SYRIA GENERAL /pol/ - JANUARY 2, 2016

SYRIA GENERAL /pol/ - JANUARY 2, 2016
Links posted throughout the day including news, video, and tweets.
Thanks to all anons who contributed.

ARTICLES

Islamist rebels issue a distress call for help as the Syrian Army advances in Sheikh Miskeen
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/islamist-rebels-issue-a-distress-call-for-help-as-the-syrian-army-advances-in-sheikh-miskeen/

Syrian Army defeats ISIS at the Al-Sina’a District of Deir Ezzor: 40 terrorists killed in 48 hours
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-defeats-isis-al-sinaa-district-deir-ezzor-40-terrorists-killed-48-hours/

Russia’s national security strategy for 2016 in 9 key points
https://www.rt.com/news/327608-russia-national-security-strategy/

Uzbek group in Syria trains children for jihad
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/uzbek-group-in-syria-trains-children-for-jihad.php

Syrian Army captures another village in southeastern Hama
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-captures-another-village-in-southeastern-hama/

Syrian Army uses the weather to advance in northern Latakia
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-uses-the-weather-to-advance-in-northern-latakia/

Breaking: Syrian Army captures 3 more villages in southeastern Hama
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/22571/

Top Nusra commander mysteriously escapes the embattled Daraa
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/top-nusra-commander-mysteriously-escapes-the-embattled-daraa/

ISIL suicide bombers take order from ‘Ebu Enes’
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/isil-suicide-bombers-take-order-from-ebu-enes.aspx?pageID=238&nID=93300&NewsCatID=509

Fleeing Residents Detail the Horrors of Ramadi Under Islamic State Rule
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fleeing-residents-detail-the-horrors-of-ramadi-under-islamic-state-rule-1451693379
[Note: to avoid WSJ pay/subscribe wall, google search the title of the article and select the first link]

Terrified families emerge from ruins of liberated Ramadi
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/terrified.families.emerge.from.ruins.of.liberated.ramadi/75359.htm

ISIS suicide car bombs target Iraqi troops in Ramadi
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/01/02/ISIS-suicide-car-bombs-target-Iraqi-troops-in-Ramadi.html

Iraq forces extend Ramadi control, rescue civilians
http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2016/1/1/iraq-forces-extend-ramadi-control-rescue-civilians

Saudi Arabia executes 47 people, incl prominent Shiite cleric, on terror charges
https://www.rt.com/news/327698-saudi-executions-terror-charges/

ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits [ARTICLE + VIDEO]
https://www.rt.com/news/327701-isis-turkey-oil-trade/

Syrian Army Welcomes in New Year by Driving Out Terrorists in Key Provinces
http://sptnkne.ws/awhm

Tunnel Rats: Syrian Army Deals Another Blow to Daesh Infrastructure
http://sptnkne.ws/awkJ

Who Is Responsible For Ending ISIS in Iraq?
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/who-responsible-ending-isis-iraq-14781

[FUCK THIS GUY] The bad news about ISIS's defeat in Ramadi
http://theweek.com/articles/596561/bad-news-about-isiss-defeat-ramadi

Sea Ghost: New Russian Submarine is Stealthier Than a 'Black Hole'
http://sptnkne.ws/awpa

RAF bomb raids in Syria dismissed as 'non-event'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12078395/RAF-bomb-raids-in-Syria-dismissed-as-non-event.html

[OP-ED] Stay Out of Syria [JUNE 2012]
Foreign intervention to topple Bashar al-Assad's bloody regime risks a fiasco on par with Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/05/stay-out-of-syria/

VIDEO

YOUTUBE

Syria & Iraq developments, January 01 2016 [COMPILATION 39:20 - some english reports incl]
https://youtu.be/08AkuuLz_z4

Saudi Arabia executes top Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0af_1451729043

Syrian Army Cleans Sheikh Meskeen From Terrorists
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1775046

"Moderate" Rebels mortaring a hospital near Homs/Hama pocket
https://youtu.be/I8OzbZzpyVc

#Syria TV News Jan. 2, 2016 [ENG]
https://youtu.be/JM0eUcyvLhE

Video Footage of #SAA Recent Operation in South-Eastern #Hama
https://youtu.be/NdLkgta6NQs

Multiple SyAAF Airstrikes on Darayya in Rural Damascus
https://youtu.be/mBbXx8vXcSw

Live Video Operation of ISIS Convoy Ambushed by SAA in Aleppo (Eng Sub)
https://youtu.be/vm3FbspEHIE

ANNA News from Palmyra [+16 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gumTfqR-eR4

Footage from YPG offensive in Efrin, the taking of the village of Tenib against Al-Nusra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQkID7UE1Jw

Syria: I'm not leaving my Country
https://youtu.be/bgfVQmfsT2I
[CAUTION: this is reporter who documents Nusra's White Helmet Brigade and Raqqa activists]

#SheikhMaskin. Woman fires mortar at SAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSsXw6eGQE

TWITVIDS

Nusra/IS VBIED footage from Sheikh Meskin
https://twitter.com/AnaTurky_/status/683368526216826883

MISC

Southern Front night attack on Syrian Army
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=014_1451730654

[Compilation] Jabhat al-Nusra The battles of Al-Qarassi, Tell Mimu, Tell Bajar & Banes village - S Aleppo offensive (Nov-Dec, 2015)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f0_1451754202

TWITTER

More than 20 Grad rockets by #SAA targeting #Palmyra in less than 30 minutes #Homs #Syria Jan 2
https://twitter.com/andreaskorinov/status/683135703367192576

Ansar al Sham Brigades says Mujaheddin brigades launched violent attack @ Burj al Qasab
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/683196288746287104

[SMALL MAP] Reports that #ISIS #ISIL took control of Khirbet Ghazaleh near Qarah Mazr'ah, Daraa Gov
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/683197975951228929

#Erdogan: I'll be in the United States in March and will open the Turkish mosque in Lanham MD. I have invited #Obama for the ceremony too
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/683172012915740672
#Erdogan: We had some differences with US before but our ties were never broken. We'll work with any administration democrat or republican
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/683171085848842240

At least 50 Islamists (incl. 5 commanders) have been killed during #SAA's ongoing offensive in Sheikh Miskeen #Daraa
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/683234086643617793

Large reinforcements arrive in #Aleppo province in preparation for #SAA offensive
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/683235609167577088

#IS clashes with #FSA at Dalhah - Harjalah in north #Aleppo countryside
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/683241354537779200

#FSA & #JN have launched assault on #SAA controlled Qassab, intense clashes ongoing, no change/advances #Latakia
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/683248968273276928

In #Hezbollah's statement denouncing #SaudiArabia's execution of Al-Nimr, they also put the blame on the #US
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/683264763636219904

#Baghdad conformed that #USA used for the first time the B-52 in #Iraq bombing #ISIS in #Ramadi.
https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/683267321536884736

Based on @arabthomness infographic I added a red X next to groups that works with Al-Qaeda
https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/683286915005726720
http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/93d6/178bmfydf4n8h9uzg.jpg

#SAA repelled militants attack on al-Qasab tower / Latakia
https://twitter.com/watanisy/status/683249038506995713

#SAA #NDF advancing toward the axis of Qantara after control of al-Ramliyah / Hama
https://twitter.com/watanisy/status/683297349616144384

[PHOTOS] Photos from Arrmaiylah village
https://twitter.com/Syria_Protector/status/683297220024774657

Pic from #Zabadani from #Hezbollah postion #Syria
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/683241982416842752

[SMALL MAP] #FSA & #JN have launched assault on #SAA/#NDF controlled #Qassab #SAA repelled militants attack #Latakia #Syria
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/683253563779366913

Casualties among militants as result of #SAA/#NDF shelling/rocketing of #Zorba town in the South of #Aleppo #Syria
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/683257006585700352

Large #SAA/#NDF/#Hezbollah reinforcements arrive in North #Aleppo province in preparation for new large offensive #Syria
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/683257559860559872

#Sham_Legion Faylaq Al-Sham In Idlib are withdrawing from Jaysh al Fateh and All Heading to #Aleppo.
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/683406449670750209

[PHOTOS] #NDF & #SAA captured the village of Al-Ramliyah west of Al-Salamiyah in the southeastern countryside of #Hama
https://twitter.com/IraqiSuryani1/status/683406590779637760

MAPS

>SAA/NDF take Arrmaiylah village JAN 2
https://twitter.com/Syria_Protector/status/683290521092096000
>Rebels hang on Shaykh Miskin JAN 1
https://twitter.com/Ald_Aba/status/683053978553303040
>SDF/YPG take Tanab/Murash/Kashti'ar JAN 1
https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/682943109668417536
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/682953136441446401
>SAA liberate Najjar N Kweres DEC 31
https://twitter.com/A7_Mirza/status/682707919566147585
>SAA/NDF in Quneitra CS DEC 31
https://twitter.com/miladvisor/status/682514675012120581
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/682479320321884160
>SAA 5 villages E Hama DEC 31
https://twitter.com/miladvisor/status/682509408648228864
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/682505460621115392

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