View over Palmyra © RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresensk
27.03.2016, Palmyra.
Sapper units of the Syrian Arab Army start defusing the mines in the houses and streets of Palmyra, a source in the command HQ of the offensive operation in Palmyra told RIA Novosti.
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Syrian soldiers burn the flag of ISIL torn down from Palmyra castle © RIA Novosti / Mikhail Alaeddin
Syrian army tears down radical Islamists’ flag from ancient Palmyra castle
26.03.2016, Palmyra.
Soldiers of the Syrian army tore down the flag of ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) from the hill on which the ancient Palmyra castle stands, RIA Novosti reporter on the ground informs.
Photo © Valery Sharifulin / TASS
Russian special forces officer heroically dies in Palmyra area, draws fire upon himself
24.03.2016, Palmyra.
Russian special forces officer heroically died in Palmyra area by drawing fire upon himself, a representative of the Russian airbase in Syria Khmeimim informed, TASS news agency reports.
Photo © Valery Sharifulin / TASS
Syrian military storms the last hill in Palmyra controlled by radical Islamists
24.03.2016, Palmyra.
Syrian military storms the last ISIL-controlled (ISIL, Organization banned in Russia) hill in Palmyra. Most of the territory of Palmyra is controlled by Syrian army. The soldiers of the Syrian army and militia groups are pursuing the retreating terrorist gangs on the western outskirts of Palmyra.
The destruction of an exhibit in a Mosul museum
Islamic State: Challenges and Basic Policies. Part I
ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) is too ambitious, aggressive and multi-dimensiona
Recently, soothing articles started appearing in the Western media that the Islamic State (Organization banned in Russia) terrorist organization is in crisis. Let us take a look at what might really be symptoms of an unfolding crisis.
1) ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) units are increasingly forced to shoot their own fighters frightened by the horrors of ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) policy and seeking to defect.
Temple of Bel in Palmyra. The temple was destroyed by ISIL in 2015
ISIL militants dislodged from their positions in the outskirts of Palmyra
15.03.2016, Syria.
The Forces of the Syrian government captured two strategically important hills on the outskirts of Palmyra on March 12th during fierce fighting against ISIL in the eastern part of Homs province, TASS reports citing Syrian news agency SANA.
U.S. soldiers in Baghdad. April 23, 2009
The Caliphate and the Capitol: Choosing the strategy. Part 2
The Islamic state (Organization banned in Russia) is being quick in creating an image of enemy necessary to waging the war, as well. In the fall of 2014, the main objects of ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) attention, Russia and Syria, were determined.
In the previous article we raised the question of how exactly ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) (or “Islamic state” (Organization banned in Russia)) functions, what their goals and objectives are. This question requires ever-greater certainty.
Today it is not enough to say that on the territory claimed by the armed insurgents (i.e., in Iraq and Syria) a Caliphatist quasi-state formation is being created.
Nor is it enough to emphasize that ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) today is a theocratic quasi-state, which is urgently creating all its life support systems (management, financial bodies, power structures, legislative, judicial and executive branches of power, taxation system).
Palmyra. Still from the video of Expressen TV
Swedish journalists claim radical Islamists destroyed the ancient city Palmyra
09.03.2016, Syria.
Militants of the terrorist group “ISIL” (banned in Russia), completely destroyed the ancient city Palmyra, according to Swedish journalists. With a hidden camera they have filmed a video that this pearl of antiquity and the World Heritage memorial was laid to waste.
Syrian military checkpoint on the road to Raqqa. Archive photo. Photo © RIA Novosti/Dmitry Vinogradov
Residents of terrorist-controlled Raqqa revolt against radical Islamists
06.03.2016, Raqqa.
Residents of Syrian Raqqa – the “capital” of the fascist terrorist organization ISIL (Organization banned in Russia) – have revolted against the militants and put out Syrian state flags in several city blocks, Sputnik news agency reports citing witnesses.
Kadyrov: Chechen volunteers track down terrorist leaders on the ground in Syria
03.03.2016, Russia.
Up to 300 people of Chechen descent might be members of various groups in Syria and Iraq, including Russian citizens and residents of Europe, according to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Not all of them are members of ISIL (Organization banned in Russia). “We are interested in those who fight in the ranks of the ‘Iblis State’ “, Kadyrov’s public affairs office cites his words.