[Centraal] Crisis in Syri� #137 Damascus aiport = next

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Op donderdag 7 augustus 2014 18:27 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Al meerdere doelstellingen zijn behaald rondom het internationaal vliegveld van Damascus. Ik vraag me af waar de pro-assad mensen hier ineens gebleven zijn

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Op donderdag 7 augustus 2014 18:27 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Al meerdere doelstellingen zijn behaald rondom het internationaal vliegveld van Damascus. Ik vraag me af waar de pro-assad mensen hier ineens gebleven zijn

Siria - Raqqa - Estado Islámico Toma la Brigada 93 del Ejército Árabe Sirio - 7 Agosto 2014

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ISIS storms one of last Syria army bases in Raqqa

_{Aug. 08, 2014 | 12:08 AM}

BEIRUT: Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants stormed one of the Syrian government’s last outposts in the northern province of Raqqa in an overnight attack and battled troops holed up in the area Thursday, killing dozens of soldiers, activists said.

A monitoring group said over 40 people were killed in multiple suicide car bombings carried out by ISIS fighters and in ensuing clashes.

ISIS, an Al-Qaeda offshoot, has made rapid gains in Syria since it seized northern Iraq’s largest city, Mosul, June 10, and declared an Islamic caliphate on adjoining territory it controls in Syria and Iraq.

Raqqa is a major stronghold of ISIS, which took control of the provincial capital and expelled rival Syrian rebel groups at the start of the year.

The group’s hardened fighters – many of them foreign – have been chipping away at government holdouts in the area since last month.

ISIS fighters killed at least 50 soldiers when they took over a base outside Raqqa city about two weeks ago. They also killed around 270 soldiers, guards and staff when they overran a gas field in central Syria about a week before that, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“Allahu Akbar [God is greatest], we announce to the Islamic nation news of the total liberation of the 93rd Brigade [military base],” said a Twitter feed which regularly publishes news from ISIS in Raqqa.

The Observatory said clashes continued Thursday and that there were still government troops in the base. It said at least 27 pro-government fighters were killed after three ISIS fighters blew themselves up in car bombs at the gates and around the base and in the battles that followed.

At least 11 ISIS fighters were killed, added the group, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of sources. It said “dozens” more were wounded.

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes north of Raqqa city and in the area of Tabqa, the Observatory said.

Tabqa’s military airbase would be the only major remaining government outpost in the province with the fall of the 93rd Brigade base.

ISIS supporters posted images on social media showing a tank and other heavy military equipment which they said were “spoils” from the attack on the base. The images could not be verified.

ISIS, once Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq, formally split with Al-Qaeda this year after tensions rose over its expansion into Syria and has since risen to become one of the most powerful armed forces in Iraq and Syria.

Al-Qaeda’s official Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, has occasionally clashed with ISIS since the split, but the two groups have also fought side-by-side in some regions, such as Syria’s mountainous Qalamoun area near Lebanon.

The Observatory estimates that ISIS controls about 35 percent of Syrian territory – although much of that is desert.

The government has meanwhile consolidated its grip on the country’s more densely populated central areas, including a corridor stretching from the capital Damascus to the Mediterranean coast in the west.

More than 170,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war, which pits overwhelmingly Sunni rebels against President Bashar Assad, backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shiite militias from Iraq.

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Op zaterdag 9 augustus 2014 10:55 schreef Fides het volgende:
^wie zien we hier?

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Op zaterdag 9 augustus 2014 15:07 schreef Reki het volgende:
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Nieuwe kaart.

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Op zaterdag 9 augustus 2014 15:08 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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Niet veel veranderd toch?

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PetoLucem twitterde op zaterdag 02-08-2014 om 10:43:13 NEW MAP (August 2): Military situation in #Hama Governorate. #Syria @KeepingtheLeith http://t.co/j0nftuT55e reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 9 augustus 2014 18:06 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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Hezbollah is weg. Hezbollah heeft er genoeg van. Sorry, het is over. Het slaat werkelijk waar nergens op om een dictator te helpen. Vooral als je als paramilitaire militie niet voor het Libanees leger kunt staan. Game Over.