You gotta love Syria where you can just walk into a gun shop and buy anything. Want a fully auto, chrome Kalashnikov? That’ll be $300 and no ID (AKs are so cheap unlike pistols here).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
In Rojava you come across an interesting amount of firearms. Pictured: RPK, M-16, AK-47, MP5, a... um... grease gun (yes, a fucking grease gun), and and a very modern Uzi. I figured folks here would appreciate this.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
A rifle I got to take the helm of. It passed through a lot of hands during the fight against the Islamic State (I can’t imagine all the stories it could tell). For when you gotta reach out and touch somebody.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
Rare find in Rojava (NE Syria). Seems to have been a battlefield pick up. What I would give to be able to bring this piece of art back home.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Being full auto was the only upside to this heavy fucking thing (as impractical as as that selection really is). I loved sleeping on rooftops in Syria. But the sand flies from the sand bags were hell. We called them FlySIS.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
A quote from a female Kurdish fighter who died defending the Syrian city of Kobane from ISIS: “The sound of bullets from my Kalashnikov makes me happy. And the smell of gun power energizes me.”3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Antifascist flag flying at the highest point in Rojava (Mt Qerecox) as the sun rises over Iraqi Kurdistan.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Just hanging out in some mountains in NE Syria with my AK. The pink, donut socks were my way of hopefully scaring off ISIS. Maybe if they thought I was gay, they would leave me alone so I didn’t get it on them. (Photo is panoramic, you might have to click on it.)3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
It’s not everyday you come across something like this drawn into a pavement in rural Syria. Pictured is my 1962 Soviet AK-47.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Combat load out in Syria. Couple extra mags: ✅. Energy drink: ✅. Pack of the worst cigarettes on earth: ✅. When in Kurdistan, do as the Kurds do. Hey, you have gun, why do you need to be healthy? (This is a joke. Stay fit!)3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Saw a pile of mangled cars. I asked what they were. Found out they are just a collection of cars from past suicide bombings in Kobane from ISIS.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
Punk rock, more than just entertaining music, pushed many of us to places we wouldn’t have otherwise imagined. Here’s to how punk continues to influence us fight for a better world (even when that world can sometimes be very far from home).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
Its not everyday that you have a Russian convoy blow by you when you're just trying to eat your Shawarma (this is in Qamislo).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
I found this in a liquor shop in Qamislo. Just out of the photo are framed pictures of Bashar Al Assad too. It was weird to say the least.2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SyrianCirclejerkWar
Photo from Raqqa. I guess you just have to make due in a place like this. Raqqa is just a hellscape from the efforts to expel the Islamic State. Rebuilding has been slow (but steady).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
Sticker I found in Qamislo. Fucking flaming Apo in a fighter jet!3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SyrianCirclejerkWar
Captured improvised artillery made by ISIS I stumbled across in northern Syria (Kobane).2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
Zau Seng, 39, was working as a medic and cameraman with the US-based aid organization Free Burma Rangers was killed in a mortar attack by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Tel Tamr in 2019. I took this photo of a portrait of him that is still in the Hospital in Tel Tamr where he later died.2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
Photo I took of Kurdish female members of the Asayis special forces in northeastern Syria [1664 x 1248]3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
In the Middle East, you don’t wear shoes indoors. I got yelled at for leaving my sandals on the rug. This was my solution.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
Fired my Kalashikov under water. The firing pin broke. But it left the strangest marking on the shell casing. I have no idea what happened here. But it left a cute smiley face on the shell casing 🙂3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
Not technically an AK-47. But thought folks here might appreciate this guy. Wish I had more photos of it (here I am cleaning it with what all Kurds clean rifles with: black market diesel and a tooth tooth). I can’t begin to explain how enjoyable it is to put 100 rounds through this.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
Straight from the mean streets of Najaf, Ali Ibn Ali Tupac 👳🏾♂️2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SyrianCirclejerkWar
“Victory to Revolutionary Internationalism. Death to Turkish fascism” are my favorite Shakira lyrics.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SocialistRA
[1920 x 1080] A western volunteer rides a cannon captured from ISIS in the northern Syrian city of Kobane.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
This birb is suspiciously close to the fire selector and trigger. His name was Azadi. He eventually did fly away (azadi is Kurdish for freedom).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
Wanting to ask you experts if you can identify this rifle just from this photo (not a great shot of it)? While ignoring my refuge of wholesomeness in a less than cute region of the world. (This was a sleeping quarter in a serious building. The Kurds thought I was very weird, needless to say.)3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
There was a post recently here about the tunnels of Kobane. Kobane is just an unbelievable site to take in. So much history, epic resistance, and is still seen as the spiritual capital of Syrian Kurdistan. It was both sad and interesting to see the amount of effort put into the tunnel systems.2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/syriancivilwar
Oh the things you find in Syria. The famous flaming Apo in a fighter jet, an Assad flag a group of young SAA guys ran off and left behind (can anyone read this? I don’t know Arabic).3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/SyrianCirclejerkWar
One of the least good ideas I’ve seen I’ve seen in a while. Gotta love the Middle East.3yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/ak47
I found this in Amdude in Rojava. I learned Kurmanci to something like an advanced intermediate level. But this painting has always bothered me. Can someone please help me with what this is saying. Gelek spas, hevalen heja!2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/kurdish
I can’t read (or really speak) Sorani. I knew Kurmanci only. I found this in Sulaymaniyah. I never knew what it said. Can someone translate for me?2yr ⋅ BijiArdenCigarettes ⋅ r/kurdish
