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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

whatever7 posted:

Looking forward to War of the Five Kings starring songs of previous 5 kings.

Game of Thawbs.

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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/FDD_Iran/status/927577380855656448

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Al-Saqr posted:

Unsubstantiated rumor, but why the gently caress would they even bother with this:-

https://twitter.com/alialahmed_en/status/928688091648405504

Seems legit

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Seriously, what the gently caress is MbS up to?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/KreaseChan/status/929863786193965056

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMM1yyXFUPs

Faylaq al-Rahman video release on their defence of Eastern Ghouta.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
ISIS have just released a sequel to The Flames of War (2014), and it's an hour long. Watching it now and they sure know how to make an intense opening montage.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Seems like (one of?) the target/s for the Israeli strike was the location the BBC reported on a few weeks ago

https://twitter.com/obretix/status/936984386754445312

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Uh huh

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/06/russia-aircraft-carrier-mediterranean-syria-admiral-kuznetsov

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-idUSKCN0WG23C

:thunk:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/Endemic22/status/947080408339963904

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/HadiNili/status/947132525377449984

Seems (in some places at least) the protests have skipped the "Reform please" phase and gone straight to calls for essentially revolution in the space of a day. People chanting "Death to Khamenei", tearing down posters/billboards of him, Soleimani, Basij signs, calling for the end of the Islamic Republic etc. They also seem to be pretty widespread and unorganised as of the moment.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
2009 was largely organised and had something resembling leaders, whilst seeking realistic reforms within the existing system. This seems to be taking place all over the country, having spread in the space of one or two days seemingly spontaneously and with no leaders or stated goals - a paroxysm of anti-establishment sentiment. I mean you have crowds of people marching in the street chanting "Marg bar Khamenei" and calling for an end of the Islamic Republic.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
"Turkish Race" :kiddo:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/HassounMazen/status/949663120087232513

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/euamiri/status/949668289646559232

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/2000-afghans-killed-in-syria-fighting-for--bashar-al-assad-says-official-769805655

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
How feasible would it be to make something like a small shaped charge and drop that from a typical drone? As far as I know ISIS never tried something like that which is surprising given how potentially effective against armour such a top-attack could be were it to work properly. Or maybe put one in the nose of essentially an RC suicide plane with small camera on the front too.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/JosephHDempsey/status/950429242390704129

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/951063282714103808

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Some footage from the counter-offensive

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/951415388520280064

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/951441279170334720

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/951446457038581762

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/951463317545127936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4T5taGQnkU

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/Endemic22/status/952005553529569281

Click through for more videos from other towns/cities. Several of those places are depopulated and destroyed now :smith:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
The Abu Duhur offensive and associated terror-bombing has displaced over 200,000 people in the space of a month

https://twitter.com/OCHA_Syria/status/953385862749974529

quote:

As a result of the ongoing hostilities, several incidents affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure were reported. The Health Cluster reported that an INGO-supported primary health (PHC) care facility in Heish sub-district in Idleb Governorate was impacted by an airstrike on 05 January. The attack resulted in structural damage rendering the facility out-of-service. On a monthly basis, the PHC provided an average of 5,700 consultations and 27 deliveries.

On 07 January, a Syrian NGO-supported PHC in Abul Thohur sub-district in Idleb Governorate was reportedly impacted by an airstrike, resulting in structural damage. On a monthly basis, the PHC provided 4,600 consultations.

On 07 January, a Syrian NGO-supported specialized healthcare facility in Idleb sub-district in Idleb Governorate was reportedly impacted by an explosion, which resulted in structural damages. Initial reports indicate that a doctor was injured. The facility is out-of-service. On 08 January, a doctor working for a Syrian NGO was killed in Ma’arrat An Nu’man sub-district in Idleb Governorate after an airstrike struck his home. As per initial reports, the doctor’s wife, mother, son and mother in law were also killed; while his sister and four of his children were wounded. On 08 January, a Syrian NGO-supported surgical hospital in Kafr Zeita sub-district in Hama Governorate was reportedly impacted by an airstrike for the third time since the recent intensification of hostilities. The facility is out-of-service. On a monthly-basis, that hospital provided an average of 929 consultations, 78 admissions, 36 major surgeries and 35 war related trauma cases.

On 11 January, local sources in Idleb Governorate reported that airstrikes on Khan Shaykun town resulted in the death of a woman and her child. Furthermore, airstrikes on Ma’arrat An Nu’man town reportedly wounded the Syrian Interim Government’s Health Minister, killed his driver and destroyed an ambulance belonging to one of the town’s hospitals. In Saraqab town, local media sources reported that airstrikes resulted in the death of one person and caused material damage to the civil defense center in the town.

On 12 January, local sources in Idleb Governorate reported the death of nine people, including five children and three women, and the wounding of 10 people after several airstrikes struck Khan Elsobol town in the south-eastern part of the governorate. On the same day, airstrikes on Hbit town reportedly damaged a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding three people. Education Cluster partners reported that two schools in the town were damaged, as a result of these airstrikes. On the 13 January, local media sources reported that airstrikes on Khan Elsobol town caused minor damages to a school. Airstrikes on Sarja village near Ariha town reportedly damaged the village’s civil defense center and destroyed one of its vehicles. Also near Ariha town, airstrikes on Shannan village reportedly destroyed the village’s civil defense center, wounding one of its workers and destroying some vehicles. Airstrikes on Kafr Battikh village near Saraqab town reportedly resulted in the death of three people, including one child.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Haystack posted:

Oh Jesus Christ, they're starving the Houthi, idiots. Did it somehow not penetrate that the Houthi are a distinct people? Or that the famine is way worse in the Houthi areas? Or that the entire war is explicitly about putting the filthy heretic Houthi under the boot? Everyone else is just collateral.

Please explain the Houthi Nation and how they are a distinct people.

Sinteres posted:

The rebels never seriously threatened to cut off the SAA salient in Idlib, but that ISIS tumor in Idlib seems to be metastasizing, and at least according to their own reports they've made some significant gains into that salient from the east. Even in 2018 it seems to be a bad move to ignore ISIS for too long.

Seems like the Assadist plan of shipping ISIS fighters into the pocket to act as co-belligerents with them against the rebels is increasingly backfiring. Who could have seen that coming :allears:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

lollontee posted:

You're asking us to debate what is and what isn't a legimate identity for a people to receive a degree of moral protection against being murdered en masse.

Nah it was more me wondering how the militant group Ansar Allah are some sort of distinct ethno-religious people.

It's like saying Turkey is waging a war against the distinct and persecuted Apoist minority.

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 17, 2018

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

steinrokkan posted:

Not that I'm complaining, but why David Clarke of all people, it's not like there's somebody in Washington going "God, I hope my key ally David Clarke is safe"

A lot of people were got. Mostly pro-Trump figures from what I saw at least.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/ajaltamimi/status/958305294706233344

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Does anyone have a link to that American (?) PDF about the IDF's mistakes in the 2006 Lebanon war?

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 2, 2018

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Looks like it could be MANPADS if this footage is to be believed

edit: better video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmFbuPJAFk

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/959802233440358402

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 3, 2018

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

Someone is sending a poo poo load of ATGMs to Kurdish forces:

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/960125679294713857

That's bad news for Turkish forces, if there's one thing we've learnt in Syria, it's ATGMs are the greatest equaliser.

Why the Turks first move wasn't to cut off the bulk of Afrin canton from Assad I'll never know. Do they not get the concept of cutting off your enemy's ability to resupply and reinforce? Saw the same thing in the battle for al-Bab, which took a heavy toll (on them, the TFSA, and the city itself) because of precisely that.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

lollontee posted:

Because that would have required Turkish army troops attacking regime positions

No it wouldn't.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Didn't realise Aleppo had somehow teleported itself to somewhere between Darat Izzah and Menagh.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

lollontee posted:

Are you dense? I said mountains you dolt.

lollontee posted:

Oh word? So tell me, how do you encircle Afrin without holding Aleppo? Or is your suggestion that the Free Turkish Army has somehow in the intervening time transformed into a force capable of taking Aleppo back from the Regime on its own?

:thunk:

Besides, the area Turkey and the TFSA has been primarily advancing into is more rugged than the area I'm talking about so :shrug:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
The topographic map I'm looking at shows the area I'm talking about to be less mountainous than the primary area of Turkish operations in the border area.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Islamic State is the only true anti-Imperialist - and thus Marxist - force in Syria.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/UNOSAT/status/960819838347333633

Speaking of which, dozens of people have been killed in East Ghouta today. Air strikes and shelling happen all day every day, but they've been particularly intense the last few days.

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Feb 6, 2018

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/KreaseChan/status/962372994185269249

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/964860142876545025

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Meanwhile

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/965600832828919809

https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/965592323492077570

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Short thread

https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/968776715664265216

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Equal rights are important, which is why a totalitarian fascist police state that runs literal death camps > a government of majoritarian rule that might not have equality for religious minorities.

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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
We must impose mass-murdering fascist police states on the savage Arab, lest they govern their own societies in an illiberal manner.

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