Posted on 04/24/2017 7:51:26 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
ISIS has fought hard to keep this. The SDF (Kurds and Arabs) have done an amazing job. The last report I read stated more than 60% of the city was in SDF control. Many strategic positions are secured.
This town was about 75,000 people before ISIS took over. The next step in Raqqa which was roughly 240,000 population will be a big one, but things are not going well for ISIS in Raqqa either.
There is a video at the link.
I hope this answers some questions for you.
Raqqa City situation report Ping
In 100 days, Trump has ISIS nearly defeated. You’ll never hear anything about it from our press.
Nope. They are too busy contemplating their navel and playing with political correctness knobs.
What a waste of bandwidth the Main Stream Media really is.
Is the SDF the jihadists armed by the CIA or are they the jihadists armed by the Pentagon ?
As Trump said ‘we have no idea who we are giving weapons to’
So the Kurds have been unleashed since Trump became president.
They begged for munitions from obozo and never got them
And you will hear the pearl clutchers here complaining about Trump not staying out of Syria
“So the Kurds have been unleashed since Trump became president.
They begged for munitions from obozo and never got them”
You are so correct. Thank God for President Trump.
A whole lot of ISIS(gangs) killed in this report. I only saw 1 that was captured. I like these kill/prisoner ratios. Kill as many as possible.
They are not jihadists. Try not to show your ignorance -— you’re embarrassing your fellow FReepers.
Thanks for the continuing SITREPS.
Numbers have been running 10 (ISIS) to 1 (SDF). Still it’s a very dangerous operation.
Raqqa proper could be far worse. US Spec Ops and Marine Howitzer (X caliber rounds), Apache choppers, Air Support and precision munitions have helped the operations.
That, and the Kurds are fine soldiers and learn quickly. It’s been quite a while since we had this kind of motivated soldiers to fight alongside. (my opinion)
Our soldiers know. They are the important ones !
Wrong conclusion.
CIA had every malcontent jihadi working for them to overthrow Assad (bad guy). Then Obama & Hillary spawned the ISIS monster.
Kurds were the 1st to effectively defeat ISIS. It began in Kobani. It would have fell, but with a lot of pressure from the public, Obama finally gave them some air support and a bunch of women and a few men with a little air support and few small arms, ammo, and food dropped in they managed to survive. I was part of the cheer leading crowd here then.
If I seem attached to this, it is because I respect and really like the Syrian Kurds. Ones I know are not only good soldiers, but very good people. No longer strangers.
Thanks.
I thought this was one of the better reports I had read. Most don’t give this detail. It is pretty impressive to me how well they all work together.
At the very last possible moment he gave a single series of air drops of supplies and some continuing air support which allowed them to survive in Kobani. Amazing to watch that. It was during Sept & Oct 2014.
Still get chills thinking of what a monster they actually faced and prevailed against (barely).
Yes, our solders can understand this.
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