Mundo Árabe em Ebulição

[wagnerm25]

guerrilha dentro da guerrilha... tá joia!

Ninguém é de ninguém.

[P44]

40 maps that explain
the Middle East

http://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east

[wagnerm25]

[LeandroGCard]

"We believe..."

Era assim que os americanos iniciavam a descrição dos resultados dos seus ataques durante a guerra do Vietnã. O resultado todos sabemos... .


Leandro G. Card

[Lirolfuti]

[Poti]

Tropas do YPG e Pkk tomaram, na terça, a colina de Tall que ficar no oeste de Kobane (6k do centro). Esta colina domina uma outra passagem para a Turquia. No ponto crítico do leste da cidade os curdos, há cerca de 5hs, avançaram cerca de 200m. Também avançaram no sul da cidade. O EI só mantem parte do leste de Kobane e a grande colina que fica no sudeste da cidade. Desde segunda o EI envia reforços com pouca experiência o que facilita a vida dos curdos. Vale ressaltar que a munição não está acabando, sinal que os turcos deixam reforços passar pela fronteira.
As coisas melhoraram mas esta batalha está com muitas idas e vindas, ataques e contra-ataques. Os curdos defenderam casa à casa, rua à rua e demonstraram que com apoio aéreo tropas com poucas armas pesadas podem resistir a um inimigo superior em número e armamento.
Biji YPG, her biji Kurdistan

[Wingate]

"We believe..."

Era assim que os americanos iniciavam a descrição dos resultados dos seus ataques durante a guerra do Vietnã. O resultado todos sabemos... .


Leandro G. Card

Resta o consolo que os curdos não são como os sul-vietnamitas...já o exército iraquiano atual...

Wingate

[wagnerm25]

"We believe..."

Era assim que os americanos iniciavam a descrição dos resultados dos seus ataques durante a guerra do Vietnã. O resultado todos sabemos... .


Leandro G. Card

Resta o consolo que os curdos não são como os sul-vietnamitas...já o exército iraquiano atual...

Wingate

O negócio chegou ao ponto de se ter saudade do Saddam.

[wagnerm25]

[prp]

Agora a coisa vai feder! O ex sírio também tem uns brinquedinhos assim


Enviado do meu iPhone usando o Tapatalk

[wagnerm25]

Agora a coisa vai feder! O ex sírio também tem uns brinquedinhos assim

Enviado do meu iPhone usando o Tapatalk

E o interessante é que esses aí não saem correndo deixando as armas para trás como faz o "exército" iraquiano.

[EDSON]

Achei que o Egito estava demorando mais agora...

Egypt warplanes hit Libya militias, officials say

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Egypt deepened its involvement in the fight against Islamist militias who have taken over key parts of Libya on Wednesday, with officials saying Egyptian warplanes have bombed their positions in the eastern city of Benghazi.

The two officials, who have firsthand knowledge of the operation, said the use of the aircraft was part of an Egyptian-led campaign against the militiamen that will eventually involve Libyan ground troops recently trained by Egyptian forces.

The operation, they said, was requested by the internationally recognized Libyan administration based in the eastern city of Tobruk. That elected administration was thrown out of the capital, Tripoli, by rival militias allied with Islamic political factions.

"This is a battle for Egypt not Libya," one of the senior officials said. "Egypt was the first country in the region to warn against terrorism and it is also the first to fight it."

The officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the operation would last three to six months and involve the use of an Egyptian navy vessel as a command center off the Mediterranean coast near Tobruk. Renegade Libyan general Khalifa Hiftar, who has vowed to wipe out the Islamist militias, is not leading the operation, they added, with Cairo dealing directly with a newly appointed Libyan chief of staff who has visited Egypt several times in recent weeks.

In a televised statement on Tuesday, Hifter, who was an ARMY chief under Gadhafi before joining his opponents decades ago, said that he will resign and transfer power to a young army leadership.

Tobruk-based Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni told Dubai-based Sky News Arabia that all troops involved in the battles in Benghazi are under the command of the new chief of staff and are instructed to restore state institutions and combat terrorism.

"After the appointment of the chief of staff for the Libyan army, all MILITARY operations are under the umbrella of the state and its military leadership," he said.

More after the link: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7fe66...i-kill-least-3

Looks like Sisi is picking up the glove

[wagnerm25]

O Egito tá ali ali para entrar num processo de desestabilização. Aí nem Alá sabe o que vai acontecer.

[wagnerm25]

A cidade não é então considerada estratégica. Seria questão de honra para os ogros do ISIS tomar a cidade? E os americanos estão adorando, pois os toscos se juntam lá e recebem aquele shampoozinho na cabeça.

ISIL Forces Concentrating Around Kobani, Official Says

By Claudette Roulo
DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 – While the Syrian border town of Kobani is itself not a strategic location, the number of airstrikes in the area has increased due to the concentration of terrorists there from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Pentagon press secretary said today.

“ISIL has made no secret of the fact that they want that town,” he said, “...And so they have continued to flow fighters to Kobani, meaning there are more targets in and around Kobani,” Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.
With much of the civilian population of the Kurdish town having fled, coalition forces have been able to increase the number of airstrikes, he explained.

“We believe that the great majority of the population of that town has evacuated and left, and we -- it ranges every day, but it's in the realm of the hundreds or so of people left there,” Kirby said.

Battle damage assessments indicate that coalition airstrikes have killed several hundred ISIL fighters in and around Kobani, he said.

Weather has been a secondary factor contributing to the increased concentration of coalition forces on Syria, the admiral said.

“The weather in central Iraq has not been overly conducive to air operations,” Kirby said. Rather than waiting out the weather, Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the U.S. Central Command commander, has allocated additional assets to the fight in and around Kobani, the admiral said.

“I would also say -- and I think it's important for people to understand -- Kobani could still fall. It could very well still fall,” Kirby noted.
While the coalition airstrikes have made it more difficult for ISIL to sustain itself and to operate, he said, the situation on the ground remains fluid.

“We do know that the Kurdish militias there are fighting hard to keep the town and that we do believe that our airstrikes have helped them in that, that ISIL still threatens Kobani, but that they're holding it,” Kirby said.

[wagnerm25]

Aos poucos, o jogo parece estar virando para os Curdos em Kobane. Detalhe interessante: boa parte desses ogros estão com as calças abaixadas pq investiga-se o uso de cintos explosivos e outros tipos de armadilha.





Armas apreendidas.