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📹 Israeli jets were also reported at high altitudes over Beirut.
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Laying it out here...
But someone has to train eagles on drone hunting because those little flying death machines are a critical centerpiece to all new ground warfare in modern armies vs adversaries that are states or non-state actors
The warfare is advancing very fast, and countering all the new breakthroughs and advances have been very slow and ineffective for weaker adversaries because of materialistic limitations. Warfare is becoming very lethal.
(Partially a joke, partially mean it)
But someone has to train eagles on drone hunting because those little flying death machines are a critical centerpiece to all new ground warfare in modern armies vs adversaries that are states or non-state actors
The warfare is advancing very fast, and countering all the new breakthroughs and advances have been very slow and ineffective for weaker adversaries because of materialistic limitations. Warfare is becoming very lethal.
(Partially a joke, partially mean it)
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🇮🇷 Iranian State TV: 'Armed groups (HTS) have not targeted any of the Shia civilians living in Aleppo'
It seems that Iranian media is preparing for something, or at the very least taking precautions, to make HTS seem more moderate.
By: @Middle_East_Spectator
It seems that Iranian media is preparing for something, or at the very least taking precautions, to make HTS seem more moderate.
By: @Middle_East_Spectator
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Lebanese News and Updates
🇮🇱l🇱🇧 Initial reports of an Israeli airstrike on the Litani in town of Zawtar in south Lebanon.
🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Initial reports of an Israeli airstrike on the Litani in the town of Zawtar in south Lebanon.
Third night in a row. Same place between Yohmor and Zawtar.
Third night in a row. Same place between Yohmor and Zawtar.
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Is there a reason to write a post to explain why Hezbullah and Iran were involved in Syria in 2012-2013 and explain why the war now is different in terms of who is being fought and what the future of the resistance axis is?
Anonymous Poll
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No
71%
Yes (please no)
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I just know some Lebanese are feeling very cornered and giving up, considering they just exited a harsh war in Lebanon and they are at loss for losing such a great leader and that they lack some insight of what's going to happen and what's needed and what's up.
It's like a sense of despair? I can do my small part and write but I feel useless and whatever I will write won't be enough.
It's like a sense of despair? I can do my small part and write but I feel useless and whatever I will write won't be enough.
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There are any things that you can categorize the Syrian war as, but one is surely a civil and one is surely an international conflict. Its civil because it rose from the core of the Syrian population who once truthfully called for reform and change, taking the arab spring as a catalyst against the legitimate Syrian government. It is also an international conflict, because there were mothers from dozens of countries mourning their sons from this war. From Damascus to Bou Kamal, to Beirut, to Tehran, to Moscow, but also to Riyadh and Cairo and almost every single Arab, Asian, European, and African capital.
For me personally, i cannot forget the faces of those whose remains are forever lost in the vast fields of Syria, or my teacher who rose to heavens murdered at hands of ISIS in the far east, the or that night talk with that red head sheikh who jokingly told me he'll never step foot in the Syrian desert anymore after the horrors he witnessed from having to escape an ISIS advance near T2 at night there.
I say those words because they are and will always be the true representation of events, and the catalyst was always there from within the country. There is no doubt Pres Bachar al-Assad has greatly contributed to the wellbeing of the Syrian people and served his country, but there was a level of injustice perpetrated throughout the ranks of the government and the system as whole the create some type of hate that transcended the ability to reform, and the gap only got worse with time. This is my honest opinion of this conflict from day one, and as someone whose religion was shaped out of fighting Kufr and injustice, i cannot but note this.
Back in 2011, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was fast to voice support to the popular uprising in the arab world and called the peaceful protests that took place in Egypt, Bahrain, Tounis and others are just. There was injustice and he supported the rise against injustice. However not long after, and this wave of just protests spread to dear Syria, the ally of Hezbullah who has long stood next to the resistance in Lebanon and was a key partner in helping it fight the Israeli occupation and both liberate Lebanon and emerge victorious from the 2006 war.
However as fast as these events started, the faster the situation escalated from what was a peaceful civil movement mimicking its arab neighbors to a violent suppression of protests and terrorist attacks on both the civilians and the state. It was remarkable how cynical the events unfolded, and how truly how many false flags happened that increased the bloodshed of innocent from both sides of the political spectrum setting the stage for a 13 year international conflict fought in Syria. There were also many crimes committed by loyalist soldiers, who were never punished by the Syrian government, including execution, torture, and burying some alive. Unforgiveable.
The actions of the terrorists were clear, from shooting to bombing, to assassinating core figures from the system including Khaleyat Al-Azmah in 2012 which was created to manage the internal strife. There did not seek peaceful action.
Early on, Pres Bacahr made a lot of noticeable reforms and released hundreds from prisons in an effort to present to the emerging protests that there is path for reform and the states is willing to negotiate solutions, however there was no one interested in a solution in Syria. The opposition was promised the presidential palace, but here is where it gets murky. What opposition exactly, out of the hundreds of factions that started to be spwan everywhere.
In those very critical months, before Hezbullah got involved in active conflict, they sent various delegations to meet opposition figures and try to soften the situation and find a compromise for both sides to agree on. They tried to speak sense into the opposition, avoid a war, and truly defeat the obstacles. However no one of them was interested in such a solution or compromise. Qatar, KSA, Jordan, and the US promised them much more than what a compromise could ever achieve for them. #admin
For me personally, i cannot forget the faces of those whose remains are forever lost in the vast fields of Syria, or my teacher who rose to heavens murdered at hands of ISIS in the far east, the or that night talk with that red head sheikh who jokingly told me he'll never step foot in the Syrian desert anymore after the horrors he witnessed from having to escape an ISIS advance near T2 at night there.
I say those words because they are and will always be the true representation of events, and the catalyst was always there from within the country. There is no doubt Pres Bachar al-Assad has greatly contributed to the wellbeing of the Syrian people and served his country, but there was a level of injustice perpetrated throughout the ranks of the government and the system as whole the create some type of hate that transcended the ability to reform, and the gap only got worse with time. This is my honest opinion of this conflict from day one, and as someone whose religion was shaped out of fighting Kufr and injustice, i cannot but note this.
Back in 2011, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was fast to voice support to the popular uprising in the arab world and called the peaceful protests that took place in Egypt, Bahrain, Tounis and others are just. There was injustice and he supported the rise against injustice. However not long after, and this wave of just protests spread to dear Syria, the ally of Hezbullah who has long stood next to the resistance in Lebanon and was a key partner in helping it fight the Israeli occupation and both liberate Lebanon and emerge victorious from the 2006 war.
However as fast as these events started, the faster the situation escalated from what was a peaceful civil movement mimicking its arab neighbors to a violent suppression of protests and terrorist attacks on both the civilians and the state. It was remarkable how cynical the events unfolded, and how truly how many false flags happened that increased the bloodshed of innocent from both sides of the political spectrum setting the stage for a 13 year international conflict fought in Syria. There were also many crimes committed by loyalist soldiers, who were never punished by the Syrian government, including execution, torture, and burying some alive. Unforgiveable.
The actions of the terrorists were clear, from shooting to bombing, to assassinating core figures from the system including Khaleyat Al-Azmah in 2012 which was created to manage the internal strife. There did not seek peaceful action.
Early on, Pres Bacahr made a lot of noticeable reforms and released hundreds from prisons in an effort to present to the emerging protests that there is path for reform and the states is willing to negotiate solutions, however there was no one interested in a solution in Syria. The opposition was promised the presidential palace, but here is where it gets murky. What opposition exactly, out of the hundreds of factions that started to be spwan everywhere.
In those very critical months, before Hezbullah got involved in active conflict, they sent various delegations to meet opposition figures and try to soften the situation and find a compromise for both sides to agree on. They tried to speak sense into the opposition, avoid a war, and truly defeat the obstacles. However no one of them was interested in such a solution or compromise. Qatar, KSA, Jordan, and the US promised them much more than what a compromise could ever achieve for them. #admin
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They were getting money, weapons, and lots of promises.
By then, by early 2012, defections were in full swing in the Syrian army and state, thousands of terrorists are crossing from Lebanon's borders and Turkey's the join the Jihad against the Syrian state. It was a remarkable phenomenon, absent from all other arab revolutions, despite knowing well that no arab state was less cruel than the other. Some of the earliest graves for the uighurs in Syria date back to the first quarter of 2012, imagine.
With these fast events, the Syrian state started to collapse to what is now not a peaceful protest but rather a general and international conflict supported by arab and western states to topple Syria, at any cost with any means available. Jordan created with the US the moc room to manage the war in the south of Syria, Turkey supported the transport of tens of thousands of foreign fighters through its borders, and so on. Now, there are hundreds of different factions that fought the Syrian state, each with a different loyalty and goals, each with a different set of sectarian violence and crimes. Through all that, emerged Al-Qaeda and then ISIS and the stakes of a Syria under the control of those beasts was real.
The war now stopped being about reforms or between a regime and an opposition who seeks reforms, but between a state which represents order and chaos represented those armed terrorist. Truly it was this, and the crimes are well documented - of their sectarian and racial nature. Sayyed Nasrallah once said he uses the word regime about Syria because regime in Arabic means Nizam. Nizam means order, and order is what should prevail.
Through all this chaos, and the new collapse of order in Syria, the situation in Lebanon started to degrade as some started to recruited Lebanese sunnis to fight in Syria, and create war lords like Ahmad Al-Asir. They recruited hundreds of Lebanese who fought against the Syrian state. This all took place even before Hezbullah started to support the Syrian government. The only Hezbullah present in 2012 where near Sayyed Zeinab Shrine, in the few dozens at most.
Despite no true Hezbullah involvement, the terrorists from all their factions openly called to attack the Lebanese Shia, saying they are next after bachar and that Hezbullah is a target. And as soon as they reached the Lebanese border, they started to fire rockets at the Lebanese Shia towns in Baalbek. By then, it was clear for Hezbullah and Iran that if they are not involved, the war will not only end the order (regime) in Syria in favor of chaos and end the friendly allied state in Damascus, the war will expand to each's homefront and burn it. From that, Iran asked its generals to meet Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to himself help them create a plan to manage the war in Syria. This is written in the dairies of martyr Hamadani, may he be in the highest levels of heaven.
There, he writes how Iran had a plan but when presented to Sayyed Hassan, it was rejected, stating there was no time for all of that. We dont have time to "teach Syrian leadership to pray or fix their mistakes" (figuratively), this can be done after we win the war, and so, Hezbullah started it first ever expansion and offensive war against Al_Qaeda and ISIS who then, where the forefront of the events alongside Jaish al-Islam and other small factions. There were no moderates.
During a meeting between Hezbullah's martyr Sayyed Hassan and the leaders of the liberation of Qusayr city in 2013, he talks how the involvement and the success in the involvement snowballed. He says it started from the border, then to tal Mando (btw Hezbullah has a fantastic documentary about this battle that was never made public, i hope they do. Amazing gopro footage), then it spread to Qusayr countryside because to protect this you have to advance, and to protect the CS you have to take the city. This was the battle to secure the Lebanese border, and to support the state in Syria against the rise of those terrorists.
By then, by early 2012, defections were in full swing in the Syrian army and state, thousands of terrorists are crossing from Lebanon's borders and Turkey's the join the Jihad against the Syrian state. It was a remarkable phenomenon, absent from all other arab revolutions, despite knowing well that no arab state was less cruel than the other. Some of the earliest graves for the uighurs in Syria date back to the first quarter of 2012, imagine.
With these fast events, the Syrian state started to collapse to what is now not a peaceful protest but rather a general and international conflict supported by arab and western states to topple Syria, at any cost with any means available. Jordan created with the US the moc room to manage the war in the south of Syria, Turkey supported the transport of tens of thousands of foreign fighters through its borders, and so on. Now, there are hundreds of different factions that fought the Syrian state, each with a different loyalty and goals, each with a different set of sectarian violence and crimes. Through all that, emerged Al-Qaeda and then ISIS and the stakes of a Syria under the control of those beasts was real.
The war now stopped being about reforms or between a regime and an opposition who seeks reforms, but between a state which represents order and chaos represented those armed terrorist. Truly it was this, and the crimes are well documented - of their sectarian and racial nature. Sayyed Nasrallah once said he uses the word regime about Syria because regime in Arabic means Nizam. Nizam means order, and order is what should prevail.
Through all this chaos, and the new collapse of order in Syria, the situation in Lebanon started to degrade as some started to recruited Lebanese sunnis to fight in Syria, and create war lords like Ahmad Al-Asir. They recruited hundreds of Lebanese who fought against the Syrian state. This all took place even before Hezbullah started to support the Syrian government. The only Hezbullah present in 2012 where near Sayyed Zeinab Shrine, in the few dozens at most.
Despite no true Hezbullah involvement, the terrorists from all their factions openly called to attack the Lebanese Shia, saying they are next after bachar and that Hezbullah is a target. And as soon as they reached the Lebanese border, they started to fire rockets at the Lebanese Shia towns in Baalbek. By then, it was clear for Hezbullah and Iran that if they are not involved, the war will not only end the order (regime) in Syria in favor of chaos and end the friendly allied state in Damascus, the war will expand to each's homefront and burn it. From that, Iran asked its generals to meet Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to himself help them create a plan to manage the war in Syria. This is written in the dairies of martyr Hamadani, may he be in the highest levels of heaven.
There, he writes how Iran had a plan but when presented to Sayyed Hassan, it was rejected, stating there was no time for all of that. We dont have time to "teach Syrian leadership to pray or fix their mistakes" (figuratively), this can be done after we win the war, and so, Hezbullah started it first ever expansion and offensive war against Al_Qaeda and ISIS who then, where the forefront of the events alongside Jaish al-Islam and other small factions. There were no moderates.
During a meeting between Hezbullah's martyr Sayyed Hassan and the leaders of the liberation of Qusayr city in 2013, he talks how the involvement and the success in the involvement snowballed. He says it started from the border, then to tal Mando (btw Hezbullah has a fantastic documentary about this battle that was never made public, i hope they do. Amazing gopro footage), then it spread to Qusayr countryside because to protect this you have to advance, and to protect the CS you have to take the city. This was the battle to secure the Lebanese border, and to support the state in Syria against the rise of those terrorists.
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Barely a few months, exactly two, the first bomb targeted Dahyeh and injured about 60 civilians. The defeated terrorists in Syria opted to targeted the civilians in Dahyeh and Baalbek. And there and then on July 2013, a wave of deadly suicide car bombs started to targeted Beirut and killed dozens of innocent Lebanese Shia. This was the truth and the core of the so-called Syrian revolution. A farce of a revolution by then.
To tackle the threat, Hezbullah had to chase the origin of these car bombs, from Yabroud to Qusayr and so on. I think the last card bomb was by 2015, just one year before the grand battle of Aleppo in 2016 and then their last main battle in 2017 in Bou Kamal. The timeline was clear and the involvement was not only for the sake of saving the Syrian state, it was for the safety of Lebanon because then and there it was vs factions and terrorist that wanted bloodshed and sought after extermination. I like to note Madaya and say FU, no Hezbullah did not starve them. It was a siege to lift the siege set by the terrorists on Kafraya and Foaa in Idlib. This war was not fair to Hezbullah, despite how clear it was.
After 2017, the war reached a stalemate and Russia and Turkey leveled the situation through Astana. Lots of details before and after, but wont cover now since this is already too long and you all know this, i was only trying to explain to those who weren't aware then why Hezbullah was there.
In that time, ISIS's state collapsed and Al-Qaeda's star in Syria faded and the factions where severely destroyed by the Syrian army, Hezbullah, Iran, etc. Sayyed Hassan says something important that had the Syrian army not have the will to fight and had the Syrians themselves not support the state, no foreign power would have been able to help them. It was the sacrifices of the Syrian people who made the difference to preserve their state.
With the collapse of the most radical, most factions sough refuge between eachother, and based on the unity from the battle of 2016 in Aleppo, they became under the umbrella of HTS whose leader took his time after 2017 to solidify his rule, crush any oppostion, and set the foundations of a new government that he can lead to launch a new battle against the state in Damascus.
By 2018, Hezbullah was almost fully disengaged from Syria and back in Lebanon to fortify the south front for the upcoming war with Israel, followed by the 2019 crisis and what happened after in Lebanon. Iran was busy, Russia was at war with Ukraine a couple of years after. Everyone got to their priorities because the situation was stable enough in Syria for the state to handle things itself.
However as HTS was building, planning, and making use of Turkish help, rising from the bottom again, the Syrian state did not make noticeable efforts for reforms and freedoms and was not able to advance the economy because of the sanctions and lack of resources caused by the US-Kurdish occupation of the rich east (agricul and oil). These factors weakened the state, affected the army's manpower, and so on. It created many weaknesses and gaps that eroded the army's and state's ability.
Due to this weakness, HTS was able to exploit the gaps because the conditions which it rose from were war conditions and were able to recruit and maintain. To explain this, a war makes people accept hardships, but when it ends, they are rested and no longer have the ability to withstand the same pressure. So as the Syrian state started to relax, and lives return to normal, the terrorist in HTS continued to live in war-like conditions and did not lose momentum. And here we are, in a very dire collapse of the Syrian state, unparalled in the whole war. HTS was not only able to exploit the weakness in the Syrian state, it was able to learn and adapt but most importantly innovate. FPV attacks done by the SAA were mostly with the help of Russian soldiers, and stopped once they were no longer there. That, while the terrorist were able to make whole units of such equivalents.
To tackle the threat, Hezbullah had to chase the origin of these car bombs, from Yabroud to Qusayr and so on. I think the last card bomb was by 2015, just one year before the grand battle of Aleppo in 2016 and then their last main battle in 2017 in Bou Kamal. The timeline was clear and the involvement was not only for the sake of saving the Syrian state, it was for the safety of Lebanon because then and there it was vs factions and terrorist that wanted bloodshed and sought after extermination. I like to note Madaya and say FU, no Hezbullah did not starve them. It was a siege to lift the siege set by the terrorists on Kafraya and Foaa in Idlib. This war was not fair to Hezbullah, despite how clear it was.
After 2017, the war reached a stalemate and Russia and Turkey leveled the situation through Astana. Lots of details before and after, but wont cover now since this is already too long and you all know this, i was only trying to explain to those who weren't aware then why Hezbullah was there.
In that time, ISIS's state collapsed and Al-Qaeda's star in Syria faded and the factions where severely destroyed by the Syrian army, Hezbullah, Iran, etc. Sayyed Hassan says something important that had the Syrian army not have the will to fight and had the Syrians themselves not support the state, no foreign power would have been able to help them. It was the sacrifices of the Syrian people who made the difference to preserve their state.
With the collapse of the most radical, most factions sough refuge between eachother, and based on the unity from the battle of 2016 in Aleppo, they became under the umbrella of HTS whose leader took his time after 2017 to solidify his rule, crush any oppostion, and set the foundations of a new government that he can lead to launch a new battle against the state in Damascus.
By 2018, Hezbullah was almost fully disengaged from Syria and back in Lebanon to fortify the south front for the upcoming war with Israel, followed by the 2019 crisis and what happened after in Lebanon. Iran was busy, Russia was at war with Ukraine a couple of years after. Everyone got to their priorities because the situation was stable enough in Syria for the state to handle things itself.
However as HTS was building, planning, and making use of Turkish help, rising from the bottom again, the Syrian state did not make noticeable efforts for reforms and freedoms and was not able to advance the economy because of the sanctions and lack of resources caused by the US-Kurdish occupation of the rich east (agricul and oil). These factors weakened the state, affected the army's manpower, and so on. It created many weaknesses and gaps that eroded the army's and state's ability.
Due to this weakness, HTS was able to exploit the gaps because the conditions which it rose from were war conditions and were able to recruit and maintain. To explain this, a war makes people accept hardships, but when it ends, they are rested and no longer have the ability to withstand the same pressure. So as the Syrian state started to relax, and lives return to normal, the terrorist in HTS continued to live in war-like conditions and did not lose momentum. And here we are, in a very dire collapse of the Syrian state, unparalled in the whole war. HTS was not only able to exploit the weakness in the Syrian state, it was able to learn and adapt but most importantly innovate. FPV attacks done by the SAA were mostly with the help of Russian soldiers, and stopped once they were no longer there. That, while the terrorist were able to make whole units of such equivalents.
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