Zitat:Mon May 25, 2015 11:26
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian Army, Hezbollah Win Back Strategic Hilltops in Jisr al-Shughour

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance fighters made massive gains in the province of Idlib and took control over hilltops near the strategic city of Jisr al-Shughour in Northwest.
The army and Hezbollah forces tightened their grip over the last hilltops under Al-Nusra Front control before winning back Jisr al-Shughour. Almost the entire city is under terrorists' control.

Yet, parts of the Jisr al-Shughour, including its Hospital, have remained under the Army's control despite the terrorist group's numerous heavy offensives to win control over these few pockets of resistance. Earlier this week, the Syrian army started massive operations to prevent the terrorists from capturing the Jisr al-Shughour Hospital.

Nearly 200 Syrian soldiers are protecting Jisr al-Shughour hospital against the terrorists.

Last week, the Syrian warplanes targeted the terrorists' concentration centers in Jisr al-Shughour town and some villages in the Idlib province, pushing the fighters back from their positions, sources in the Northwestern province confirmed.
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Zitat:Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:9
Leader's Top Aide Underlines Iran's Plan to Continue All-Out Support for Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined Tehran's continued support for Syria in its fight against the terrorists and the Zionist regime.
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Zitat:Syria conflict: Rebels seize major army base in Deraa

Rebels in Syria say they have captured a major army base in the south of the country. The Southern Front, an alliance of rebel groups, announced that the base, known as Brigade 52, was "liberated" in an attack on Tuesday morning. The base, outside the town of Harak, is one of the largest in Deraa province. [...]

At the start of April, the Southern Front captured the Nasib border crossing with Jordan, days after another rebel alliance seized the capital of the north-western province of Idlib. [...] A spokesman for the Southern Front, Maj Essam al-Rayes, told the AFP news agency that at least 2,000 rebel fighters had overrun Brigade 52 in a "short and quick" assault launched at dawn on Tuesday. [...]

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the battle had killed 20 troops and pro-government militiamen, as well as 14 rebels.

Zitat:Al Nusrah Front, allies form new coalition for battle in Aleppo

BY THOMAS JOSCELYN | July 3, 2015
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The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, and allied organizations have formed a new coalition for the battle of Aleppo. The alliance calls itself Ansar al Sharia, a name used by other al Qaeda groups in the Middle East and North Africa. Along with a founding statement, the new grouping has released a short video announcing its establishment. A screen shot from the video can be seen above.

In addition to Al Nusrah, Ansar al Sharia includes one dozen other named groups. Ahrar al Sham and Ansar al Din, both of which are tied to al Qaeda’s international network, are members of the coalition.
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Zitat:Ansar al Din’s propaganda from the Battle of Aleppo

BY THOMAS JOSCELYN | July 3rd, 2015
Some of the first jihadist-produced images from the newly-launched offensive in Aleppo were posted by Ansar al Din, an al Qaeda-affiliated organization.
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A large contingent of jihadists from the Caucasus serve as JMA leaders and fighters. Sham al Islam is mainly comprised of fighters from North Africa and was founded by ex-Guantanamo detainees from Morocco. Saudis led Al Katibah al Khadra, before it was folded into the JMA.
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Zitat:Islamic State executes Syrian regime soldiers at Palmyra ruins
BY CALEB WEISS | July 5th, 2015 |

In a video released yesterday, the Islamic State showcased the execution of 25 Syrian regime soldiers in the city of Palmyra’s ancient Roman ruins. It appears that the executioners were adolescents, or possibly younger.

The jihadist group said these fighters were captured when it overran the city of Palmyra (Tadmur in Arabic) in late May. At least 462 civilians, 241 government troops, and 150 Islamic State fighters were killed in the fighting in and around the town since May 13, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Zitat:Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:5
Al-Nusra Kidnaps at Least Five More US Trained Militants in Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- Al-Nusra Front kidnapped at least five more US-trained militants during an overnight raid in Northwestern Syria, reports said.

"Between Monday and Tuesday, al-Nusra Front seized at least five rebels from Division 30 in the village of Qah, near the Turkish border," the chief of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Last week al-Nusra Front attacked the same US-trained division, kidnapping the unit's commander, along with seven members of the Division, according to the observatory.

Zitat:Syria's Assad Meets With Iran's Zarif as Damascus Shelled
The Associated Press Aug 12, 2015 8:51 PM

Iran's foreign minister also meets Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in Lebanon, discusses resolution for Syria's civil war.

Stepped-up rebel shelling and government airstrikes came just a few hours before Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Damascus, where he discussed a four-point proposal Iran wants to offer to the United Nations as a way out of Syria's grinding conflict.

That plan, according to a Lebanese politician familiar with the proposal, includes a cease-fire and a power-sharing government that would keep Assad in the picture, at least for now, pending internationally supervised elections.
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Zitat:Bad Blood Inside Al Qaeda’s Syria Franchise

Islamic State’s past ally and present enemy in Syria, Jabhat Al Nusra, is suffering from factionalism and regionalism. Its subgroups in the south are challenging leaders in the north, and local members have often disagreed with foreign ones.

Zitat:US-Aussenminister John Kerry hat bei einem Besuch in London die Gemeinsamkeiten seines Landes mit Russland im Kampf gegen die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) betont. «Wir haben die gleichen Ziele», sagte Kerry dem britischen Fernsehsender Channel 4. «Der IS muss zerstört, komplett gestoppt werden», sagte Kerry. Gemeinsame Gespräche mit Russland seien notwendig, um die militärischen Operationen gegen den IS, etwa in Syrien,zu koordinieren.

Russland, das in Syrien das Regime von Machthaber Baschar al-Assad unterstützt, hatte gemeinsame Gespräche zur militärischen Strategie vorgeschlagen. Die USA gingen am Freitag darauf ein, als die Verteidigungsminister beider Länder, Sergej Schoigu und Ashton Carter, miteinander telefonierten.

Zitat:Russia to allow Israeli strikes on Syrian arms transfers, PM says

After Kremlin meet, Netanyahu says ‘mechanism’ reached with Russian leader to prevent misunderstandings in Syrian fighting

Nightwatch schrieb:Al Nusra ist kein israelischer Proxy.

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Am vergangenen Montagabend griff eine Gruppe Drusen einen israelischen Krankenwagen in Madschdal Schams, Golanhöhen, an. Dabei wurde laut Medienberichten ein in dem Krankgenwagen befindlicher Al-Nusra-Milizionär angegriffen und getötet.
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Der zweite al-Nusra-Kämpfer wurde ernsthaft verletzt. Zwei im Krankenwagen mitgefahrene israelische Soldaten wurden leicht verletzt, hieß es weiter.
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Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The prominent American newspaper reported that Nusra Front, the Sunni Muslim al-Qaida offshoot which is currently fighting the Iranian-backed axis of Bashar Assad and Hezbollah, "hasn't bothered Israel since seizing the border area last summer" along the Golan Heights.
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Since 2012, quarterly reports issued by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) - the UN force based along the ceasefire line separating the Syrian Golan from the Israeli-occupied Golan - have revealed frequent interactions between the Israeli army and fighters from armed groups, including the treatment of wounded, discussions between soldiers and fighters through the fence, and the crossing of trucks from the Syrian side to the Israeli side. UNDOF regularly observed armed individuals removing landmines along the technical fence while the Israeli army observed from its positions, as well as Israeli army personnel h
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First the latest bombing of Syrian targets near the Damascus international civilian airport on December 7 was the seventh major unprovoked air strike of its kind since 2011 and the fifth in the past 18 months on Syrian defenses. Syrian scientific research centers, missile depots, air defense sites, radar and electronic monitoring stations and the Republican Guards were targeted by Israel.

Facilitating the Israeli mission and complementing it, the terrorist organizations operating in the country tried several times to hit the same targets. They succeeded in killing several military pilots and experts whom Israeli intelligence services would have paid dearly to hunt down.
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the latest quarterly report by the UN Disengagement Force (UNDOF) to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on December 1 confirmed what eight previous similar reports had stated about the "interaction across the [Syrian - Israeli] ceasefire line" between the IOF and the "armed members of the [Syrian] opposition", in the words of Ban Ki-Moon's report to the Security Council on December 4.
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A tricky problem is that the rebels have been fighting alongside a group called Jabhat al-Nusra, which is an affiliate of al-Qaeda. Sources said Tuesday that it’s likely that in coming days a Jabhat al-Nusra faction will split publicly from al-Qaeda and join the Army of Conquest. At that point, there could be a tipping point in the north, with a broad coalition allied against both the Assad regime and the Islamic State. Jordan and Israel have developed secret contacts with members of the Jabhat al-Nusra group along their borders.
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The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11)[nb 1] were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks.
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The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had harbored al-Qaeda.
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Shahab3 schrieb:

Nightwatch schrieb:Al Nusra ist kein israelischer Proxy.

Achso, ich hatte angenommen, das zionistische Regime habe sich mit Al-Kaida verbündet. Also mit exakt jener Gruppierung, die für 9/11 verantwortlich sein soll.