Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Dukat]

Islamic State territorial gains and losses until early December 2015.

[Torenico]

Daesh terrorist and a captured, non-operational Syrian MiG-21UM.

[THeTA0123]

Allah will make it fly



Free syrian army rebels taking a rest under the hull of their T-72 tank

[Pappa_bear]

LTTE Tamil Tiger plane shot down by Sinhalese army. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tigers

[Torenico]

[Leopardi]

Pretty rare picture of a FDF combined arms exercise in 1920's.

[Born2Kill 007]

German pioneers on the Eastern Front during WW I
full article: http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article150849073/Die-wohl-seltsamsten-Militaerfahrzeuge-der-Weltkriege.html

[Zoologic]

One of the target in Jakarta bombing (14-1-2016) by IS. My work place is in this picture, it is the building blocked by street lamp in the foreground. I passed this junction 30 minutes ago and almost every day.

[Kading]

Oh, hey guys. How's it been?

[Zoologic]

Hello Kading, welcome back, where have you been?

Is that you in the picture?

[Kading]

I've been doing this and that. Foolishly neglecting the FPS world.
It is not me in the picture. I'm not nearly old enough.

[Dukat]

Military Situation in Aleppo Governorate, February 7th, 2016. The different symbols withing a factions territory show the different parties and their fighting units.

Currently Aleppo is all over the news. The military situation in Aleppo is twisted for longer, but now the Syrian Army is making an attempt to trap the syrian rebell forces in a pocket. This is causing the latest wave of refugees. I don't know if the rumors are right, but there are still 300.000 people reported to live in Aleppo.

Edit:// It appears that the 30.000 refugees are actually camping at the syrian-turkish border crossing north of Salameh.

[Dukat]

Military Situation in Aleppo Governorate, February 10th, 2016.

There is some interesting development, from a military viewpoint. It appears that the Syrian Army and their allies made some decisive push on what has become a pocket of the Free Syrian Army between Aleppo and the Turkish border.

While the Kurds attack rebel positions at Menagh from the West, The Syrian Army is pushing from South towards Tal Rifaat. The City of Tal Rifaat already offered surrender to the Syrian Army, but rumors say that Al Nusra is digging in at Tal Rifaat now after having drawn out of Combat at Menagh.

Question is, whether the Syrian Army got enough momentum to take Tal Rifaat or even Mare'.

[Torenico]

That sucks for the terrorists dressed up as "moderate" rebels to be honest.

Also, the Syrian Arab Army is about to launch an offensive to take Taqba Airbase from Daesh, dangerously close to Raqqa, Capital City of the so-called Caliphate

[Dukat]

I'm so sick of the discussion about 'moderate' rebels. During 5 years of war people did not rest to condemn all insurgents as terrorists, and now, that the moderate rebels are weaker in numbers than ever, this is taken as proof for their non-existence ever. Still, there are dozens of different factions within the Free Syrian Army, not all of them are Salafists.

Unless you do not drop your rose colored glasses, I won't be able to discuss things with you on eye level.

Personally, I have no doubts in the Syrian offensive along the M42 towards Raqqa, but as ISIS rarely confirms territorial losses, this is still unconfirmed, though published via 'South Front' and 'Syrian.Military.Capabilities'. The problem with both sources is, that they're propaganda channels of the syrian regime. They're good if you need confirmation about developments, but they're no indepent source of news.

Or would you trust the stories published on a site called Dukat's.Dick.Capabilities?

Nevertheless the 'moderate' Rebels are actually no faction you can expect to be a part of future Syria. They had their climax. In the near future, there will be only 3 faction in Syria: Kurds, Assads Regime and the Islamic State. The Free Syrian Army disposed itself by thir action in the past: