"Tabqa is Free" Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 May 2017 9:26 p.m. PST |
"Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed by the US-led coalition have fully liberated the Syrian city of Tabqa and the Tabqa Dam from Daesh terrorists. The Tabqa Dam is the largest in Syria. The city is located some 40 km west of Raqqa.
The US-led coalition aviation and US special forces assisted the Syrian rebels in the Tabqa campaign. Earlier in the day, the Pentagon said that the SDF and the Syrian Arab Coalition had successfully liberated the vast majority of Tabqa and they continued to clear Daesh remnants from the final two neighborhoods of the city…"
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| PMC317 | 12 May 2017 1:56 a.m. PST |
Certainly the best in that particular bit of it after the Israelis. I wonder what they could do with better kit, and more of it? I think their advantages mainly include: high morale, high motivation, discipline, and decades of combat experience. |
| Tango01 | 12 May 2017 10:28 a.m. PST |
Agree… even that… they are natural good fighters also…
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| Bangorstu | 12 May 2017 12:43 p.m. PST |
Certainly the Turks don't want them getting better kit… |
| Lion in the Stars | 13 May 2017 1:50 a.m. PST |
@Stu: Yeah, because the Kurds want an independent nation, and traditional Kurdistan includes a chunk of what is now Turkey. |
| coopman | 13 May 2017 8:33 a.m. PST |
I don't think that anyplace in the Middle East is ever truly "free". |
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