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On February 10, ISIS cells in central Syria ambushed a convoy of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the eastern Homs countryside.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an officer and two soldiers of the army were killed in the ambush. The London-based monitoring group said that the death toll from the ambush may rise as many soldiers were badly wounded by the terrorists’ fire.
The ambush came following a series of Russian airstrikes that targeted hideouts of ISIS in the outskirts of the town of Ithriyah in the eastern Hama countryside and near the town of al-Resafa in the southern countryside of Raqqa. The Russian airstrikes claimed the lives of nine terrorists and wounded more than 20 others.
Warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out more than 236 airstrikes on ISIS cells and their hideouts in central Syria since beginning of February.
The intense Russian airstrikes coupled with bad weather conditions forced ISIS cells in central Syria to halt their operations for around a week. Now however, the terrorists are once again launching attacks in the region, confirming that their insurgency will not end soon.
I hope the daesh responsible get BLOWN TO SHIT!!!!!
I have said for a long time airstrikes are all very well,but it needs mobile heavily armed special forces on the ground acting on intelligence to target the bastards and destroy them,in WW2 the British long range desert group and the SAS were sometimes in the field for weeks behind German lines seeking and destroying,thats what is needed.https://stevenpressfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/images-1.jpeg
That is surely one of the most famous, widely published photos from World War II. Note the twin and single barrel Vickers G.O. Class K machineguns with a 100-round magazine. Firing at a cyclic rate of ~900 rounds per minute, they were ideal for the hit and run tactics favored by the LRDG. (For the military topic, history and geography illiterates, the LRDG operated in North Africa against the Germans and Italians. The Vickers G.O. was originally an RAF aircraft defensive weapon until succeeded by more effective Browning belt-fed .303 caliber machineguns in multi-gun installations. G.O. is for “gas-operated”).
Well spotted,the LRDG for the most part played the part of inserting the SAS into combat.