/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>231819
at what point is it considered as "deposed by the glow niggers" and not "deposed because he got too old for the job and got replaced by someone else in the establishment"

>>231819
Thanks for the fresh bread and using the pic mate.

>>231823
What is this retarded shit
Majoosi mind control magic being cast on the captains or what

>>231823
>Liberian
uh, are they going pirates of the persian gulf?

>>231827
Vessel specifications of the Mesdar:

Gross Tonnage ---> 160295
Deadweight ---> 315802 t
Year Built ---> 2007
Registry ---> Liberia
Vessel Type ---> Crude Oil Tanker

Mesdar is owned and operated by UK-based Norbulk Shipping Ltd.
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1152292150467584001

>>231831
neat
>>231834
kek

Let's be real here: Iran literally cannot be invaded unless the government itself will obviously not put up a fight as soviet invasion in ww2.
>>231821
agreed he shouldn't be on there.
>>231825
those iranian sirens drawing the sailors to steer their ships into the rocks

“We heard one, we heard two” of #Iran seizing oil tankers today, says @POTUS in reply to my question. But he declines to say if this crosses a line and how US will respond except to say there’s an agreement US has with #UK on maritime security.

#Iran is “nothing but trouble” and US will be speaking with #UK. “It goes to show you I was right about Iran.”

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1152296248172527617?s=19

>>231834
lmao

>>231834
lel

>>231834
Top zozzle.

>>231845
HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN?!
ALL YOUR SHIPS ARE BELONG TO US(actually Iran)!!!

>>231848
>>231849
>>231851

Well these nigga say it doesn't appear to be related to the seizure of bong tankers so lets wait and see.
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1152304194294075398
https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1152304025607573504

>52min in
>algeria leads by 1-0
who needs sleep anyways

>>231858
Betting on at least 100 burnt cars.

>>231857
i wish this was a fake one
i really wish i'm not living in this timeline

>>231857
lel
>>231858
seems like a good time to do this

>>231868
Take pictures!

>>231869
sorry but can't doxx the doc

>>231857
i already miss Trump for when he's gone and the WH will become boring again

There's supposedly action on the Kabani axis.

>>231877
Just some fire exchange using technicals.

>>231878
ah

>>231834
Hahahhahaha majoosi magnet crude oil tanker magic

>>231834
Jej
>>231857
>>231871
Ikr.
>>231868
Good luck doc.

>>231879
Don’t worry Snus, it’ll happen... one day...

>>231887
>a-any s-second n-now
how long have >we been waiting for that mythical big offensive to finally retake idlib?

>>231890
Large battle of Hamamiyat barely ended with 200+ killed and dozens of armour destroyed.

>>231890
End of E. Daraa OP, where the projected September Idlib offensive was possibly scheculed early to August because Daraa already ended in July.
1 (One) Year starting with the 31st of July, when Daraa ended.
One year in 11 days. xDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Get a life losers lmao ;'D hanging around in this cold stale war lmfao like what are oyu stillw asting time here lol pathetic
>inb4 N.hama offensive counts

>>231890
>mythical big offensive to finally retake idlib
Consensus among most pro-SAA reports on the topic is that all of Idlib won't be taken in just one massive continuous offensive, rather it will be smaller offensives with breathers in between.
The best reasons i can imagine is the fact that Idlib is the last stand with no green bus alternatives, the Russian air fleet being too small and T*rkey not cooperating.
It's simply better to let the RuAF take them out instead of fighting them on equal terms and not overstretching the units with offensive capabilities.

>>231895
This implies Idlib being finite in resources and an isolated phaenomenon.
uite Naive.
Seems more like the typical Russian incapable of ending something and remianing with one foot in and one foot out, viz. Georgia, Ukraine, Japan :), now Syria

>>231896
>This implies Idlib being finite in resources and an isolated phaenomenon.
In English please

>>231868
>LIVE: Fans celebrate African Nations Cup victory in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3i59dzj3U

french culture as its best

>>231897
that it is a siege type event; if Rebells keep getting new ATGM tubes, new recruits domestic but possibly foreign and the continued survival of Idlib won't jsut be a honeypot but a platform for export of ideology and terrorism.
If we were talking Ghouta I might agree with this possibility, even with SAA corrpution and usurpers, but Idlib scenario seems self-perpetuating if approached as specified by (you)
>maybe i just dont have enough faith in the Russkie AF achieving such great impact through bombings
>>231899
they abused faggot Africa for centuries, needed their men to stop invasion of the homeland and now continue to extract Africa's resources; not that nigs deserve it, but french get no sympathie points for their subhumans unlike other innocent european nations.

>>231899
This country is as doomed as an ass of a nigerian prostitute in Lagos offshore bussiness area

>>231900
The SAA with support of Russia and Iran will continue to take bites of Idlib until all of it is consumed.
Maybe you missed it but they took Kafr Nabudah, Qalaat al-Mudiq and tens of villages last bite - now the RuAF fleet is expanded, the SAA has beefed up (Iranian forces aren't even involved yet AFAIK) and the jihadists has lost a bunch of tanks/morale/experienced manpower.
Of course, the t*rks haven't surrendered yet so i'm cautiously positive about all of this.

>>231903
Nothing to add here. Avoid ATGMs, build defences in every captur- liberated village, provoke jihadis to do everything to get them in open RuAF targeting.
Other than that diplomatical actions against Turkey and safe balance of use and containing the IRGC, dependable on many factors, including current situation in Lebanon, Jordan and Israeli actions.

>>231887
A year

>>231910
Dammit>>231890

>>231912
For fucks sake >>231890

>>231899
mashallah

>>231895
>taking small chunks at a speed inferior to the replacement rate of the enemy
yep, idlib wont be over before i retire

>>231932
is that iranian they are speaking (singing) or are they jsut labeling hezbollah as iranian because muh iran?

>Governor of Aleppo Hussein Diab: The Aleppo - Damascus International Highway will soon return to work.
Wishful thinking or inside information, who knows..

>>231935
I’m more inclined to the former given the events of the past 365 days.

Any words on the majoosi pirates?

>>231939
welp
more events to come i suppose

>>231944
Crew's expendable.

>>231825
must have been this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CIGb1Ti06k

>Ahrar al-Sham "special forces" fighter trains with a AKM.
https://twitter.com/AnalystMick/status/1152602184082739200
Another quarry

>>231955
wtf is that retarded statement
the rifle you use doesn't determine if you're a regular soldier or SF
and AKM are fine for both types of ops
>>231944
very nice

>>231996
this is how you do it

>>231999
didn't you end up having to pay reparashuns for this?

>>231986
That’s a pretty good indicator an offensive is coming.

>>232002
Unless this is not near the frontlines in which case meh

>>232002
It looks more like Palmyra surroundings, they're not even armed, probably some random desert.

>>232001
yep
erdo cucked bibi for shekels
total embarrassment

>>232005
i find it hard to believe that the same guy who lead hostage rescue operation is being cucked by everyone and their grandma
at this point it wouldn't surprise me if he gives back golan in exchange of a """promise""" that iranians leave syria

>>232007
>if he gives back golan
Nah, his carrier would be over the next election (or even sooner).

>>232008
> the next election
that's coming up soon btw (i believe)

>>232009
It was like 2 months ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Israeli_legislative_election

>>232007
no but he'd do for a peace treaty ala egypt-sinai.

>>232008
>implying it isn't already over at this point
what is he going to do? embrace the BBC to get the ethiopian vote to compensate for the more hardline right abandoning him?

>>232012
Likud's status quo over Golan Heights is actually considered a rather moderate approach towards it.

>September 2019 Israeli legislative election
you read your own link? lul

>>232015
for >>232010

>>231999
This was the Turkish ship the IDF raided, yes?

>>232010
there's another one in September and by the way things are looking there will be another one afterwards ad infinitum (or until bibi croaks).

>>232025
aye

>>232028
does Israel have Presidents that can "resolve" such parliamentary situations?

>>232030
not really, he's mostly powerless.

>Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
https://t.co/PZ3EtGgxhP
https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1152564692851802114

>- Hackers breached company via AD server [image below]
- Defaced website
- Stole 7.5TB of data (shared with second hacker group, who shared it with local media)
- Hacked contractor is SyTech[.]ru
- Had contracts with FSB going back as far as 2009
https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1152564692851802114

>Leaked projects:

- Nautilus - a project for collecting data about social media users (such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn)
- Nautilus-S - a project for deanonymizing Tor traffic with the help of rogue Tor servers
- Reward - a project to covertly penetrate P2P networks (torrents)
https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1152564692851802114

>- Mentor - monitor and search email communications on the servers of Russian companies.
- Tax-3 - create a closed intranet to store the information of highly-sensitive state figures
- Hope - a project to investigate the topology of the Russian internet
>https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1152565062747512832

>>232028
Well shit, all I heard on the news back then was that the IDF had raided some ships carrying supplies and that some passengers were killed. Didnt know this happened as well.

>>232035
>Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
these goddarn russian hackers

>Didnt know this happened as well.
yeah it was a massive fuckup all around

wtf are you doing iran!!!1!1!1!!

>>232043
why not solely targeting UK ships is making me ask questions

>>232044
Dunno mate. Perhaps they are really trying to drive the point home that the strait of Hormuz is their turf and the international shipping is at their complete mercy. Also this was reported yesterday:

>Some Persian sources are mentioning that #Iran plans to start checking oil tankers for "environmental regulations" daily from now on in their waters, all ships will be boarded during this process.
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1152323145262669825

>>232047
>#Iran plans to start checking oil tankers for "environmental regulations" daily from now on
stupid move
their only strength was the surprise effect, if they make it last longer they're basically giving US MoD a justification to increase permanent presence and patrols in the region because it's not a one time event anymore
this will cost them a lot in the long term since they can't win a face to face confrontation on the long run with US

>>232044
Also just saw this
>London Saturday advised British ships to avoid the Strait of Hormuz for “an interim period” following Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1528276/middle-east

Doesnt mean that these ship will disappear immediately from the gulf but does point to a situation where exclusively targeting UK ships will no longer be an option anymore. Unless the Iranians want to target UK naval ships.

>>232049
Agreed, especially since US/UK has been incrementally increasing their presence in the Strait of Hormuz.
However I don’t really see that they had a choice, considering their threat of messing up transit if they couldn’t export oil and then UK seized one of their oil tankers.

>>232045
>>232046
More bargaining chips before the meeting eh?

>>232052
Definitely

>>232051
>I don’t really see that they had a choice
intimidation when you have no ace up your sleeve is the dumb choice
if they want to gamble on fear they shouldn't present it in a "friendly" way with "ecological inspections" aka boarding ships but with a more hit and run way that can't be easily countered: basically shooting torpedoes from small boats or sending scuba divers with explosive charges

basically trying to board another ship by boat or helicopter will only get them shot while using US navy's weakness, ie slow, small numbers and reliance on screen ships for cover against small fast movers to their advantage by spamming the shit out of high mobility small task forces anywhere at anytime to overwhelm US poor coverage of the region
ultimately resulting in a sea reproducing ISIS' tactics of highly mobile, hit and run toyota task groups which worked very well for them (up until they got countered)

they're basically shooting themselves in the foot with what they've done, either you escalate or you appease, but you can't have it both ways

just my perspective on it

>>232053
top ten anime crossovers

>>232015
>>232028
Wow i didn't think the coalition can lose, will get interesting in september, but that meanst moderate, slow, predictable Israeli foreign affairs doings.

New ANNA News airstrike compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJtbYIyLKB4
>At 4 am today, Nusra and co launched an attack on Qasabiyah, where suicide bombers were in use, while two tanks covered their movement towards army points.
>The army successfully crushed the attack and burned a tank and two other military vehicles.
>It is said that the burned tank is a T-62.
https://twitter.com/Bosni94/status/1152870678573572098
>At 4am SAA UAVs spotted mobilisation by terrorists from abdien & qeratah towards qasabieh, SAA ambushed the attackers & destroyed a BMP, two turkish made armoured cars & T-62 tank.
>SAA didn’t suffer any casualties
https://twitter.com/CoolHuh_/status/115284253601007616

5th division convoy heading to the Hama front
https://twitter.com/alroser96/status/11528468893243064
Kafr Nabl getting pounded
https://twitter.com/StasSwanky/status/1152854023155982337
>Militants shelled Tal Salhab town of Northern #Hama with heavy artillery
https://twitter.com/smmsyria/status/1152849644734599168
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.259707&lon=36.385560&z=15&m=bs&show=/10508522/Tall-Salhab
>The Syrian army targets (with) artillery and mortar shells in areas of the spread of militants in Hawijah, Hawash, Sarmani, Dweir al-Kurd in the western countryside of Hama, and in Tal al-Malah and al-Jabin villages in the northern countryside of Hama.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.696341&lon=36.306725&z=12&m=bs&gz=0;362615776;355139239;1170730;0;1181030;346450;178527;2084819;0;2070882
>The death toll of the Nasra Front exceeded 75 people in a failed attack on the Al-Qasabiya hill-20 7 2019 >>232120
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1152864333266870273
Videos from Qasabiyah
https://twitter.com/jamlyyyyy/status/1152866859781361664
https://twitter.com/jamlyyyyy/status/1152877546209533952
>Southern Aleppo: Syrian army targets artillery fortifications in the surrounding areas of the towns of Jazaria and Hawair al-Iss
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1152871082854162432
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.891971&lon=36.979895&z=14&m=bs&gz=0;369769334;358605003;99563;0;0;589658
>Warplanes target the terorists position town of Orm al-Jawz and Saraqeb town of Idlib countryside with air strikes
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.832288&lon=36.985474&z=10&m=bs&gz=0;368090057;358673518;0;0;1318359;2821672
>Terrorist journalist Anas Diab was killed during the air force's targeting of mercenaries in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib countryside.
>Jaish Izza also fired a #Kornet and wiped out a Gvozdika on Jadida front
https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1152879526445293569
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.285126&lon=36.543918&z=16&m=bs&show=/21151487/Al-Judaydah

>>232045
>got a green light t
by whom?
if it is anyone but Russkies it doesn't matter.

Saudi "Special" Forces https://twitter.com/hjaled/status/1152936145145253889

>>232123
Who knows

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/world/europe/cyprus-israelis-rape.html
>12 Israelis Are Held in Cyprus Over Rape of British Woman
really makes you think

>destroyed in a failed attack by militants on the positions of the Syrian Arab Army units, near the town of Al-Kasabiya.
How the hell did a humvee end up in Idlib

>>232137
Huh, Iraqi army -> PMU -> Fatemiyoun/IRGC -> jihadis?

>>232148
PMU -> IRGC affiliated Iraqi militias -> jihadis

The beta Israeli vs the Chad Arab

>>232154
>iceland at 96%
remind how are white ethnostates supposed to be based again?
societies just like any other super-organism become weaker and more prone to being wiped out if they aren't constantly confronted by "pathogens" to challenge its ability to survive and adapt

Nasrallah reveals plans of dabbing Israel into the stone age
https://twitter.com/allushiii/status/1153016465936781313

>>232156
Without the post-WW2 Kalergist social engineering our numbers would be the same as arabs, the vast majority of the people answering these polls are virtue signalling what they've been taught all their lives.
If the societal concensus wasn't "if you don't want shitskin grandparents you're literally Hitler" the numbers would be drastically different on public polls like these.
>societies just like any other super-organism become weaker and more prone to being wiped out if they aren't constantly confronted by "pathogens" to challenge its ability to survive and adapt
Does society die because niggers aren't demographically replacing it or because niggers are demographically replacing it?

>>232154
>mfw Portugal is 30% compared to Spain's 89%
Not low enough, but I still feel smug.

>>232163
Ayo wite boy, 45%. :^)

>The terrorists north of #Hama attack with rockets the civilians in the towns of #Rasif and #Aziziyah
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.521399&lon=36.330414&z=14&m=bs&show=/31763353/Ar-Raşīf
Obvious propaganda bs about civilians since these (alawite) villages are right on the frontline, however, this might be an indicator that there's big troop movement happening in this area.

>>232156
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/once-homogenous-tiny-iceland-opens-its-doors-immigrants

Seems like Iceland became cucked in the 90's. It would be interesting to see what particular trends caused a change of sentiment away from ethnocentrism. A Charles Murray-level of statistician is needed to go around Europe and determine what cucks white countries (and it's not just Jews; there are 250 Jews in all of Iceland, the country expelled the Jews in the 1930's, and circumcision is banned).

Personally, I would blame a mixture of influences. One is integration with the European Economic Area. Another is a decline in religion and the cucking of the Church of Iceland (their bishop is a woman). Fertility rate is under replacement at 1.7. But most of all, a fifth of the land area (over 20,000 square km) is publicly owned. Large amounts of public space erases, ironically, the conception that "this land belongs to my people" in favor of "this land belongs to anyone the government allows." A private law society cannot come soon enough.

Kafr Nabl is still getting bombed
https://twitter.com/StasSwanky/status/1153032868689584128
I have seen at least 4 filmed bombings from this town today, what gives?

>>232179
>The MRLS’s were spotted
>2 Russian jets will be unloading at any moment.
https://twitter.com/Syrian_MC/status/1153058793661652993
Even after all the RuAF strikes the jihadis still launch long range rockets from near the frontline, the offensive better start soon.

Latest ANNA News report on the Qasabiya battle >>232122
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Y2xJVNTQ8
no subs (yet)

>>232253
Come to think of it, if the goal is killing as many jihadis as possible, what's the point of launching ground offensives when the jihadis keep exposing themselves moving troops and launching joke offensives?
I suspect there won't be an SAA offensive until the jihadis stop making themselves easy pray to airstrikes.

>>232259
I’d recognize JiJu geolocation anywhere...

>>232260
indeed
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1153266859644469248

Cope or what?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-21/war-profiteers-and-demise-us-military-industrial-complex
Very good article showcasing the state of the US military and the military-industrial complex.
I highly recommend reading it.

>>232286
"Reconciled moderate rebels" that operated in the southern Damascus pocket salty at their group for surrendering to SAA and pledged allegiance to ISIS i guess.

>>232285
based

Jaysh al-Izza has a new ATGM location where they have a perfect view of the northern entrance of Shayzar.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/militants-with-likely-new-missile-destroy-syrian-army-tank-in-northern-hama-video/
Masdar is speculating that they're using a newer type of ATGM but it's definitely within reach of the the hills controlled by Jaysh al-Izza with a regular kornet.
They must have became bolder and advanced to the edge of the hills when they took Tel Malah and Jubbayn.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.279223&lon=36.563380&z=16&m=bs&gz=0;365632724;352695929;9495;0;0;211733
It seems to me that SAA are slacking off and not suppressing the edge.

>South Korea fires hundreds of warning shots at Russian military plane

South Korean warplanes fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that entered South Korean airspace on Tuesday, defense officials said, while Russia denied violating any airspace and accused South Korean pilots of being reckless.

It was the first time a Russian military aircraft had violated South Korean airspace, an official at the South Korean Ministry of National Defence said in Seoul.

Two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, the defense ministry said.

A separate Russian early warning and control aircraft later twice violated South Korean airspace over Dokdo - an island that is occupied by South Korea and also claimed by Japan, which calls it Takeshima - just after 9 a.m. (midnight GMT Monday), according to the South Korean military.

Russia’s defense ministry denied that its strategic bombers had violated South Korean airspace, the RIA news agency reported.

South Korean military planes crossed the path of Russian bombers and did not communicate with them, Russia’s defense ministry said, according to RIA.

This was not the first time that South Korean pilots had interfered with a Russian military flight over neutral waters, the ministry said.

China’s foreign ministry said South Korea’s Air Defence Identification Zone was not territorial airspace and all countries enjoyed freedom of movement in it.

South Korea’s top security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, lodged a strong objection with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of Russia, asking the council to assess the incident and take appropriate action, South Korea’s presidential office said.

“We take a very grave view of this situation and, if it is repeated, we will take even stronger action,” Chung said, according to South Korea’s presidential office.

‘TACTICAL ACTION’
South Korea’s foreign ministry would summon Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Maxim Volkov and Chinese Ambassador Qiu Guohong on Tuesday to lodge a stern protest and strongly urge them to prevent a recurrence, said ministry spokesman Kim In-chul.

Japan lodged a complaint with both South Korea and Russia over the incident, a government spokesman said.

“We cannot accept these kinds of actions in our territory,” the Kyodo news agency cited government officials as saying.

The Russian aircraft was an A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft, an official at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, and South Korea scrambled F-15 and F-16 fighter jets in response to the intrusions.

The South Korean jets fired about 360 rounds of ammunition during the incident, the JCS official said.

“The South Korean military took tactical action including dropping flares and firing warning shots,” the defense ministry said.

A South Korean defense official told Reuters that the Russian aircraft did not respond in any threatening way.

The Russian aircraft left South Korean airspace but then entered it again about 20 minutes later, prompting the South Koreans to fire more warning shots.

The ministry said South Korean warplanes “conducted a normal response” to the incursion, without giving further details.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-russia-aircraft/south-korea-says-it-fired-warning-shot-at-russian-military-aircraft-that-violated-airspace-idUSKCN1UI072?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Video of SAA artillery in northern Latakia

>>232360
>samsung triple camera
weird flex but ok

>>232382
Update
#Syria/n artillery shelled the source of the hostile missiles in the occupied #Golan Heights with 4 rounds

Expecting a retaliation soon.

https://twitter.com/Syrian_MC/status/1153794553528197122

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-23/china-armed-forces-prepare-massive-international-war-exercise
India’s participation in such exercises is very interesting to me and might - emphasis on might - be an indicator of which side India will join if - emphasis on it - WWIII breaks out.

Another ANNA news report of airstrikes
https://youtu.be/qYPk17fqsYg

KAB-500S hitting target in Jisr al Shughur
https://twitter.com/StasSwanky/status/1153961350848241664
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.811610&lon=36.325473&z=19&m=bs

SRG has brought BMP 2 to the frontline

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/israeli-arab-isis-fighter-praises-israel-says-assad-is-worse-video/
ayylmao

>>232467
>ISIS fighter praise israel as a democracy
>ISIS official line on democracy is that this is a haram form of government
something doesn't add up

>>232467
these mossad agents are getting really sloppy

>>232468
He is detained and is obviously trying to appear as a born-again democrat for good-boy points.

hey where the fuck are the shitmaps?

Powers that be are like “Fuck Europe but France in particular”
Also,
Mfw I grew up with seeing red all the time on temperature maps
Mfw only the purple and dark red areas in that pic are hot
Mfw in the US the only temps that get purple color assigned to them are 45-50+C (~110-120+F)

>>232561
and humidity here is nothing compared to most of the US.
A summer in Virginia DC region would make every European wish they could get back to even these temperatures.

>>232561
>Powers that be are like
wtf is this nu-english?

>Russian, Syrian air forces let loose big attack along Idlib-Hama axis
BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:25 A.M.) – The Russian and Syrian air forces have unleashed a massive assault along the Hama-Idlib axis this evening, targeting many areas under the control of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and Jaysh Al-Izza.

According to a source in northern Hama, the Syrian and Russian air force targeted the region of the Hama-Idlib axis between the towns of Khan Sheikhoun (Idlib) and the large hilltop of Tal Al Malah (northwestern Hama).

The source added tonight’s attack were some of the heaviest strikes launched by the Syrian and Russian air forces this month.

On Thursday, the Russian Air Force had heavily targeted the jihadist stronghold of Khan Sheikhoun, hitting several sites belonging to both Jaysh Al-Izza and Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham.

At the same time as the Russian strikes on Khan Sheikhoun, the Syrian Air Force reportedly struck the Turkestan Islamic Party’s (TIP) positions in the Al-Ghaab Plain region of the Idlib Governorate.

Both the Russian and Syrian air forces have recently stepped up their strikes in response to the jihadist offensive at Al-Qasabiyah.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-russian-syrian-air-forces-let-loose-big-attack-along-idlib-hama-axis/

View of Ghab from the mountaintop overlooking Jurin.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.614884&lon=36.284065&z=13&gz=0;362187266;355933199;0;277560;1711678;0
Jabal Zawiya/Jabal Shahshbo certainly doesn't look menacing from here and Ankawi looks like a reasonable entry point unto it.
Maybe the view is deceiving and could be an explanation to all the failures of the SAA in the Ghab valley (big think)...

>>232605
High ground is still high ground, and the Ghab plains are flat as fuck.

>>232608
That's what i am saying.
In comparison to the heights of Latakia, that shit looks tiny and has probably lead to SAA generals underestimating it.

>>232610
That’s what they get for not going down to Ghab to get a more realistic look to see what their troops will see when going on the attack.

>The Syrian army hit the Turkish Army Observatory at Sher Maghar
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1154675623413059584

> pro-Assad forces stationed in the town of Al-Hader target the outskirts of the town of Al Eis in the southern countryside with heavy artillery
https://twitter.com/lummideast/status/1154675462838378497

>Airplanes raids on the town of Al-Hawabiya in rural South Aleppo
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1154678004905316352

>intensive targeting of artillery and missile trenches and the destruction of all sites and fortifications and movements of terrorists in the countryside of the northern protectors of Latamna Kafrzita Mork Tal-Malh
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1154686348789538816

>Warplanes launch several air strikes on terrorist groups and their rallies in Mork, Jibin,Tall Malh and Latamna
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1154690272913231872

Airstrikes on strongholds of terrorism # Kafrzita in the countryside of the # northern Hama
https://twitter.com/jamlyyyyy/status/1154697735754407936

>Video

>Sudan forces withdraw from Yemen
Sudan has withdrawn its troops from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.

Spokesman of the Joint Forces in the Western Coast, Brigadier General Waddah Al-Dabeesh, told the news agency that the Sudanese army withdrew from three areas, without naming them.

Al-Dabeesh said that the Yemeni forces replaced the Sudanese troops as part of repositioning of the joint forces, which are comprised of 11 military brigades.

This came after the UAE partially withdrew its forces from Yemen.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190725-sudan-forces-withdraw-from-yemen/

>>A Navy SEAL Platoon Is Pulled From Iraq Over Misconduct Reports

An entire platoon of Navy SEAL commandos was abruptly removed from Iraq this week after commanders heard reports of serious misconduct and a breakdown of discipline in the elite unit.

Officials did not release any details. But a senior Navy official with knowledge of the matter said the Navy is investigating reports that the unit, Foxtrot Platoon of SEAL Team 7, held a Fourth of July party where some members consumed alcohol against regulations, and that a senior enlisted member of the platoon had raped a female service member attached to the platoon.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about a continuing investigation.

Jeremiah Sullivan, a civilian attorney representing one of the SEALs in the platoon, confirmed that there was an investigation into reports of sexual assault and unauthorized drinking.

When commanders began investigating the allegations, the entire platoon invoked their right to remain silent, according to a United States official briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. At that point, the official said, commanders decided to send the whole platoon home, including the lieutenant in command.

The commander of American special operations troops in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Eric Hill of the Air Force, ordered the extremely rare removal of the platoon — the only group of SEALs in Iraq — “due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during nonoperational periods,” according to a statement from Special Operations Command.

“There were allegations of wrongdoing, and the commander initiated an investigation, which is still ongoing,” said Ken McGraw, a spokesman for Special Operations Command. “After the investigation began, the commander lost confidence in the platoon’s ability to accomplish the mission and ordered the platoon’s redeployment.”

The Navy ordered the SEALs to take drug tests, according to a Navy SEAL officer who has been briefed on the matter. The results of those tests are not yet known, the officer said.

Foxtrot Platoon — including 19 SEALs and four support troops — was in Kuwait on Thursday, en route to Seal Team 7’s base at Naval Base Coronado near San Diego. The unit was not immediately replaced in Iraq, increasing the burdens on other American troops there, but the Navy said in a statement that “the loss of confidence in this case outweighed potential operational risk” from their absence.

Enlisted Navy SEALs at Coronado said that while individuals are occasionally removed from missions for misconduct, they could not recall another instance of an entire SEAL platoon being sent home. Last year, a Green Beret detachment from the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group was withdrawn from Afghanistan after members of the unit were implicated in the abuse of an Afghan prisoner.

The withdrawal of Foxtrot Platoon is the latest in a series of black eyes for the SEAL teams, which have been hit repeatedly over the last year by reports of drug use, misconduct and violence.

Two SEALs and two Marines were charged in the death of a Green Beret who was strangled in 2017 during a hazing incident while the commandos were on a secret deployment in Mali in West Africa. One of the SEALs pleaded guilty and was sentenced in May.

Earlier this week, Navy Times reported that cocaine use was widespread among members of SEAL Team 10, based in Virginia, and that SEALs in the team considered the Navy’s drug testing efforts “a joke.”

Accounts of broad drug use among senior enlisted SEALs emerged in the court-martial of Special Operator First Class Edward Gallagher. He was acquitted earlier this month of charges that he had shot unarmed civilians and stabbed a wounded captive to death while leading a platoon in Iraq in 2017, but he was convicted of posing for photographs with the teenage captive’s corpse.

During the trial, SEALs from his platoon testified that they had constructed a rooftop bar at their safe house in Iraq, and that officers in charge of enforcing regulations drank there with enlisted men, and even took turns acting as disc jockeys.

Bradley Strawser, who teaches ethics in war at the Naval Postgraduate School, said the reports of rogue behavior in the SEALs are partly a product of nearly 20 years of constant special-operations warfare.

“This kind of slide in the ethical culture, standards, ethos and expectations we have been seeing across the service now for several years is yet another cost of this kind of endless war-fighting,” he said. “Our military desperately needs time to circle the wagons, go deep in working out some of the systemic problems, and effectively right the ship. But it’s very hard to do that when we are literally at never-ending war.”

Military regulations forbid the consumption of alcohol in Iraq and Afghanistan, two predominantly Muslim countries. But its presence among American troops serving there is hardly rare, and in many units, including the SEAL teams, leaders sometimes turn a blind eye to moderate use.

But this year, in response to repeated reports of misconduct, the commander of Navy Special Warfare, Rear Adm. Collin Green, took steps to clean up SEAL culture with a focus on accountability, character, and what he called “ethical compliance.”

When Admiral Green heard of the allegations about Foxtrot Platoon, he pushed for the unit to be withdrawn from Iraq, according to two Navy officials with knowledge of the event.

A spokeswoman for the SEALs, Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, said that in general top commanders are increasingly focused on enforcing discipline.

>cont

>>232647
“Naval Special Warfare insists on a culture where ethical adherence is equally important to tactical proficiency,” she said in a statement. “Good order and discipline is critical to the mission. We’re actively reinforcing, with the entire force, basic leadership, readiness, responsibility and ethical principles that must form the foundation of special operations.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/navy-seal-platoon-withdrawn-iraq.html

>'We can't hide anything' say Cambodians at alleged China base
REAM, Cambodia (Reuters) - Trying to rebut a report of a secret deal to give China access to a naval base, Cambodia’s defense ministry took reporters to see the torpid jetty and outbuildings on Friday.

The United States has also voiced concern that the Ream naval base in southern Cambodia could host forces from China, the closest foreign ally of long-serving authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

“You journalists. Open your eyes and noses. Today we show you everything,” said defense ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat. “We can’t hide anything ... because there are satellites.”

The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that China had reached a secret deal with Cambodia this year to let it place forces at Ream. The report cited U.S. and allied officials.

Cambodia denied any such agreement and said hosting foreign forces would be against Cambodia’s constitution.

At Ream, a half dozen gray-painted Cambodian navy patrol boats were moored by the jetty. Sailors in military fatigues stood to attention as the press bus passed. Reporters were not allowed to get off.

The defense ministry pointed out that there was no sign of a Chinese presence or of any construction.

Reporters were also taken to a building where a sign proclaimed: “This building was given by the people of the United State of America an expression of friendship and cooperation.” Inside were U.S.-donated speed boats with guns.

The United States expressed concern to Cambodia over plans for Ream after its offer to pay for renovations at the facility was turned down by the Cambodian government in June.

“This causes us to wonder if the Cambodian leadership’s plans for Ream Naval Base include the possible hosting of foreign military assets and personnel,” U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Emily Zeeberg said in a statement.

Chhum Socheat said the building in question would be handed to the Cambodian navy, not to the Chinese.

Giving China access to facilities in Cambodia would boost its ability to assert contested territorial claims in the South China Sea, challenging U.S. allies in Southeast Asia.

The U.S. embassy said it was also monitoring media reports about the potential use of a resort by China.

Some 70 km (40 miles) northwest of Ream, a Chinese company is building a runway at the Dara Sakor resort that is capable of taking some of the world’s biggest planes to serve what for now consists of a rundown casino and a golf course.

China has poured billions of dollars of aid into Cambodia while private Chinese money has gone into real estate developments, factories and casinos.

The town of Sihanoukville, some 10 km (6 miles) from Ream, has been transformed by Chinese investment and the arrival of tens of thousands of Chinese workers and visitors.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cambodia-idUSKCN1UL0Z1?

>Fire and fury: With missile launch, North Korea shows ire at neighbor

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s blistering criticism of South Korea as he oversaw his latest missile launch this week sparked new questions over the South’s role in mediating a nuclear deal between the North and the United States, analysts said.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been one of the most vocal proponents of engagement with the North, using last year’s Winter Olympics to host its delegations and then meeting Kim at summits filled with feel-good imagery, smiles, and hand-holding.

But Moon has been unable to convince Washington to ease sanctions and allow economic cooperation between the neighbors, nor has he persuaded Kim to take major steps toward giving up his nuclear weapons.

On Friday, North Korea called the previous day’s missile launches a warning to South Korean “warmongers” to stop importing weapons and holding joint military drills, with Kim explicitly urging Moon not to ignore them.

Kim may be impatient with what he sees as South Korea overpromising and underdelivering, said Jenny Town, a managing editor at 38 North, a U.S.-based project that studies North Korea.

“The North Koreans have made several statements challenging Moon to move forward, but obviously the situation has left Seoul unable to do so,” she said.

For his part, Moon said there had been “a lot of progress so far in inter-Korean relations and North Korea-U.S. relations, but we still have a long way to go.”

“I think the biggest challenge is national unity,” he added, in comments to a group of Buddhist leaders in Seoul.

North Korea’s growing frustration with its neighbor culminated in the missile tests as a protest against the South’s acquisition of new weapons, such as U.S. F-35 stealth fighters, and its participation in military drills with the United States.

Kim’s comments showed how skeptical North Korea has become regarding the South’s usefulness in talks with the United States, said Shin Beom-chul of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.

“To them, the South Korean government is only a nuisance,” he said. “So the message is either ‘Persuade the United States,’ or ‘Stay out of it.’”

Overseeing Thursday’s launches, Kim Jong Un said the new missiles had to be developed to neutralize the weapons being acquired by South Korea and turn them into “scrap iron”.

South Korea’s acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets, the first of which arrived in March, would force its neighbor to develop and test “special armaments” to destroy the aircraft, the North had warned in mid-July.

While Moon has faced some domestic concern that national security could be affected by his North Korean pacts, from a no-fly zone to fewer guard posts and landmines along the heavily fortified border, he has also pushed ahead with plans to modernize and invest in the South’s already large military.

In January the defense ministry unveiled a plan to boost military spending for the next five years by an additional 270.7 trillion won ($228 billion).

Still, some observers believe Kim Jong Un is leaving space for engagement by focusing on South Korea’s military.

“The state media report shows the North was still willing to maintain inter-Korean ties, as they mostly targeted the military forces, not the whole government,” said Kim Dong-yup, a professor at Kyungnam University’s Far East Institute in Seoul.

An official at Moon’s office said it would not comment on the state media report but the government remained committed to working to revive momentum for nuclear talks.

Poor relations have also prompted a show of reluctance by Pyongyang in accepting 50,000 tons of rice South Korea offered as food aid to its impoverished neighbor.

A South Korean official said the government discussed the plan with the World Food Programme, but Pyongyang had recently showed a “negative” attitude, citing the joint military drills.

Attempts to discuss two South Korean sailors detained by the North have also gone unanswered, the official added.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-southkorea-analys-idUSKCN1UL0ZL?

>>232645
wtf is that female voice

>>232658
https://twitter.com/GwaithBall/status/1154653294888935424
>Moreover, one SAS killed is supposed to make up for the thousands of SDF fighters forced to leave the fight against ISIS in order to confront Erdogan's British-armed #boris #jihadijohnson-excused invasion of #Afrin is it?
HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

>>232698
Very good bombing of jihadi elements, approved

>Let's go on foot to Marat Nouman within five days
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1154875721069858817
WDHMBT?

>>232720
He has and auto-translates lots of sources, but yeah, probably.

>SuAF targets one of the headquarters of terrorist groups in Ariha and destroys the headquarters completely. photo Air inteligence
Pic of Ariha from the northwest, probably in Kafr Najd.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.820910&lon=36.592584&z=15&m=bs&show=/27727014/Kafr-Najd

at T-4

>More military convoys arrive with tens of vehicles and SAA equipment to Shayzar and al-Tarmiseh near Mahradeh
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.285845&lon=36.473923&z=13&m=bs&gz=0;365037059;352617397;563049;0;0;105117
Tel Malah and Jubbayn upcoming i guess...

The surprise Tigers...
Where is it?

SAA T-90 hitting some technical supposedly 5 kilomemes away
https://twitter.com/StasSwanky/status/1155106783083552773
breddy neat

>>232801
My money is on freezing :^)

>>232802
I know a guy on WeChat who's designing deadly drones for the upcoming race war.

#Syria: N. #Hama remains the epicenter of #SyAF-#RuAF airstrikes since for 3rd month. Photos from towns of Morek & Lataminah (flattened).

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1155167358790635520

>>232800
Sweet shot

Video of Hakoura in al-Ghab getting shelled by jihadi chinks
https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1155175689022332931
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.606022&lon=36.327581&z=15&m=w&show=/32906488/Hakoura
Drone view at the end shows the impacts

>>232809
>My sources...-48.
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1155179924208201728
Fine, I've been up for two days anyways so I'm going to bed.
Make sure they don't launch the offensive until tomorrow.