Good morning, #Baghdad
-Processions begin in Tehran
-Abu Mahdi's remains flown there for DNA tests to separate them from Soleimani's
-Pmnt meet at 1pm on strike
-"Any MP absent for vote on departure of occupier will have betrayed his country," Fatah MP Ahmad al-Kinany says
N. Syrian social media is reporting the death of Ahmed al-Mulla, an IDP from Zamalka, #Damascus who had moved to Taftanaz, in recent fighting in #Libya. He was reportedly a fighter with Liwa Sultan Murad. If true this is the first casualty of their ranks I've seen confirmed.
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Baghdad was the uneasy epicenter of anxieties in the Middle East about the prospect of a U.S.-Iran war. Rockets and threats of revenge kept Iraq on edge. By the indefatigable
Qais Al-Khazali he has appeared at Najaf for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Muhandis. The first time seen in public since the assassination. #Iraq
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Clarifying - both stages of the NE axis of the raid were successful but the improvised T-62 AP/dozer was lost here. New ANNA vid shows that the SE axis was where the 2 home made APCs + 7 HTS were lost. Remarkably the other T-62 AP/Dozer got thru + back across 7 bands of AT mines. https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/1213491093469368320…
On the 17th, an SDF fighter was killed in the intensification of fighting in Serekaniye. Two fighters were slain in rural Tell Abyad cs (23rd and 25th of Oct), and on the 27th of Oct another SDF fighter was reported KIA in Umm Shafah village, W. of Tell Tamer.
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Three other dead Uzbek jihadis. A Furqat al-Hamza fighter was also slain in a brief infiltration action in al-Barad town, Afrin cs, yesterday in the early morning.
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4 Jan 20: during the attack on the 2nd on al-Tah, #Idlib, an entire squad of Uzbek foreign fighters was killed. The retreat appears to have fallen apart and they were wiped out by government troops in short order. Here are four of them.
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4 Jan 20: a Captain from an unknown home was slain on the Sinjar, #Idlib front yesterday. Another fighter was killed farther to the south in fighting earlier today.
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4 Jan 20: a 25th Div fighter from Binnish, #Idlib was killed on the fronts of Idlib on the 2nd, along with a fighter from Talalakh, #Homs, possibly slain at al-Tah. A soldier from Damascus was killed at Kabbani yesterday along with another discovered by HTS after the fighting.
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