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Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, ISIS spokesman and its leader in Syria, has been killed in the province of Aleppo, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq reported. According to the report, one of the longest-serving ISIS senior members, al-Adnani was killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.”Al-Adnani, a Syrian citizen in his late 30s, had a $5 million US Department of State bounty on his head.
Meanwhile, Pentagon told Reuters that the US air power had carried out an air strike against a “senior IS official.” However, it was not able to confirm that the US air power was behind al-Adnani’s death. Most likely, this Pentagon’s statement was a common PR move.
Amaq has not provided details about who was responsible for killing al-Adnani, or whether he was killed from the air or from the ground. Unofficial sources report that al-Adnani was killed near the area of Al Bab.
On August 30, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) launched a fresh advance on the strategic ISIS-controlled city of Al-Bab in the Syrian province of Aleppo. The YPG launched its advance from its Afrin Canton in northwestern Syria and already seized the villages of Harbu, Tall Qarah и al-Hawsh amd now the Kurdish forces are in 25 km from Al-Bab.The Kurdish YPG and the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) seek to seize the city in order to link up the Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Syria.
Militant groups that participate in the Trukish-led operations in Syria have also claimed the goal to seize this strategic city. There are no doubts that these developments will lead to further escalations between the Turkish-led forces and the SDF/YPG in the Arab country.
Reports have appeared that a Daraya-style agreement has been reached in al-Waer in Homs. As result some 500 militants with families will be evacuated towards Idlib and the town will be transferred to the Syrian army.
220 people will be also evacuated from Moadamiyeh which is located west of Daraya near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Pro-government sources describe this move as a first step of a Daraya-style agreement for this city. According to reports, negotiations between militants from Moadamiyeh and the Syrian army have been ongoing since August 25.
Memo to the families being shuttles around like chess pieces; would you please wait over here while your husbands and sons/daughters try and kill each other…….
While your husband , sons and daughters try and kill the invading Wahhabi Sunnis from Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. Well done Syria, negotiate and save the lives of the civilians living under the brutal ISIS “authorities”, get them out of town .
My behind – saving lives… And why did they come in the first place Ronald.
What would be your solution? Leave them there to be beheaded, raped, their organs eaten, maybe?
Instead of learning them to obey and weap, equal rights could be, they shot back – or first.
Cant se it very well with almost only men taking decissions. Even my grandmother could use a machinepistol and keep men 30 meters away.
It’s way past time for our species to take a good look at the utter and complete madness of war. Sacrificing the flower of one generation after another so a handful of sociopaths can have more of everything than anyone else.
THink Afrins are to weak for doing that at all. And do they reach Al Bab, they have to take a town which inhabitants are all traditional Sunni arabs and ISIS supporter. The defence is made for something much bigger, and Afrins has no air support. They can easely be cut by ISIS and Nusra rebels from north(Azzas) and even SAA can be temptet, if ISIS has to make its Assad lines thinner.
Dont get anything of it. And FSA and Turks are taking some kind of vacation – with no explanation for Jarablus west at all.
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Al Rai progres by 5000 FSA and cover from Turkisk long range tanks and 155 howitzers. Like a wheelchair march – civilians as shield, landmines all over – or what.
Al-Bab, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ZeW95ypbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnpkQm67cfA