/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Thank you all for contributing to these threads. The lurkers appreciate the work you do. (you know who you are)

>>255770
Yes, we do. :)

>>255770
Also, non-lurkers appreciate you too >>255767

I found a treasure trove of brochures and pamphlets that were present at the 1939 world's fair in NYC. Including one for Syria

Fucking hell, a lot of the stuff shown here has been damaged or outright destroyed

>>255770
>>255779
>>255780
Thank you guys. It means a lot for our work to be appreciated.

>>255784
It's sad about Palmyra but I'm happy that Krak des Chevaliers is still standing

Al-Ebbo

>>255788
Luckily ruskies said that they are going to invest some moneyz into renewal of the cultural sides, Palmyra the most.
I wonder if any of the gulfniggers are supporting Aleppo/Damascus mosques renewal.

Thread on Danish TV report on Danish soldiers in Ain al-Assad airbase:
https://twitter.com/ASBreakingNews/status/1216515582859849728 [Embed]
>The government had been warned six hours before missile attacks against military bases
>After the attack, the soldiers were surprised that the destruction was not greater. I would estimate that the nearest rocket hit 300 feet from us, and as we walked around afterwards, there were helicopters split in half and holes so big that you could park a van in them.

>>255795
Based Khadyrov & co.

>>255796
>majoosi warned everyone six fucking hours before this shit
Damn, if only Great Satan would do so about their drone strikes.

>The Libyan Arab Armed Forces completely control the area of Abu Qarain, Wadi Zamzam and Sadada
https://twitter.com/MstrMax11/status/1216625673193824256 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=31.446824&lon=15.028610&z=11&m=bs&gz=0;146361923;313803132;6289672;0;6049346;738333;0;1042873
Misrata soon but Haftar and Sarraj are supposedly in Russia for talks.

>>255801
Ehh most likely something like "x amount of oil goes to Mother Russia plus we can have a base in Libya and you can continue offensive".

>>255803
Sarraj is the head of the GNA so Russia is trying to have peace talks.

>>255804
Well lets hope that untill peace is brokered most of GNA will defect to LNA.

>>255808
>Just 11 families have crossed through Abu Duhur crossing into government territory.
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1216685400351178752 [Embed]
Worth the ceasefire?

Hold on to your butts.

Afghan Districtmupdate - ANDSF recaptures Shib Koh DHQ in western Farah province.

>>255822
Also Zaytan getting targeted
https://twitter.com/AleppoAMC/status/1216741162284916737 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.058259&lon=37.013111&z=15&m=bs&show=/15400747/Zaytan

>>255815
Shits gonna get wild this year lads, i can feel it.

Premiere of a new ANNA News report from Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTDazVj24E [Embed]

>>255833
Syria, Turkey and Russia at trilateral meeting in Moscow were presented by their heads of intelligence services. Syria reassured that it will return control over all of Idlib

https://twitter.com/lummideast/status/1216788413350924288 [Embed]

>>255837
SANA reports a Syrian-Turkish-Russian meeting in Moscow, at which Syria (Ali Mamlouk) demanded Turkey (Hakan Fidan):
• respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and withdraw Turkish forces;
• satisfy terms of 2018 Sochi agreement on Idlib.
https://twitter.com/AbuJamajem/status/1216782794938077185 [Embed]
Now we just wait and watch as T*rkey sends more military hardware to the jihadis.

>>255839
>#Libya: Turkey-backed GNA's demands were so ridiculous they were short of asking Haftar to surrender himself at one of their stations in downtown Tripoli
>Haftar returns to Libya refusing any ceasefire.
https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/1216872407656550400 [Embed]
Seems promising for the T*rkey-Syria meeting in Moscow.

Nigeria Shitmap
Note - the Wikipedia warmap page was last updated on August 5, 2019,

>>255744 →
Hmm, 3 days into the ceasefire and Russia started launching airstrikes plus SAA artillery increasing activity in both Idlib and Aleppo.
15th is too early imo, i'd give it another week.
One thing is for sure though and that is the ceasefire not lasting 25 days.
Let's see if Erdomeme's threats were just jokes or not.

>>255911
For those who missed it
>Erdogan threatens Assad regime with military action: “400K displaced Syrians in Idlib must be returned to their homes. If necessary we’ll stop regime’s attempts to break the ceasefire on our own. Everyone should see that we don’t joke, we will do whatever we say”
>Erdogan issues a veiled military threat to Haftar
“If coupist Haftar continues it’s against the legitimate Libyan govt and our brethren there, we won’t hesitate to teach him the lesson he deserves”
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1217014576258088960 [Embed]

>>255911
al-Baghdadi was the fall guy. Israel had to kill him to tie up loose ends

>>255919
That's Erdogan in the pic tho.
Baghdadi was killed to boost Trumps popularity.
brb washing my eyes with bleach

>>255911
Ye I forgot that SAA loves WWI tactics of just blowing up shit for weeks before advancing.
>>255920
LOL, you get used to it.

>>255964
>Artillery shelling reported across the entire Tiger Forces' northern flank (Ghadfah - Masaran - Tal al-Shaykh - Kursiyan - Abu Jurayf) in a rapid and concentrated manner typically reserved for the early hours before a day of advancing forward.
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1217352306557181953 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.698571&lon=36.841965&z=12&gz=0;367923116;356744153;0;0;299549;180564;121879;348544;1001644;398721;1349258;584770
Might be sooner than a week.

>>255967
Calling it the "Tiger Forces' northern flank" is wrong though as this is the 5th's front.
Meanwhile on the Tiger's front:
>Russian aircraft target the towns of Masran (5th), Maar Shamsheh, and Talmans (Tigers) with high-explosive missiles in the eastern and southern Idlib countryside.
https://twitter.com/ufuk_sy/status/1217348335838822400 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.661620&lon=36.760769&z=13&m=w&gz=0;367105579;356372786;0;0;264358;16741;926971;688896

>>255968
Also Kursiyan was hit by RuAF

>Turkish Defense Minister Akar: "Our effort is to stop the bloodshed, with a political solution in both Libya and Idlib."
>Turkish Minister of Defense announces that ongoing talks with Russia on "establishing a safe area in Idlib where displaced Syrians can spend the winter"
>Turkish Defense Minister: We will not withdraw from the observation point in Idlib and it has been strengthened
Empty talk, they have a "safe zone" on their border already and neither the M-4 nor M-5 run near it.
Remains to be seen if they'll further prop up their proxies and literally al-Qaeda to retain the highways.

>>255987
Across the street from the bank that was hit by RuAF i think three years ago
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.930800&lon=36.639560&z=19&m=h

>>255988
video of the Russian airstrike years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klr3dSpgqWo [Embed]

#BREAKING Russian government, Medvedev resigns: news agencies

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1217440010103926786 [Embed]

>>255991
Idlib SOON!
I hope..
Also,
>Lavrov resigned
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

>>255990
In the 2020 adress, Putin proposed several changes to the Russian constitution that are aimed at strengthening the Russian Federation’s national sovereignty.

Among others, the proposals include the following:

• To guarantee the primacy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the territory of Russia over international law and international treaties. Previously, the Russian state followed the principle of the primacy of international law over its national laws.
• To ban prime ministers, governors and other key officials to have foreign citizenship or residence permit at the constitutional level.
• To update the requirement for presidential candidates. This should include the residence in Russia for 25 years and the absence of foreign citizenship.
• To introduce in the Constitution the corresponding status and role of the State Council (an advisory body to the Russian head of state).
• To increase the responsibility of the Federal Assembly (the two-chamber Parliament) for the formation and activities of the government and entrust the State Duma (the lower house of the Parliament) with the approval of the prime minister. The President will not have the right to reject the approved candidacy.
• The President should appoint of heads of law enforcement agencies, after consultation with the Federation Council.
• To strengthen the role of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. At the request of the president, it should verify the constitutionality of bills and other documents.
• To allow the Federation Council (the upper house of the Parliament), on the recommendation of the President of Russia, to remove from office judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts in response to their misconduct defaming honor and dignity.
https://southfront.org/putins-annual-address-nationalization-of-elites-and-strengthening-of-russian-national-sovereignty/

Tl;dr these amendments are aimed at reinforcing Russian sovereignty.

Supposedly in Jarjanaz

4Th Div says their objective is "the liberation of Aleppo's countryside & to head towards Idlib".
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1217496943095681025 [Embed]
Let's see if they manage to capture anything this time.

>Violent clashes between the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army and Al-Qaeda gangs on the axis of Tel Khatra and Abu Jarif in the eastern countryside of Idlib
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1217513718134792194 [Embed]
Liwa Al-Quds reporter claiming they're "resuming the battle for liberation Southeast Idlib countryside"
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1217515806948544513 [Embed]

>>256016
>Militants say violent clashes ongoing right now as #SAA try to advance on the Abu Jarif axis
https://twitter.com/ALNokhbaArmy/status/1217522941669314565 [Embed]
Wrong frontline but Ebin called it

>>256019
>and towards Tell Khatrah.
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1217526734104465411 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.739058&lon=36.940756&z=15&m=bs&gz=0;369272589;357319343;0;0;115871;103458
So Tell Khatrah wasn't captured? Can't say im too surprised, the info was too vague back then, no pictures and no counterattacks.

>"The resumption of military action on several axes in Idlib countryside, amid great progress of the army from an hour until now, its control of several towns & a major breakdown in the defensive lines of armed groups."
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1217555186178236417 [Embed]
The announced "towns" are Nawhia al-Gharbia and Nawhia al-Sharqia, but SAA has been pictured in both after jihadi raids and they were never claimed before.
Weird and gives credence to this: >>256023

>>256021
>>256029
Supposedly Tel-Khatrah and Um-Jarif (Abu?) captured
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1217558205091459075 [Embed]

Tigers promising surprises

>>256017
It looks like they’re aiming to cut the M5 between Saraqib and Maarat al-Nu’man.

Syria Shitmupdate - gains near Abu Dhuhur.

>Militants claim to recapture Abu Jurayf Village
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1217827046803550210 [Embed]
Third pic looks like the northern section of Tall Khatrah, but i can't confidently say that it actually is:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.747784&lon=36.931089&z=17&m=bs&gz=0;369248664;357470434;0;8707;121128;0

>>256089
MILITANT “UNCONFIRMED CLAIMS”
Abu Juraif recaptured
Seized a Shilka
Seized Doshka machine guns
Seized anti-tank missiles
Seized various weapons, ammunition, and mechanisms
More than 20 dead and dozens wounded from Liwa al Quds.”

SAA video from Tall Khatrah earlier this morning with
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1217834670928297984 [Embed]
Standing on the hill that the village is named after:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.743014&lon=36.939334&z=19&show=/26755971/Tell-Katrah

>>256090
captured by jihadists

>>256092
ATGMs, AGS's
https://twitter.com/Kyruer/status/1217837498463916032 [Embed]

>Abu Jafur and Tell Khatrah under SAA. Militants failed to recaptured it.
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1217848837295038464 [Embed]
Uhh, right...

>>256097
#Syria: a #Kornet fired by #NLF wiped out today a pick-up filled in with pro-Assad fighters (E. #Idlib). Deadliest #ATGM strike since long time.

Until now
There’s no serious work in #Aleppo west CS and #Idlib south east CS

https://twitter.com/Syrian_MC/status/1217881007187206148 [Embed]

>>256101
Weather is too bad supposedly

>>256100
Looks like the shot was taken indoors and close enough to have been in the same village.
What a shitfest.

6 dudes, most of them around 60 years old were found shot and beheaded in Abisan, Khanasir countryside:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.590406&lon=37.462596&z=17&m=bs&show=/37425982/Abisah
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1217938978659360768 [Embed]
ISIS remnants from the Abu Duhur offensive behind the murders maybe?

>Huge uptick in ATGM usage today across greater Idlib
>Just by a quick glance I counted 4. And just by the NLF
https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1218181125069320193 [Embed]
Connect the dots: >>255839 >>255978

Unconfirmed: SAA lost Tal khatrah

>>256153
>Militants claim Two tanks were captured on the Tal Khatra axis and A tank was destroyed on the Tah axis with an ATGM.
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1218201174869868550 [Embed]
No reason to not believe it tbqh

>>256169
Also RuAF striking west Aleppo, big bombing campaign going on.

Haven't seen any reports of arty/airstrikes hitting Kafr Hamra/Haritan/Anadan on the NW front of Aleppo so a direct assault on this salient is improbable, working on the west/southwest/south axis is more likely.

Can't really find any weak spots to take advantage of in the Aleppo front though and arty/airstrikes aren't that effective when the jihadis have been busy digging tunnels for years.
If the 4th aren't ready to brute force to punch a hole somewhere by zerging tanks (more than 3 at a time) straight into ATGM fire this will be another Jobar/Kabani.

>>256198
Also, the jihadis definitely have several defensive lines in all villages/towns near the frontline.
This will be a shitfest.

>>256200
> definitely have several defensive lines
Honestly you are giving these people too much credit, they never have a second defensive line.

Late Syria Shitmupdate - rebels recapture Abu Jarf in SE Idlib.

#HTS claim 6 #Russian soldiers were killed and others were injured, including a Russian reporter on Tal Khatra front
E #Idlib

https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/1218431005448601601 [Embed]

>>256225
Yeah nah that was fake news, Oleg from ANNA is fine and the 6 names they announced were fake:
https://twitter.com/Alqalqal/status/1218253180053721088 [Embed]
>>256218
>they never have a second defensive line
Remember Ain Terma and Jobar.

>ISIS broadcasts a video and announces their resumption in the state of Tripoli and threatens Tunisia
https://twitter.com/akbaar_Benghazi/status/1218686018590859264 [Embed]
One masked dude
Right after "Erdogan warns Europe of new ‘terrorist’ threat if Turkish-backed Libyan gov’t falls"
Pathetically obvious what's going on.
Here's an article on the warning of Erdomeme:
>“Terrorist organisations such as ISIS [ISIL or Daesh] and al-Qaeda, which suffered a military defeat in Syria and Iraq, will find a fertile ground to get back on their feet”
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-warns-europe-of-new-terrorist-threat-if-turkish-backed-libyan-govt-falls/

Some dopey looking cunt in front of a TOS-1

Pretty amazing what the 5th corps, Liwa al-Quds & co managed to do this week. Not only did they lose Abu Jurayf and Tall Khatrah, they also lost and failed to recapture an important fortified hill they've held since the Abu Duhur offensive.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.746416&lon=36.953276&z=17&m=bs&show=/39881093/Tal-Mustayfi
This front isn't getting anywhere, it's another Tamanah disaster now that HTS & co has reinforced it and NLF got a green light to launch ATGMs.
Hopefully the tigers will come true with their promise of surprises and the 4th brings the heat to the Aleppo front for real.

>>256298
Compilation of clips from the Abu Jurayf/Tall Khatrah battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlAPs-5chvQ [Embed]

>>256295
Delamaghrebois is at it again.

>5th with the trophy from a few days ago
Another tank conversion

>>256331
>Video : Suqour al-Sham Brigades vehicle involved in todays attack on Abu Dafna being struck by #SAA #SyrianArmy which causes the driver to jump out & run for his life. Militant activist say That atleast 3 Militants from Jerjanaz died in this.
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1219001859769278464 [Embed]
top lel
volume warning

let me leave that here
>khomeini's great grandson
https://www.instagram.com/ahmadkhomeini/?hl=en

>>256368
let me add that he's whiter than your average "white" american

Afghan Districtmupdate - Gultapa District in Kunduz becomes contested.

Looks like offensive preparations are taking place in Abu Dafn(a)
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1219327216028397568 [Embed]
Lots of tanks and BMPs, Ghadfah soon?
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.675374&lon=36.834733&z=17&show=/8522094/Abu-Dafn

kek

>>256366
ouch

....

>>256326
>>256331
>>256445
>>256449
https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1219680145142878216 [Embed]
Video from the assault on Abu Dafna, SAA fled like cowards from their positions as they usually does in the NW part of the village but somehow managed to win the battle.
Good amount of mines laid out on the road, probably the biggest reason why they didn't lose the rest of the town.
SAA lost like two ATGM launchers and an AGS, probably all from the fortified houses visible at the start.
No movement from the Tigers and the 4th are still bombarding the Aleppo outskirts.

Hmm, besides all the other locations around Aleppo the RuAF specifically bombed the vicinity of the Great Prophet Mosque in Al-Zahra (white circle).
Could be they're targeting jihadi frontline positions for SAA to break through.
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1220245495630700545 [Embed]

Tanks and sleep necessaries - The Tigers are preparing to advance, 100%.

>>256664
aha

40 Syrian forces killed, scores wounded in militant attack in Idlib

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed and 80 others wounded in a multi-pronged attack by militants in the northwestern province of Idlib.

Syria’s official news agency SANA cited a military source as saying that militants launched “fierce attacks with large numbers” on the country’s army positions in the northwestern province early on Thursday.

SANA said the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, launched the attacks with the use of various types of weapons, including booby-trapped vehicles, to break through some of the army’s positions in the areas of al-Samaka and al-Tah in Idlib.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/23/616881/Syria-Idlib-militant-attack-Syrian-soldiers-Russia

>>256667
This is sourced from the Ru-MoD and included the battles for Abu Jurayf and Tal Khatrah (not a single attack).
If the jihadists made such a succesful attack in a single day the commotion would be much bigger and they would publish corpses instead of only the loot.
Bad translations or propaganda to justify resuming the operations, pick your poison.
Furthermore, the only successful raids beside ATGM attacks have been on the 5th corps(e) front where the Tigers have no presence.
I'm not denying the last 10 days have been brutal for the SAA but the Tigers have been successful in defending their gains as the tweet pointed out.

Hershaw Hotel near the town of Kafr Dael in the western countryside of Aleppo, supposedly a sniper nest, BTFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NG2fST0dg [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.190137&lon=37.021721&z=19&show=/14468304/Hershaw-Hotel

>>256671
>supposedly a sniper nest
It's around 3,5-3,8km from the nearest frontline so probably at most it's used as a spotting location and ATGM nest now but could be lethal if SAA decided to advance in it's direction.
Not saying my 2018 Aleppo predicshun will happen but it definitely will.

A 4th division tank crew got roasted today, their tank probably stumbled into an ATGM
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1220371125764599808 [Embed]

>>256669
Ben voyons

>>256675
fug u

NDF DeZ
All things considered they seem to be handling the Euphrates region quite good compared to the shia militias down towards al-Bukamal and SDF.
Lots of local recruits.

>>256088
Did you increase the scale of your map by about 5%?

What happened to /sg/ twitter list? Did Sauditer make it that you can't see lists without creating accounts there???

HTS ATGM Strike yesterday shows SAA are closer to the M-5 than previously believed
https://twitter.com/XI_interbrigade/status/1220443977515749376 [Embed]
https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1220495888528871430 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.514430&lon=36.675351&z=19&show=/29943322/Raya-al-Huwayz

#Syria: pro-Assad forces resumed tonight battle to take #MaaretNuman (SE. #Idlib). Fierce clashes on Talmenes-Deir Sharqi front. #RuAF-#SyAF highly active over that area.

>>256771
#Syria: pro-Assad forces captured Deir Sharqi from Rebels (SE. #Idlib), advancing towards #MarretNuman. Fierce artillery bombardment pounding entire area amidst #Russia|n close air support. Battle also on Abu Jurayf front.

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1220786108096819207 [Embed]

SAA troops launched offensive in Eastern Maarat Al Numan and reach the outskirts of Ma'ar Shamarin

https://twitter.com/lummideast/status/1220794648442163200 [Embed]

>>256781
3 Axis's of Military Operations started today toward Aleppo-Damascus Highway.
Until this Moment:
Deir Sharqi
Kresian
Tel SyriaTel
Abu Jreif
Completely friend and the advance continues

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1220815628782776320 [Embed]

Hey Doc, your opinion on corono-may-mays shenanigans?

>>256801
big meme like every trending "super deadly virus that's going to annihilate humanity" of the past decades

>>256804
>says while packing up and going innawooods
;^)

Of course the offensive reignites when i get drunk and busy for the weekend.

Ok i'm home now and trying to ANALize and consolidate the gains.
Fucking nocturnal yoink of Maar Shamarin, Dayr Sharqi & Gharbi + Kursiyan and Abu Jurayf (Kursiyan was a big launching point for a lot of attacks on that front so it's a big gain for the 5th, arguably the reason why they lost their gains, see pic).
The gains near Maarrat al-Numan were way overdue but i'm happy the 5th are making gains alongside as was the norm when the offensive began.
TF forcing their way into Maar Shamshah and Talmenes tomorrow night will be the death bell for Maarrat al-Numan and Kafrumah-Kafranbel, THE Ahrar al-Sham main bastion. Let's see how this impacts the Aleppo front (which has alot of AAS fighters involved.)

>>256817
Short trip to tway¨¨er say vtell khatra and Khirbat Dawd, between Kersyan and Tell Khatra are capped
https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1220847488086597633 [Embed]
Noice

boink boink fuck al-Qaeda, the number one instrument of the jews followed by America and the EU

Also fuck the royal families of Europe (esp of the UK), Saudi arabia, T*rkey and the UN.
Hell Seger era jävla undermänniskor
Also fuck polish mongols, Norway, Africa, Iran (for pushing racial equality) and last but not least Putin for being a kike servant whilst doing the bare minimum to subserve them.
Also fuck any MENAoid for going to Europe and every European who condone it (also fuck Hungaria and Bulgaria for their impure bloodlines).
Fuck this world and eradicate Canada, America, the UK, Russia and anything south of Normandy.
Subhuman wall now

If anything just grant everything north of Normandy an instant death, we're getting Syrianized and the wheel of diversity won't stop spinning.
Welcome to world Kalergi of eternal internal strife and kikeoid overlordery

>>256822
>>256823
Jag tror att det är tillräckligt med att dricka för en dag

>>256824
yeah i guess

T*rkey gave the idlibeans tons of GRAD rockets, haven't seen them unleash a full salvo (40 rockets) from a BM-21 in a long ass while.
https://twitter.com/Kyruer/status/1219731253156622336 [Embed]

>Turkey never cut its support to al-Qaeda in Idlib, let alone to its proxies. These photos by
@annanews_info
shows the reaility of the situation, doznes of empty ATGM tubes found by the SAA, one of them is even a Chinese HJ-8.

Drone video of Marat al Numan from the southeastern direction
https://twitter.com/annanews_info/status/1221060455663357952 [Embed]

Maraat al-Numan is visible
Pic is taken here:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.618935&lon=36.696346&z=19

The Tigers could theoretically enter the city tonight but i think Maar Shamshah and Talmenes will be taken first.

Snus had a fun night.

Syria Shitmupdate - advance near Maarat al-Nu’man

>>256863
> i think Maar Shamshah and Talmenes will be taken first.
Telmenes town has fallen militarily and the forces are working on combing it and installing points on its perimeter in order for it to be declared safe.
The forces' advance is now towards Maarshamsha with aerial bombardment at the militants' positions.

military significance of Tal Menes
1. Fire control over the Aleppo - Damascus highway & the eastern front of the city of Maarat al-Numan.
2. Fire control over Wadi Deif military base & monitoring the militants inside it
3. Supervision of supply roads to Marshurin & Babila

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1221132306972364800 [Embed]

>>256930
>ayyranians
>smart enough to bio-engineer a novel bioweapon
(x)
they should bio engineer some food for their people first

>>256890
Hey would you look at that, another round of redemption. I'm drunk again as promised and very satisfied with the TF gains but wtf is the 5th doing? Slackers.
Supposedly there's progress on the Aleppo front.

Ghahdfa yoinked

>>257083
But there are advancements on the Khan Tuman front.

https://twitter.com/xinwenfan/status/1221342226975866881?s=21 [Embed]
> China health director Ma Xiaowei says #WuhanCoronavirus is contagious during the incubation period, which is up to 14 days. "That's very different from SARS."
If this is true, brace yourselves: this could get bad, very fast.
Doc, tell me it’s impossible for a virus to be infectious while incubating.

>>257101
> it’s impossible for a virus to be infectious while incubating.
>what is the flu for 50$
contagious diseases that can be transmitted before the subject develop symptoms is very frequent
there is even a word for it "healthy carrier" (not sure if it's the proper translation) to designate subjects that are contagious but still haven't developed symptoms

>>257102
In America, we just call them “carriers”, but yeah, I get your point. What do you think about the outbreak so far?

Syria Shitmupdate - SAA at outskirts of Maarat al-Nu’man.

>>257104
>What do you think about the outbreak so far?
an overblown meme
china has learned from their poor management of the 2003 epidemic and is going overkill on the safety measures which make it look like it's annuda black plague.
all in all lethality rate for all these past epidemic has been very low (the swine flu had a lethality of 0.01 to 0.03% if contracted and among the dead, the eldery and children are over-represented, and the so called super deadly spanish flu of the 1918 that killed more people than WW1 had a lethality rate of 2-3% and that was at a time where modern antibiotics didn't exist)
the whole big deal with it, is if you have 1 billion people getting infected, 1 million will die which make it look like a super deadly virus. so when you see high numbers of deaths, remember that it's a question of perspective, don't forget that china has a huge population and thus it might be misleading to only look at raw numbers

Quwat al-Ridha (Hezbollah-trained Syrian Shia militia) are involved in the Aleppo battles.
Queue the muh Iran led offensive accusations

>>257106
>>257106
Thank you for your answer and insights. Cheers to it being overblown, hopefully, since locking down 57+M people is certainly overkill for just 2000 confirmed cases.

>>257112
The lack of movement westwards suggest they won't be entering Maraat al-Numan from the south but what they'll focus on after the city is gonna be interesting.
They should obviously grab Kafrumah-Hass-Kafr Nabl to the west to secure the city and that would open the road to finally capturing Jabal Zawiya and the Ghab plains but since the 5th would have trouble capturing Saraqib themselves the Tigers might prioritize storming north along the M-5 to reach Aleppo.
Exciting times either way!

>>257111
>>257112
>Maar Shurin captured by the Tigers of the Tarmah regiment of the SAA 25th division.
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1221476489583038464 [Embed]
Video of the outskirts of Marat al numan
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1221471253984370688 [Embed]
>Militants confirm the news that the Syrian Arab Army has full control of Maar Shurin - Militants say they withdrew from Maar Shurin due to intense air strikes and hundreds of rockets
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1221477743478628352 [Embed]

Oleg from ANNA News showing a tunnel that is said to go all the way to Marat al-Numan
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1221474166286770177 [Embed]

>Rebels report of a tanks massacre around Aleppo...
https://twitter.com/ProNDF/status/1221472695449075712 [Embed]
Supposedly 6 tanks knocked out

SAA blasting some military tunes with a big ol speaker in Zahra, Aleppo
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1221471769753767938 [Embed]

>Unlike what many people thinks
>This phase of the operations in #Idlib are about to end soon
>But in #Aleppo its a different story.
https://twitter.com/Syrian_MC/status/1221482958118363137 [Embed]
Hmm?
I guess that means no Jabal Zawiya and Ghab plains for now?
He could just be wrong again though, who knows.

>>257110
Saraya al-Areen is involved aswell, Alawite militia from Latakia affiliated with the Iranian-backed Local Defence Forces network

Al Dana and Babilla captured
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.694319&lon=36.709185&z=14&m=bs&gz=0;366887140;356986059;0;0;428295;25092
Odd choice but ok, let's what this leads to, encirclement from the north of Marat al-Numan?
Capitalizing on the jihadis expecting the SAA to go straight for the city and thus forgot the flanks`?

Wadi Deif base and the Fertilizer Plant was captured aswell.
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1221500788238962688 [Embed]
HTS SVBIED targeted the Mahna Housing fortification west of Az-Zahraa district, Aleppo
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1221535923701198851 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.228679&lon=37.084200&z=16&m=bs&show=/33290445/Mahna-Housing
4th div T-72 Adra hit with ATGM, looks to me like the tank was trying to advance towards the Journalists Housing, al-Assad Forest in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN9wBN9YZ6E [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.180562&lon=37.062399&z=16&m=bs&gz=0;370579040;361785098;63085;44511;64373;0;0;5715;3433;46416;61368;43992
>Tal Al-Sawame' (Silos hill) is friend and in the hands of the men of the Syrian Arab Army
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1221540708106063873 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.712737&lon=36.762228&z=16&m=bs&show=/29616688/Al-Suwam-a

Seeing reports that SAA don't control al-Ghadfah, Abu Jurayf, Tall Khatrah and Barsah (probably Tal Mustayfi and Kursiyan included).
Unclear why, maybe it was fake news that the SAA took them, but eh...
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.703868&lon=36.878014&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;367929553;356746593;0;0;875473;128281;1000785;390357;1330375;577104;1459121;669068;1586151;723405

>>257146
>5th Corps soldier talk about many areas being no man's land in a SAA WhatsApp-group for soldiers from the Baniyas area. SAA control these areas, but not with boots on the ground
>Rebels have abandoned villages, with the SAA choosing not to enter
Probably related.
I guess they won't advance when the RuAF is busy supporting the Tigers...

>>257141
>>257141
>Tigers of the 25th Division now advancing on Binin to cut off the last road leading north from Maarat al-Numan.
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1221534838244683776 [Embed]
>The army's goal is Deir Snabil, north of the Mountain area
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1221544972081672194 [Embed]
both:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.702335&lon=36.633568&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;366034412;356989195;884056;1394;877189;2788;593948;178418;362205;119879;0;0

Important advances by the Syrian Army on M5 highway!
SAA liberated MaarShorin,Zaalana,Dana,Babila & Sawami' and cut the Aleppo-Damascus highway north of Maarat al-Numan.

Red arrows: possible pockets or direction of advances.

Syria Shitmupdate - SAA cuts the M5 north of Marraat and secured all the important buffer cities on the east flank.

>>257216
Damn, I was away for a while, I had no idea hebbenings were happening! Nice!

SAA reprtedly captured Maasaran, Tell-e-Shih (Tal al-Shaykh) and Khirbat Mazin this morning.
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1221659820480221184 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.702823&lon=36.801367&z=14&gz=0;367820978;356916004;390100;0;538158;47052;235176;159269;0;165541
If true, then Ghadfah has to be under SAA control already.

Now will they go for surrounding Al-Ghab plain?
I bet Tiger would prefer to avoid it,as this is kind of a dire place for him, he got wounded there really badly.

>>257229
At most they're currently just advancing on villages north/west of Maarrat al-Numan to encircle the city.
I don't think their objective is to go that far west right after capturing Maarrat al-Numan (focus seem to be on the highway) but there's always a possibility...

Reports suggesting there's gonna be action on the Al-Tah front (i.e towards the M-5 between Maarrat al-Numan and Khan Sheikhun) tonight.

Ma`arratah, Dayr al Gharbi, Taqanah and Kafr Basin captured
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1221768559086505984 [Embed]

There's two roach observation posts in Maar Hattat so i guess the M-5 will be pierced north of it.
Probably something like this tonight:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.601695&lon=36.618032&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;366362285;355510131;525283;0;427436;33518;398254;143840;393104;275089;339889;326745;216293;332329;145912;322557;18024;419578;0;513796;60081;617074;183677;689640;290107;706385;496101;693826
Possibly even reaching Kafrumah.

>>257237
and if the work north of Maarrat al-Numan continues, the city could be encircled tonight.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.653112&lon=36.680603&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;366049861;355915053;844573;1128508;369071;1192628;0;1074142;456619;890106;272941;439596;545883;214944;825691;0

>>257237
>According to TF page they liberated Al-Hamidiyah
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1221772630006599680 [Embed]
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.614360&lon=36.664596&z=15&m=bs&show=/29331512/Al-Hamidiyah
"liberated the town of Hamdiyeh and besieged the city of Ma`rat al-Nu`man from the south and reached the outskirts of the Hamidiyya camp"

>>257241
+ Kafr Atiya and Sahyan
Can't find it on any map correctly placed so i'm gonna guess it's this between Sahyan and Babuleen:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.530061&lon=36.672578&z=17&m=bs&show=/object/edit/?lng=0&object_type=1&id=39824446
https://twitter.com/watanisy/status/1221788277541351430 [Embed]

>>257242
+ Marah
https://twitter.com/Syrian_MC/status/1221789921138167810 [Embed]
Also can't locate correctly (supposedly between Maar Hattat and Maarrat al-Numan), let's wait and see what the local mapmakers can do.

>>257243
>SANA reporter: Units of the army purify the village of Khan al-Sabil from the terrorists and pursue their remnants towards the village of Maardabsa (Ma'arrat Dibsah) in the southern Idlib countryside.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.745816&lon=36.767807&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;367337322;357128588;0;0;197410;468182
Errr, did the jihadis completely throw in the towel?