Voiceover by Harold Hoover US-backed militant groups, often referred to as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), have declared the start of a counter-offensive against “the regime and its foreign militias” in the area east of Suweida in southeastern Syria. The ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – May 22, 2017: ISIS Rapidly Losing Ground In Eastern Aleppo
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces and their allied units are rapidly clearing the countryside Maskanah, a strategic town in the province of Aleppo, from ISIS terrorists. So far, government troops have liberated Wadi Muwayih, Jub al-Ali, Tal Hasan, ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – May 19, 2017: US-Led Forces Fights With Syrian Army For Iraqi Border
Warplanes operating under the US-led coalition carried out airstrikes against a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) convoy advancing along the Al-Tanf-Damascus-Baghdad international road. The airstrikes targeted Syrian forces in Al-Shuhaimi area, 50 km from the town of Al-Tanf located at the ...
Read More »US Attack on Syrian Convoy ‘Government Terrorism’ – Syrian Negotiator in Geneva
US-led coalition’s attack on Syrian convoy on Thursday was an act of ‘government terrorism’, Bashar Jaafari, head of the Damascus delegation to the intra-Syria talks in Geneva, said Friday. On May 18, the US-led coalition struck the pro-Assad fighters near the ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – May 17, 2017: US-led Block Starts Media Campaign Against Syrian Government
On Tuesday, the Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) captured two small villages near the recently liberated Jirah Military Airbase in the province of Aleppo. The army and the NDF took control of Bayloneh and Jarrah Sagir located ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – May 10, 2017: Trump Administration Approves New Plan To Arm Kurdish Forces
The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to directly arm Kurdish forces operating in Syria, the Pentagon said. Spokeswoman Dana W. White said the president made the decision Monday, describing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – May 11, 2017: Syrian Army Renews Operation Against ISIS In Eastern Aleppo
Voiceover by Harold Hoover On May 10th, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fully liberated the important town of Tabqah and the Tabqah dam from ISIS terrorists in the province of Raqqah. The town of Tabqah is located within 40 km ...
Read More »Difference between Russian ‘no-fly’ & US ‘we fly/you don’t’ zones
Here is a pretty good commentary. Also, Russia AWACS (A-50U) have been seen in the skies over Syria. That provides Russia with a quantum leap in the detection of low-flying (cruise missiles) and low-RCS (stealth) objects.
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