/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>253849
hehuehuhu
Thanks for baking

>>253851
Np have nice pic on the house. Good night

>Regime forces are moving without resistance. They captured Ghadfeh and Talmenes 3 km east of Maarrat al Numan.
>t. jihadi supporter
https://twitter.com/bdrhmnhrk/status/1209210140777467906
Looks like all of Maraat will be handed over.

>>253850
Jarjanaz was captured by the Tiger Forces and Ghadqah by the 5th Corps.
Talmenes, Maar Shamarin and Masaran being captured this fast after Jarjanaz/Ghadqah is incorrect.
Maybe the last jihadis left the towns and reported them as lost but for sure SAA aren't dumb enough anymore to advance without securing their gains.

>>253855
>Ghadqah by the 5th Corps
Speaking of which, i'm impressed by how quickly the 5th has been advancing on their front compared to the fiasco in Sukayk/Tamanah during the Khan Sheikhoun offensive.

>The town of Barsah, north of Farwan, is under the Syrian Arab Army's 5th corps, per ANNA News report Oleg Blokhin.
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1209223263617978368
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.686477&lon=36.881490&z=15&m=bs&show=/10632867/Barsah
hmm...

Those gainz feel like early Christmas presents, glorious!

The fresh smell of a new thread, gains upon more gains.

Ehh.. if only I had white Christmas
...and Europe
Oh well, you can't get them all.

I Shitmap
Syria Shitmupdate.

>>253863
Yes, it's also nice that the government and rebels are in Christmas colours.

>>253857
#FSA recaptured nearby Farwan & Barsah from #SAA and seized a BMP & an army truck

https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/1209438886642012160

Unconfirmed: Babulin, Kafr Basin, Jisr Haysh under SAA control. Will be confirmed shortly

Syrian army liberated *Magharat Marza and *Halban West of Abu Duhour

https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/1209535739223953408

#Tiger_Forces Soldier 3 HRs Ago-
New front for military action
Tigers of the army began an operation from zafr kabir town's axis in Abo duhur area & liberated magharah mirza & halban, advancing to tal khatrah where the clashes continue with armed groups.

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1209542900763283456

Video: HTS blew up a SVBIED in Jarjanaz today
https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1209551567457787904

>>253906
Supposedly this axis will aim for Saraqib, interesting.

SAA captured Jabal Zuwayqat on Kabani front (again).
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1209609223589502980
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.708712&lon=36.232846&z=16&show=/34091738/Jabal-Al-Zuweiqat-(Height-1154)

Julani made a speech
https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1209614616810205185

Syria Shitmupdate - HTS counterattack edition.
Merry Christmas Eve to all the new worlders.

I finished the Afghan Districtmap update way faster than expected.
It has more districts and most importantly, it has more roads.

The advance continues
The #SAA nears encircling the 3rd Turkish point in maar hattat in southern idlib countryside after the surman point.
Less than 1 km separates the SAA heroes from sieging the third Turkish point in maar hattat

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1209824383386165248

Reports this morning that Turkey and Russia agreed on militant forces handing over the “reduction areas” to the Russian and Turkish Police so the Syrian Army won’t enter them. Turkey pledges to remove all opposition fighters from the area

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1209826702123323394

>>253978
Unconfirmed news that the military is giving 24 hours goat fuckers to withdraw from Marat Nouman without a fight and that the army is taking over the city.

News-rumors ... There is an agreement to withdraw goat fuckers north of the M4 and west of the M5. And only the Russian army can patrol these routes.

https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1209861787954401281

>>253979
I'd wager that the Russians aren't that interested in patrolling the highways with their own troops and equipment when it's surrounded by literally al-Qaeda.

>>253982
Orient TV Reporter :Until this moment Russia didn't declare its acceptance to halt military operation, Agreement is unclear, Russia asked for joint control for the entire area located between Saraqeb & Jisr Al-Shughour until the south of Maarat Al-Numan

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1209892796930416648

>>253991
Basically, Damascus would take the towns and cities on the highways and the t*rks + Russian MPs would patrol the highway.

>>253991
>>253995
>Another translation of the same post.
It's clear Russia doesn't agree unless SAA takes the towns/cities.

>>253996
And T*rkey won't let that happen, so most probably no agreement will happen and offensive will continue, wopeeee

SAA reportedly making progess Between Jarjanaz, Talmenes and al-Ghadfah
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1209917619953979393
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.659214&lon=36.768365&z=16&m=w&gz=0;367527866;356500779;0;182710;234317;139826;60939;0

>Brigade 67 Division 11, Idlib Operations
Interesting weather.

>Vid uploaded Yesterday :
HTS & Ansar al tawhid saying -
>"We reassure the steadfast ones in the free land that there are brothers, steadfast, on the frontlines fighting & that they’re going to launch an offensive in SE #Idlib"
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1209993265509998592
Sending homemade troop carriers 015, 019, two unmarked ones and i think 018.
Well

>>254011
Nr 003, 004 and 008 BTFO/captured on the outskirts of Jarjanaz

Surrendering Jarjanaz and then launching tens of homemade troop carriers filled with troops to recapture the town makes no sense to me.
But oh well the real battle for Maraat seems to have started after Jarjanaz was captured.
Maarshurin, Talmenes, Maar Shamarin and Dayr Sharqi being the properly defended defensive perimiter of Maraat al-Nu'man.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.630512&lon=36.750298&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;367168235;355972981;0;0;208568;129103;292682;429101;208568;747116

>>254015
unnamed circles approximately where the SAA supposedly made gains here: >>254001
Makes sense topographically to capture in order to advance to Talmenes.

>Huge Turkish Military Convoy Entered Syria from Kafr Lusein Border Crossing and is heading to Southern Idlib Countryside
Video:
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1209993206038958080
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.256888&lon=36.717446&z=15&m=bs&show=/27856876/Kafr-Lusin

Unconfirmed Reports being spread around this morning
“Urgent
The heroes of the SAA establish control over kafr samkah after defeating the terrorists inside
The advance continues”
Samkah is North East of Farwan
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1210034160678686720
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.698501&lon=36.914921&z=15&m=bs&show=/33921115/Samkeh
Meaning SAA probably hold the road from Barsah to Halban.

>>254026
>army 5th corps and liwa quds liberate Samakat - Dalim - Khuwayn Shaar - Shammas - Jadaida Nawaf
https://twitter.com/SyriaWar2/status/1210127876647006209
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.708050&lon=36.907024&z=14&m=bs&gz=0;368977117;356879406;0;0;109004;94105;109004;94105;291824;92711
Confused where Shammas and Dalim really are...

>>254069
Who won?!

ANNA video

>Idlib Dawn. Winter Campaign 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_Eqyiqz-M

>>254084
video of the fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kjM-yBAxZ8

>SAA reppeling HTS attack on Qesabyah
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1210640991016931328
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.463816&lon=36.498384&z=15&show=/12031545/Al-Qasabiyah-Qasabiyeh
Second time in a few days, wtf are they trying to achieve?

Reinforcements just arrived to Maarat al-Numan from the following factions:

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

National Front for Liberation (NFL)

Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)

Army of Glory [Jaysh al-Izza]

"And Incite the Believers" operations room, likely Ansar al-Tawhid
https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1210661313854226433

#Idlib Post by a #SAA #SyrianArmy #SyrianArabArmy #Tiger_Forces Commander talks about the main issue not accepted / agreed upon by Turkey and Russia which is preventing the Ceasefire in Idlib southern countryside

>>254132
with subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35z2QrQ5P0

>>254166
Aww yiss, i was waiting for this, thanks.

HTS using refurbished tank IFVs in this counteroffensive on Jarjanaz
https://twitter.com/qO8PguDhLhoilJK/status/1210942973992669184

>Short video from Idlib Front today showing massive battles ongoing
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1210961413990207488
MLRSSSSS

>Video of SNA fighters from Mutasem group claiming they have captured a camp from Haftar forces in Libya
https://twitter.com/bdrhmnhrk/status/1210998253539483648
-Fighters are saying they liberated a camp\\base from "Magous=refers to Iranian Shia" without naming it
-They didn't mention area or Libya but made fun of Haftar's name
-at 00:39 they say they're Moutasem Brigade
-nothing visible that confirms it's from Libya
-accent is Syrian
-All matching uniforms
-All matching rigs, I saw this type in Libya before
-All with fresh refiles

Turns out Haftar is a majoos, who'd a thunk

>>254194
WTF?! I love saudi-backed mongrels now!

Oh, and SNA already in Libya.
https://twitter.com/il_kanguru/status/1211008338345025536

I wonder what will Junior do.

T*rkey brings Syrians, The Sa*dis bring niggers
https://twitter.com/penlibya/status/1211030645910179840

Militant tanks and a pancake

Interesting improvised APC used by HTS in latest video
>In the video they released they reached only the northern edges of Tell al Hawi. Coming north from Gadfah town
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.661690&lon=36.782999&z=15&gz=0;367855095;356516123;32186;184800;19741;697;0;21271;37121;25456;23174;5579;20384;0

Reuters: US military has carried out "defensive strikes" in #Iraq and #Syria against Kataib #Hezbollah

https://twitter.com/MTVEnglishNews/status/1211334732585328640

>>254252
The fire rises

>>254252
>>254253
#US forces bombed headquarters of #Iran-Backed Kataib Hezbollah on both sides of the #Syria-#Iraq border in al Qaim & Albu Kamal. It comes after that an American contractor killed several US soldiers wounded in a rocket attack on K-1 base in #Kirkuk that KA was blamed for it

https://twitter.com/nafisehkBBC/status/1211332515606224896

Reuters citing US military statement: US strikes in #Iraq and #Syria target five #Kataib #Hezbollah facilities, including weapon storage facilities and command and control locations

https://twitter.com/MTVEnglishNews/status/1211335231808196609

inrdasding

>>254255
#Syria-#Iraq: US officially announce for 1st time series of airstrikes, carried out tonight, targeting #Iran|ian-linked groups in retaliation for previous attack vs US forces in Iraq.

Pentagon: In response to repeated Kata'ib Hizbollah (KH) attacks on Iraqi bases that host coalition forces, U.S. forces conducted precision defensive strikes against five KH facilities in #Iraq and #Syria that will degrade KH's ability to conduct future attacks

https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz/status/1211336939003170817

>>254257
wew

5 targets struck: 3 in Iraq, 2 in Syria: Pentagon

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1211339174101553153

#BREAKING: A security source for Sky News Arabia: 3 dead, including the commander of the 45th brigade and five wounded, as a result of the attack on the headquarters of Iraqi Hezbollah in Qaim

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1211340196865810432

>>254263
>>254264
M-5 btw

>>254266
Possible scenario btw btw

>>254262
>The sources about the US journalist who or kidnapped in #Baghdad not strong yet. He was in Tahrir square then left, and activists said he disappeared.
No confirmation that he is officially kidnapped.
https://twitter.com/FerasKilaniBBC/status/1211350371005870080

>>254251
aftermath

>>254277
The martyrdom of Commander Abu Ali Al-Khazali .. The first regiment and an aide commanded brigade 45 in the crowd.

https://twitter.com/YnmsSy/status/1211370052773126150

found ynms' new account

>>254282
lel

>>254275
>Okay it's being misrepresented that the US Embassy is evacuating now as a result of the strikes. That's totally false, personnel left days ago after the order was issued the same day the caretaker govt wasn't formed (past thur)

Emergency meeting at National Security Council now.
https://twitter.com/TomtheBasedCat/status/1211376986049929216

>HTS code names for towns were switched with Iraqi cities
Umm Jalal is supposedly Fallujah.

PMU is now saying that 19 fighters were killed, 35 others were injured in US strikes.

https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1211391011383103489

>>254299
Wouldn't be surprised if SAA abandoned their ambitions on this front now that the east Idlib is being ravaged.
What a humiliation if true, but also a relief since the offensive forces will be better used in the expansive and easily traversed plains rather than being funneled into such a tight and easily defend-able place.
Better to bleed the jihadis manpower and equipment in east Idlib/Aleppo before tackling them in the mountainous and forested border area really.

>>254301
>Another update by the PMU says that 25 fighters were killed and 51 others were injured in US strikes.
Welp, looks like the burgers are determined to leave Iraq.

>>254303
>>254299
Al gaith and his forces the 4th division are moving to Aleppo, after achieving their required goals in Latakia, and is now heading to Aleppo to crush the terrorists skulls and achieve more victories

https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1211451244331569153

Granted they killed alot of jihadis and diverted their attention a great deal but their goal was capturing Jabal Akrad and enable an offensive on Jisr al-Shughur, otherwise they wouldn't try to capture Jabal Zuweiqat a million times.
Delusional.

>Syrian Arab Army Have captured Atleast 3 TERRORIST after yesterday’s Failed Terrorist Counter Attack
https://twitter.com/SyriaGeneral/status/1211444126081789953
Headchoppers getting slapped around, lovely!

>>254320
>(Old video) not new.
bah

>Reports that Regime Axis Forces might open the Ghab Plain-West Hama-Shahabo mountain front,in order to strategically surround Maraat Al-Numan from the East and the West
https://twitter.com/AbdoZehn/status/1211473213496188928
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.542842&lon=36.446114&z=12&show=/37036875/Jabal-Shahshbo
Hmm i don't believe this, if anything they'd go Kfar Sejena - Kafranbel if they wanted to surround Maraat al-Nu'man from west and east.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.562953&lon=36.595116&z=12&gz=0;365600967;355216086;281524;0;0;907630;1105499;1239706

Jabal Shahshbo is mostly farmlands/barren mountain terrain compared to the forested Jabal Akrad so it would be easier to advance on, but still fighting in mountains is not good for SAA.

>>254345
>Tuwayl al-Halib axis - ongoing struggles
See >>254268

Afghan Districtmupdate - government abandons Darzab District in southern Jowzjan after two months of fighting.

>Taliban council agrees to cease-fire in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s ruling council agreed Sunday to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the United States can be signed, officials from the insurgent group said. They didn’t say when it would begin.

A cease-fire had been demanded by Washington before any peace agreement could be signed. A peace deal would allow the U.S. to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America’s longest.

The White House said it would have no comment.

The U.S. wants any deal to include a promise from the Taliban that Afghanistan would not be used as a base by terrorist groups. The U.S. currently has an estimated 12,000 troops in Afghanistan.

The Taliban chief must approve the cease-fire decision but that was expected. The duration of the cease-fire was not specified but it was suggested it would last for 10 days. It was also not specified when the cease-fire would begin.

Four members of the Taliban negotiating team met for a week with the ruling council before they agreed on the brief cease-fire. The negotiating team returned Sunday to Qatar where the Taliban maintain their political office and where U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been holding peace talks with the religious militia since September, 2018.

Talks were suspended in September when both sides seemed on the verge of signing a peace pact. However, a surge in violence in the capital Kabul killed a U.S. soldier, prompting President Donald Trump to declare the deal “dead.” Talks resumed after Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan at the end of November announcing the Taliban were ready to talk and agree to a reduction in violence.

Khalilzad returned to Doha at the beginning of December. It was then that he proposed a temporary halt to hostilities to pave the way to an agreement being signed, according to Taliban officials.

Taliban officials familiar with the negotiations spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media outlets.

A key pillar of the agreement, which the U.S. and Taliban have been hammering out for more than a year, is direct negotiations between Afghans on both sides of the conflict.

Those intra-Afghan talks were expected to be held within two weeks of the signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal. They will decide what a post-war Afghanistan will look like.

The first item on the agenda is expected to address how to implement a cease-fire between the Taliban and Afghanistan’s National Security Forces. The negotiations, however, were expected to be prickly and will cover a variety of thorny issues, including rights of women, free speech, and changes to the country’s constitution.

The intra-Afghan talks would also lay out the fate of tens of thousands of Taliban fighters and the heavily armed militias belonging to Afghanistan’s warlords. Those warlords have amassed wealth and power since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 by the U.S.-led coalition. They were removed after Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The Taliban had harbored bin Laden, although there was no indication they were aware of al-Qaida’s plans to attack the United States.

Even as the Taliban were talking about ceasing hostilities, insurgents carried out an attack in northern Afghanistan on Sunday that killed at least 17 local militiamen.

The attack apparently targeted a local militia commander who escaped unharmed, said Jawad Hajri, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar province, where the attack took place late Saturday.

Local Afghan militias commonly operate in remote areas, and are under the command of either the defense or interior ministries.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack.

Last week, a U.S. soldier was killed in combat in the northern Kunduz province. The Taliban claimed they were behind a fatal roadside bombing that targeted American and Afghan forces in Kunduz. The U.S. military said the soldier was not killed in an IED attack but died seizing a Taliban weapon’s cache.

The U.S. military in its daily report of military activity said airstrikes overnight Sunday killed 13 Taliban in attacks throughout the country.

Taliban as well as Afghan National Security Forces aided by U.S. air power have carried out daily attacks against each other

The Taliban frequently target Afghan and U.S. forces, as well as government officials. But scores of Afghan civilians are also killed in the cross-fire or by roadside bombs planted by militants. The United Nations has called on all sides in the conflict to reduce civilian casualties. The world body said increased U.S. airstrikes and ground operations by Afghan National Security Forces, as well as relentless Taliban attacks, have contributed to an increase in civilian casualties.

Last year, Afghanistan was the world’s deadliest conflict.
https://apnews.com/caa4c5aaf88e982ed0cdb4e132b0d89c

Massive if true, but I’m still pressing (X) until it actually happens.

US Embassy in Baghdad is getting angry mob'd.

>>254401
Call of Duty?
Nice.

Live from Baghdad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21P8rkuUYx0&feature=emb_title

>>254403
based nigga at 0:30 mark

>>254360
Yep, I kinda figured that was the case.

Here’s some numbers for Taliban taxation.
https://twitter.com/bsarwary/status/1211561928159563777
https://twitter.com/bsarwary/status/1211562324923957248
#AFG Taliban earn $300,000 a day from taxation in Farah province. Taliban have 2 Costums - one on the border with Iran and another on the Herat - Kandahar highway that goes through Farah province, a senior Afghan official in Farah province tells me.

#AFG On average 1000 vehicles goes through Herat - Kandahar highway , Taliban tax 35000, 25000 Afghanis per vehicle that transports goods. This is a big source of income for the Taliban. Taliban control the strategic - Herat - Kabdahar highway.

Oy Snus, you’ll be interested in this map: http://cpie.bplaced.net/6idlibprovfront.jpg
https://twitter.com/comcen76/status/1211420283745325056 <——- source tweet

>>254409
> 35000, 25000 Afghanis per vehicle that transports goods
that's pretty expensive even for a western standpoint, so i imagine it would be astronomically excessive considering median salary in afghanistan is around 75 000 afg

Happy new year /sg/

>>253845
Our shitgif got in the 2019 summary video for wikipedia
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_Edit_2019.webm
Created by Ebin, Muttley and me.

Also, I'm not banned any more. A guy initially banned me for being a nazi, I appealed and the admin agreed that I was not, in fact, a nazi as was claimed.

>>254429
Happy new year, Mark!

>>254429
Happy new year Mark
>>254413
Ye I feel sorry for the poor chaps struggling to get by that get stopped by the Taliban and have this tax slapped onto them.
>>254445
GOOD. Also congratulations.

>>254458
>and have this tax slapped onto them.
at least it's tax well spent unlike taxes paid to the government that will end up being pocketed by some official

>>254251
>>254276
Looks like the Tigers were impressed with this vehicle.
Suheil al-Hassan inspecting it.

>>254470
Imagine slapping together that thing only for some jackass to get it stuck in mud whilst storming a row of vacant buildings.

>>254470
>>254471
Video of it, probably approached in the evening after the storming.
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1212414491431985154
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1212415485507178496

2019 in #Afghanistan is characterized by 1) #USA #IEA negotiations 2) unprecedented #USA air campaign 3) election crisis and 4) of course another annual #Taliban offensive

#IEA #USA negotiations: started at the end of 2018, slow, dragging, looked more like the game of "who will double cross whom". Trump terminated the whole circus in September then revived it 2 months later. What will happen at the end of that saga? Hard to tell

Parallel with negotiations Americans started campaign of aerial bombardment and raids (with #ANDSF put up front) intended to eliminate mid level #Taliban commanders, those who executes actions on the ground. Tactic Soviets used in #Afghanistan at the end of 80's

Civilian casualties climbed, as well as American one. 23 killed and around 57 wounded plus 2 killed from other #NATO countries #Romania and #Croatia The biggest number since 2014.

Presidential elections, marred by widespread boycott, irregularities and accusations of fraud, caused the crisis in the last quarter of 2019. Problem closely connected with #Taliban #USA negotiations and intra #Afghanistan political struggle.

Al Fath offensive: This year #Taliban attacked 3 cities- Pul E Khumri, #Farah and #Kunduz (twice), but like in previous years they didn't managed to hold them for much longer plus #ANDSF resistance was a way stronger then before

But the main focus of #Taliban offensive this year was northern #Afghanistan To me very indicative and closely related to upcoming intra #Afghanistan showdown
https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/status/1212127202961248258

Afghan Districtmupdate - Taliban reach Balchiragh and Gurziwan DHQs

>>254470
#Syria: pro-Assad forces seized this #HTS modified APC on Jarnanaz front (E. #Idlib). Evidence also suggests it served as a command vehicle.

https://twitter.com/Arslon_Xudosi/status/1196943874536747010

another vid

#Syria: pro-Assad forces equipped with night vision gear tried to advance on Talmenes front tonight (E. #Idlib), but they were repelled. Not a single warplane backed the assault.

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1212461533856436226

Late Syria “Shitmupdate” - more like fixing of frontlines to more accurately reflect the ground situation.

The militants are pushing on al-Tah & Jarjanaz again, SAA supposedly had to withdraw from the western outskirts of al-Tah because of a SVBIED.

Afghan Districtmupdate - Taliban control Shindand DHQ in Herat Province.

>>254583
>>254584
>Having looked at both HTS videos now its clear that the road was barricaded by berms in 2 places which makes me wonder if the improvised APC with dozer blade cleared them and the SVBIED in fact came in later to hit the SAA counter attack. Unless it approached by a different route
Video:
https://twitter.com/XI_interbrigade/status/1212809718063943680

Looks like the burgers bombed some PMU official in Baghdad on the international airport road.

>>254598
Looking more likely that Muhammad Ridha Al-Jabri, the Hashd’s public relations official + Sheikh Muhammad Kawtharani, Lebanese Hezbollah’s top man in Iraq, were targeted near Baghdad Int’l Airport.

https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/1212890304287846401

Soleimani is kill

>>254608
>Iraqi State Tv
>Israel news
>no other news outlets
let me hit dat (X)

>>254609
Doc, I...

>>254609
I hope your'e right

>>254610
still (X)
gonna need official iranian government announcement

Something tells me that we will have some serious speech from Nasrallah.

>>254614
eh, better than being a sitting duck when shtf if it's true

>>254615
again
>(((iraqi state officials)))
>>254616
>when shtf if it's true
we talking, hamas/palestinians or hezbollah/lebanon?

>>254617
both

>>254617
https://twitter.com/leithfadel/status/1212910351378997248
Leith confirms.
He was also one of the first to confirm Issam.

>>254619
alright then, it's not a (X) anymore, it's a (x)
>>254618
good luck then

Lebanon Hezb 2nd in command also KIA.
This year is off to a great start.

>>254622
i knew this year was going to be a shitshow when i realized i didn't die in my sleep during the night of the 31st december

>>254619
>>254620
>Breaking: Hashd Al-Sha’abi confirms the deaths of Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandis and Qassem Soleimani

>good luck then
shukran, gonna need it

>>254623
kek

>>254623
Look on the bright side, a lot of dead golems to look for.

#Iran’s #IRGC: General Soleimani martyred in U.S. strike on #Baghdad airport

https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1212926567824941057

Iran confirms

>>254630
oh dolan dolan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGp9P6QvMjY

>>254633
All because of the embassy incident? It was never clear to me what exactly Iran's involvement in that was other than the attackers were "pro-Iranian". Does Soleimani's presence in Baghdad suggest direct involvement after all?

>go to sleep
>wake up after 3 hours
>Soleimani is dead
Inner habbenings alarm working as intended.

>>254636
>Does Soleimani's presence in Baghdad suggest direct involvement after all?
He just arrived in Iraq by plane (hence the assassination took place on the airport road).

>>254638
Thanks, trying to catch up on the news. I still have yet to find an article that explains the purpose of his visit.

>>254637
>Inner habbenings alarm working as intended.
And over 10 posts an hour, is it time for doom paul?

>>254633
My big angry has become extremely big angry. I'm currently doing some serious self censuring so I don't unironically sperg out.

>>254649
>2nd in command for Lebanese Hezbollah dead
wot

https://twitter.com/Mu_AlSadr/status/1212993817500168192
Muqtada al-Sadr has announced the reactivation of the Mahdi Army.

>>254656
MAHDI
MAHDI
MAHDI!!!!
Lmao and they fought he will scower and run away.
I wonder what will al-Sistani say.

>>254639
No, we're still at the "you should have listened" Paul. Doomed Paul is reserved only for the most extreme scenarios (all out war).

>>254659
They're gonna choose the coffin option, aren't they?
If war were to start, Australia will be America's bitch like usual. Good thing I'm not allowed to join the army!

Inb4 huge bloody ""legitimate"" terror attack on US soil and war starts.

>>254659
looks like they'll be getting that war with Iran they wanted all along.
>>254636
What is the timeline here? the US drone strikes some militia guys,then the protest, then Soleimani is struck?

I just found out some horrible, disturbing secrets about Ebin and Muttley.
But I can't say what they were. They are too shocking to believe.

Captured by SAA on the outskirts of al-Tah
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.566650&lon=36.700704&z=18&gz=0;367010709;355670073;3862;2269;4237;218;268;0;0;2356;3916;2618

>Iran has made the decision on how to respond to US assassination of General Soleimani
>Iran's National Security Council: The response to the assassination of IRGC Quds Force chief Soleimani will cover the entire region
https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/1213131913705279489
>Several reconciled fighters from Dara'a are desperate to leave the governorate as FSA cells continue to target reconciliation figures/fighters
https://twitter.com/ProNDF/status/1213131570514726914
>Iran will take revenge, no question.
>I think the US will be targeted in KSA.
>War is coming.
>Iraqis are present at the US bases in Iraq. So unlikely that the bases in Iraq will be attacked.
https://twitter.com/Bosni_94/status/1213122669694144513
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz about to be re-activated maybe?
and like clockwork:
>The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain: We will have a role in avenging the blood of the two martyrs, Al-Muhandis and Soleimani
https://twitter.com/ahed_english/status/1213116831713677312
>Breaking: Iraqi Parliament to hold emergency meeting in which a vote to evict US forces will be on the table
https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/1213136969510854656

>>254670
Dramafaggot.
>>254669
Timeline is
US airstrikes PMU in Iraq and Syria along the border -> protests that result in the US embassy getting banged up -> Decapitation strike against IRGC and PMU.
>>254674
>Iraqis at US bases
Never stopped the Taliban from attacking US bases with Afghanis present.
That meeting to vote on eviction is the most significant bit tho.

IT ALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN

>>254676
>Never stopped the Taliban from attacking US bases with Afghanis present
Afghanistan is a fucked up place and the shias of Iraq are not as radical as the sunni extremists.

>>254674
>Breaking: Iraqi Parliament to hold emergency meeting in which a vote to evict US forces will be on the table
If such a vote went through, what do you think the American response would be? Droning a military target over "aggression" is one thing, and easy enough for the media to spin, but if the Iraq government says gtfo, it'd be a hot war to refuse. No way the public will be on board with another invasion of Iraq, not in this climate.

>If such a vote went through, what do you think the American response would be?
Rigging the election of course

Supposedly a tank captured recently in Idlib

>>254676
>>254690
>Never stopped the Taliban from attacking US bases with Afghanis present.
>Afghanistan is a fucked up place and the shias of Iraq are not as radical as the sunni extremists
Taliban consider ANA troops as part of the opposing force and don't really need their approval as there is a certain amount of disconnection/lack of trust of the general population (whose support is what the Taliban are seeking)
whereas in iraq the situation is completely different as the iranians aren't in a situation where they are trying to overthrow iraqi government(with whom they have some form of cooperation and fully recognize as legitimate unlike in the afghanistan situation) but merely get rid of the american influence
Thus it is unlikely for them to alienate the general population by retaliating in such ways that will cause the death of iraqi soldiers (nothing guarantee the safety of high ranking officers though) as to not end up losing the support of the iraqi population (which they need in their bid for influence control over the region as we saw during the embassy raid recently)
for all we know they could even use said iraqi soldiers in US bases to deliver the retaliation to the US personnel

it's not a question of sectarianism, but merely a difference in the place the military (and thus local government) holds in these two completely different scenarios (takeover vs influence)

>>254710
Watch all those 5 sunnis that will sign up for this.

>>254711
i wouldn't be surprised of a (((totally coincidental))) car bombing of a busy shia district or leading anti-american shia figure by (((100% Organic™ and Independent™ ISIS™ operative)))

>>254713
You know that this will be like dousing the fire with gasoline?

Also,
I really wonder who sold Soleimani out.

>>254718
Majoosi might be retarded, but not to that extent.

Wonder if ayyy-t(y)ranny-neet will make an appearance.

>>254725
>An airstrike hit a convoy of two cars northern Baghdad — al-Mayadeen.
#Iraq
https://twitter.com/BaxtiyarGoran/status/1213229682423975936

>>254720
>Khazali brothers
who are they?

>>254731
>who are they?

>As head of the Special Groups, Khazali directed [...]most notably the January 20, 2007 attack on American forces in Karbala.

so apparently: a based person

>>254731
>OFAC designated Qais al-Khazali, Laith al-Khazali, and Husayn Falih ‘Aziz al-Lami pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818 for their involvement in serious human rights abuse in Iraq.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm847

>>254734
#US airstrikes hit 2 vehicles with #Iraqi #PMU commander Shibel al-Zaidi and several other Iraqi commanders. #Iraq's PMU are under the authority of Iraq's Prime Ministers Office.

https://twitter.com/AlSuraEnglish/status/1213233767197724672

Trump knows his presidential mandate is ending soon, and don't even care anymore, he's got nothing to lose and now we will find out why the "Russian collusion" was nothing but a bad conspiracy theory that never made any sense.
He's not just determined to cleanse the remaining terrorist supporting figures, he's determined to trigger an all scale war and at this point I can't wait to see it happening, a war that will redirect humanity in a righter direction at the outcome.

>>254733
>>254732
I see. Also wanted to ask you
How do you see the situation escalating? Will the Iranians respond with large attacks leading to an all out war or a renewed insurgency?
Also you niggas really going to go against the mad sultan
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200103-algeria-declares-rejection-of-foreign-interference-in-libya-talks-about-political-solution/

>>254738
It was inevitable.
WAR on a large scale was inevitable. Something had to happen to force this clown world to end. The region will maybe, finally, know peace. A lot of other regions too. Europe, Asia, Africa...

The world after the war will be different, the only important thing is the outcome.

>>254742
You have to move from place to place.
And it really seems someone spilled the beans about the higher-ups.

>>254739
>New info claims that Hamid Al-Jaziyari who is the Sheikh for Brigade 18 / Khorosani Companies was killed.

He was present with Muhandis at the Embassy
https://twitter.com/TomtheBasedCat/status/1213237937464328192
https://twitter.com/TomtheBasedCat/status/1213238445826547712

>>254736
>>254739
>It's not true about Shibel Zaidi.
https://twitter.com/TomtheBasedCat/status/1213239228521426947

according to Y.N.M.S
shibl al-zaydi is in lebanon
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1213239102511955969

>>254744
New — US-designated and pro-Iran Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq militia announces the killing Hamed al-Jaza’iri, the deputy commander of Saraya al-Khorassani in a strike. Was apparently in #QassemSuleimani #QassimSoleimani circles

https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1213241251337850882

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