ISIL, ISIS, Daesh discussion thread.

Skunkworks · 24 Jul 2018 at 12:02

IronWarrior said:
Once they are destroyed, the entire south is back under the control of the Syrian people and government.

Excellent, we can return the all the bearded child refugees.

Rroff · 24 Jul 2018 at 12:10

ubersonic said:
The rebels barely have more territory than ISIS at this point, they will fall next now the US has disowned them. Hell, if you ignore the pocket of rebel territory in the south east with nothing of interest in it then Turkey hold just as much Syrian territory.

Pretty much the loosely "FSA" territory is effectively Turkish controlled as well - giving them a fair whack of Northern Syria. Be interesting to see how quickly the southern ISIS pocket falls as it seemed like Israel was keeping them equipped with heavy weapons.

IronWarrior · 26 Jul 2018 at 18:02

It's getting smaller and smaller.

It should reduce by a other 25% by tomorrow.

IronWarrior · 26 Jul 2018 at 21:31

Very bad day for map makers! It keeps changing!

The speed of how much they liberated has surprised me, they taken so much in one day and they still fighting during the night.

If they keep this up, it should be fully done by Sunday.

It won't be the end through, there should be sleeper cells and left-overs hiding in the desert in places.

There be large operations to comb entire areas to flush them out.

IronWarrior · 27 Jul 2018 at 19:29

This 72 year old grandmother defended her grandchildren when ISIS attacked her village in eastern Suwayda.

She killed two of them but took a wound to the stomach.

Dis86 · 27 Jul 2018 at 19:34

Well, course she had to defend them. All the brave men have fled over here to wash cars.

Skunkworks · 27 Jul 2018 at 19:38

ISIS is done, so on with the jihadi whack-a-mole.

Rroff · 27 Jul 2018 at 19:39

IronWarrior said:
The speed of how much they liberated has surprised me, they taken so much in one day and they still fighting during the night.

Assuming it is accurate - I saw on twitter for instance one place they were claiming to have taken/fighting stopped people could see from the Golan that fighting was still going on intensively for nearly 3 days before SAA actually took it.

Skunkworks said:
ISIS is done, so on with the jihadi whack-a-mole.

To the North West they (mostly not ISIS) are digging in - gonna be interesting to see how that turns out.

IronWarrior · 27 Jul 2018 at 21:08

Rroff said:
Assuming it is accurate - I saw on twitter for instance one place they were claiming to have taken/fighting stopped people could see from the Golan that fighting was still going on intensively for nearly 3 days before SAA actually took it.

This is all old news now, the maps have changed again, this is the current version and this is what 4 or 8 hours old now, am sure a new update is coming soon.

Been a very slow day on the main reddit page regarding the fighting.

Not much information as yet, but there seems to be a group from the SDF in Damascus to discuss reopening government services in the north and finding a peace deal.

IronWarrior · 30 Jul 2018 at 19:40

Current heavy crashes between the SAA and ISIS at Al-Ausayr

ISIS no longer has a border with Israel.

The ISIS are suffering heavy losses, many casualties. It should be noted, that these terrorists are the weaker members of the group compared to their other members elsewhere.

Chris Wilson · 30 Jul 2018 at 23:30

Thanks for the updates. I watch with great interest.

IronWarrior · 31 Jul 2018 at 01:40

Chris Wilson said:
I watch with great interest.

Me too! This has been a major hobby for me, following it every day.

Seems the latest news now is the last remaining ISIS fighters in the South is on the border line with Jordan, according to some on Twitter they say, there is a good chance they may launch attacks into one of the Jordanian villages of Agraba to escape the SAA.

At the same time, the SAA (and their allies which includes former FSA) are trying to capture them alive.

Interesting little video, favourite part is at 11:04 showing a tank convoy that belongs to the Tiger Forces. If you unsure who the Tiger Forces are, they been the spearhead of the SAA since the beginning, they are the Armies best troops, they get the best weapons, equipment and supplies, they are being sent North for the Idib campaign.

The Idlib campaign might be very interesting, it could be a multi-prong attacked by SAA and the SDF (YPG also want to join) in the attack which further supports the idea that they may reach a peace deal afterwards.

Russians have setup a "humanitarian corridor" for civilians to leave Idlib.

Freakbro · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:51

Dis86 said:
Well, course she had to defend them. All the brave men have fled over here to wash cars.

Dis....I expect better from you than that

Skunkworks · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:54

Yeah, stop noticing stuff.

IronWarrior · 31 Jul 2018 at 12:34

A British ex-soldier accused of attending training camps run by militia fighting the Islamic State group has had the case against him dropped.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45017016

It's abhorrent that it even went that far.

StriderX · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:23

IronWarrior said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45017016

It's abhorrent that it even went that far.

Why? Do you honestly believe soldiers of "good will" are doing us any legitimate favours? The Syrians and Russians appear to have done the job regardless of these precious souls. There is literally zero value in allowing British citizens to go beyond the state apparatus of military intervention, it sets a bad tone and frankly he should be permanently watched because of it, he's a danger to the public.

You will undoubtedly disagree and that's fine.

Would you be fine if any random numpty just started to attack people on the street for "Justice"?

IronWarrior · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:35

StriderX said:
Why? Do you honestly believe soldiers of "good will" are doing us any legitimate favours? The Syrians and Russians appear to have done the job regardless of these precious souls. There is literally zero value in allowing British citizens to go beyond the state apparatus of military intervention, it sets a bad tone and frankly he should be permanently watched because of it, he's a danger to the public.

You will undoubtedly disagree and that's fine.

Would you be fine if any random numpty just started to attack people on the street for "Justice"?

Understand the point you making, but am assuming you are also against the Americans, Canadians and other nationalities who went to fight against Nazi Germany or to fight against Japan during World War 2 and World War 1 before the their nations declared war?

A lot of these soldiers and airmen provided training and was the best pilots or soldiers they had before their mother nations officially joined the war.

What about the French Foreign Legion?

Sankari · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:42

Amnesia said:
Well we didnt manage to topple his government

We made no serious attempt to topple his government. Even the USA never attacked Syrian government targets until Trump came to power.

Sankari · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:43

RaohNS said:
I think we can all now see the "Douma Chemical attack" was fake/staged.

Chlorine was used in an attack on the Syrian city of Douma that killed dozens of civilians in April, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has found.

A preliminary report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it found “various chlorinated organic chemicals” in two locations, but there was no evidence nerve agents were used.

(Source).

Every time you post, you're invariably wrong about something. It's uncanny.

IronWarrior · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:53

This just got updated, also seeing tweets that the last remaining fighters have been captured by the SAA.

Some tweets are saying that ex members of the FSA are executing captured members of ISIS.

It's about to turn 16:00 in Syria, so expecting to see tweets and confirmations that the South has been fully liberated by the end of the day.