Video - Russian airstrikes destroys 15+ trucks carrying oil from DeirEzzor heading towards Turkey border.

Russian airstrikes destroys 15+ trucks carrying oil coming from #DeirEzzor headed towards #Turkey border. #IS #Syria pic.twitter.com/wo8cMrn5so

— H e b a (@HK2307) December 24, 2015

#Putin not allowing #IS to sell oil to #Turkey anymore. #RuAF bombers destroy trucks carrying oil headed for Turkey pic.twitter.com/YlvGYn4649

— H e b a (@HK2307) December 24, 2015

Aamaq (IS media) release drone footage showing convoy of trucks destroyed by #Russian bombers yesterday #Syria pic.twitter.com/bYjloktjYT

— H e b a (@HK2307) December 25, 2015

#Syria #ISIS oil trucks crossing the #Syrian #Turkish border. Now tell us #Turkey isn't buying #ISIS oil. #Russia pic.twitter.com/HEshChY1rq

— Hamosh (@Hamosh84) December 27, 2015

Video - Alongside Assad's female snipers in Syria. (English captions)

FRANCE 24's Ksenia Bolchakova was able to report from the cities held by the regime. She met with a very special unit of the Syrian army: Assad's female snipers. There is nearly 2000 of them in the Brigade, fighting on 6 fronts across Syria.HT And source:

#EXCLUSIVE - Alongside #Assad's female snipers in #Syria https://t.co/s8tcKRWJgO pic.twitter.com/IaDBlWDdce

— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) November 9, 2015

Iran says it will be ‘actively present’ in Syria talks & Stand by Assad.

Iran says it will be ‘actively present’ in Syria talks & Stand by Assad. (Taz).

Iran’s attendance at the Vienna talks on Syria is by no means a sign that the Islamic Republic has backed down from its position on Syria, and Tehran is going to be actively present at the talks, Head of the Strategic Research Center of Iran’s Expediency Council Aliakbar Velayati said.

“Our support for Syria comes in a number of fields, one of which is to back the Syrian people’s resistance against terrorists and extremists,” Velayati said, IRIB news agency reported November 7.

Pointing out that after five years of the continuing Syrian crisis, negotiating parties have admitted Iran to the talks, Velayati said, noting that Iran cannot leave the political arena.

The Iranian official asserted that it is the people of Syria who should have the final say on their fate.

“The current Syrian government has shown it is worthy enough to stand by its nation as their defender. If elections are held today, Assad would receive more votes than any other contender,” Velayati stressed.

“Therefore, we are against any plan that would try to put aside the current Syrian government, which has defended the people’s rights against terrorists for years,” he added.

He also pointed to Russia’s new approach to the Syrian crisis and said that it has broken the military deadlock, and will help break the political deadlock, as well.


Iran is providing military consultation to the Syrian Army in its fight against terrorist groups, maintaining that it would not engage in direct battle with various armed groups.

@MEBriefing Can as well say #Turkey and #Qatar represent the #Syrian opposition.

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) November 7, 2015

Tehran briefs Moscow on Damascus’ opinion to end Syrian crisis: "no talk of a transitional period in Syria".

Tehran briefs Moscow on Damascus’ opinion to end Syrian crisis. (Taz).

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian has briefed his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Bogdanov, on Tehran’s latest discussions with Damascus over the Syrian crisis.

“Calling for a serious fight against terrorism, Damascus supports a political solution based on elections and preventing foreign intervention,” ILNA news agency quoted Amir Abdollahian as saying, in a telephone conversation with Mikhail Bogdanov on Nov 5.

Similarly, Mikhail Bogdanov called upon Iran to attend the upcoming peace talks on Syria.
At a meeting in Tehran on Nov. 3, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad expressed his country’s opposition to the idea of a “transitional period” in Syria, saying the Syrian government opposes the political transition sought by Western countries to end the crisis in his country.

“We are talking about a national dialog in Syria and a broad-based government, as well as a constitutional process. There is no talk of a transitional period in Syria,” the Syrian official said.
Seeking to end the Syrian civil war, both the allies and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad are planning to resume peace talks, though the first round of talks held in Vienna on Oct. 30 failed to reach agreement on al-Assad’s fate.

During the late October peace talks, Tehran expressed support for al-Assad’s government, while rival Saudi Arabia demanded al-Assad and Iranian-backed troops leave the country.

Also, Iran denies that it has deployed soldiers to fight in Syria, and says it only provides the Syrian army with military advisers.


Tehran has officially confirmed that the number of casualties in the Syrian war has increased, with unconfirmed reports suggesting that some 30 Iranian servicemen have been killed in Syria over the past month.

Video - ISIS launches bizarre Hot Air balloons over the skies of Idlib As Defense against Russian jets?

More about this can be read here.

ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul: Report.

ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul: Report. (HN).

A total of 24 of around 50 suspects of Tajik and Uzbek origin, who were detained for having links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul on Oct. 18, have been revealed to be children being trained in basement apartments in Istanbul’s Pendik and Başakşehir districts, daily Vatan has reported.

The suspects were reported to have trained children in basement apartments in Pendik and Başakşehir, using the apartments as militant training camps, according to physical and technical surveillance collected by Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers before raiding 18 separate homes in Pendik and Başakşehir’s Kayaşehir neighborhood.

The suspects, mostly Uzbeks, who were detained in the Oct. 18 raids were reported to have lectured children on the basics of ISIL as well as how to live in an Islamic state.

In August, the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, an al-Qaeda offshoot based near the Afghan border, announced allegiance to ISIL.

Uzbek intelligence sources reported that more than 5,000 paid Uzbek militants were fighting in Syria alongside ISIL.

Turkey has stepped up anti-terror police operations against ISIL militants in the country, as the Oct. 10 twin blasts in the Turkish capital sent shockwaves through the country, with at least 102 civilians dead and hundreds of others injured.

Thirteen ISIL-linked suspects have reportedly been detained so far within the investigation launched into the Ankara bombing. Hmmm...........

Putin: 7,000 people from ex-Soviet republics estimated to fight alongside ISIS

Putin: 7,000 people from ex-Soviet republics estimated to fight alongside ISIS. (RT).

There are 7,000 foreign terrorists in Syria who went there from Russia and several other former Soviet nations to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Russian President Vladimir Putin told the heads of those states in Kazakhstan.

“There are an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 fighters from Russia and other CIS member states fighting for ISIL,” Putin said referring to IS by its former name. “We certainly cannot allow them to use the experience they are getting in Syria on home soil.”

Putin was speaking to leaders of the CIS, a regional union of a dozen former Soviet republics. He reported details of the Russian bombing campaign in Syria targeting the jihadists and assured that there was significant progress in defeating IS.

“By carrying out airstrikes on targets chosen in coordination with the Syrians, our troops have produced significant results. Dozens of command points and depots, hundreds of terrorists and a large number of military hardware have been destroyed,” Putin said.

Putin reiterated that Russia's operation in Syria has a definite timeframe and would not last longer than the offensive operation of the Syrian government troops, which get air support from Russia.

He added that Russia stands for the creation of “as big a coalition to fight the extremists and terrorists as possible and is working with major regional and international partners” like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Israel.

Vladimir Putin also reiterated that Russia is acting in compliance with international law in Syria.

“The operation of the Russian Air Forces supported by the ships of the Caspian Fleet are in full compliance with the international law and absolutely legitimate, since we are conducting it at the formal request of [Syrian] President [Bashar] Assad,” he said.

The Russian leader said CIS members should be on guard for possible retaliation from the terrorists and ramp up cooperation between their national counterterrorism and border guard agencies. Read the full story here.

Related: Russian Navy can strike ISIS positions in Syria anytime – general staff

Video - Terrorist Group Faylaq Al-Sham HQ was obliterated by RuAF Russian AirStrikes

Hmmmm.....The Rise of Jaysh al-Fateh in Northern Syria Publication: Terrorism Monitor.....White helmets helping them recover?

Video - Amateur footage: Russian jets reportedly under fire in Syria

Another high ranking Iranian Military Commander Killed in Syria.

Colonel Farshad Hasounizadeh, Right hand of the picture

Another high ranking Iranian Military Commander Killed in Syria. (Fars).

Colonel Farshad Hasounizadeh, the former commander of IRGC's Saberin Special Brigade, was martyred while fulfilling his duty as military adviser in Syria and fighting the Takfiri terrorists in the Muslim country.

Hasounizadeh's martyrdom comes just days after another IRGC war veteran Brigadier General Hossein Hamadani was martyred during an attack by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in the outskirts of the city of Aleppo while fulfilling his duty as military advisor and defending the holy Shiite shrines in the country, an IRGC statement said on Friday.

General Hamadani was in Syria to render military advice to the Syrian army and popular forces in their fight against the ISIL terrorists in the Arab country.

According to Iran's military rules, those missed or killed in operation are promoted to a higher rank and that's why in a few Persian-language sources, Colonel Hasounizadeh has been referred to as a General.

"Some of our commanders are in the field to give military advice to the Iraqi army, Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement," Major General Rashid said, addressing a conference attended by a group of senior military commanders in Tehran.

#BreakingNews: Not only #Iran/ian #IRGC, 9 #Hezbollah were killed also n reef #Hama 2day. Again, the main major attack hasn't started yet.

— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) October 13, 2015

Video - ISIS lost most of its ammunition & heavy vehicles in Russian airstrikes - Russian Def. ministry

Video - ISIS lost most of its ammunition & heavy vehicles in Russian airstrikes - Russian Def. ministry. (RT).

An Su-34 bomber airstrike completely destroyed a bunker with an ammunition depot near Latamna in the province of Hama, the Russian Def. ministry said in a press release.

Islamic State militants have lost "most" of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. At least 86 ISIS targets were hit during 88 sorties in the last 24 hours.

Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 bombers, together with Su-25SM ground support aircrafts targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sites in the provinces of Raqqah, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo, according to the ministry. The jets hit command posts, ammunition and armament depots, military vehicles, plants producing explosives, field camps and bases.

According to intercepted communications, the militants suffer from shortages of ammunition, small arms and grenade guns. Several commanders allegedly say they will withdraw their units unless their ammunition needs are satisfied.

“Russian airstrikes resulted in the elimination of the majority of ISIS ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment,” the Defense Ministry tweeted.Read and see the full story here.