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By Moon Of Alabama During the last week significant moves in Syria have taken place east of Aleppo. But the situation there will likely soon calm down. The next intense phase of the war may well be a Syrian army attack on al-Qaeda's position in Idlib governate in the north-west of the country. One objective of the Syrian Arab Army move east of Aleppo city was to block the invading Turkish forces from reaching further south. This had been achieved as of last week . The main objective though was to reach the pumping stations at the Euphrates which supply Aleppo city with drinking water. This aim was achieved yesterday. The SAA managed to evict the Islamic State from the shut-down station before it could blow it up. The generators and pumps were booby trapped but seem otherwise operational. After 40 days of strictly rationed water Aleppo city and its nearly 2 million people will soon be back on a normal water supply. map by Peto Lucem bigger I expect that the SAA contingent in east-A

Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson The constantly-changing make-up of the Russian group of forces in Syria has become a veritable kaleidoscope of the country’s contemporary military capabilities, which are evidently taking turns being tested, depending on the operational requirements, on their usefulness in the current reality of a multipolar world embroiled in a global hybrid war. The bright-red beret-clad Russian military policemen who abruptly appeared in Aleppo during the final stages of clearing the city and making it once again suitable for the return of civilian population, are one of these capabilities. During the operation in Syria, the Military Police also protect personnel of the Russian air group and the Center for Syrian reconciliation While the institution of Military Police is a fairly widespread one among the world’s militaries, this branch of forces was almost entirely absent from the Soviet military, following the abolition of the Russ

The video shows the usage of anti-tank guided missiels by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) against ISIS terrorists in the area of Makhoul Mount. ISIS terrorists had repeatedly tried to break PMU positions there but were pushed to retreat under fire from Iraqi troops.

Photos below show the WW2-era military equipment used during the ongoing Syrian and Yemeni wars. Yemen: The SU-100 is a Soviet tank destroyer with a 100 mm anti-tank gun. A tank destroyer is a type of armoured fighting vehicle developed to combat battle tanks and other heavy military equipment. Yemen: The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank. It was designed by the Morozov Design Bureau in the perioud between 1937 and 1940. Over 84,000 tanks were produced by the USSR. Syria: The Sturmgeschütz IV is a German assault gun variant of the Panzer IV (a German medium tank). An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armoured chassis. It’s intended to play a fire support role for advancing infantry.

Written by The Saker ; Originally appeared at The Unz Review In all the political drama taking place in the USA as a result of the attempted color revolution against Trump , the bigger picture sometimes gets forgotten. And yet, this bigger picture is quite amazing, because if we look at it we will see irrefutable signs that the Empire in engaged in some bizarre slow motion of seppuku and the only mystery left is who, or what, will serve as the Empire’s kaishakunin (assuming there will be one). I would even argue that the Empire is pursuing a full-spectrum policy of self-destruction on several distinct levels, with each level contributing the overall sum total suicide. And when I refer to self-destructive behavior I don’t mean long-term issues such as the non-sustainability of the capitalist economic model or the social consequences of a society which not only is unable to differentiate right from wrong, but which now decrees that deviant behavior is healthy and normal. These are what I

FILE PHOTO Russia has started a “practical part” of its modernization program for the naval maintenance facility in Syria’s Tartus, Viktor Ozerov, the head of the Russian Federation Council’s defense committee announced . Now, Russia is conducting survery works in the area, the capital modernization work of the naval facility will be launched by the end of 2017. “The survey works were launched, including those, connected in particular with the construction of a pipeline for fuel. We have started to prepare documents and Syrian companies will carry out a number of [modernization] works. We have started to reinforce quay walls and reconstruct temporary facilities of security services into permanent ones,” the Russian state-run news agency Sputnik quoted Ozerov as saying. The Tartus facility is the Russian Navy’s only support base in the Mediterranean Sea. In January 2017, Russia and Syria made an agreement on the expansion and upgrades of the Russian naval maintenance facility in Ta

Some 2,500 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division is being dispatched to Kuwait by Pentagon in order to be sent to Syrian and Iraq to fight against the Islamic State terrorist group. Photo: Reuters / Omar Sobhani The Pentagon is dispatching 2,500 servicemen from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, based at the Fort Bragg military base, to Kuwait , from where they will be sent to Syria and Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, the Army Times newspaper reported on Friday. The newspaper also noted that 1,700 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team have already been deployed to the region between Iraq and Kuwait. According to the open sources, the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team consists of more than 4,000 soldiers, who form cavalry, artillery, infantry and combat support battalions. On Thursday, the Reuters news agency reported, citing an unnamed military official, that the US Defense Departme

According to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, the Ukrainian authorities categorically do not want to stabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine. Photo: dn.depo.ua The picture of the conflict zone in the Donbass causes serious concern, as the Ukrainian authorities categorically do not want to stabilize the situation, agree on the establishment of a cease-fire regime and remove heavy weapons from the contact line, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Alexander Lukashevich, said. He also noted that numerous offers on this issue from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) had been ignored, and the Ukrainian side has already routinely disrupted a decouplement of the forces in the area of Luganskaya village, which was scheduled on March 7. Shelling of the territory, controlled by the People’s Militia, including critical infrastructure faci