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Syria war: Third of rebels share IS aims, report claims
About a third of rebel groups in Syria - some 100,000 fighters - share the ideology of so-called Islamic State (IS), new research suggests.
The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, linked to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, said defeating IS militarily "would not end global jihadism".
That would require an "intellectual and theological defeat" of its ideology.
The Syrian conflict has killed more than 250,000 people. Millions more have been displaced.
A Western coalition has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq for more than a year.
In September, Russian forces began air strikes against rebels in Syria, targeting "all terrorists", including IS. However, Western-backed groups are also reported to have been hit.
The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, an initiative of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, says that Syria now hosts the largest gathering of jihadi groups in modern times.
The report, due to be published on Monday, says the greatest danger to the international community are groups who share the IS ideology but are currently being ignored - they number about 100,000 fighters.
Current Western efforts to define "moderate" and "extremist" rebels are bound to fail, because the groups themselves rarely make the distinction, the centre says.
Some 60% of Syria's major rebel groups are Islamist extremists, and many of the groups share the same aims, the study finds.
Fewer than a quarter of the rebels surveyed were not ideological, and many were willing to fight alongside extremists and would probably accept an Islamist political settlement to the civil war.
And even if IS is defeated, dispersed fighters and other extremists could attack targets outside Syria under a rallying cry that "the West destroyed the Caliphate", the centre warns.
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously endorsed a peace plan for the Syria, including calls for a ceasefire.
The resolution sets out a timetable for formal talks and a unity government within six months. However, the resolution makes no mention of the future role of President Assad.
The centre says that unless Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaves or is removed from office, the war in the country is likely to spread further.
Western countries have called for his departure, but Russia and China say he should not be required to leave power as a precondition for peace talks.
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Bruno Amstel escribió:El ejército sirio, Hezbollah y milicias chiítas han capturado las localidades de Khan Tuman y Al Qarassi al sur de Aleppo, que eran hasta ahora un bastión de Jabhat al Nusra (Al Qaeda). Están a punto de cortar la autopista M5 Homs-Aleppo.
En esta operación se han estrenado la docena de nuevos T90 de la 4ª División Mecanizada.
Luisfer escribió:La pregunta es si por rusos o por tropas del régimen sirio, personalmente creo que lo han usado las tropas sirias, se ha hablado de entrenamiento para familiarizarse con estos Ts.
Por otro lado, fuertes rumores de ofensiva del YPG y las SDF contra la presa de Tishreen al sur de Sarrin, importante vía de comunicación de EI entre el norte de Aleppo y Raqqa.
Bruno Amstel escribió:Luisfer escribió:La pregunta es si por rusos o por tropas del régimen sirio, personalmente creo que lo han usado las tropas sirias, se ha hablado de entrenamiento para familiarizarse con estos Ts.
Sirios, como he puesto, de la 4ª Div. Mec. del EAS.
Salu2
Pertur escribió:¿Los chicos del hermano pequeño de Bashar?
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The majority of Russian fixed-wing operations during the first two months of the campaign were pre-planned, against fixed targets with a known position. Only a small proportion of the sorties were of searchand-destroy type, necessitating loitering in a pre-assigned zone while waiting to receive updated targeting information from the combat control centre.
Bombers tasked with pre-planned missions generally operated at an altitude above 16,000ft to avoid the engagement zones of anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) and manportable air defence (MANPAD) systems.
The most common types of unguided weapons being employed are the 250kg and 500kg general-purpose free-fall bombs (OFAB-250-270 and FAB-500M-62 respectively), deployed by the Su-24M, Su-34M and Su-25SM. Other unguided weapons include the 500kg BetAB-500 penetrator bombs used against underground bunkers or shelters and the 500kg OFZAB-500 high-explosive fragmentationincendiary bombs.
Russian reports suggest the use of unguided weapons in the prevalent good weather found in Syria during October and November, combined with the accurate targeting systems of the Su-24M (upgraded with the SVP-24 targeting system) and the Su-34, resulted in a reasonable hit accuracy. However, the definition of reasonable is subjective.
Only 15% of the total munitions used by the Russian Air Force so far are precision-guided. Types used by the Su-34 include the KAB-500S GPS-guided and KAB-500Kr EO-guided bombs, while the Su-24M has been seen carrying Kh-25ML laser-guided missiles.
Other guided weapons deployed by the Russian brigade are the 1,500kg KAB-1500LG laser-guided bomb and the 500kg RBK-500SPBE-D cluster bomb. The latter contains 15 infrared-guided sub-munitions used against armoured targets.
During the first two peaks of Russian air activity in mid and late October, the Latakia-based aircraft conducted between 48 and 96 sorties per day. This statistic might not seem particularly impressive until you consider that there are 32 combat jets assigned to Latakia, about 28 of which are in combat-ready configuration at any moment, meaning that every serviceable aircraft flew no less than three combat sorties per day.
Combat air operations intensified after the Sinai-based affiliate of IS publicly claimed responsibility for downing the Russian MetroJet Airbus A321 airliner over the Sinai Peninsula on October 31, killing all 224 passengers and crew on board. Between November 17 and 20 the Russian brigade flew 100 sorties each day.
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