Was told it was very fierce struggle. Tipped off that it was not being covered at all in the news so I dug a bit. Best I could do.
When the ask local citizens to help who have no military experience it is an extreme situation.
Too many combatant groups in Northern Syria for outsiders to really understand. Not sure the locals always do.
The City is about to fall and Obama caused it. The city’s defenses where quite stable for over a year. Then we bombed Syrian Army positions giving ISIS a hill that overlooks the airport preventing cargo planes from flying in (they’ve done nothing but drop supplies at night from choppers since then). Secondly Obama intentionally left the road from Iraq open to encourage ISIS to move into the area. A lot of people are about to be murdered and the US has blood on our hands.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/01/how-the-us-enabled-isis-to-take-deir-ezzor.html#comments
Obama’s Fault!
I appreciate this posting. I am also trying to follow Mosul. Apparently it is a blood bath . Isis snipers are using subsonic rounds and flash suppressors. You cant see or hear anything. You just hear the splat. We gave that to the damned Iraqis and they were all captured when the cowards fled like women also leaving 2300 armored Humvees and artillery with thousand of rounds. Bombing has killed thousand of civilians ion Mosul ( population of 1.2 million) !! THOUSANDS! I don’t want to hear about bombing in Allepo any more. That deal is a quagmire. We go if and when we are invited by sovereign countries and we kill ISIS bastards without embedded press to watch us do it. Get ready, IT IS COMING.
Thank you for posting this. A crucial situation - I am very concerned about the outcome.
More reason I hope Trump after Jan 20 will personally attend Astana meeting (Jan 23), and, in fact, will, additionally, have a one-on-one meeting with Putin about this mess. These will be critical initial meetings in relation to the incoming US admin’s inclination & resolve in & for that specific region.