Syria: About 50Mln Barrels of Oil Stolen by Daesh During Civil War “$46 billion of oil revenues lost”

December 11, 2015 By administrator

The Islamic State has stolen some 50 million barrels of Syrian oil during the four-year civil war in the country, the press service of the Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said Friday.

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) — The press service said that terrorist groups controlled the number of oil fields in country’s provinces of Raqqah, Homs, Al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor, adding that the majority of these fields were on the territory, occupied by the ISIL militants.

“Overall amount of the oil stolen from the fields from the beginning of the crisis to November, 2015,… reached 48 million barrels,” the press service told RIA Novosti.

According to the ministry, Syria has lost some $46 billion of oil revenues during the crisis.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, ISIL, which is outlawed in in the country, earns around $2 billion annually selling oil from the occupied territories, spending these funds on hiring militants from around the world and equipping them with weapons.

Russia long knew about Turkey’s complicity with Daesh: Lavrov

December 9, 2015 By administrator

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ©AP

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has long known about Turkey’s complicity with the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, but did not raise the issue publicly.

Despite knowledge about the use of the Turkish territory for the training of Daesh terrorists, Russia was reluctant to talk about the issue openly as it did not want to believe that the support came from the government in Ankara, Lavrov said in an interview with Italian news agencies on Wednesday.

“Frankly, we have known for a long time how Turkish territory is being used for commercial operations with ISIS (Daesh), for the transfer of weapons and terrorists to Syria, as well as to provide extremists and militants with an opportunity to heal and rest, and then get ready for new operations, not only in Syria, but also in other regions, including our North Caucasus,” the Russian foreign minister stated.

Turkey has time and again been accused of being one of the main supporters of the militant groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri elements there and facilitates their safe passage into the conflict-ridden Arab country.

Turkey shot down a Sukhoi Su-24M Russian warplane in Syrian airspace on November 24, claiming that the aircraft had violated the Turkish airspace. Moscow rejected Ankara’s claim, saying the aircraft was over Syria, where Moscow has been carrying out airstrikes against terrorist groups since September 30.

Touching on Russia’s assessment of the November 24 incident, the foreign minister said, “We see no other explanation other than a desire [ by Turkey] to disrupt counterterrorism efforts and make them less effective, or to prevent the Russian Federation from working in Syrian airspace, or perhaps even to derail the political process beginning to take shape on the basis of the Vienna agreement.”

Regarding Turkey’s involvement in the US-led aerial campaign against purported Daesh positions, the Russian foreign minister said Moscow had proposed a thorough examination of Ankara’s role in the mission, asking, “Why is it (Turkey) not bombing terrorists as such, but the Kurds instead?”

Since September 2014, the US along with some of its allies has been conducting air raids against what are said to be the Daesh terrorists inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate. The air assaults in Syria are an extension of the US-led aerial campaign against purported Daesh positions in Iraq, which started in August 2014. Analysts say the attacks have failed to disband the extremists.

The Turkish military joined the US-led coalition by conducting offensives against the alleged Daesh positions in northern Syria as well as those of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey in the wake of the deadly July 20 bombing in the Turkish town of Suruc. Over 30 people died in the Suruc attack, which the Turkish government blamed on Daesh.

Reports say that Turkey’s air raids have mainly been targeting Kurds, whom Ankara has accused of trying to establish a state in the northern part of Syria.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Lavrov stressed that Daesh can be defeated “quickly enough” if the potential of the US-led coalition and that of Russia’s air force are united.

Tehran Can Provide Proof of Daesh Oil Trade With Turkey – Iranian Official

December 5, 2015 By administrator

Iran’s Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaie has said that Tehran was ready to provide the Turkish government with necessary information regarding Daesh and their oil trade, Iranian media reported.

“Iranian military advisors in Syria have taken photos and filmed all the routes used by ISIL’s oil tankers to Turkey. If the Turkish authorities are unaware of the Daesh oil sales in their country, then we can provide them with such intelligence,” Rezaie told reporters on Friday.

Rezaie also vowed that some important news would soon be released about the “destruction of Daesh terrorists and their defeat.”

On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry provided satellite images of oil trucks massing at the Turkish-Syrian border as evidence of illegal oil smuggling from Syria into Turkey.

Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of direct involvement in an illicit oil trade carried out by Daesh.

“Interesting Poll! Results collected in one hour…” 78% believed Daesh sells its oil to Erdogan’s”

December 3, 2015 By administrator

The poll showed that 78% of respondents believed that Daesh sells its oil to Erdogan’s Turkey.

The pundit then shut down his twitter account and brought it back a day later, writing an angry response, claiming that he was sabotaged by the Russian Embassy.

İlginç bir anket! 1 saatin bilançosu ortada… pic.twitter.com/4TMw19ske1

— RusEmbAnkara (@RusEmbTurkey) December 2, 2015

Dilipak is a fierce critic of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and has called for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be a new “Caliph” after a return of the Caliphate, which Ataturk abolished in 1924. On Novebmer 10, the 77th anniversary of Ataturk’s death, the newspaper Dilipak writes for published an article called “Tyranny Ended in 1938,” the year Ataturk died, which led to outrage in Turkish society.

Turkey: Two policemen, seven Daesh terrorists killed in Turkey: Sources

October 26, 2015 By administrator

Two Turkish police forces and seven members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in clashes in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, security sources say.

The development came early on Monday after police forces raided a dozen houses in the Kayapinar district of the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir.

According to the sources, four policemen were injured and three militants were captured alive in the clashes.

Turkish security forces say they have extended operations to locate suspected Daesh cells following the October 10 twin blasts in the capital, Ankara, which killed more than 100 people.

The deadly explosions targeted activists who had gathered outside Ankara’s main train station for a peace rally organized by leftist and pro-Kurdish opposition groups. The Turkish government says 102 died in the bombings, but the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) puts the death toll at 128.

Following the blasts, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the attack may have been carried out by Daesh terrorists or Syria’s Kurdish fighters.

On October 19, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office said in a statement that one of the bombers in the Ankara blasts had been identified as Yunus Emre Alagoz, the brother of Sheikh Abdurrahman Alagoz, who is believed to have been behind another attack in the southern Turkish town of Suruc on July 20. Over 30 people lost their lives in that blast.

Images captured by surveillance cameras had earlier shown Yunus Emre near the capital’s main train station, the site of the attack, before it took place.

The two brothers had joined Daesh terrorists in neighboring Syria and Iraq last year. They were both on a police wanted list, which has fueled suspicions of negligence on the part of the Turkish government.

Reports said the other attacker, Omer Deniz Dundar, had recently visited Syria twice.

Jordanian lawmaker’s son was Daesh bomber in Iraq

October 2, 2015 By administrator

The son of a Jordanian parliamentarian has died while carrying out a bomb attack for the Daesh Takfiri militant group in Iraq.

Jordanian media said on Friday that Mazen al-Dhalaein has revealed to the Khaberni news website that his son, Mohammed, known by the nom de guerre Abu Baraa, had died in a bombing in Iraq, adding that he had learnt about his son’s death after seeing his photo on a Daesh-related website.

The Jordanian lawmaker explained that his 23-year-old son had been a medical student in Ukraine before joining Daesh this summer and urging him and his wife to join the extremist group, as well.

Our son “was trying to convince us to join IS (Daesh),” the lawmaker said, adding that the son called his parents “apostates.”

Dhalaein added that he had last heard from his son in August, when he sent them a message revealing his plan to take part in an imminent bomb attack.

On Wednesday, a statement posted on Twitter claimed that Daesh had carried out triple car bombings the previous day in the northern outskirts of Ramadi, a city west of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.

Musa Abdullat, a leading Jordanian lawyer, also said that Dhalaein’s son was killed in an attack on the Iraqi army on Tuesday.

An estimated 4,000 militants from Jordan are said to be fighting for terrorist groups in Iraq and neighboring Syria, Abdullat said.

“Eighty percent of them have joined IS,” he said, adding that 420 Jordanian militants have been killed since 2011.

Report: presstv

Iraq: Over 70 Islamic State Daesh families depart Iraq’s Mosul for Syria: Official

September 30, 2015 By administrator

This file photo shows Takfiri Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

The Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has reportedly moved tens of the families of its own members from Iraq’s conflict-ridden northern province of Nineveh to an unknown location in neighboring Syria.

Saeed Mamouzini, the spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Wednesday that the families have been departing the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, for Syria on board a number of buses over the past few days.

He said that 23 militants, among them commanders, had left Mosul for Syria last week.

Daesh kills own injured member

Meanwhile, Daesh has executed one of its injured members in Iraq’s conflict-ridden western province of Anbar, days after it murdered more than two dozen of its own wounded Takfiri terrorists elsewhere in Iraq.

Jabbar al-Ma’mouri, a commander of the pro-government Popular Mobilization units, told al-Sumaria on Tuesday that Daesh extremists killed the injured comrade in the city of Saqlawiyah, located 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital, Baghdad.

Ma’mouri added that Daesh members then left the body to be recovered by Iraqi security personnel. The slain militant had reportedly sustained injuries in Saqlawiyah during clashes with Iraqi army troopers backed by allied fighters.

On September 22, Mamouzini said Daesh had executed 27 of its wounded members in the old prison of the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of Baghdad.

The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since Daesh began its march through Iraqi territory in June 2014. Army soldiers and the Popular Mobilization units have joined forces and are seeking to take back militant-held regions.