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Russia claims to bomb 55 ISIS targets in Syria
2015-10-13
[Rudaw] Russia claimed Monday that its military aircraft had struck dozens of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
positions in Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

"In the course of the last 24 hours, Russian military aircraft Su-34s, Su-24Ms and Su-25SMs have executed 55 combat outings engaging 53 ISIS positions in the Homs, Hama, Latakia and Idlib provinces," reported Anadolu quoting a Russian defense ministry statement.

The statement said Russian jets had targeted ISIS bunkers and weapons depots near the city of Latakia in Idlib province, and ISIS convoys transporting ammunition and fuel north of Hama.
Eye in the sky video of things blowing up at the link. If someone would be kind enough to take a look and describe what it is -- the title is written in cyrillic, which I don't read -- I'd be grateful.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Update to 86 ISIS/ISL targets struck by Putin's AeroDales out of 88 Airstrikes.

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > PUTIN: ONLY RUSSIA FIGHTING ISIS - US [read, POTUS Obama] IS NOT HELPING.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > PUTIN SAYS US SHOULD GIVE US$500.0MILYUHN TO RUSSIA, INSTEAD OF SYRIAN REBELS [Failed Anti-Assad "DIV30" + Related Training Programs].

* BUSINESS INSIDER > [Reuters] THOUSANDS OF IRANIAN SOLDIERS/TROOPS ARE NOW IN SYRIA FOR GROUND OFFENSIVE AGZ INSURGENTS [retake Aleppo], as backed by Putin's FlyBoyz + prolly Russian SPECOPS + Hezbollah(?).

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Al-Masdar News] AL-NUSRA FIGHTERS [ + Aligned?] FLEE TO TURKEY AS RUSSIAN CHOPPERS CHASE THEM IN WEST IDLIB.

* RELATED SPUTNIK NEWS > THOUSANDS OF IRANIAN TROOPS ENTER SYRIA FOR OFFENSIVES BACKED BY RUSSIAN STRIKES.

VERSUS

* FARSNEWS > AL-NUSRA [El Supremo Abu Mohamad Al-Jolani/Golani] CALLS FOR TERRORISTS IN CAUCASUS TO ATTACK RUSSIA.

* RELATED BIGNEWSNETWORK > [RFE] AL-QAEDA ALLY [Al-Nusra] VOWS RETALIATION FOR RUSSIAN "CRUSADE" ["New Christian Crusade"] IN SYRIA.

* TOPIX > ISIS ACKNOWLEDGES DEATH OF DEPUTY LEADER [Abu Mohammed Al-Turkmani], CALLS FOR WORLD MUSLIMS TO WAGE "HOLY WAR" AGZ RUSSIA AND US ["Crusaders] IN NEW VIDEO.

VERSUS

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Russia TOday] WHITE HOUSE [POTUS Obama] ONCE AGAIN WEIGHING NEW INTERVENTION OPTIONS IN SYRIA - DEFENSE ONE, in wake of PUTIN'S = RUSSIA'S NEW MIL INTERVENTION IN SAME.

ARTIC > FORMER US GOVT OFFCIAL = POTUS OBAMA'S ORIGINAL POLICY/DIRECTIVE OF MINIMAL OR NO LOCAL INTERVENTION BY US MILFORS HAS UTTERLY FAILED.

Despite very low US-specific Casualties, the Bammer's policy of non-engagement/intervention has not only failed to defeat the Hard Boyz but has also failed to deter or stop their expansion everywhere in the ME such that Regions + Countries outside of the ME are now under threat, to include the US itself.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-13 23:32  

#1  I bet the Saudis/gulf not happy lol
Posted by: paul   2015-10-13 15:28  

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