Photos Current Wars In Iraq & Syria

[Newtonk]

Mad Max BTR-152 style, What makes this more post-apocalyptic is that is not a BTR-152. At least not the chassis. Rather they took the hull of a BTR-152, cut it up, and welded it to a regular pickup truck.

And an interior view, note the wheel arches. Images not mine, posted for discussion purposes only, credit to whoever took the images.

 

[Chazman]

A news article for the video above: https://taskandpurpose.com/us-russia-convoy-syria-video

I'd be curious to know the background here as well. I suspect neither the American or Russian troops are shrinking violets, so escalations can be expected.

 

[BravoZulu]

ALEPPO, SYRIA - FEBRUARY 12: Members of a Syrian opposition group attack the headquarters of Assad regime forces in the villages of Nubul and al-Zahraa in Aleppo, Syria on February 12, 2016

 

[BravoZulu]

 

[morris]

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RIP

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Brodie Gillon: British soldier killed in Iraq named

The Reserve army medic's commanding officer said it was "clear she was destined for great things".

https://news.sky.com/story/brodie-g...GKVu4o6kiI3kN0RywgCCs48x3reGp_48kyGlHofakPQFs

 

[morris]

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[Chazman]

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[uktabber]

God Bless medic Brodie Gillon--the best among us........

 

[Chazman]

Looks like another IRG General was killed tonight in the US retaliatory strikes.

Breaking – U.S. missile strike kills top Iranian General…

General Siamand Mashhadani Iranian Revolutionary Guard Top Commander was killed Full thread here…

www.citizenfreepress.com

 

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RIP

recon?

 

[Delta*Kilo]

Marine Raider Regiment -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Raider_Regiment

 

[morris]

Three U.S. troops wounded in renewed rocket attacks on Iraq's Taji base

Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals.

www.reuters.com

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[BravoZulu]

2017, Iraqi soldiers and police officers retook Mosul airport from Isis

Iraqi army launches a TOS-1 rocket toward ISIS positions during a battle with ISIS militants near Ghozlani military complex, south of Mosul, Iraq, February 23, 2017.

An Iraqi soldier carries a woman injured during a battle between Iraqi forces and Isis fighters in Mosul

 

[BravoZulu]

Marksman Valery Emdyukov who died in Syria August 2017. A member of 3rd OBrSpN (SpetzNaz) now part of the Ground Forces, Central Military District

 

[BravoZulu]

October 2019, Turkish SAT, Afrin,Syria

 

[BravoZulu]

223 sqd. A unit made of Western volunteers in Syria, fully integrated in the YPG in the fight against ISIS. (2015).

Bottom row on the left is a guy named Jac Holmes. He was a British guy that went over twice to fight. He was killed clearing IEDs from buildings in Raqqa right after the city was liberated.

 

[BravoZulu]

Russian sapper and his mine detection dog ride through the streets of Aleppo on top of a BTR-82AM, 2017

Russian Recon Machine Gunner (Razvedchik) with PKP Pecheneg GPMG and his ride an IVECO Rys (means Lynx, Russian vertion of IVECO LMV). Syria.

 

[BravoZulu]

Al Musayyib, Iraq - May 27, 2003
An Iraqi child jumps over a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where they have been transported from a mass grave, to be identified. They were discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Musayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad.
https://www.marcodilauro.com/features/iraq-war/#pb-image-2116

 

[BravoZulu]

Hellfire R9X active in Syria