the U.S. to occupy the whole area and to set up permanent military U.S. bases to control the oil-rich Syrian east and western Iraq. The U.S. special forces working with Kurdish YPG units in the north-eastern area of Syria have already set up several small air-fields.

MoA’s update on Aleppo situation ........

In total 28,700 civilians were found in and have left those formerly "rebel" held areas. That is a bit higher than our old estimate of some 25,000 max in total in east Aleppo but way lower than the 250,000, 300,000, 500,000 or 1,000,000 civilians that the UN and opposition media claimed.

After winning the Aleppo battle the Syrian government will have some 35,000 aligned troops freely available to liberate those other areas of Syria which are currently still held by foreign paid Takfiris, This is a quite huge, experienced force and one can expect that most of the work still needed to be done to liberate all of Syria will be finished within a few months.

In Iraq the government forces are fighting the last Islamic State remnants which hold the city of Mosul in a slightly similar siege situation as it was in Aleppo. But the fight in Mosul is more difficult because up to one million civilians are still in the city and the ISIS fighter there are fanatics who do not shy away from sending hundreds of schoolkids as suicide bombers against the approaching Iraqi forces. Should such resistance continue it might take months to retake the whole city.

Luckily for Syria the city of Mosul is now completely enclosed. The original U.S. plan was to let the western area of Mosul open so that ISIS fighters could escape to Syria. The Iraqi prime minister Abadi stopped those plans by sending Popular Mobilization Forces to close the wide western gap.

Full article ......
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/12/regime-change-by-takifirs-fails-lobbyists-call-for-us-occupation-of-upper-mesopotamia.html#more

..... and from the UK Government, a string of lies, an intense propaganda statement and a complete distortion of fact.

“A humanitarian disaster is taking place before our very eyes. Some 200,000 civilians, including many children, in eastern Aleppo are cut off from food and medicine supplies. Aleppo is being subjected to daily bombings and artillery attacks by the Syrian regime, supported by Russia and Iran. Hospitals and schools have not been spared. Rather, they appear to be the targets of attack in an attempt to wear people down. The images of dying children are heart breaking. We condemn the actions of the Syrian regime and its foreign backers, especially Russia, for their obstruction of humanitarian aid, and strongly condemn the Syrian regime’s attacks that have devastated civilians and medical facilities and use of barrel bombs and chemical weapons.”

Full statement as released by UK Government.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-aleppo-7-december-2016

[Maximus]

It looks like victory is just around the corner for the Syrian army in Allepo.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-midea ... SKBN13X1QB

[Lordo]

what are you people on what ever it is i want some. how can you talk about one side or the other having victory. over half a million people jkilled and over 10 million people displaced from their homes.

there are some very sad individuals in the world. you should hang your heads in shame ffs.

[Robin Hood]

what are you people on what ever it is i want some. how can you talk about one side or the other having victory. over half a million people jkilled and over 10 million people displaced from their homes.

there are some very sad individuals in the world. you should hang your heads in shame ffs.

Had the west not interfered in the ME in the first place NONE of this would have happened. It started in Afghanistan and the US and their allies created the mayhem that has engulfed the area ever since. The victory I agree is hollow, but I see no other way to bring peace than by destroying the terrorists . Unless they are taken out, these Islamic barbarians will subjugate millions of Muslims with their warped extremist ideology for generations and it will spread like a cancer through country after country.

It is basically Muslim-killing-Muslim and being duped into helping the west achieve their aims. The west wants only the resources. Who is in power, how extreme or barbaric is of no interest to the west, provided they can be bribed with dollars to allow the western companies to strip these lands of their assets. It has been going on since oil was first discovered in the ME.

I have seen comments like yours many times but never do you people come up with a solution! What was Assad expected to do? The west wanted him out, they armed rebels to do just that, they became terrorists, Assad defended his country from terrorists as any leader would but the west prolonged the war by continually funding, supporting and arming an armed rebellion against a legitimate Government and its elected President. This war was NEVER a civil war, it was an insurgency established by western powers to serve their own interests.

You have the opportunity to tell me what your solution would be. Do you really think a ceasefire in Aleppo would be used by the to help civilians? The US Coalition would do what it has done in every other ceasefire....... re-arm and regroup the terrorists so that they can live to fight and die for another few weeks ....... and kill civilians.

So what's YOUR solution?