Sourced : Foreign Policy By Paul Macleary The top general overseeing America’s wars told Congress Thursday that more U.S. troops will likely be needed in Afghanistan to help train and advise Afghan forces, and left the door open to sending more U.S. forces into Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State. The comments by… Continue reading MORE US TROOPS BOUND FOR AFGHANISTAN AS MARINES COMMANDOS ARRIVE IN SYRIA
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US MARINES HAVE ARRIVED IN SYRIA TO FIRE ARTILLERY IN THE FIGHT FOR AL RAQQAH
Sourced : The Washington Post By Dan Lamothe and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Marines from an amphibious task force have left their ships in the Middle East and deployed to Syria, establishing an outpost from which they can fire artillery guns in support of the fight to oust the Islamic State from the northern Syrian city of… Continue reading US MARINES HAVE ARRIVED IN SYRIA TO FIRE ARTILLERY IN THE FIGHT FOR AL RAQQAH
TRILATERAL (US-ISRAEL-GREECE) NOBLE DINA EXERCISE BEGINS LATER THIS MONTH
Sourced : Defence News By Barbara Opall-Rome The trilateral Noble Dina exercise between the American, Israeli and Hellenic navies will begin later this month, with nearly a dozen surface ships, submarines and related air assets scheduled to engage in joint reconnaissance, counterterror and antisubmarine warfare training. Cyprus will participate as an observer in the annual… Continue reading TRILATERAL (US-ISRAEL-GREECE) NOBLE DINA EXERCISE BEGINS LATER THIS MONTH
TEMPORARY TURKISH BASE ESTABLISHED INSIDE SYRIA
Sourced : Hurriyet By Uğur Ergan The Turkish army has established a temporary base in a strategically important point of the newly captured al-Bab, located in northern Syria. Turkish military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Turkish army founded a temporary base on the hilltop of Akil inside al-Bab, which it along with… Continue reading TEMPORARY TURKISH BASE ESTABLISHED INSIDE SYRIA
HEZBOLLAH MIGHT HAVE OBTAINED GAME CHANGING NAVAL MISSILES
Sourced : YNET By : Ronen Bergman Western intelligence agencies have expressed “grave concerns” that Hezbollah has been able to obtain strategic naval weapons that could change the balance of power in the Middle East. Despite great efforts attributed to Israel over the past five years to prevent Hezbollah from getting its hands on such… Continue reading HEZBOLLAH MIGHT HAVE OBTAINED GAME CHANGING NAVAL MISSILES
BRIEF POST ABOUT THE SYRIAN COASTAL DEFENCE SYSTEMS NETWORK
Sourced : IDBAM (https://idbam.blogspot.gr/2017/02/a-brief-post-about-syrian-cds-network.html?showComment=1488053978105#c3096504745250076900) If your navy is not modern enough, and you are forced to face a stronger foe, Coastal Defence Systems (CDS) could save the day. After being defeated twice by Israel at the October War (1973) and having a poor budget for a long period, the Syrian Navy consists today mainly of… Continue reading BRIEF POST ABOUT THE SYRIAN COASTAL DEFENCE SYSTEMS NETWORK
SYRIA’S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE PLEDGES LOYALTY TO TURKEY
Sourced : Al-Monitor By : Amberin Zaman When Turkey intervened in northern Syria five months ago, it claimed it had no designs on its former Ottoman dominion and that its only goals were to cleanse its borders of the Islamic State and to eliminate what it called the terrorist threat posed by the People’s Protection… Continue reading SYRIA’S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE PLEDGES LOYALTY TO TURKEY
RUSSIA AND SYRIA AGREE TO EXPAND RUSSIAN NAVAL PRESENCE IN TARTUS FOR 49 MORE YEARS
Sourced : Al Masdar News Russia and Syria have signed an agreement to expand the territory around the Russian Navy’s logistics facility in Tartus for 49 years. The document was published on the official legal information portal. “The current agreement will stay effective for 49 years and be automatically prolonged for 25-year periods, if… Continue reading RUSSIA AND SYRIA AGREE TO EXPAND RUSSIAN NAVAL PRESENCE IN TARTUS FOR 49 MORE YEARS
US ARMING YPG IN SYRIA “INTOLERABLE” FOR TURKEY
Sourced : Anadolou Agency By Mustafa Keles, Betul Yuruk & Burcu Arik Ankara considers the U.S. arming the YPG “intolerable” because the terror group poses a great threat to Turkey, that country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday. “It is even so hard to accept a terror supporter country as an ally,” Cavusoglu said at… Continue reading US ARMING YPG IN SYRIA “INTOLERABLE” FOR TURKEY
ISRAELI SATELLITE REVEALS DEPLOYMENT OF RUSSIAN ISKANDER-M BALLISTIC MISSILES IN SYRIA
Sourced : Defence Update By Tamir Eshel Satellite imagery analysis by Imagesat International (ISI) intelligence experts revealed deployment of Iskandar (SS-26 “Stone”) advanced missile system vehicles as a part of the Russian deployment at Hmeimim airbase in Latakia, Syria. A single Iskander Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) was first spotted in footage broadcast by Russia’s Zvezda… Continue reading ISRAELI SATELLITE REVEALS DEPLOYMENT OF RUSSIAN ISKANDER-M BALLISTIC MISSILES IN SYRIA