Thursday 28 December 2017
"You Will Operate Behind Enemy Lines", 36 New IAF Pilots are Told…….
December 27, 2017
At the graduation ceremony Wednesday for 36 new pilots, 35 men and one woman, at the Israeli Air Force Base in Hatzerim, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said:
“We won’t allow the Iranian army to establish itself in Syria for aggression against us or the manufacture of lethal precision weaponry.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gady Eisenkot, said: “We count on you to keep Israel safe and if necessary victorious.”
He was followed by the IAF commander, Major General Amiram Nurkin, [pictured left above] who addressed the new pilots by saying:
“For some months, your comrades have been flying air strikes across the Middle East showing enterprise and creativity. Before long, you too will be operating behind enemy lines.”
And Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman wound up the speeches at the ceremony by saying: “If a new offensive is launched against us from the north, your performance will undoubtedly be exceptional. In the coming years, too, the air force will be the IDF’s spearhead”.
“We are now facing challenges that are unprecedented in our experience.”
Syria’s Deir ez-Zour-Palmyra Road – First Link in Iran’s New Transnational Land Corridor…...
December 27, 2017
Repairs are under-way on the war-ravaged 200 kilometre long M20 road linking Deir Ez-Zour in eastern Syrian to Palmyra, our exclusive military sources reveal.
This is the first road project undertaken by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to consummate the transnational land corridor Iran has opened up from Tehran to the Mediterranean via Iraq and Syria.
This important section of the corridor starts at a point near Syrian Abu Kamal and connects to Iraq’s Highway No. 1 and Baghdad to the east, and to the main Palmyra-Damascus highway to the west.
When completed, the M20 will enable Iran to run military convoys from Iraq to Syria and on to Lebanon. (See map above)
Our sources report that the IRGC has already sent at least three test convoys through the road in the last few days, each of 15-20 military trucks with tarpaulin sheets concealing their freight.
Their purpose was to find out if they were under US and Israeli surveillance and whether any attempt would be made to interfere with the traffic using the new route.
But so far, neither the US nor the Israeli air forces have reacted to stop it.
The road was badly damaged in the fighting raging in the past six months to dislodge the Islamic State’s grip. [see following article]
But after the jihadists withdrew to western Iraq and no more than a few hundred were left in Syria, the IRGC got down to the repair work.
Our sources report that the Guards’ construction branch Khatam al-Anbnia is employing Syrian firms for the project.
It will have only two lanes and broad wayside bays for heavy convoys to make way for traffic coming from the opposite direction.
When the work is finished, Iran’s transnational land corridor will have gained access not just to the Mediterranean but to a vital foothold for keeping Lebanon under constant IRGC oversight and control.
Crippling US led Airstrikes Leaves Less than 1,000 ISIS Fighters in Iraq and Syria…..
28 December 2017
Fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the once aggressive Sunni militant group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.
What a difference a new president and year can make? Under Obama, ISIS grew in power with each passing month until they controlled an area in the Middle East the size of Ohio.
Under Obama, the world was forced to endure endless videos supposedlyof prisoners in orange jumpsuits being beheaded by Islamic executioners.
Trump promised to defeat ISIS, and at the end of his first year in office, ISIS has been reduced to miserably small numbers and constantly on the run.
The best news is that Trump has no intention of letting up.
Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over Islamic State in recent weeks, after a year that saw the two countries’ armies, a range of foreign allies and various local forces drive the fighters out of all the towns and villages that once made up their self-proclaimed caliphate.
“Due to the commitment of the Coalition and the demonstrated competence of our partners in Iraq and Syria, there are estimated to be less than 1,000 ISIS terrorists in our combined joint area of operations, most of whom are being hunted down in the desert regions in eastern Syria and Western Iraq,” the U.S.-led coalition told the media in an emailed statement.
Israel Report
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