Iraq & Syrian Civil Wars - Page 268

Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi, commander of IRGC's Ramazan Headquarters during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, was martyred by Takfiri terrorists in the city of Samarra while fulfilling his duty as military advisor and defending the city's holy Shiite shrines in there.

On December 28 2014 18:10 Simberto wrote:
I am pretty sure that you could find more american flags in some peoples gardens than total german flags in some small towns here in germany.

On December 29 2014 03:08 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
And what are those flying at those far right anti-Islamic protests in Berlin etc?

Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia have recaptured the town of Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad, from Islamic State, security sources say.

Video showing Iranian General Hamid Taghavi on the front lines a few weeks before he was killed.

Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, who Reuters says was a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, was killed by one or more snipers hiding behind a power transformer in Samarra, according to a Revolutionary Guard statement. Several others with him were wounded.

Kobani.

BEIRUT: A powerful blast from explosives planted in a tunnel under the Old City of Aleppo, in northern Syria, killed or wounded 20 government troops on Tuesday, a monitor said.

Jabha Shamiyeh, a new rebel coalition in Aleppo, was behind the blast, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which was not immediately able to give a breakdown of the dead and wounded.

The explosion “killed and wounded at least 20 troops and loyalists,” said the Observatory, which relies on a broad network of sources for its reporting.

The Britain-based group said Jabha Shamiyeh “carried out a tunnel blast targeting positions and bases that belong to regime troops and pro-regime militia” in the Old City.

Jabha Shamiyeh, formed less than a week ago, has not claimed responsibility, but opposition activists in Aleppo said it was behind the explosion.

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces have regained control of around 70 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border after pushing back Islamic State fighters that have spent months besieging it, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.

Backed by U.S-led air strikes, Kurdish forces made significant advances overnight on Tuesday after violent clashes with Islamic State in the south of the town, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, the town has became a symbol in the fight between the ultra hardline Islamic State group and its enemies in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Islamic State fighters launched a sustained attack on the town more than three months ago.

U.S.-led forces have bombed Islamic State positions around the predominantly Kurdish town almost every day this month.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, Kurdish Iraqi forces said they launched a large-scale offensive Wednesday to push Islamic State group extremists from an area outside the militant-held northern city of Mosul.

The targeted area covers about 120 square kilometers (46 square miles) and is located between the towns of Gwer and Makhmour, Kurdish forces said in a statement. The two towns, both recaptured by peshmerga forces in August, are located northeast of Mosul and near the Kurdish capital of Irbil.

"The objective is to push the enemy farther away from both areas," the statement said.

Islamic Front using Grad MRL captured in Wadi al-Dayf against regime positions in Latakia.

Today's fighting for Kobani.

Reef Dimashq province: Unknown gunmen assassinated 2 leaders in al-Omma army by shooting them in the eastern Ghouta, many rebel and Islamic battalions formed Osod al-Haq brigade 2 days ago to fight al-Assad regime, the brigade then joined al-Omma army. 6 Islamic fighters ( including 4 brothers ) killed during clashes against regime forces in eastern Ghouta

According to the Turkish daily Haberturk, the incident happened in Kilis province’s Yavuzlu village on the border. A group of smugglers was detected around the mined area and as soldiers pursue smugglers, a sergeant who had served as the commander of the troops, passed the Syrian side of the border in pursuit of the group.
As he did not come back, it was assumed the sergeant was kidnapped and the army alarted.

Kurdish peshmerga forces have recaptured a strategic village in northern Iraq from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Kurdish sources said on Friday.

Kurdish fighters told Al Jazeera they had captured the village of Sultan Abdallah, just 50 miles from the Kurdish regional capital, Erbil, after a series of house-to-house battles with ISIL fighters in the village that saw at least three peshmerga fighters killed.

The Kurds are determined to keep hold of the village because losing it would mean opening up Erbil to a possible ISIL invasion. A major highway to Iraq’s second city, Mosul, also passes through the village, which lies on the banks of the Tigris River.

BEIRUT: Four Hezbollah fighters and five Syrian Army soldiers were killed in fierce clashes with jihadis in the border region of Qalamoun Saturday, security sources told The Daily Star.

The sources said militants attacked Hezbollah positions in the Qalamoun village of Flita near the border with Lebanon sparking fierce clashes between them and Hezbollah and the Syrian military.

Though the party and the Syrian military succeeded in repelling the attack, four Hezbollah fighters and five Syrian soldiers were killed in the clashes, the sources said. According to the sources jihadis also sustained losses but the number of casualties was still unclear.

SHINGAL, Kurdistan Region – Peshmerga forces are locked in house-to-house battles with the Islamic State (ISIS) in Shingal, as they try to cut off the militants’ supply line with heavy artillery.

Kurdish forces have fortified their positions on Mount Shingal itself and a number of hills around the Yezidi town, captured by ISIS in August. They have also dug trenches protected with sand bags facing the town.

“The militants fire back daily and hope to push the Peshmerga forces away,” said a commander on the edge of the town. “But we will keep fighting until we clear every house,” he added.

On January 05 2015 06:21 Yurie wrote:


That was a pretty good and thought worthy article. I can recommend it to anybody that doesn't know the overall Christian religious trends and how they reflect on what the west thinks need to happen with Islam in the future.