Posted on 11/01/2015 8:06:54 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Islamic State fighters drove Syrian government forces from a town in the west of the country on Sunday, as fighting looked set to intensify despite a flurry of international diplomacy and talks between regional rivals.
The jihadists' advance came even as Russian warplanes and Syrian forces supported by them stepped up assaults against insurgents in west and northwest Syria, and the United States separately sought to increase pressure on Islamic State.
The fighting tempered any expectation of progress towards a political solution to the four-year civil war, with warring sides and their foreign backers refusing to back down in a conflict where the world's major military powers except China are directly involved.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
FOAB it and then bounce the rubble.
Round them up into one place and let it rip!
Here we go again with the “ Syrian Observatory of human Rights” which is run out an apartment in England by a clothing merchant who has not been to Syria for 15 years
His intelligence mostly consists of tweets from a network of “ activists”
IS is pushing back in some areas but Syria and Russia are slowly grinding on village by village, house by house, hill by hill
The FSA moderate rebels our allies have put cages of Alawite and Christian women atop some buildings as human shields .... pictures posted
Looks like Russia needs to send in some real troops before they can clean up this viper’s next.
I’m a just so happy everyone is killing each other over there.
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