ISIS update 6/25/2017...Israeli airstrikes on Golan Heights leave civilian casualties

Israeli Air Force Attacks Syrian Army In Golan Heights

IDF video showing Israeli airstrikes in Syria, June 26, 2017

Israeli airstrikes on Golan Heights leave civilian casualties

Netanyahu defends Israeli strikes on Syrian govt. positions

“Last night the IDF attacked Syrian military targets,” stated Netanyahu. “This was a vigorous response to mortar fire at our territory. Our policy is clear: We will not tolerate any spill-over or trickle whatsoever – neither mortars nor rockets, from any front. We will respond strongly to any attack on our territory or our citizens.”

Israel’s Fire Support For Its Al-Qaeda Mercenaries Started Three Years Ago

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/israeli-fire-support-for-its-al-qaeda-mercenaries-started-three-years-ago.html

Al-Qaeda attacked a Syrian Arab Army position in Madinat al-Baath (map) next to the Israel occupied Golan heights. Al-Qaeda requested Israeli fire-support by launching some mortars towards empty space in the Israel occupied area. The Israeli Defense Force accepted the request and destroyed two Syrian Arab Army tanks. Two Syrian soldiers were killed. The SAA held steady and the al-Qaeda attack on its position failed.

This was very easy to predict. Israel has supported al-Qaeda in the area since at least 2014. The al-Qaeda fire-request-by-mortar scheme has been in place for at least three years. In October 2014 the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which back then still covered the area, reported to the UN Security Council:

Cont. reading: Israel’s Fire Support For Its Al-Qaeda Mercenaries Started Three Years Ago

The War in Syria: Families return to damaged homes in Homs

The Syrian Arab Army,alongside,National Defense Forces, Syrian Social National Party, and Liwaa al-Quds (Palestinian paramilitary), resumed their military operations in East Hama, targeting the so-called Islamic State positions East Salamiyah in East Hama countryside… Backed by Russian Air support, Artillery units, MLRS strikes, the Syrian Army stormed, and striking the Isis primary defense in the area… Also,the Syrian Arab Army, is currently in the process of clearing the Salamiyah-Raqqah Road, as they look to secure the pathway between the two Towns of Ithriya and Al-Resafa…

Bashar Al- Assad Performing Eid al-Fitr Prayers at Noury Mosque In Hama City

Syria releases hundreds of prisoners on occasion of Eid al-Fitr

Dozens of captured ISIL members pardoned during rebel offensive in Raqqa

Telephone Conversation Between Putin and Erdogan on Start of Turkish Stream Gas Pipeline

Monitor: US strikes killed 500 civilians in Syria last month

Locked Into Al-Tanf U.S. Military Concedes It Lost The Race To Occupy South-East Syria

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/syria-the-us-concedes-defeat-of-its-south-east-syria-plans.html

….The Pentagon and, even more important, the U.S. commanders in the Middle East, have finally recognized the basic facts of life.

There is no way the Syrian government and its allies will let the U.S. have south-east Syria or let it occupy the country including the Syrian army garrison in Deir Ezzor which is currently surrounded by Islamic State forces. The Syrian army and its allies will liberate Deir Ezzor and the whole Euphrates valley. The U.S. military has now conceded that. There will be some huffing and puffing from the neoconservative corners but I doubt very much that this that this decision will be overturned or that this is a ruse. There is simply no strategic value for the U.S. in occupying south-east Syria and no will to defend it against determined resistance of capable opposing forces.

Myth of Syrian Moderate Rebels

Iraqi forces battle towards heart of Mosul’s Old City

Fighting underway between Daesh, Iraqi army in Mosul

Daesh bomb blast kills at least 12 civilians in Iraq’s Mosul

Hundreds of civilians free to leave Mosul

Iraq: residents who fled Mosul’s Old City are now traumatised

Fight for Caliphate? Saddam-era officials likely to head ISIS if Al-Baghdadi dead

Analysts: Russia’s Anti-ISIL Missile Strikes in Syria Warning to US
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Suicide-Bomber Attacks ISIL Commanders in Western Iraq
IRGC Commander: Detached Engines of Iran’s Anti-ISIL Missiles Land in Iraq
Syrian Soldiers Make Fresh Gains along Hama-Raqqa Road
Syrian Army Advances Significantly towards Last Bastion of ISIL terrorists in Eastern Homs