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2019-10-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish forces and their loyal factions carryout a new attack in Ras Al-Ayn
Take a deep breath, dear Reader. SyriahR clearly does not believe in periods. Possibly the editor was an APL programmer in a previous life.
[SYRIAHR] Ottoman Turkish warplanes are continuing their heavy and violent bombardment on Ras al-Ayn city and villages in its vicinity, in conjunction with a wide-scale ground offensive by the Ottoman Turkish forces and factions loyal to them on the Syria Democratic Forces in Ras al-Ayn city (Sere Kaniye), and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the Ottoman Turkish forces managed to advance again in the city and controlled several positions in it under a cover of heavy aerial and ground firepower, in the same context, battles continue between the both parties in the areas of Tal Abyad in the northern countryside of al-Raqqah, amid information about casualties, and the SOHR published hours ago, that the SDF managed to advance and regain control of 2 positions they lost for the factions in the past hours, and the Syrian Observatory published this morning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of raging festivities in several fronts east of Euphrates since Tuesday evening, between the Ottoman Turkish Forces and the factions loyal to them against the Syria Democratic Forces, where the first continued their attack from 3 areas on Ras al-Ayn city, the eastern and western areas from the border side, accompanied by heavy shelling by tens of air and ground strikes, while the Ottoman Turkish Forces and the and factions were able to retake parts of Tal Half town, in conjunction with violent festivities continued until dawn of today in areas of Manajir, and al-Arba’in, Lilan, Amiriya, al-Ahras, Tal Jammeh, and al-Alya, located in the area between Tal Tamr and Ras al-Ayn, and the festivities left more casualties and injuries in the ranks of both parties, where 12 of the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
-loyal factions were killed and 14 of the Syria Democratic Forces were also killed.
Posted by Fred 2019-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
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#1 Possibly the editor was an APL programmer in a previous life.

Nerdy Snark of the Day!
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-17 10:36||   2019-10-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#2 :-) We used to play at writing one-line programs in APL in my high school programming class, SteveS, entered on a keyboard connected to the mainframe by telephone modem. After that, having to use Fortran on bloody punch cards, wait in line to submit them, then wait for a time slot for the silly thing to be run drove me right out of the entire field.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-17 17:50||   2019-10-17 17:50|| Front Page Top

#3 APL was too cool for school, I saw it warp a few minds back in the day.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-17 18:17||   2019-10-17 18:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Nostalgia fix...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-17 18:24||   2019-10-17 18:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Oops, somehow link didn't take. Nostalgia fix
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-17 18:25||   2019-10-17 18:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I did Fortran on punch cards...hated it
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-17 21:25||   2019-10-17 21:25|| Front Page Top

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