Koalicija proti IS

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VICE News has obtained footage taken from the headcam of an Islamic State (IS) fighter who died in March while battling Kurdish peshmerga troops in northern Iraq. The clash took place about 30 miles north of Mosul.

Unlike IS propaganda, which often presents sweeping battlefield victories, the video shows chaos, panic, and the fighters retreating.

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US SOF against #ISIS in Shaddid with a LA-16u/PEQ HLM (Handheld Laser Marker) and Milkor M32A1, via @green_lemonnn

A lot of equipment details on the US SOF team embedded with YPG against #ISIS via @green_lemonnn

Check these two, a tomahawk and retention lanyard (air infil? for security when manning the M240 of the pickup?)

Few more details of US SOF filmed in Shaddid (1), Tablet (Jugg.Case?) + LA-16u HLM + Tactical ROVER-p

http://www2.l-3com.com/csw/ProductsAndServices/DataSheets/Tactical_ROVER-P_Sales-Sheet_WEB.pdf

Manfrotto tripod and LaRue SPOTR kit, and for Orange same holster for Glock with RDS and flared magwell seen before:

V Burkini Faso, ko je AQ zavzela hotel:

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The Al-Shaddadi offensive (2016), also known as Operation Wrath of Khabur,[30][31] was an offensive launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during the Syrian Civil War, in February 2016. The main goal of this offensive was to capture the strategic city of Al-Shaddadi and the remainder of the southern Al-Hasakah Governorate, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[30][32] During the offensive, the US-led Coalition conducted 86+ airstrikes in Al-Shaddadi and the nearby areas, in support of the SDF advances.[33]

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By the end of the offensive, the SDF had captured 315+ villages and 2,400+ square kilometers (1,491+ square miles) of land from ISIL.[3] It was later revealed that during the offensive, a small number of US commanders had traveled to the frontlines to help advise SDF forces, and to coordinate airstrikes.[18]

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While the ETF is not yet operating in Syria, a separate group of about 50 U.S. special forces have greatly expanded their initial operations there in recent weeks after the Pentagon announced they were going to Syria.
This group's mission is to accompany tribal, Arab and Kurdish forces in Syria as they try to regain territory from ISIS. Small U.S. teams now regularly leave their locations in northern Syria and go into the field. Several U.S. military officials confirmed that most recently U.S. troops went with local fighters to a location near the town of Al-Shaddadi in eastern Syria to help coordinate their operations and assist them in calling in airstrikes. ISIS has in recent days been driven from the area and U.S. officials see it as a victory for the policy because getting ISIS out of the town cuts a key route between Syria and Iraq.

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Talal Raman, a 36-year-old Kurdish fighter, worked on a Samsung tablet, annotating a Google Earth map marked with the positions of the deserted apartment buildings and crumbling villas from where his colleagues were battling Islamic State fighters south of this northern Syrian town. He pinpointed in yellow the positions where his men were hunkered behind a wall, and highlighted in red the coordinates of a building next to a mosque where Islamic State fighters had taken cover.

“Our comrades can see the enemy moving at the GPS address I just sent you,” he wrote in Arabic to a handler hundreds of miles away in a United States military operations room. Then he waited for the American warplanes to scream in.

The strike that ensued soon after blasted a crater at exactly the coordinates provided by the Kurdish fighter. It left a circle of bodies, including one of an Islamic State fighter who died slumped over his AK-47. An urgent message came in from the coalition war room: “Please confirm our comrades are O.K.?”

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The Iraqi tankers were involved in a short battle with ISIS at night. Iraqi forces were moving to take high grounds when contact was made against infantry. Iraqi M1 Abrams commander spotted the ISIS group firing on the Iraqi soldiers and had the gunner aim and fire. The M1 Abrams gunner fired the tank main gun and several bursts of the coaxial gun. No ISIS fighters survived the tank fire. Iraqi soldiers continued on their mission with support by the Iraqi M1 Abrams tankers securing their objective.

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The strikes from the March period 2016 of the Iraqi Air Force strikes on ISIS destroying 51 vehicles, 165 fighters, 3 HQs and 2 howitzer. Footage comes from Iraqi Air Force AC-208 Cessna Caravans carrying 2x AGM-114 Hellfire and the Chinese CH-4B Armed drones carrying 4x HJ-10 Guided Missiles. 61 strikes were recorded at a total cost of $6,000,000 USD to the Iraqi Air Force.

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On Saturday, numerous supporters of ISIS posted pictures on social media from major European cities, displaying messages of support for the group. This social media campaign was in support of an imminent speech from ISIS spokesperson Abu Mohammed al-Adnani. In these photographs, backgrounds of various European cities can be seen, with the intention of, as described by Sheera Frankel of BuzzFeed News World, “instill[ing] fear by showing that the group had supporters in major European cities.”

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However, these photographs revealed the exact locations of the ISIS supporters in their photographs, in some cases even exposing their home addresses. Numerous Twitter users crowdsourced the geolocation of these photographs throughout the day on Saturday, eventually pinpointing the locations of several photographs shared by ISIS supporters.

Twitter user @hotzn1 was able to pinpoint the location to an intersection in a northern suburb of Münster. @ArtWendeley noted that there is a map with all of the advertising pillars in the city, leading him (and @hotzn1) to the location of the photograph.

Twitter user @Naenil was able to geolocate this photograph to Rue Championnet in Paris.

As noted by @Naenil and @juge29, the Suzuki logo in the photograph was a dead giveaway, as there are only about a half-dozen Suzuki shops in all of Paris:

Overall, the ISIS social media campaign backfired spectacularly, likely revealing information about multiple ISIS supporters in major European cities, including their residential locations and, perhaps with CCTV cameras, their identities.

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In which an ISIS fighter demonstrates key points from the classic Monty Python sketch "How Not To Be Seen."

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