2 year agoHeavy destruction of Ash Sha'fah as SDF moves against last ISIS strongholds in Deir Ez Zor provice of Syria. Imagery from Sentinel-2 EU @CopernicusEU / @sentinel_hub
Damascus > Latakia AB Russia Russian Air Force Tu154 RA85605 RFF7334
ISIS in statement still claims its presence in Shafah SE Deir ez-Zur
2 year agoThe @RoyalAirForce continues to demonstrate its air capability in the @coalition campaign against Daesh's last major territory, with 10 successful air strikes in 19 days over the Christmas period.
Artillery shelling from the positions of the pro-Assad forces in the village of Bardij targeting the village of Janabra north of Hama
Video of captured weapons in Shafah.
2 year agoUnknown Iranian plane east of Damascus. @flightradar24 has it as EP-TQZ hex 73523a. never tracked it here - only over Iran/Iraq
Pompeo: There is no contradiction at all in the U.S. position on withdrawing from Syria
Pompeo: We will not participate in the reconstruction of Syria with the Iran presence
Pompeo: We will remove the Iranian militias from Syria
Pompeo: We support Israel's efforts to prevent Tehran from turning Syria into a new Lebanon
Pompeo: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries have donated generously to refugees in Syria
Pompeo: Millions in Iraq and Syria are living normal lives with ISIS decline
Pompeo: Our military presence in the region is at the invitation of the countries in which we are present
Pompeo: President Trump targeted the Syrian regime with missiles and we hope that we do not have to do it again
Pompeo in Cairo: We have learned that any withdrawal of the United States is followed by chaos in the region
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Laudrian: France will withdraw militarily from Syria when a "political solution" in place
2 year agoThe Free Idlib Police dissolves itself following subjugation of Idlib, Hama and western and southern Aleppo to the control of the "Salvation Government" of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (and its police).
Sec of State Pompeo: "President Trump's decision to withdraw our troops has been made. We will do that". Pompeo said the fight against ISIS will continue "differently" in Syria.
2 year agoRussian Air Force Tu-154b RFF7333 descending for Damascus
YPG downed another Turkish drone in Dêrik.
2 year agoAgreement signed to stop fighting and put entire non-government areas in Idlib under HTS backed Syrian Salvation Government (seated in Idlib city)
1700 NLF fighters to be transferred/displaced from Ghab plain southwest Idlib to Afrin as per agreement with HTS
Members of Ahrar Al-Sham to exit Qaalat al-Madiq in Ghab plains, North Hama to the areas of Olive Branch tomorrow
"National Front for Liberation" removes the earthmounds on the outskirts of the towns of Ma'ara al-Nu'man and Ariha
US-led coalition delegation is meeting with SDF leaders in Ain Issa
Turkey will go ahead with an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces in Syria if the US delays the withdrawal of troops from the war-torn country, the foreign minister said
Turkey: Our military operation against Kurdish people's protection units is not linked to the US withdrawal from Syria
Turkey FM comments on HTS Hayat Tahrir al Sham's offensive and subsequent takeover of areas in northwest . "Radical groups are attacking the Syrian opposition . we have taken necessary measures to halt these attacks."
Turkish FM Cavusoglu on HTS's consolidation campaign in Idlib: "Radical groups are attacking the Syrian opposition, and we have taken necessary measures to halt these attacks."
Two mortar shells landed in the neighborhood of Nile Street and Al Zahra Association in Aleppo
Demonstration in Maarat Al-Numan against HTS assault on the city
2 year agoNOTAM and navigational warnings in force around Cyprus for Thursday 10th January: RUSSIAN NAVY EXERCISE (FIRINGS) off the Syria coast. Surface to 66,000ft.
Pro-Assad forces reinforcements are heading towards Southeast Idlib Countryside
Russian warplane is flying North-East at Jarjanaz
Amaq reports about 2 IS attacks in Raqqa area yesterday. Another explosion rocked the city tonight
Russian warplanes airborne: flying north east at Hash, to the north at Marrat al Numan
Daesh fled through the tunnels and are fighting from Abu Badran now. Susah is under attack from Hawi al Susah right as well.
[email protected] in Erbil press conference: QUESTION: @RT_Erdogan seems much more much less enthusiastic about withdrawal from Syria that you set as a condition to the protection of the Kurds. Does that put at risk the whole withdrawal, or how are you going to handle this.
[email protected] "What I said last week is these have been folks that have fought with us and it’s important that we do everything we can to ensure that those folks that fought with us are protected. And Erdogan has made commitments; he understands that"
FSA-led Syrian National Army opened military operations against HTS by attacking its positions near the citadel of Samaan W estAleppo and managed to control the hill of "Syriatel" and "Tal Bazihr" for several hours
2 year agoFSA Jaysh al-Nokhba [Syrian National Army] targeting the sites of HTS around the area of Atma in rural Idlib with heavy and medium machine guns
Loud explosion rocks the surrounding of Idlib city. Reports that the blast took place near Msibeen, rural Idlib, as a result of a fuel depot exploding leading to a fire outbreak, firefighters and civil defense head to the scene to extinguish the fire, no reports of injuries.
2 year agoShuhada al Sharqiyah claims that they targeted a Humvee which was carrying SDF militants, and killed 4 of them in Kharijiyah.
Two civilians were injured when a bomb exploded in a car in a city of Tabqa
Two members of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" were killed and a Hummer car was burned after unknown assailants targeted the traffic police building in the Panorama district of Al-Raqqa while an U.S. delegation was in it.
A civilian was shot by unidentified gunmen in the town of Jisr al-Ashghur west of Idlib.
2 year agoRussian Air Force Tu-154 RA85559 from Krymsk to Hmeimim
Russian-backed 5th Corps brought large military reinforcements to the village of al-Mshairfeh SE Idlib: 250 troops; 15 vehicles with 57 mm guns; 30 pickup trucks carrying various machine guns and anti-tank guns; 10 vehicles with 37-mm guns
Activists: the Russian stationed a military point on a Tell Salba near al-Sakilibiya west of Hama
Afrin: Video of clashes between FSA and HTS on the axis of Mount Simeon.
Putin discussed Syria in a call with Merkel
After taking over Sahl Ghab and Jabal Shahshabo areas, HTS convoys are currently going to Maraat al Numan area.
Al-Tanf: Jordan starts laying barbed wire around al-Rukban camp
2 year agoMine removal by EOD teams in Raqqa is still ongoing to this day.
Turkish Defense Minister discusses by telephone with his Russian counterpart recent developments in Idlib and regional security issues under the framework of the Stochi Agreement.
Russian forces abandoned their positions in the village of Abu Dali south of Idlib and stationed in the back lines of the village of Talisia in the eastern Hama countryside.
2 year agoHere is the newly relocated US troops who withdrew from Northern Syria into Anbar, the US troops are stationed in Anbar in Iraqi-Syria border. Iraq Photo Mansour Al-Badrani
HTS alledgedly entered Basûfanê, an Êzîdî village in the Simeon mountains of Afrin.
2 year agoIdlib: NLF destroyed an HTS 23mm cannon.