Talk:Battle of Sultan Yacoub

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Perhaps somebody will find it useful... There's a good article describing the battle from Israeli perspective here: http://www.waronline.org/IDF/Articles/sultan-yakub.htm. The article is in Russian. Bukvoed 13:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Revision Anyone?
This is a pretty badly written article. It would be nice if someone with more substantial knowledge and better writing skills revised or made additions to the article. --68.161.168.139 22:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. The article is not well-sourced and the one reference that is being used (the Syrian Tank Hunters article by Tom Cooper of the Air Combat Information Group website) is, in my opinion, unreliable and itself contains alot of evidence that has not been independently verified by any one else, government or private. This article is more like hearsay to me.WikiphyteMk1 (talk) 12:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

rewrite
I completely rewrote this because the whole thing had been copied directly from ACIG. I still used ACIG as an important source here because while I doubt a few of the claims made most of the article checks out perfectly with what two American military officers wrote. The units mentioned there correspond exactly to the OOB given in the American sources as do the locations and times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abu America (talk • contribs) 05:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

source???
" The three soldiers were captured by Lebanese Hezbollah and were paraded through Damascus held on top of their captured tank" What a non-sense??? The soldiers have never been seen after the battle. Various Lebanese organizations were until recently in a search for their bodies in the battle area, with the intent of further exchange deal with Israel. Hizbollah didn't officially exist during that war! The battle was between the Israeli and the Syrian armies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.89.100.98 (talk) 11:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Laughable propaganda
I have family who were part of this battle: Syria did not lose a single tank. Russian observers noted Syria's exceptional tank command tactics alongside helicopter support, whereas Israel lost 160 tanks in this battle. In fact, due to the tactics of pushing forward and then backwards, the Israelis didn't even get to see the Syrian tanks. This is not reflected at all by the figures given. Believe me, losing 2000 soldiers would be a disaster for Syria and everyone would have mourned them, but I know for a fact that only TWO soldiers died in this battle. That means the Israelis are exagerrating by a huge margin.

There's no point editing it, because a zionist will of course change it back to the lie, they are a revisionist bunch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.89.188.44 (talk) 08:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Syrian commander
Who the hell is Brig. Gen. Mustafa Popov? Is he Syrian or Russian? ROFL. SealMan11 (talk) 17:33, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Syrian General
General Ali Habib Mahmud has his own page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Habib_Mahmud — Preceding unsigned comment added by N.Celikovic (talk • contribs) 05:47, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 27 March 2020
In the infobox, the commander2 is Ali Habib Mahmud. 221.166.188.50 (talk) 12:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC) 221.166.188.50 (talk) 12:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I found this source in Arabic:

Hi, I request permission to edit here
Hi there, I would like to get permission to edit this page in order to futher expand about the battle. --Amir Segev Sarusi (talk) 13:46, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Anybody?--Amir Segev Sarusi (talk) 11:34, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You don't need permission, you need 500 edits under your belt. Poliocretes (talk) 16:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I have 500 but not on the English wiki, and so I request premission if possible in order to contribute to the page. --Amir Segev Sarusi (talk) 07:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 24 September 2020
We need to fix the name of the Syrian general Ali Habib Mahmud and add blue Wikipedia link to his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Habib_Mahmud

Sources to back up the valid request
 * https://english.aawsat.com//home/article/2191661/syrian-former-defense-minister-passes-away
 * https://www.saudi24news.com/2020/03/the-death-of-a-former-syrian-defense-minister-who-led-the-famous-battle-of-sultan-yaqoub-in-lebanon.html

Thank You AleviQizilbash (talk) 21:10, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, and thank you very much!  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 02:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)