ISIS update 8/30/2016..’it is now clear that Turkish ambitions go much further than Jarablus’
Syrian army combs Daraya, discovers terrorist hideouts
Intense fighting continues on the front line in Aleppo
‘My boy has been killed and my girl’s situation is terrible…this is how it is now’
Fighting for artillery base 30.08.2016 – Colonel Cassad
This morning, the Syrian army achieved tactical successes in the northern part of the corridor. After an intense night of bombing and shelling of the northern and central part of the artillery base, under the cover of armored infantry once again stormed the complex technical Air Force College buildings and seized part of the buildings in the northern part of the artillery base. If the CAA will be able to gain a foothold there, then the problem is with the wasteland c north and northwest of the artillery base and the Syrians will be easier to accumulate forces already on the very basis of artillery to attack its central part is solved, where the building of the Artillery Academy. In addition, control of the technical college and the northern part of the database will make it possible to advance the front to the south to the area of garages Ramuseha and closer to the road Khan Tuman – Ramuseh (which last days were intensively fired + on it regularly shoot machine militants tried to break through it in Ramuseh ). Full overlap the road will be possible only after clearing at least 2/3 of an artillery base, so these fights for debris on the basis of artillery, are very important for the whole course of operations in the corridor. But to solve these serious problems will be emphasized direct action in the battle of the ruins of the individual buildings.
Turkish-backed forces push deeper into Northern Syria
5 Children injured in rocket attack on Turkey’s Kilis
State Dept: Turkey’s war within a war in Syria. 29 Aug 2016
Pentagon: Turkey’s fighting with Kurdish forces unacceptable
‘Russia, US polarized over Syria’
‘De-confliction, Unity’: US in balancing act as Turkish, Kurdish forces clash in Syria
Turkey’s advance in Syria draws US rebuke
Heading for All-Out War on Syria by Stephen Lendman
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/08/heading-for-all-out-war-on-syria.html
Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria, aided by Pentagon warplanes, terrorist fighters, and US forces on the ground, may have been prelude to longstanding US plans for toppling Assad forcefully – on the phony pretext of combating terrorism along with blaming him for Obama’s aggression, orchestrated by Hillary. If anointed president in November, she’ll order a “full review” of America’s Syria policy, wanting unfinished business completed. According to her chief foreign policy advisor Jeremy Bash, her top priority is getting Assad “out of there” – in other words, greater US naked aggression to replace him with pro-Western puppet governance, no matter how much more mass slaughter and destruction it takes to do it. In early August, neocon Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellows Dennis Ross and Andrew Tabler urged America “tak(ing) a harder line against Mr. Assad and his allies.” “Punish the Syrian government…by using drones and cruise missiles to hit (its) military airfields, bases and artillery positions where no Russian troops are present,” they said – claiming it’s in response to government forces “violating the truce.”
Fact: Russian and Syrian forces scrupulously observe it, striking US-backed terrorists slaughtering civilians, doing their best to protect them from the ravages of US aggression. Ross, Tabler and other neocons like Hillary want Syria entirely ravaged and destroyed, scorning peaceful conflict resolution, calling for greater war than already.
Obama won’t likely escalate things more than already. Instead, public sentiment is being manipulated with Aleppo Boy and similar propaganda to accept greater conflict once Hillary succeeds him. It comes with huge risks if undertaken. Putin pledged support for Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity, along with the right of its people alone to decide who’ll lead them. How far will he go to keep his pledge? Will he risk East/West confrontation? Will America? Are Russia, China and Iran Washington’s next targets with Hillary as president? Will the unthinkable become reality with her in charge – nuclear war risking life on earth? When neocon lunatics seeking unchallenged power run the asylum, anything is possible – maybe likely.
Hollande: Turkey’s Syria operation could spark escalation
Erdogan Calls Putin as Russia Seethes at Turkey’s Syrian Incursion
….In other words the Turkish capture of Jarablus before it could be captured by the YPG was not primarily intended to prevent the linking together of two areas within Syria under Kurdish control – though that may have been a secondary factor – but was primarily intended to secure the main supply route (or “ratline”) Turkey uses to supply the Jihadi fighters attacking Aleppo. Beyond that it is now clear that Turkish ambitions go much further than Jarablus. Various Turkish officials have over the last two days been speaking to the Turkish media of Turkey establishing a large rebel controlled “safe zone” in this area of Syria. Moreover – as Mark Sleboda says – they have now secured US support for it, as shown by the very active role the US air force is taking in supporting the Turkish move on Jarablus.
As Mark Sleboda has also pointed out to me, creating this rebel “safe zone” within Syria has been a declared Turkish objective for over a year. The Turks have up to now been prevented from realising it because of US reluctance to provide the necessary support, and because of concern in Washington and Ankara about a possible Russian military reaction. With the move to Jarablus and beyond now carried out with US support and through Russian acquiescence obtained by stealth, the Turks have now achieved it. What implications does this have for the war in Syria and for the continuation of the Russian – Turkish rapprochement?
Going back to the war in Syria, my own view remains that this will not in the end decide the outcome of the battle of Aleppo, where reports suggest that the Syrian army is continuing to gain ground despite the uninterrupted – and in fact increasing – flow of supplies to the Jihadi fighters across the Turkish border. My longer term view also remains that if the Syrian government succeeds in recapturing the whole of Aleppo and eventually Idlib, then it will have won the war. However what this episode shows is that the war is far from won, and that the Turks and their US backers are still prepared to go on escalating it in order to prevent the Syrian army winning it.
Beyond that I think the British reporter Patrick Cockburn may turn out to be right, that by trying to establish a “safe zone” within Syria Turkey is overplaying its hand and is taking a step that “….would embroil Turkey in the lethal swamp lands of the Syrian-Iraqi war.” Already there are indications that the Turkish move is provoking a local reaction from the YPG and the Kurds. Despite earlier reports that the YPG was withdrawing all its forces back across to the eastern bank of the Euphrates, there are now credible reports of scattered resistance to the Turkish move by Kurdish militia aligned with the YPG, and there are also reports of mobilisation against the Turkish move in the Kurdish areas of Syria.
Euphrates Shield – Day 6 – Colonel Cassad
1. On the 6th day of the operation, “the Euphrates shield” Turks decided pervoocherdenuyu task – to clear the surrounding area Dzharablusa from the “black” and the Kurds, and came to the influx of the Euphrates north of manbij, while south of Amarna, advanced units, “al-Falah Sham “crossed the river and established themselves on the south shore, creating a springboard for further advance to the south, with the aim of cutting the road going to the manbij. It should be noted that the resistance on the part of the Caliphate, and on the part of the Kurds is rather weak character, which facilitates such a rapid development of the Turkish operation. The Kurds of YPG claim that Turkey uses sporadic clashes, so that under the pretext of “fighting terrorism” put forward their mechanized units as far as possible to the south.
Caliphate in the background of all this held a number of suicide attacks against the Kurds in the north-west of manbij and also repulsed the Kurds 3 villages south of manbij, but the operational value of this activity is “black” special values have not already, they probably need to think, how to equip the front to the north and north-east of Al-Bab.
2. In view of the ongoing clashes, Washington today demanded that Turkey stop the clashes with the Kurds on the pretext that “there is no caliphate”, but it is worth remembering that a little earlier the same Washington has demanded that the Kurds to withdraw to the east bank of the Euphrates, to maintain support the United States and avoid collisions with Turkey. The United States is allowed to exit the Kurds, using which they can avoid a direct clash with Turkey in manbij area. To this end, the United States in the coming days will be to negotiate with the Kurds of YPG, to persuade them to hand over the occupied territories and at the same time admonishing Turks beat the Kurds too much, because the US is still the Kurds may need. Turkey, in turn, accuses the Kurds of ethnic cleansing (which Turkey is especially amusing to hear) against the Arabs, trying to present themselves as the main defender of the Arabs in northern Syria from the “atrocities of Kurdish bandits.” In general, it is mostly the usual propaganda aimed at demonizing the Kurds against the backdrop of war, the majority of participants did not look too smeared with innocent blood. The Kurds, in turn, reported cases of fire by the Turks under their control militants.
3. Turkey also announced that Damascus has been informed in advance of the start of the operation, “the Euphrates shield”, the Russian mediator acted on this issue, so that Turkey will go to Syria, known to all interested parties and for anyone it is not a surprise It was. Turkey also indicated its position on prospects of operations. According to the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey clean up the site from the Caliphate Syrian territory between Al-Rai and Cobán, as well as prevent the creation of a Kurdish state. Once these goals are achieved, Turkish troops will be withdrawn. If everything is just the way it is good news for Assad, but it is worth remembering that Turkey’s policy is very changeable, and who knows where it will swing in six months. But while the Turkish intervention rather favorable to Assad, since eliminated the threat of immediate dismemberment of Syria by proclamation of Syrian Kurdistan. Kurds in this scenario remain with nothing http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/292 7395.html
The Lebanese pro-Syrian media reported that Assad and Erdogan reached a tacit agreement on the solution of the Kurdish problem. The Western press rumors about disagreements in Washington, DC between the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA about the solution of the Kurdish problem and the changes in Turkish politics.
In general, a lot will depend on whether the Turkish troops will go tributary of the Euphrates in the next couple of days and if the Kurds of YPG will listen to the promptings of the United States, began to retreat to the east bank of the Euphrates. The question now raised so – whether the Kurds will go out of manbij in a good or in a bad way. Turkey clearly prefer to have everything in a bad way. Syria, Russia and Iran, it will not be this way. The United States is clearly interested in is to the Turks just too much not beat the Kurds as though plans for a big Kurdistan and crumbled, all the same value deployed should not be underestimated in Rozhave US bases, so the US will expose themselves Kurds attorney in relations with Turkey not particularly Reflecting on how cynically they just betrayed them.
Iraqi soldiers get hero’s welcome in newly-liberated town
Iraqi town retaken from IS clouded by oil fires
“Iraqi forces find ISIL training camp near Jordan border”
Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units and Army Aviation destroy ISIS fighters in Khalidiya desert
ISIL Starts Search Operation for 3 Foreign Women in Mosul
Informed local sources disclosed that the ISIL terrorist group has started massive search operation in the city of Mosul to find three foreign women who have recently disappeared.
“The ISIL has mobilized all its terrorists in Mosul city to conduct search operations for the three missing foreign women, including a European woman, who had gone to a clinic under the control of ISIL’s security men,” informed sources announced.
In early August, the local sources in Nineveh province disclosed that masked men attacked a house in the center of Mosul where ISIL’s female terrorists worked, and abducted a number of them.
“Over 25 women, some from Libya, Yemen and European countries, were working in ISIL’s Hasaba (monitoring-security system) in a house in Mosul city center when unknown men attacked the house and kidnapped them,” the Arabic-language media quoted an unnamed military source as saying on Tuesday.
No group had claimed responsibility for the abduction yet.
On Monday, local sources in Nineveh province disclosed that the body of the commander of ISIL’s females battalion, nom de guerre Um Qazanfar, who went missing last week has been found in the Tigris River near the city of Mosul.
“Um Qazanfar was one of the highest-ranking members of the ISIL who was very close to the terrorist group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” Arabic-language media quoted an unnamed source as saying.
“She was also the first female intelligence commander in charge of collecting security information from the opponents of the ISIL in Mosul,” the report said.
ISIL had earlier declared that Um Qazanfar’s disappearance was “suspicious”.
The ISIL found Um Qazanfar’s dead body near the fourth bridge over the Tigris River in the center of Mosul.
Syrian Army, Hezbollah Advance against Terrorists Southwest of Aleppo City
Syria: Gov’t Forces Ready to Launch Final Operation to Liberate Al-Ramousiyeh
Syrian Army Starts Massive Operation against Terrorists in Southern Aleppo
Syrian Army Advances Further in Southwestern Aleppo
Syria: Gov’t Forces Fend off Jeish Al-Fatah’s offensives in Southwestern Aleppo
Syrian MP Describes Jarabulus Occupation as US, Turkey’s Ridiculous Show
Syria: ISIL Terrorist Group Employing Low-Salary Mercenaries to Minimize Expense
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/08/isis-update-8302016it-is-now-clear-that.html
