Posted on 03/28/2016 11:57:28 PM PDT by BeauBo
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that The Syrian Democratic Forces will begin an extensive attack on areas controlled by the “Islamic State” in the north and northeastern countryside of Aleppo, starting from Teshreen Dam area and the east bank of the Euphrates River, in order to expel the organization, in coordination with the warplanes of the International Coalition.
(Excerpt) Read more at syriahr.com ...
If ISIS is cut off from Turkey, it will likely mean their death in Syria.
The Kurds are already at the Eastern edge of Raqqa's suburbs, and are dug in to the North of the city (ISIS' capital).
Looks like the end game is shaping up for ISIS in Syria.
When their caliphate collapses in earnest (likely this Summer), it will be the worst time of all to be taking refugees from Syria - the worst murderers and the most hard core jihadis will be fleeing for safety then.
Better to cut them off from retreat, by capturing Manbij and Deir ez Zour first, and then defeat them in detail (i.e. kill them all) before they can slip out and regroup in the West.
thanks for sharing the insight.
squeezing ISIS off from their Turkish supply route...the same Turkey that is opening a 100 million dollar mosque in Maryland and belongs to NATO. That’s great.
Saudis and Qataris send money for ISIS - Turkey sends everything else.
I think that ISIS has become too much of a liability to be an effective tool, and they have accumulated too many enemies. Looks like some of their patrons (like Obama) are now willing to throw them under the bus.
Nobody seems to care much about Libya, so that Obama mess will be left to fester, but so many players are interested in Syria, that it seems on track for some political resolution before our election. Which doesn’t appear to include ISIS.
When the Caliphate collapses, they will move to Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
No, they really crossed Every line of humanity.
as sick as the Nazis minus the manpower, tanks and planes.
I think you’re right.
How did ISIS resupply Palmyra across hundreds of miles of empty desert during Obama’s “degrade and destroy” campaign?
A friggin’ AWACS can see barbed wire shaking in the breeze.
*WE* supported ISIS.
No, they will move to Europe and the US.
Those are the forces we are supporting, shows one how little ISIS’s former ally Assad is doing.
Bunk,
US supports the Syrian Democratic Forces.
ISIS’s allies, Putin and Assad have done plenty to help out ISIS, and Assad helped the Jihadis against US troops, Iran helped kill Americans. Russia did squat out there and bailed out of helping Assad.
Why in the world did their campaign not do more?
*Russia* and *Assad* helped ISIS.
The usual ill-informed opinions, I doubt if over half of the folks here are military or know the SDF are our people, sad.
This twin assault of taking Raqqa and Mosul in Iraq could (if both are successful, a big if) precipitate the downfall of ISIS in the middle east. They won’t have a lot left after those two cities fall and they will have no way to re-supply their forces or get the oil out for money.
At that point, as a poster noted above, the western powers will have to be very careful of ISIS fighters slipping into the refugees...
Well, that was insane.
Russia has blown the cr*p out of ISIS.
Whereas your White House directed the mightiest airforce on earth to blow the cr*p out of the Aleppo electricity grid.
It’s America’s much-vaulted campaign against ISIS which has done nothing.
Curious. Looks like the Russians and Assad pushed ISIS out of Palmyra.
“When their caliphate collapses in earnest (likely this Summer), it will be the worst time of all to be taking refugees from Syria - the worst murderers and the most hard core jihadis will be fleeing for safety then.”
Just in time for Sultan Obama to welcome them with open arms to the shores Of America.
But the SDF is more than the Kurds.
“But the SDF is more than the Kurds.”
That is true. They are still overwhelmingly Kurdish, and overwhelmingly from the YDP political Party (socialist followers of Abdullah Ocalan, like the PKK).
The US made a major shift from training and equipping “moderate” muslim rebels from Turkey in the NW of Syria (who accomplished little on the battlefield beyond surrendering their weapons to al Queda and ISIS), to supporting the Kurdish YPG and YPJ militias of the YDP Party (who routinely kick ISIS ass - their equivalent of the girl scouts make piles of ISIS bodies).
For better acceptance by the Turks (who have Ocalan in jail as their countries most hated terrorist) and to the Arab populations in Syria, who also have ethnic prejudice against Kurds (the Syrian Ba’ath Party is based on the Arab race, like the Nazis), the US promoted the coalition banner of the SDF, to include Christians, and more “moderate” muslims - to take the Kurdish sting off of it.
In effect, they formed up some men from among the Christian survivors to put under the Kurdish command, and have been accumulating local Sunni town and tribal militias as they take over towns from ISIS. A few standing militias have also joined, notably Jaish al Thuwar. The often heard mix for the SDF is 80% Kurdish, but the mix is always changing. The Kurds have a standing training base, and are continually raising and training more Kurds.
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