Joint Operations: Our borders with Syria are fully secured

[blueskyline]

Good Morning Synopsis . One package of Major Laws, Agreements and Good News Colliding Tomorrow A.M. would suit All of us just Fine ... Shortly thereafter but not the first of order  . I can go find that elusive 66' Chevelle SS  Convertible that's been eluding me ...

[ChuckFinley]

14 minutes ago, blueskyline said:

Good Morning Synopsis . One package of Major Laws, Agreements and Good News Colliding Tomorrow A.M. would suit All of us just Fine ... Shortly thereafter but not the first of order  . I can go find that elusive 66' Chevelle SS  Convertible that's been eluding me ...

Sounds like the time is Now. 

[Synopsis]

8 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

And that is what we are looking for. A constant building of good news, then BANG.

 

SUDDENLY!!!, ChuckFinley, AND The Very Best Of Your Up Coming Week To You!!! 

 

isis.liveuamap.com

 

The site I noted shows no mo ISIS held area east of the Euphrates near the Bicraqi Iraqi border. West of the Euphrates shows a clean up of the last ISIS area(s) bear the Euphrates in seemingly more remote terrain. The area was about three times or so larger than the remaining three areas total. I suspect these areas are a threat but much less of a threat. Tomorrow may show reduced to no mo remaining areas there.

 

7 hours ago, blueskyline said:

Good Morning Synopsis . One package of Major Laws, Agreements and Good News Colliding Tomorrow A.M. would suit All of us just Fine ... Shortly thereafter but not the first of order  . I can go find that elusive 66' Chevelle SS  Convertible that's been eluding me ...

 

Good Evening, BlueSkyLine, AND The Very Best Of Your Up Coming Week To You!!! 

 

Sweet Ride!!! 

 

Enjoy!!! 

 

Go Moola Nova!

 

[yota691]

18-02-2019 02:02 PM

Hundreds of people flee from Syria to Iraq, carrying $ 200 million

 

 

 

 

Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of gunmen from a terrorist organization fled from Syria to western Iraq with $ 200 million in cash, US officials said on Monday.

The network quoted 'CNN' American, a US military official that 'hundreds of gunmen from the organization of a fan fled from Syria to the mountains and desert of western Iraq, in the past six months, and with them up to 200 million dollars in cash ' .

"Some of them were former members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, " a second official said .

Last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights quoted sources as saying that the fate of tons of gold and financial wealth in the village of Baguz on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River on the Syrian border with Iraq   was still unknown.

[Butifldrm]

An international center that reveals numbers of supporters of locals and foreigners in Iraq and Syria

17:36 - 20/02/2019

 

  

Information / translation ... 
A report of the International Center for the Study of extremism at King 's College in London, based on official and academic data to the presence of 41.490 people , including 32.809 men and 4,761 women and 4,640 children from 80 countries associated with al Daesh on the face of Selection. 
The Middle East and North Africa region was 18,852, 7252 from Eastern Europe, 5665 from Central Asia, 5,904 from Western Europe, 1010 from East Asia and 1,063 from South, according to the BBC report. East Asia, 753 Americans, Australia and New Zealand, 447 from South Asia and 244 from sub-Saharan Africa. "
"After five years of fierce fighting, Iraqi and Syrian forces managed to expel and liberate the land they occupied, but UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in early February 2018 that" he still has between 14,000 and 18,000 terrorists in Iraq Syria, including 3000 foreigners. " 
"At least 7366 foreigners associated with" Dahesh "traveled to their countries, including 256 women and up to 1,180 children, and by June 2018, 3,906 returned to countries in the East Middle East and North Africa, 1,765 to Western Europe, 784 to Eastern Europe, 338 to Central Asia, 308 to South-East Asia, 156 to South Asia, 97 to the Americas and Australia. New Zealand and 12 to sub-Saharan Africa ".
"The United Nations has expressed concern about returnees to work again when they are released from prison or for other reasons. She also said that radical women and young women who are infected may pose a real threat to the cities to which they have moved. " Ending / 25 z

https://www.almaalomah.com/2019/02/20/389887/

[Butifldrm]

Trump: EU must take back 800 Isis fighters captured in Syria

US doesn’t want to watch ‘fighters permeate Europe’ with caliphate ‘ready to fall’, says president

Patrick Wintour in Munich

Sun 17 Feb 2019 05.18 ESTFirst published on Sun 17 Feb 2019 01.45 EST

 

 

 US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters take up positions against Isis militants in Baghuz. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP

Donald Trump has told the EU it must take back its 800 Isis fighters captured in Syria by US-backed forces and put them on trial.

The president’s call came as he prepared to claim the end of the caliphate in north-west Syria with the fall of the final Isis-held town.

Some EU countries, notably France, have said they are preparing to take back their former jihadists, but the UK has been more resistant: it says the fighters held by the west’s Syrian Kurd allies can only return if they seek consular help in Turkey.

The UK government says it faces a dilemma, especially concerning the wives or children of British fighters, and a major challenge either to prosecute the fighters or prevent them from undertaking terrorist acts in their homeland.

Trump tweeted: “The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 Isis fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.

“The US does not want to watch as these Isis fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% Caliphate victory!”

Diplomats gathered at this weekend’s Munich security conference, a major meeting of officials and policymakers, have repeatedly warned that the capture of Isis-held territory does not mean an end to the Isis ideological and terrorist threat; they point to the way in which Isis forces are already regathering in Iraq, notably Mosul.

 

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say they have cornered the remaining Isis militants in a neighbourhood of Baghuz village near the Iraqi border. Foreign fighters and families have featured prominently among those who have fled the village, which had been been a collection point for extremists who had fled other towns and villages across Syria and Iraq. It is thought to be the last redoubt of zealots who had fought in numerous clashes across both countries.

A SDF spokesman on Sunday said Isis militants were preventing more than 1,000 civilians from leaving. Shamima Begum, 19, one of three east London schoolgirls who left the UK in 2015 to join Isis, was on Thursday discovered in the al-Hawl refugee camp in north-east Syria after fleeing the enclave.

Trump’s remarks mask an intense transatlantic debate under way between politicians and military over how to handle his unilateral decision to withdraw its 2,000 troops in north-west Syria.

The US military, and Arab states, have been pressing the Trump administration to delay the move to give more time for an agreement to be reached on how the mainly Kurd SDF are to be protected from a potential Turkish incursion once US forces leave.

The Turkish defence minister, Hulusi Akar, met his US counterpart, Patrick Shanahan, on the sidelines of the Munich conference to press his plan for Turkey to establish a safe zone, saying the Kurds in the SDF are indistinguishable from the Kurdish PKK fighting a separatist terrorist war inside Turkey. The Kurdish leadership is resisting the move, fearing it will lead to either a massacre or displacement of the Kurds.

“There is no difference between the PKK and the YPG,” Akar said. “A 440-km-long (273-mile) safe zone in east of Euphrates should be cleared of the terrorist YPG group and should be patrolled by the Turkish forces,” he stressed.

In a speech broadcast on Syrian state television, Bashar al-Assad said his troops would “liberate every inch” of the country and warned Kurdish forces not to rely on US protection. “To those groups who are betting on the Americans, we say the Americans will not protect you... the Americans will put you in their pockets to be used as bargaining tools,” he said.

James Jeffery, US envoy for Syria, said it “will not allow the return of the Assad forces to the places where we will withdraw them from.[…] this is not going to be an abrupt, rapid withdrawal but a step-by-step withdrawal.”

There is growing frustration in European and Gulf states at what they regard as the incoherence of US policy making in Syria both in substance and method.

Senior Republican senators such as Lindsey Graham have acknowledged that the SDF has borne the brunt of fighting Isis, and there would be long term implications for the US’s reputation in the Middle East if it was seen to desert its allies at this stage.

He said Trump had been pressing European forces to set up a small international force to protect the Kurds, including some of the foreign fighters currently held by Kurds either in jails or, in the case of their relatives, in refugee camps. France has as many as 400 forces in Syria, but the UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said in an interview published in the Arab press in the weekend that the UK has no plans to send further forces to the region, but will listen to any US request.

Joe Biden a potential Democratic presidential candidate urged Europe to wait for the return of a consultative America. Describing current US foreign policyas an embarrassment, he said: “We will be back”.

Ilham Ahmed, the executive chair of the political wing of the SDF, has been touring Washington, Paris and London to press the case for an international force.

Some Gulf states have said privately they are willing to help provide financial and practical support to such a force, including one effectively led by the Kurds themselves, so long as it is part of a wider UN political process that leads to a long term settlement.

These Gulf states say the Kurds deserve a place in a more federated future Syria, something Assad would resist.

The Gulf States are slowly moving towards recognition of Assad – such as the United Arab Emirates, which has has set up an embassy again in Damascus. The Gulf States believe that, along with the UK, they will have to pick up the eventual cost of Syria’s reconstruction on the basis that Syria, Russia and Iran will be unable to afford such a large bill.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/islamic-state-isis-baghuz-trump-calls-on-european-allies-to-take-800-fighters-captured-in-syria

[Butifldrm]

 

SURVIVORS OF ISIS GENOCIDE HAVE NOTHING, FOUR YEARS LATER

A photo essay.

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

 FEBRUARY 20, 2019 13:39

 

 

As the war against ISIS enters its final phases the victims of ISIS are still suffering.

Hundreds of thousands remain in displaced persons camps and cities and towns across Iraq and Syria are still in ruins. Many religious minorities, especially Yazidis and Christians, cannot return to their homes, which were often laced with ISIS bombs or destroyed.

ISIS carried out its worst mass murder between June and August 2014, targeting Bedouin tribes in Syria, Shi’ites in Camp Speicher and Tal Afar, and then Christians in Mosul and Nineveh plains in Iraq. In August 2014, Yazidis in Sinjar awoke to news that Islamic State was attacking villages across areas of northern Iraq where their minority group lives. Within days more than 300,000 Yazidis had to flee and more than 10,000 were kidnapped by ISIS. In their most brutal and cruel act of a long list of atrocities, ISIS separated the Yazidi men and women and put the women on buses to be sold into slavery. In scenes reminiscent of the Holocaust they then took the men and elderly women and systematically murdered them, dumping their bodies into mass graves across northern Iraq’s Sinjar region.

Eventually more than 30 mass graves would be found.

I was able to visit two of these mass graves soon after they were discovered in December 2015 when the area was liberated by Kurdish fighters. I photographed the destruction in Sinjar city and refugees who had fled to Sinjar mountain. Earlier this month a photographer named Khalid Al Mousily went to Sinjar and photographed some of the same areas.

His photographs reveal that almost four years later almost nothing has changed.

In December 2015 the mass grave sites had been recently discovered. Some of their locations were known because Yazidis who had fled to Sinjar mountain were able to look down on the plains below and watch as ISIS murdered their relatives. In rare cases survivors of the massacres, hiding under the bodies or having escaped somehow, brought news back. There are exact parallels to the mass murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen during the Holocaust. I was struck by the fact that the mass graves looked identical to photos I’d seen from the Shoah. I was not prepared however to see the matted human hair, the skulls, the soccer jerseys and blindfolds the people wore, decaying on the ground. When I arrived it was more than a year after the bodies were dumped in the ground. Rain had brought the bones and human remains up to the surface. People said that stray dogs had eaten at the bodies. And this happened in August 2014, before the world’s eyes with basically no attempt to stop the mass killing, despite the fact that drones could easily have seen what was going on. From 1941 to 2014, nothing changed, except the fact that ISIS used smart phones to make videos cheering the killing, videos uploaded to social media.

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An Iraqi police officer looks at a Yazidi mass grave site near Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily); A mass grave site near Sinjar in December 2015. (Seth J. Frantzman)

Remarkably the photos that Mousily took show that little has been done to really preserve the locations of the mass graves. In one location a photo from February 2019 shows a sign with the logo of ICMP, the International Commission on Missing Persons. According to ICMP they began a program in January 2017 with support from Canada to government authorities involved in Sinjar. In February 2018 a press release says that for the first time DNA was able to identify a missing person from a mass grave. But overall the photo of the mass grave from 2019 shows that not much work has been done to preserve the site. As in December 2015 there isn’t a wall or fence to protect the remains. This is a testament to the lack of investment by the 79-member international Coalition that is supposed to be combating ISIS.

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A man looks through the ruins of his house in Sinjar city, February 4, 2019. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily); A ruined house in Sinjar city, December 2015. (Seth J. Frantzman)

Another photo from Mousily shows a destroyed house in Sinjar and a man picking through its ruins. When I was in Sinjar in December 2015 the city was still covered with improvised explosives and booby-traps ISIS had left behind. We were not allowed to enter side streets and were warned about the dangers. De-mining teams from Kurdish peshmerga units, some of them with training by the Coalition, were slowly going through the ISIS tunnels to remove ordinance. In 2019 it appear that the city is still in ruins and not fit for civilian life. This is despite years in which investment could have come from the international community or local authorities.

A third and fourth photo from 2019 show Yazidis refugees who fled to Sinjar mountain. In 2014 the mountain was a place of shelter and ISIS was not able to take the area, which was defended by Yazidi fighters. Heroic Iraqi pilots helped airlift some off the people and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group of Kurdish fighters from Syria, helped people flee to safety. But tens of thousands of Yazidis chose to stay on the mountain, in miserable conditions, resisting ISIS and within eyesight of their former homes below. When I got there in December 2015 the destitute people had nothing. They were living in tents and got water from wells. One clinic served more than 10,000 people with basic medical needs. There was no education system, no hospitals, nothing.

 

 

A general view of the Yazidi refugee camp in Mount Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousil); A general view of a Yazidi refugee camp on Mount Sinjar in December 2015. (Seth J. Frantzman)

In 2019 it appears basically the same. People still live in tents, some of them reinforced over the years. Other tents have become shacks. Life appears still miserable and lacking all basic services. Yet this area has been liberated for years. ISIS was removed from the plains below between 2015 and 2017. And yet despite investment pouring in to some other areas, such as Mosul, there seems to be no investment for Sinjar.

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A Yazidi woman holds her baby at a refugee camp in Mount Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily); A tent used by Yazidis displaced from Sinjar in December 2015. (Seth J. Frantzman)

The story of Sinjar is symbolic of the war against ISIS more broadly. While the war has largely been won, there is little interest by the international community in winning the peace. Although the Coalition talks about “stabilization” in its meetings, such as the recent one in Washington on February 6, there is little concrete discussion about investing in places like Sinjar. The US involvement in the war against ISIS began when news of the ISIS genocide in Sinjar reached Washington. “I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye. We can act, carefully and responsibly to prevent a potential act of genocide. That’s what we’re doing on that mountain,” US President Barack Obama said on August 7, 2014. The scenes of people dying on Mount Sinjar and ISIS crimes motivated the first airstrikes and humanitarian aid. But years later much of that interest in Sinjar has gone.

The photos from this month are proof of that.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/Survivors-of-ISIS-genocide-have-nothing-four-years-later-581208

[Butifldrm]

 

Iraq on high alert for ISIL fighters fleeing Syria

There are concerns that the fleeing ISIL members could regroup in areas they once controlled in northern and western Iraq.

by Charles Stratford

an hour ago

 

The Iraqi military is on a high alert for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) fighters who attempt to flee across the border as the fight continues in the village of Baghouz, the last ISIL-controlled territory in Syria.

There are concerns that the ISIL fighters could try and regroup in areas once controlled by the armed group in northern and western Iraq.

Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports from Mosul.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/iraq-high-alert-isil-fighters-fleeing-syria-190221123815533.html

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Another of the many things coming to a conclusion on or about

3/1/19 

Thank You Very Much @Butifldrm

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On 2/18/2019 at 5:18 AM, yota691 said:

18-02-2019 02:02 PM

Hundreds of people flee from Syria to Iraq, carrying $ 200 million

 

 

 

 

Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of gunmen from a terrorist organization fled from Syria to western Iraq with $ 200 million in cash, US officials said on Monday.

The network quoted 'CNN' American, a US military official that 'hundreds of gunmen from the organization of a fan fled from Syria to the mountains and desert of western Iraq, in the past six months, and with them up to 200 million dollars in cash ' .

"Some of them were former members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, " a second official said .

Last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights quoted sources as saying that the fate of tons of gold and financial wealth in the village of Baguz on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River on the Syrian border with Iraq   was still unknown.

Let the bounty hunters loose!

[Butifldrm]

* Iraq Press * Publishes the text of the final statement of the Fourth International Conference against the "media dashing" and his idea

BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (KUNA) - The Fourth International Conference on Combating Media and Thought, hosted by the Iraqi capital Baghdad on 20 February and 21 October 2019, concluded with the participation of representatives, experts, consultants and researchers from more than 60 countries and organizations. And an international agency. "

The statement added that "the conference presented participants during the two days of ideas, projects, proposals, visions and scientific treatments reduced by 46 specialized research provided in ten sessions and under the supervision of a scientific committee competent," noting that "the recommendations of the Conference confirmed the joint work with the International Alliance for the construction and development of Iraqi capabilities And to intensify international cooperation to prevent the media from exploiting the electronic space and continue to work to remove the electronic archive of all kinds and forms. "

"Among the recommendations, the International Alliance supports the production of 100 short films in cooperation with the global production and marketing institutions and is held in Baghdad. The conference also included the agreement of the two conferences to arrange the requirements for the establishment of an international conference for moderate speech during the second half of this year, Iraq's efforts in the international prosecution of the media that support and promote terrorism and extremism through coordination with the international investigation team in the crimes of urging. " Finished

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https://www.iraqpressagency.com/عراق-برس-تنشر-نص-البيان-الختامي-للمؤت/

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URGENT Joint operations illustrate the developments of the Iraqi-Syrian border and its repercussions

Editorial date: 2019/2/21 23:55 • 392 times read

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) The Joint Operations Command confirmed the developments in the Iraqi-Syrian border area and its possible security implications on Iraq's internal security situation.

The joint operations confirmed in a statement received by the {Euphrates News} copy of it, "the mobilization of all military resources in this region through monitoring and monitoring to address all possible consequences to prevent the infiltration of terrorist elements individually and repel any exposure to the troops stationed." 
And stressed the "non-complacency in the fight against terrorism and eliminate it and prevent its impact on the internal security situation and it is a top priority." 
"The Joint Operations Command also confirms that the return of displaced Iraqis from Syrian territory is under their supervision and in coordination with the Ministry of Displacement and Migration and the Commission on Human Rights and other security and governmental bodies." 
The joint operations denied "the existence of a collective return of the population of the camp and the Syrian territory, and that the rumors about this is untrue and not credible at all."
"The decision on the issue of the return of displaced Iraqis from the camp of the Hol is subject to study and scrutiny to make the appropriate decision security and humane."

[yota691]

Iraqi security alert on its border with Syria

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The Joint Operations Command announced on Thursday that it would mobilize all its military resources on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

"The Joint Operations Command confirms its follow-up to the developments in the Iraqi-Syrian border area and its possible security implications for the internal security situation in Iraq," the 

statement said. To confront all possible repercussions to prevent the infiltration of terrorist elements individually and repel any exposure to the troops stationed "She 

stressed" not to tolerate the issue of combating terrorism and eliminate it and prevent its impact on the internal security situation and it is a top priority "; "The return of displaced Iraqis from Syrian territory is under their supervision and in coordination with the Ministry of Displacement and Migration and the Commission on Human Rights and other security and governmental bodies."

The operation commander denied "the existence of a collective return of the population of the camp and the Syrian territory," pointing out that "what is rumored about this is untrue and not credible at all." 

"The decision on the issue of the return of displaced Iraqis from the camp of the Hol is subject to study and scrutiny to take the appropriate decision security and human."

[Butifldrm]

 

2019/02/22 07:37

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The International Coalition is moving 20,000 Iraqis from Syria to Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The international coalition will repatriate thousands of Iraqis from Syria to Iraq, media reported Thursday (February 21st).

"The international coalition is in the process of returning 20,000 Iraqis from Syria to Iraq," the media said.

On Thursday, February 21, 2019, the Joint Operations Command announced that the repatriation of displaced Iraqis from Syria was under its control, while news of the return of the inhabitants of the Hol camp in Syria was denied.

Follow the obelisk 

 

http://almasalah.com/ar/news/164488/التحالف-الدولي-بصدد-نقل-20-الف-عراقي-من-سوريا-للعراق

[yota691]

On the brink of defeat with his last pocket in Syria

04:36 - 21/02/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
Syria's demilitarized forces are expected to complete the evacuation of civilians from the last pocket to organize a terrorist crackdown in eastern Syria, paving the way for US-backed forces to stamp out the last remaining terrorist rule that once spanned large parts of the country, From Syria and Iraq. 
Iraqi sources said Thursday that the Iraqi army had received 150 Iraqi and foreign sympathizers from the Syrian Democratic Forces, which are surrounding the last pocket of the terrorist organization, near the Iraqi border, under an agreement that includes a total of 502 fighters. 
The Baguoz village on the Iraqi border is the last spot under the control of a terrorist organization in the Euphrates river valley, which has become the last bastion of criminal organization in Iraq and Syria after a series of defeats in 2017.
Although the fall of the Baguz is a milestone in the campaign against the terrorist organization and the broader conflict in Syria, criminal organization remains a major security threat. 
Gangs are increasingly turning to terrorists and continue to control territory in a remote, densely populated area west of the Euphrates River, an area controlled by the Syrian government. 
Mustafa Bali, director of the Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces, told Reuters the troops would attack as soon as the evacuation of civilians from Baguz was completed, a process expected to end on Thursday. 
Bali did not say what time it would take to eliminate the fighters of an organization calling on the remaining terrorists or giving a new assessment of their numbers. 
Previous estimates of Syria's democratic forces indicate that the number of fighters holed up inside the Baguz is several hundred and most of them are foreigners.
The US-led coalition said on Wednesday the "most dangerous" terrorists were still in Baguoz. 
Syria's democracy forces said more than 2,000 civilians had left the enclave on Wednesday. 
More than 20,000 civilians have left Baguoz in the days before the start of its latest operation to control the enclave this month, she said. 
On Wednesday, Bali said Syria's Democratic forces were not sure whether some of the criminal group's fighters had left the Baguz with civilians. 
The Syrian Democratic Forces and Coalition Forces record the names of all persons who leave and interrogate civilians. 
Many of those who left the enclave in Iraqi civilian convoys said some had crossed from Iraq to Syria as Iraqi government forces made gains at the expense of a terrorist organization on the other side of the border.
Two Iraqi military sources told Reuters that handing over the fighters to the terrorist on Thursday was the first stage in several stages. 
An army colonel based on the Syrian border said most of the fighters were Iraqi, but there were few foreigners. 
Ahmad al-Mahlawi, a resident of Qaim, said some families of criminals had also been transferred. 
"In the early morning this morning I entered ten trucks loaded with fighters urging the terrorist and their families coming from the Syrian territory were handed over by the Syrian democratic forces to the Iraqi army." 
"Most of them were Iraqis, the convoy was under heavy security and went to the operations command of the island and the desert," he said.

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Syria's Democratic Forces welcome the decision to keep US troops

02:16 - 22/02/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
Syria's "Democratic Forces" in northern Syria welcomed a US decision to keep 200 troops in Syria after withdrawing troops, saying it would protect their region and could encourage European countries to keep their troops as well. 
"We assess the White House's decision to keep 200 peacekeepers in the region ... positively, and this decision could encourage other European countries, especially our partners in the international coalition to fight terrorism," said Abdul Karim Omar, Also to keep troops in the area. " 
He explained that the survival of these forces in this region, until the country's crisis is resolved, "will be a catalyst and support and a means of pressure also on Damascus to try seriously to have a dialogue to resolve the Syrian crisis."
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Thursday that the United States would leave a "small peacekeeping group" of 200 troops in Syria for a period after the withdrawal of US troops from there. End of 20 / h

[yota691]

America: Keep 200 of our troops in Syria near the Iraqi border

Editorial date: 2019/2/22 8:42 • 160 times read

The White House said on Thursday that the United States would leave a "small peacekeeping group" of 200 US troops in Syria for a while after its withdrawal, after President Donald Trump retracted the full withdrawal of troops.

In December, Trump ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria, saying they had defeated a preacher there, although Syrian-backed Syrian fighters were still fighting their final battle against the organization's latest positions. 
But Trump is under pressure from several advisers to adjust his policy to ensure the protection of Kurdish forces that have strengthened the fight against Daqash, which may now be threatened by Turkey and counter Iranian influence in Syria. 
"A small peacekeeping group of about 200 will remain in Syria for a while," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a brief statement. 
The decision was announced after Trump spoke by telephone to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A statement to the White House said that as far as Syria was concerned, the two leaders agreed to "continue coordination on a possible safe area."
A senior administration official said the preparation of the Trump decision had been underway for some time. It was unclear how long the 200-strong force would remain in the area or when it would be deployed. 
Keeping a small group of US troops in Syria would pave the way for European allies to pledge hundreds of troops to help build and monitor a possible safe area in northeastern Syria. 
The leader of the US-backed Syrian opposition forces called for an international force of between 1,000 and 1,500 troops to remain in place to help fight the insurgency and hoped the United States would suspend its plans for a full withdrawal. 
The decision to retain the Trump peacekeeping force could help overcome criticism that he ordered a surprise withdrawal from Syria that could lead to a resurgence of his power.
"This is a clear signal to our allies and coalition members that we will still exist to some degree," said the senior administration official. 
So far, European allies have been reluctant to contribute troops unless they have a firm commitment that Washington remains committed to the region. 
Belgian Defense Minister Didier Renders told reporters on Thursday ahead of a meeting with US Defense Secretary Patrick Chanahan that the issue of keeping troops in Syria in the future would be discussed with US officials. 
Turkey wants to create a safe, logistical-backed zone from its allies and says it must be cleared of the Kurdish-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization. 
The White House did not specify where the troops would be stationed. In addition to northeastern Syria, officials spoke of the importance of keeping troops at the strategic base of the border with Iraq and Jordan.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the initial plan was to keep troops in northeastern Syria and Tanf. Planning was still under way and changes could be made, he said. 
The al-Tanf base was established when Da'ash fighters controlled eastern Syria bordering Iraq, but since the terrorists were 
removed, al-Qaeda has become part of the US strategy to contain Iran's military expansion. 
US officials told Reuters that when Shanaan was in Munich last week, he held a meeting on Syria with a small group of defense ministers. 
They said they spoke of the need for some sort of security arrangement in northeastern Syria after the departure of the United States. Shanahan will meet his Turkish counterpart on Friday.
US Senator Lindsey Graham issued a statement praising Trump's decision to keep a small US force in Syria as part of an international stabilization force, saying the president had taken the right military advice that would help avoid problems the United States faced in Iraq.

[yota691]

The intelligence apprehended the cutter in the headers

11:12 - 22/02/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
The Directorate of Military Intelligence announced on Friday the arrest of the beheaded man in Da'ash on the Iraqi-Syrian border. 
"The detachments of the Military Intelligence Directorate of the 15th Division and the result of accurate intelligence have captured one of the terrorists who infiltrated across the Iraqi-Syrian border," the Directorate said in a statement received by Mawazine News. 
"This person is known as a head-cutter," she said, adding that he "appeared in several versions of the motive in front of people who were beheaded in Iraq and Syria."

[yota691]

Options to ease the US presence in Syria

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On February 21, the White House announced that 200 US troops would remain in Syria as a "peacekeeping force" after the bulk of US forces withdrew as planned in advance. The purpose of this declaration was to refer to the continued American commitment to Syrian allies and coalition members. But from a military point of view, 200 advisers will not compensate for the loss of US monitors on the ground - a network that provides an important context for carefully targeted intelligence information used to strike coalition and artillery forces against the targets of the "Islamic state".

Current attacks

US military doctrine requires that the targeting process be strong to achieve desired effects and minimize unwanted consequences. This is particularly true when dealing with dynamic goals (for example, mobile or removable), which are usually identified during the course of a combat and require rapid targeting. Operations in Syria are focused on striking the forces of the "Islamic state" and protecting friendly forces, so most of the targets are dynamic.

There are two broad ways to implement dynamic targeting:

"Observers of joint attack paths" on the ground. The targeting can be directed by the Joint Attack Paths Monitor - a highly trained and highly trained group of individuals deployed alongside ground forces who monitor the targets directly with their own eyes through reports from neighboring local partner forces or by controlling the Remote-controlled aircraft. They provide the pilots with all the information required to effectively hit the target in accordance with the rules of engagement adopted, ensuring that the risk of collateral damage is properly assessed and balanced with the expected military benefits and ensures compliance with the law of armed conflict. Because of their frontal presence, they can read the battle more accurately, and operate ground sensors and low-flying drone tactical aircraft that provide closer observation of potential targets under horizontal coverage (eg umbrellas and bridges) or in bad weather.
Cells strikes remotely. If the Joint Attack Paths monitors are not on the ground, a qualified crew can provide targeting support to the pilots, providing them with additional intelligence and monitoring data while helping to assess potential collateral damage and other issues. Although slap cells are sometimes slow to deal with targets, they do provide some benefits such as increased intelligence gathering (including more space or airborne sensors), enhanced firearm synchronization, and other layers of audit to prevent damage Side. These cells include a variety of professionals, including legal advisers, intelligence analysts, air and ground liaison personnel and, most importantly, qualified personnel from the Joint Attack Paths Monitor.
Since the beginning of the "Solid Torque Process" (2014), the US-led coalition has used both the Joint Strike Path Monitors on the ground and the remote cells to control air strikes in Syria. All of the raids carried out by US forces required the intervention of "joint attack path monitors" from the US model - highly trained NATO military observers who focus more on military conflict than non-Western military forces. Artillery fire missions can be called by a wider group of front-line observers other than "joint attack path monitors", although these individuals also focus on compliance with the same laws.

US presence mitigation options

Even if the bulk of US forces are withdrawn, coalition forces and artillery units in Iraq, Turkey and Jordan can still strike in Syria with varying degrees of effectiveness. Each of the alternative models has advantages and disadvantages.

The Hidden American Presence. One option is to deploy an enhanced covert presence in Syria, which includes US paramilitary forces or "unofficial US Special Forces" authorized by the Joint Strike Path Monitors. This would impose a significant new commitment on these small groups and could expose them to greater risks because of their meager numbers and their limited capacities for self-defense.
American presence. Using the "flight to advise" model, US Military Observers can send joint attack routes to Syria from neighboring countries to support special operations against the organization of the "Islamic state", either by staying there for short patrols or "moving" daily to battlefield. However, periodic presence gives less flexibility than regular presence and is more at risk of protecting forces (eg, regular reliance on air transport). The use of this model also loses many of the advantages of integration with local forces (such as accurate knowledge of the pace of friendly and hostile operations).
Non-American observers to control air strikes. The coalition can rely on the deployment of "other observers of the joint attack pathways" of the NATO model in Syria, both those who [have been] withdrawn from the large European and Iraqi special forces forces in the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, Renew in strength. It is likely that fewer than six non-US "joint attack tracker" monitors, each with a small team associated with them, will be required.
Syrian air control units. The coalition can also train trusted Syrian partners to call up firefighting more effectively in close coordination with US-led raid cells in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, or elsewhere. Examples of operations used by other NATO military forces - such as UAE forces in Yemen - have collected credible local observers, traced friendly forces on the iPhone, and managed raids by the Joint Attack Paths in the cells Remote. If tested Syrian operators get specialized communication equipment and full-motion video sensors in real time, they can recover some of the ground vision that would be lost if coalition forces withdrew. The rush to focus US intelligence on Syria will help these operators to enjoy even more effectively.
Increased use of artillery systems. The last option is to seek the approval of the Iraqi government to transfer more pipeline artillery and long-range missile launchers of the coalition forces to the border with Syria. The artillery have a high response capability, and fire missions can be called by less efficient frontal observers, possibly including trusted local partners. If additional scope is needed, coalition artillery can be deployed temporarily in Syria with permission from Baghdad. Such operations have already been carried out from time to time, including the introduction of artillery into Syria through air transport to carry out specific fire missions. 
Implications for US Policy

Trump said that the withdrawal of US troops does not signal the end of the campaign against the organization of the "Islamic State" in Syria, nor the abandonment of US partners there. Therefore, one or more of the above options must be exercised in order to maintain fire support in Syria, destroy the objectives of the "Islamic state" and protect the partner forces.

The decision to keep 200 US troops in Syria is an important first step. The main obstacle to effective air strikes is the lack of ongoing intelligence and a comprehensive understanding of the situation on the ground, which threatens to deteriorate the targeted development. Moving to a completely remote model run by raid cells outside Syria would greatly increase that risk. A portion of the intelligence targeting information and careful understanding of the actions of friends and enemies will be lost, requiring troops either to reduce the number of strikes they agree to or reduce their mitigation standards - a scenario that must be avoided at all costs.

In addition, the post-model for local partners may indicate that the alliance is less committed because it is no longer at the heart of the game. Such an approach might also convince Iran, the Assad regime and other enemies that they have become freer, knowing that there is no US or NATO presence on the ground to provoke widespread reprisals.

To reduce some of these problems, the United States should consider recruiting credible allies such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand to transfer special forces to Syria on constant visits as US forces leave the country. This demand can be supported by US commitments to provide operational support and protection to these forces, as well as to provide intensive training and equipment to Syrian partners to determine targets for coalition air strikes or artillery fire. If continued fighting against the organization of an "Islamic state" really matters to other countries, it must be prepared to help bear more of the burden on the United States, especially at a time when the decision to withdraw created a severe political-military pressure in Washington.

Finally, all of the options described above depend heavily on maintaining the coalition base in Iraq. This highlights the great importance of restoring confidence that the spread of the American element there is only to defeat the organization of the "Islamic state". By repeatedly expressing this principle through direct communication and popular local media, US civilian and military leaders have a better chance of convincing Iraqi leaders to adopt a strict approach to maintaining the Alliance's presence.

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Families of Iraqi ISIS Suspects Transferred from Syria

REPORT

from Human Rights Watch

Published on 24 Feb 2019 —

Belkis Wille
Senior Iraq Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division
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The final pocket of Islamic State (ISIS) territory in Syria is being retaken as we speak, and for the first time, Iraqi authorities are explicitly addressing the fate of the suspected Iraqi ISIS fighters and their families who remain there.

On February 13, Iraq’s prime minister announced that Syrian Democratic Forces had arrested many Iraqi ISIS fighters, and preparations were being made to send them and their families back to Iraq, where the families would be put into camps.

But humanitarian workers told Human Rights Watch that the number of family members likely to be sent back to Iraq was unspecified, with estimates ranging from 4,000 to 16,000. Nor is it known where they were originally from, or how long the authorities plan to keep them in camps. Despite this lack of clarity, the transfers are already taking place.

While Iraqi families and ISIS fighters should not be confined indefinitely in camps in Syria, past practice shows there are real concerns about the treatment of these families in Iraq. Iraqi federal authorities, security personnel, and local leaders have routinely placed severe restrictions on family members of suspected ISIS fighters, particularly their right to freedom of movement, holding them against their will in camps for long periods.

Humanitarian agencies told Human Rights Watch that the Iraqi government is asking them to facilitate these transfers from the border to the camps but concerns about the government’s treatment of the families back in Iraq are key. The government should not confine people to camps who have not been charged with a crime other than being related to a suspected ISIS fighter. Doing so would contribute to a form of collective punishment, which constitutes a war crime.

Iraqi family members arriving back at the Iraqi border, who are not suspected of having committed a specific crime, have the right under Iraqi and international law to go home or to choose where they resettle. None should assist the Iraqi government in taking that right away.

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To Iraq: Has Baghdad become the "biggest loser" in a four-way international deal to get rid of a stingy?

Sunday 24 February 2019

 

 

 

 

 

Baghdad - Nas

From ali alaraji

The question of the fate of the surrendered Da'ash fighters concerns the international public opinion at the governmental and popular levels after the end of the organization. Many of its members are captured by Syria's democratic forces and the governments of their country refuse to return. Iraq carefully monitors the results of the "international strike" on elements of the organization and the search for " "To receive them.

US President Donald Trump called on Twitter, Britain, France, Germany and other European countries to allow the return of more than 800 European nationals arrested in Syria, warning that not allowing hundreds of Europeans to return to their country would have serious consequences. Washington may have to release them, but European countries, including Austria and Britain, refused to accept them.

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"Extermination tax"

The "rupture" between Damascus and the capitals of Western countries is a dilemma that prevents Syria from dealing with or prosecuting foreign fighters or sending them to their governments under international agreements and treaties, as well as the refusal of Syria's democratic forces to detain its foreign fighters forever, especially since it is not a state, No prisons.

According to Reuters, Iraq has so far received two of the organization's fighters from Syria's democratic forces up to 300 fighters, including Iraqis and foreigners through Anbar province

www.nasnews.com

"Russian proposal"

But the Washington Post published a report, in which he talked about the obstacles facing the task of "getting rid" of fighters urging foreigners in Syria, while the report that Moscow had a proposal to transfer fighters urged Chechens to Iraq .

www.nasnews.com

Iraq is perplexed

Despite the fact that Iraq enjoys good relations with some European countries, Western governments are still refusing to accept their citizens involved in the "Dadsh", while European sources talk about my people's rejection of the idea of returning elements and that some countries that have witnessed terrorist operations, Within their borders, preferring to keep their compatriots belonging to a far-off and prosecuted "in the places where they committed their crimes."

Iraq is now dealing with hundreds of members of the organization who receive them from their body, which are made up of Iraqis and foreigners, and will bear the burden of Iraq to prosecute the Iraqis, and foreigners who committed crimes or operations on the ground in Iraq, while the file of foreigners who have been active on Syrian territory only, .

A member of the parliamentary security and defense committee, Ali al-Ghanmi, said that the detainees from the organization "Daash" who were received from the Syrian democratic forces will be dealt with according to "certain mechanisms." He pointed out that the foreign elements in the organization that did not operate in Iraq will be returned to their countries of origin .

Al-Ghanmi said that "there are countries that refuse to take over the fighters of their citizens, which is a big problem that should be dealt with in accordance with international treaties and conventions."

 

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2019/02/25 00:39

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50 broken heads of young girls in a waste bin with the last bastions in Syria

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - British elite troops, while driving, attacked the last stronghold of the Damascus-based organization, Da'ash, on the broken heads of 50 women killed by terrorists.

The London-based British newspaper Daily Mail said Sunday that the British Air Force's special unit found 50 heads of the organization's "sex slaves" dumped in trash cans during the attack on the last bastion of the Daqash organization in eastern Syria.

"This horrific discovery was spotted when British troops entered the besieged city of Baguz on the banks of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, the last bastion of Daash," the paper said.

She pointed out that this was in the wake of a fierce battle in February killed about 100 terrorists, where the Special Forces soldiers fired 600 mortar shells and tens of thousands of machine guns, forcing the elements of the "Daash" access to a network of tunnels under the city that Turned into ruins, adding that two British troops were killed in the attack.

"At the time of defeat, the cruelty of the extremists knows no limits, they have slaughtered these desperate women with all their cheese and left their heads behind them to find us. No natural person can understand the motive for such a disgusting act," a source told the Mail of Sunday newspaper. "He said.

"None of the Special Forces soldiers who entered Baguz will forget those scenes, which some soldiers likened to a scene from Apocalypse Now," he said. "But their only consolation is that they have contributed to ending the control of Da'ash," he said.

"Last night, some 200 militants were detained near Baguz in an area called Hawi al-Dindal, where they kept an equal number of civilian hostages," the source said.

Five years ago, the terrorist group seized 34,000 square miles of land from western Syria to eastern Iraq, equivalent to more than a quarter of England's territory.

Source: Daily Mail UK + RT

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Araji: Exporting Al-Da'ash to Iraq is the beginning of a new American scenario

01:44 - 25/02/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
Former Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji on Monday warned against the export of elements of an organization calling for a terrorist to Iraq, while stressing that this was the beginning of a new American scenario. 
"The export of Al-Dawash to Iraq is the beginning of a new scenario that the United States wants for Iraq," Araji said in a statement received by the Mawazine News. He called on Iraqi leaders to "take note of this and take the necessary steps to prevent and stop the implementation of this scenario." 
He added that "the intention is to find a kind of new threat to the security forces to be an excuse for the survival of US forces in Iraq, but even increase the number after the start of the withdrawal from Syria, and clear through the statements Trump irresponsible."

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Sadiqon: Americans are preparing for a second time in Iraq by training 3000 Daheshi Valley Horan

10:27 - 25/02/2019

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazin News 
Sadikun bloc confirmed on Monday that the Americans are preparing a second call to Iraq through the preparation and training of 3000 supporters of different nationalities in the Valley of Houran. 
The head of the bloc, MP Hassan Salem, said in a statement received by "Mawazine News" that "the Americans are preparing for a second time in Iraq through the preparation and training of 3,000 people in the Valley of Houran and of different nationalities." 
Salem added that "the Americans have moved a section of these motives to Hawija, Mosul and the Anbar desert, to redeploy and carry out security operations." 
He pointed out that "the government to carry out large-scale military operations in the Hawran Valley and Hawija and the desert of Anbar, and carry out raids against sleeper cells and suspects."

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Araji: Exporting Al-Da'ash to Iraq is the beginning of a new American scenario

13:33 - 25/02/2019

 

  

Information / Baghdad ..

Former Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji warned on Monday against the export of elements of the criminal "Da'ash" organization to Iraq, saying it was the beginning of a new American scenario.

Al-Araji said in a statement received by Al-Maaroumah that "the export of Al-Dawash to Iraq is the beginning of a new scenario that the United States of America wants for Iraq. The Iraqi leaders should pay attention to this and take the necessary steps to prevent and stop the implementation of this scenario."

"The aim is to find some kind of new threat to the security forces to be a pretext for the survival of US forces in Iraq, but increased after the start of the withdrawal from Syria, and it is clear through the statements Trump irresponsible." Ending / 25

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