Michael Horowitz @michaelh992 12h12 hours ago #ISIS claims it shot down a Russian combat helicopter and took three checkpoints east of Palmyra, #Syria Michael Horowitz @michaelh992 11h11 hours ago The Russian Ministry of Defense denied that a combat helicopter was shot down by #ISIS near Palmyra, #Syria Michael Horowitz @michaelh992 1h1 hour ago After initially denying #ISIS's claim, #Russia's MoD confirms an Mi-25 helicopter crashed near Palmyra, says two pilot killed #Syria Conflict News @Conflicts 10m10 minutes ago BREAKING: ISIS release footage of the shooting down of a helicopter near Palmyra that killed 2 Russian pilots. https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/751873427322052609
SAA has fully encircled Aleppo and their elite(for the SAA) Tiger Forces foiled Jaish al-Fateh attempts to reopen the supply lines into the city. Food and gas supplies are running low in the rebel held districts.
Sending another 560 US troops to Iraq. Capturing that air base was huge. Going to really start pressuring Mosul now
Article on the hopeless situation in Darayya, fewer than 1000 rebels remain and they're pretty much fucked. For their own sake they need to accept the regime offer of safe passage to somewhere else in Damascus or Idlib. http://syriadirect.org/news/with-fe...arayya-rebels-‘abandoned’-as-regime-advances/ Spoiler AMMAN: Syrian regime forces and allied militias have advanced a half kilometer into the encircled West Ghouta suburb of Darayya, the second major incursion into the opposition-held pocket in as many weeks, two rebel fighters in the suburb told Syria Direct on Monday. Syrian army forces now control the entire eastern half of Darayya after advancing for nearly two days behind a steady barrage of surface-to-surface missiles, mortars and barrel bombs, Abu Bilal a-Deirani, a fighter with the Free Syrian Army-affiliated Liwa Shuhada al-Islam, told Syria Direct Monday. “As things stand now, we have very little equipment and have suffered massive casualties,” said a-Deirani, adding that “there is a serious lack of both doctors and fighters” to stave off regime forces. Regime forces bombard Darayya with ground-to-ground missiles, mortars and barrel bombs during Sunday’s assault. Photo courtesy of Shahab News Agency. Syrian state media has not commented on the offensive in Darayya. Fewer than 1,000 rebel fighters from the FSA’s Liwa Shuhada al-Islam and Ajnad a-Sham, an Islamist brigade, now remain in Darayya. Regime forces first encircled the suburb in 2012. More than 120 of these rebels have died in fighting since last August, said a-Deirani. Darayya is located next to several regime military facilities, including the Mezzeh Military Airport and the 4th Armored Division base. The suburb is fewer than seven kilometers due south of Syria’s Presidential Palace. The town is important not only symbolically as one of the first to rise up against the regime, but also because opposition forces once believed the foothold, surrounded by regime territory, could one day serve as a “launching pad into Damascus,” a-Deirani and others inside Darayya told Syria Direct. Despite ostensibly being included in the cessation of hostilities agreement brokered by Russia and the United States this February, regime forces have continually bombarded Darayya, dropping more than 200 barrel bombs on the city during one week in June. Although the language of the February ceasefire agreement also called for aid to enter Darayya and other besieged cities, no aid entered Darayya until June. When the first UN-sponsored food aid shipment did enter, it included “only enough to provide food for one month for only a third of the city’s population,” Darayya’s Local Council wrote in a Facebook post on June 15. “During the ceasefire, the regime attempted to enter the city, killing and wounding hundreds of fighters and destroying their equipment,” Sayyed Tamam Abdul Rahim, a Liwa Shuhada al-Islam spokesman, told Syria Direct on Monday. Late last month, Darayya rebels launched a night-time raid against regime checkpoints west of the city, temporarily breaking the blockade separating the suburb from neighboring Moadhamiyet a-Sham. But the rebel victory would prove short-lived. “The morning after we took control [of the checkpoints between Darayya and Moadhamiyet a-Sham] the regime deployed special forces and spread snipers throughout the area,” said a-Deirani. “They brought in approximately 20 tanks and eight Shilkas,” he added. Shilkas are a type of Soviet-era anti-aircraft weapons systems that the regime uses in urban environments. Over the following week, regime forces recaptured the lost checkpoints and advanced into southwest Darayya, capturing a half kilometer of agricultural land, the breadbasket for the rebel-held suburbs’ 8,000 residents, pro-regime al-Masdar news, citing a Syrian Arab Army military source, reported on June 24. After its victory in Darayya’s southwest farms, regime authorities offered rebels safe passage to another rebel-held Damascus area if they surrendered, al-Masdar news reported the following day. “We refused the offer,” said a-Deirani, without elaborating further. Once negotiations broke down, the regime continued its advance, driving past the Abdel Nour mosque into the center of the rebel-held pocket on Sunday evening, a-Deirani and other fighters told Syria Direct. As their frontlines collapse, Darayya rebels say they feel “abandoned.” “From West Ghouta to Daraa province, no one has been able to launch an attack to help,” said a-Deirani. “If the regime takes Darayya, it will kill its population and kill the revolution,” he added. “This is a failure of leadership.”
another ISIS propaganda video with John Cantlie, he looks awful and the quality of the video is a far cry from their pieces a few years ago
Rebels are trying to reopen the Castello Road to Aleppo city but have so far failed and paid a heavy price Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha Syrian Army repel large attack by JN & Zinki on Mallah farms north of Aleppo Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha It was just like the last attack, SAA withdrew, JN takes some buildings, heavy artillery and then they retreat. Castello is still cut Yusha Yuseef @MIG29_ #Mallah update : alot of JN and Zinki killed around Mallah Farms by #SAA Tiger forces fires ,SAA didnt lose any points Next ...
wow CNN Türk ENG Verified account @CNNTURK_ENG #BREAKING Turkish PM Binali Yıldırım says #Turkey will restore normal relations with #Syria
The Daily Star @DailyStarLeb 29m29 minutes ago IS confirms number two Omar al-Shishani killed in Iraq
Somebody go ahead and tell me how stupid I am I've always been under the impression that the best way to turn the tides against ISIS is to just pay off some Muslim guys to just start going and blowing up buildings in the Middle East and have them claim to be ISIS fighters. Put that shit on video and now everybody in the ME wants to destroy these fucks and nobody wants to join because they're now blowing up their own/blowing up some religious sites. Now tell me how stupid I am.
We sort of did that in Iran in the 50's when reinserting the Shah. Didn't take long for them to figure out the "communist agitators" were CIA hired street hoods.
You don't have to pay fake ISIS people to blow up buildings in the middle east. They do it themselves and put it up on video. Muslims hate other Muslims more than they do Jews, Christians, westerners, etc.
The problem is that it's not as simple as classifying them as Muslim. There are many different branches of Islam. They apparently all hate each other and are already attacking each other's religious sites.
They had suicide bombers near important religious sites in Saudi Arabia recently. Part of their schtick is Takfirism. They will happily kill Muslims who they believe are apostates for not following their brand of Islam.
ISIS claims to have shot down an SAAF plane in Deir ez-Zor and a helicopter in East Ghouta, Damascus plane helicopter, video showing wreckage is in link https://twitter.com/RamiAILoIah/status/753578785115611136
Tim Pool @Timcast 2m2 minutes agoMayfield, OH Sources tell me low-flying Jets and ambulances seen near army headquarters in Turkey. Still no confirmation, but wild rumors of a Coup. World Aggregate News @WAGGNews 18s19 seconds ago #Breaking: Prime Minister of #Turkey confirms security forces thwarting coup attempt – @milliyet BuzzFeed News @BuzzFeedNews 1m1 minute ago ANKARA, Turkey (ap) — Military jets flying over Turkish capital Ankara; military vehicles blocking bridges in Istanbul, reports say https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/754041460454981632 Conflict News @Conflicts 2m2 minutes ago Conflict News Retweeted cumhuriyet.com.tr BREAKING: Turkish media report that a military helicopter has opened fire near intelligence headquarters in Ankara
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 5m5 minutes ago Charles Lister Retweeted Brahmaçarya #pts - #Turkey soldier reportedly says a coup has taken place & civilians should stay at home.
Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu 5m5 minutes ago #BREAKING Turkish PM says the attempt doesn't amount a military coup but there are some groups in military behaving irresponsibly
Turkey Blocks @TurkeyBlocks Confirmed: Twitter, Facebook & YouTube blocked in #Turkey at 10:50PM after apparent military uprising in #Turkey
Ankaralı Jan @06JAnk 11m11 minutes ago UN messages its staff in Turkey saying the Air Force and Gendarmes are attempting a coup curdistani @curdistani 4m4 minutes ago Clashes between regime forces in front of Erdogan' palace of Istanbul. #Turkey Breaking News Feed @pzf 2m2 minutes ago BREAKING NEWS: THE TURKISH STATE TV IS NOW SHUT DOWN.
Mahir Zeynalov @MahirZeynalov Istanbul Ataturk International Airport is taken over by the military, flights halted.
zerohedge @zerohedge 2m2 minutes ago TURKEY ARMED FORCES SAY THEY'VE TAKEN CONTROL OF COUNTRY Mahir Zeynalov @MahirZeynalov 2m2 minutes ago Turkish army announces it has taken over the authority in entire Turkey. Gov't denies, says the coup attempt is failed.
Lisa Daftari ✔ @LisaDaftari BREAKING: In Statement, Turkish military announces it has taken over Turkey, Reuters reports
Past overthrows have often been to combat Islamification, so there's a really strong chance this is good.
Breaking News ✔ @BreakingNews Turkish military says it has taken over the country, citing 'democratic order, human rights' - Reuters http://www.breakingnews.com/t/Bcss
Conflict News @Conflicts 10s10 seconds ago VIDEO: Alleged footage of Helicopter opening fire in #Turkey. - @Havrekhshaeta https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/754052076393594880
Ok dedicated thread for this, we'll leave just ISIS related news for this thread http://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/military-coup-underway-in-turkey.164325/
Now I expect Erdogan to totally gut any sort of opposition that existed prior to this and take total control of Turkey.
Iraqi Shi'ite cleric tells followers to target U.S. troops fighting Islamic State http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-usa-idUSKCN0ZX0XL
lol -- VIENNA (AP) — A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program will ease in slightly more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb. The document is the only secret text linked to last year's agreement between Iran and six foreign powers. It says that after a period between 11 to 13 years, Iran can replace its 5,060 inefficient centrifuges with up to 3,500 advanced machines. Since those are five times as efficient, the time Iran would need to make a weapon would drop from a year to six months. Iran says its enrichment is peaceful, but the program could be used for nuclear warheads. Two diplomats providing the information Monday demanded anonymity because they weren't authorized to do so.