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Grads Join Scuds And Incendiary Bombs In The Latest Escalation Of The Syrian...
In the past month those of us tracking the use of arms in the Syrian conflict have noted a fresh escalation in the conflict. We've seen RBK cluster bombs deployed with ZAB incendiary munitions along...
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An Islamist Free Syrian Army Brigade Burns A Shiite Mosque In Zarzur
Meet the Amr bin ma'ad Yakrib al-Zubaydi Brigade, based around Jisr Al Shughoor, IdlibNote both the presence of the Free Syrian Army logo, and a version of the Islamic State of Iraq flag modified to...
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Evidence Of New Grad Launched Cluster Munitions Used In Syria
Earlier this week I wrote about the recent use of BM-21 Grad rocket launchers in Syria, and today I've been provided a video by Yalla Souriya showing another unexploded rocket from these launchers,...
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Syrian Channel Listings
The following is a list of Syrian Bambuser profiles, Youtube channels, and Facebook pages sorted by order of district and town/city whenever possible. To my knowledge the channels I've listed are used...
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Remains Of A Large Unidentified Missile/Rocket Film In Syria
In the past week there's been numerous reports in the press of claims by US and NATO officials of Scud missiles being fired at opposition forces in Syria. Since then a number of videos have been...
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New Pictures Of The Syrian Opposition With Complete SA-16 MANPADS
As regular visitors to the blog will know in recent weeks there's been a number of videos surfacing that showed partial SA-16 MANPADS in the possession of the Syrian opposition (see here, here, and...
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Video Shows NBC's Richard Engel And Crew Held By Assad Loyalists
Shortly before reports of Richard Engel escape from his Syrian captors made it to the press a video was posted online, with the title "صحفيين كلاب في المصيدة", roughly Google Translated as "Journalists...
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Articles I've WrittenForeign Policy - How to Build an Army in Your Basement Foreign Policy - Syria's DIY RevoltInterviewsDer Standard (Austira) - Higgins: Selbstgebastelte Sprengsätze immer wichtiger...
View ArticleA Collection Of Some Unusual Syria Videos From The Past Week
Now I'm back from my Christmas break I'd thought I'd take a quick look at some of the more unusual videos sent to me by various people over the last week or so. First of all we have a reappearance of...
View ArticleThe Weapons Of The Syrian Air Force - Updated
Over the past months we've seen an escalation in the air war in Syria, with helicopters being joined by L-39 and MiG jets, and an increasing variety of weapons being deployed by the Syrian Air Force....
View ArticleVideo Appears To Show A Syrian Army Soldier Executed By Ahfad al-Rasul...
Today I was made aware of this video posted on the pro-opposition news24deiralzour Youtube channel, apparently showing a man being executed titled "execution of a Shabih who tampered with the Quran and...
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French Rockets Used By The Syian Oppositon
Today I've been pointed to this collection of photographs showing a DIY rocket launching system reportedly seized by the Syrian Army from the Syria opposition in Kafersoosseh. What's interesting about...
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Two Mysterious New Weapons In Syria
While I always attempt to identify the weapons and munitions sent to me sometimes I get stumped, and these following videos are two examples of weapons that I've been unable to identify.Thanks to...
View ArticleThe Consequences Of UXO Handling
As I've written about in the past videos showing the handling of UXO (unexploded ordnance) have been frequently uploaded to Youtube by activists in Syria, with great risk to everyone in the video. For...
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Unique Footage Of A Thermobaric Bomb Dropped Over Syria
The following footage, reportedly taken from a Syrian Air Force pilot, shows unique images of a thermobaric bomb dropped from a Mil Mi-24/Hind helicopter over SyriaWe can identify the exact type of...
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Highlights From The Video Tour Of Taftanaz Air Base
Today it's been reported that a major helicopter base near Taftanaz, southwest of Aleppo, was overrun by the Syrian opposition and as with all overrun bases in Syria a series of videos have been posted...
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DIY Barrel Bombs (ADIEDs) Filmed In Storage At Taftanaz Air Base
As I wrote earlier this week footage has been emerging from the recently overrun Air Base near Taftanaz, and footage has now been posted that appears to show the DIY barrel bombs (ADIEDs) that have...
View ArticleRare Video Shows A Surface-To-Air Missile Fired By The Syrian Opposition
Recently a new Youtube channel has been created for a group calling themselves the Martyr Issam Saleh Air Defense Battalion, part of the Farouq Brigade, one of the major armed groups in Syria. What's...
View ArticleHackgate - April Casburn's Conviction - Myths And Misconceptions
The latest from my regular contributor.Within 24 hours, via Google search, there were 457 news artcles on-line reporting the conviction of Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn for misconduct in...
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Are Yugoslavian Anti-Tank Weapons Being Smuggled Into Syria?
In the past few weeks a number of videos have been appearing from the Horan region of Syria showing a new type of rocket launcher, one that I believe had not been seen in use by the Syrian opposition...
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