ISIS update 10/14/2017..Kirkuk; Peshmerga Forces Prepare To Defend Themselves

Kurds on high alert as Iraqi forces mass near Kirkuk

Kirkuk; Peshmerga Forces Prepare To Defend Themselves

Kurdish forces are said to be on high alert amid reports that the Iraq military have deployed large amounts of military hardware near Kirkuk, Friday. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reportedly said that Iraqi government troops are preparing an attack on Kurdish forces in the oil-rich region. The Iraqi government meanwhile says its troops are instead being prepared for an assault on self-proclaimed Islamic State forces near the Syria border.

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Russia: ‘More than 1,000 terrorists have entered Syria from Iraq’ – Russian Ministry of Defence

“From Iraqi provinces Al Anbar and Nineveh, where the US-led coalition is carrying out its anti-Daesh operation, more than 1,000 terrorists with tanks, multiple launch rocket system and artillery have entered the territory of Syria in the vicinity of Abu Kamal city,” said Sergey Rudskoy, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff at a briefing in Moscow, Friday.

Syrian Army Captures Al-Mayadeen

The Syrian Army troops have driven ISIL out of their key stronghold town of al-Mayadeen in Southeastern Deir Ezzur, well-informed sources said minutes ago.

“The army has purged terrorists from the town of al-Mayadeen and its surrounding regions and managed to impose full control over the town,” the army sources said.

They added that the army men are advancing in the Western outskirts of al-Mayadeen to fortify their defense lines.

In the meantime, field sources reported that fierce clashes are underway between the pro-government forces and the ISIL on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River, opposite to Deir Ezzur city.

Earlier reports said that the army soldiers advanced significantly against ISIL on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River and deployed along the road connecting Deir Ezzur city to Hasaka province. A military source said that the army has now cut off the entire supply roads of ISIL after it advanced against terrorists in al-Salehiyeh region at the Northern entrance of Deir Ezzur city and at the al-Siyasah bridge.

Thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting in Deir ez-Zour as IDP camps swell

Russian officers from the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria have delivered humanitarian aid to refugees in the Town of Kerbat Ash-Shabbat, Rif Dimashq Governorate on Friday… Alexei Sergeev, the Reconciliation Centers official said that Russian officers had provided up to 1.500 refugees from the city of Ar-Rastan which is under the so-called moderate oppositions control, with nearly 300 package… According to his statement, every food package includes “flour, sugar, rice, and canned meat”… Russian medics established mobile medical aid post in order to provide refugees with the urgently need medical care… Russian medics said that the Ar-Rastan city was currently swept by intestinal infections and most of those who had fled it were “suffering from chronic diseases which exacerbated due to the siege amid the lack of any medical assistance”…

The Russian Air Force have played an imperative role in the Syrian Arab Army’s resurgence in the Quraytayn(Christian Town), carrying out nonstop Airstrikes over the Terrorist-group positions…. Syrian Arab Army’s troops were able to retake several areas(the video footages shows scenes of the battles to restore the farms of the Crusader & Christian Northeast of the city, and the Western enclave area, and the Mount Byblos in the South) from the so-called Islamic state, as a result of these heavy Airstrikes near the city of Quraytayn… Video footage released by Hezbollah’s official media wing shows the Syrian Arab Army’s troops advancing amid heavy Airstrikes from their counterparts in Southern Homs… The Syrian Arab Army’s troops is now awaiting orders from the high command to storm Quraytayn…

Civilians evacuated from Syria’s Raqqa as fighting intensifies

Civilians evacuated from Syria’s Raqqa as fighting intensifies

Daesh on The Back Foot

Daesh, the most terrifying terrorist group the world has ever seen, seems to be in steep decline. Pictures of horrifying atrocities committed by Daesh shocked the world. The group was well armed and organized with many regional countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar as well as the United States widely accused of helping form the terrorist group in a bid to oust the Syrian and Iraqi governments. Daesh has suffered humiliating blows over the past two years and now seems to be in disarray. Just recently, more than a thousand Daesh terrorists in Iraq surrendered to security forces.

UN: Russia calls on UN to fully investigate possibly ‘staged’ Syrian chemical incident

Head of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov said Moscow leans towards the view that the April 4 chemical weapons incident at Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria’s Idlib province was staged, stressing the need for the incident to be “carefully studied” during a UN briefing in New York, Friday.

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Israeli TV Shows Footage Of ISIS Training Camp On Israel’s Border | Zero Hedge

Last November Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country “won’t allow Islamic State figures or other enemy actors, under the cover of the war in Syria, to set up next to our borders,” but it appears this has already happened, to the point that a sizable ISIS training camp has been set up just across the Golan Heights border with Israel. Though Syrian al-Qaeda has long been a mainstay in southern Syria along Israel’s border, this constitutes the first widespread public acknowledgement and confirmation of a significant ISIS base of operations in the Golan region.

Israeli media this week is reporting news of the base camp after Israel’s Channel 2 aired an extensive report with video and photographic evidence of what’s being described as a training and recruitment center which has already attracted hundreds of new terror recruits. Channel 2 is one of Israel’s most visible and established news broadcast channels and operates under “The Second Authority for Television and Radio” licensed by the Knesset and the Ministry of Communications. According to the Times of Israel:

Israel’s Channel 2 said the commanders have made their way to an Islamic State-controlled enclave “close to the border” with Israel. They have set up a training camp to which they have recruited 300 local youths, said the report, which showed footage apparently of the camp and training sessions.

Among the commanders is one of Islamic State’s most notorious recruiters, Abu Hamam Jazrawi, the TV report said.

The commanders are also now running Islamic State internet propaganda campaigns from their new base, in place of the former campaign headquarters in Raqqa, the extremists’ former de facto capital in northwest Syria where the fight to oust them has entered what appear to be its final stages.

The Channel 2 exposé further notes the presence of multiple senior Islamic State commanders at the camp, which suggests the terror group could be attempting to relocate its assets to Syria’s south as it appears to be crumbling with the onset of SDF, Syrian Army, and Russian forces in the eastern part of the country.

The Times of Israel acknowledges another shocking fact, which has itself become an open secret of sorts among Israeli defense and policy officials: what it calls the long lasting “live and let live” relationship with al-Qaeda in the region. The Times of Israel explains:

Both the IS-affiliated Khalid ibn al-Walid Army and the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the al-Nusra Front, which is linked to al-Qaeda, have been set up on Israel’s borders for years.

Despite a relatively long-lasting “live and let live” relationship with these groups, the IDF has warned of a potential — some say inevitable — conflict with them and has been preparing to respond to cross-border attacks.

Though the IDF has “warned” of some “potential” direct action against the most notorious terrorist groups in the world which seem to be comfortably ensconced within eyesight of Israeli border posts, it has never taken significant direct action against these groups, instead routinely targeting the Syrian army, Iranian-linked militias, and Hezbollah with airstrikes. This is a general reflection of the Israeli strategy of regime change in Syria, which has resulted in a well-documented history of assistance to al-Qaeda affiliated rebel groups.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that this relationship involved weapons transfers, salary payments to anti-Assad fighters, and treatment of wounded jihadists in Israeli hospitals, the latter which was widely promoted in photo ops picturing Netanyahu himself greeting militants. As even former Acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell once directly told the Israeli public, Israel’s “dangerous game” in Syria consists in getting in bed with al-Qaeda in order to fight Shia Iran.

Channel 2 News and the The Times of Israel also featured an image from a prior video of a lone ISIS militant holding an Islamic State flag with the Israeli side of the Golan border in clear view.

In recent years, multiple current and former Israeli defense officials have gone so far as to say that ISIS is ultimately preferable to Iran and Assad. For example, former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren in 2014 surprised the audience at Colorado’s Aspen Ideas Festival when he said in comments related to ISIS that, “the lesser evil is the Sunnis over the Shias.” Oren, while articulating Israeli defense policy, fully acknowledged he thought ISIS was “the lesser evil.”

Likewise, for Netanyahu and other Israeli officials the chief concern was never the black clad death cult which filmed itself beheading Americans and burning people alive, but the possibility of, in the words of Henry Kissinger, “a Shia and pro-Iran territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut” and establishment of “an Iranian radical empire.”

With Israeli media now widely reporting the Islamic State’s presence along Israel’s border we wonder why such a clear and documented fact isn’t cause for bigger outrage. Though Israel’s Channel 2 bombshell report aired earlier this week, there’s been resounding silence in international press. ISIS is camping out along Israel’s border, yet all we hear about is the supposed “Iranian threat” to Israel’s existence.

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