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Rantburg Exclusive: Erdigon Strangely Says Afrin Will Fall Tonight (Is He Under Internal Pressure?)
2018-03-15
1-Afrin city: the Turkish invasion army is still brutally bombing Afrin’s neighborhood, where the Turkish jets are targeting the public facilities and the populated areas, including the pediatrics in Avrin Hospital yesterday.

2-Jinderes: all of the villages in Jinderes axis are areas of engagements between our forces and the Turkish invasion army and its backed terrorists factions (ISIS- Al Nusra). The clashes accompanied by heavy artillery shelling and airstrikes, where the fiercest clashes were in Satiya village.

3-Belbeleh: all of the villages in this axis were arenas of heavy clashes between our forces and the invaders. These clashes accompanied by brutal aerial and artillery shelling, where the clashes were concentrated in Bileh village. according to our fighters from the battlefield, 19 terrorists were killed.

4-Shieheh: there are heavy clashes in the villages of Meshki, Mekhara and Chaqmaqa villages since yesterday until writing this report. According to our fighters, 11 terrorists were killed. It is worth noting that these clashes are accompanied by heavy airstrikes and artillery shelling.

SDF Media Center
13 March 2018


Video of fierce defensive combat by the men and women of the Kurdish YPG/YPJ.



After YPG/YPJ strategically retreated to consolidate their forces, allowing various villages to be taken by Turks, it took 3 days for the Turk invasion forces to take one town south of the city of Afrin.



YPG/YPJ fired a guided missile into a suspicious car surrounded by 60 terrorists in which a massive explosion occurred killing all 60 terrorists as it was apparently a car bomb being prepared by the terrorists.

Up-close video of Turks shelling the city of Afrin where the YPG says 800,000 civilians are taking refuge.


Additional videos show YPG/YPJ inflicting ATGM strikes against Turk Tanks behind Turk lines.
Posted by:Ulaigum Ebbineng7056

#8  Isn't Al Qaeda legit targets for the US military? Just saying.
Posted by: Vespasian Protector of the Hatfields9991   2018-03-15 09:31  

#7  Give 'em hell.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-03-15 09:13  

#6  Come on "Intel Community", work Fred's Donate button on the right side of the page!
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2018-03-15 09:01  

#5  Somewhere around 95% of all intelligence reporting is derived form unclassified (UNCLAS) or so-called 'open sources' such as UE's reports and vids. These UNCLAS pieces then become the foundation or supporting documentation for classified intelligence assessments, reports, and updates. I am confident these videos and reports are not being overlooked....by either side of the conflict.

Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-15 07:39  

#4  I seldom link to a news source. The first atomic level (as I like to call it) video has you standing behind the soldier firing the AK47. The second video has you on a roof top while missiles are dropping all around you. After a while of being in the shoes of the witness (which is impossible but close, there is much, much more fear inside you if are actually there wearing those shoes) you can tell what is really going on after viewing a potentially biased media outlet report of the same battle field.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-15 06:39  

#3  Thank you TW. Everything I post comes from as close to the atomic level (eye witness level) as I can find from the battle fields. Soldier videos are almost required to be approved by their press offices before public domain access but that is for intelligence reasons.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-15 06:19  

#2  I saw those pictures of cars lined up, with that caption. Thank you for explaining what is really going on, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056. Fred mentioned recently that Rantburg is a raw intel stream for several War on Terror websites. I have no doubt they are paying close attention to these reports of yours.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-15 05:46  

#1  EuroNews and much of the other mindless European media outlets are parroting what ever their Islamic Overlords such as Erdogan tells them to say. They are embedded with Turkey's Al Qaeda near Afrin and had images of thousands of cars stacked bumper to bumper on the highways leading out of Afrin and claiming the YPG are not letting people leave.

In reality, hundreds of thousands of Kurds have chosen to stay in Afrin and as a defensive measure they have lined hundreds of cars up along the highways coming into Afrin to prevent access to the city by the Turks and Al Qaeda while the YPG eliminate those cowards who get enough courage to come in via the ditches along the highways.

The embedded Euro Winnie Media shows Al Qaeda "fighters" who the media are instructed to say are near Afrin, cowering and hiding every time they hear a shot fired.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-15 05:15  

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