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three villages

the Pro-Government source clearly states that the YPG has asked Jabha Al-Shamiyah to evacuate the villages of Ibina,Anab,Maryamayn,which indictaes that Jabha Shamiyah controls them,can you please self-revert.Alhanuty (talk) 19:04, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

apologies, after studying the source I initially failed to find the relevant information. I have self-reverted. However how accurate is this source? The presence of rebel forces non-aligned with the YPG within the Afrin Canton appears suspicious to me. Pro-YPG maps, such as Cizire Canton, would refute this. CC today reported that Nusra launched an attack on YPG forces in Maryamayn which would contradict the pro-SAA source: https://twitter.com/CizireCanton/status/627086203599388672.Prohibited Area (talk) 19:16, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

a newspaper is more reliable than a twitter source,but the clashes happened there.Alhanuty (talk) 19:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Your latest edit on the Syria war map

… was based on copying this map and was reverted. If you read the comments to the map, you will see that Leith Abou Fadel (editor of Al-Masdar) and another user are telling the map maker that Jubb Al Ahmar is gov-held. Therefore, it is likely that our map was correct and you made it wrong by copying from an online map. Please do not copy from online maps anymore. Banak: this is an example of what I was telling you about… Tradedia^talk 04:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Tradedia I just was about to update the .png map, should I hold off on this for the minute? Banak (talk) 04:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Banak: I think you can go ahead with the update if you like. Tradedia^talk 05:09, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Tradedia Apologies.Prohibited Area (talk) 13:57, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Tall SyriaTel

Hi! There where earlier articles from AL-Masdar about the capture of Tall SyriaTel. Thats why the article you referred to as "(Rohanny source doesn't mention capture of Tall SyriaTel, instead I have indicated SAA presence)" where not clear on the matter. The article before that one was however clear: here

"Meanwhile, the SAA’s 67th Brigade has steadily advanced in west Palmyra, despite ISIS’ repeated attempts to reverse their gains at the groves of Al-Bayarat; this usually works against the terrorist group, as the Syrian Armed Forces capitalized on their failures by taking full control of Tal SyriaTel."

Please self-revert your three latest edit as I´m only entitled to revert one of them and in that case it will only look messy. Rhocagil (talk) 16:10, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you; I will amend edits using provided sourceProhibited Area (talk) 16:16, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Sinai insurgency map created

I've created this Sinai insurgency map module. I've also added an initial information on it, so you can mark the map by searching internet sources (cities, presence, bases, etc.). Thank you! :) --SMB99thx XD 11:48, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

SMB99thx OK thank you, I will look into it. I am just finishing off the Afghan template in the coming days which has preoccupied me recently.Prohibited Area (talk) 12:55, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Al-Khatuniyah

I think we edited Al-Khatuniyah to yellow at the same time and now it´s stuck "black" !!!? Rhocagil (talk) 16:42, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Rhocagil (talk) Sometimes the map lags during edits plus I have noticed there are like 4 Khatuniyah towns on the map so idk which is the correct one to edit. When the map catches up to the edits we should be able to see which one we were meant to have edited yellow.Prohibited Area (talk) 16:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Well your edit is the same as mine, anyway now it´s yellow on the map.Rhocagil (talk) 16:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

121st Artillery Regiment near Hasakah

SDF also retake the village Khama'il and 121st Artillery Regiment near the city Hasakah.sourcesource 37.52.28.53 (talk) 19:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

37.52.28.53 (talk) Thank you, I would say the Facebook source isn't reliable enough to be used as an edit however the other source more so. However given it is in Arabic and the automatic translation doesn't mention the capture of Al Kham'il, instead it references villages 'Qana', and 'Dignity'. Can you confirm that the source specifically mentions YPG (or SDF) have captured Al Kham'il?Prohibited Area (talk) 20:13, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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SOHR

You said that articles from SOHR on English unreliable but why? I'm not going to challenge this fact, I just want to know why, because I thought that between articles of SOHR on Arabic and English there is no difference. I would be grateful for an explanation. Sûriyeya (talk) 18:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

SOHR English sometimes is inaccurate because of poor Arabic-Engish translation. I suspect the source you provided was a case of this and rather that it meant to specify clashes in the Ain Issa countryside. If Ain Issa was contested there would be much more information on the clashes, such as YPG statements as well as ISIS propaganda etc. However since this isn't present it should be assumed that the SOHR source was poorly worded and therefore its inaccuracy should be omitted from the map.Prohibited Area (talk) 19:00, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

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JaT

I´m not talking about JaT (Jaysh al-Thuwar). I´m talking about Thuwwar al-Raqqa witch is a big difference. Anyway you you understood what point i was arguing. Rhocagil (talk) 01:05, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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137th Armoured Brigade

Firstly you use biased anti SAA source which can't be used against SAA and secondly artcile was deleted(for now it is written: "Sorry, the page you were looking for was not found")here So you need do self-revert you edit. Sûriyeya (talk) 17:33, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

The source is definitely more favourable of the SAA than ISIS. Also Al-Masdar has just confirmed the offensive.Prohibited Area (talk) 18:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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