A report out of Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News claims that the pro-US “moderate” rebel faction the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has abandoned its last territory in northern Syria, in the city of Aleppo.
The report cites Turkish military sources as saying the FSA withdrew 14,000 fighters from the city, where they controlled a strip of road leading to the Turkish border, and that their leader is “being hosted and protected by the Turkish state.”
The FSA, like most pro-US rebel factions, has suffered mounting losses in northern Syria, and was widely expected to lose its foothold in Aleppo to the Syrian military. The claim of 14,000 fighters is surprisingly high, as the FSA had been seeing mass defections for quite some time.
How valuable the territory they are abandoning in Aleppo is is no longer clear. Once the nation’s economic and industrial capital, Aleppo is virtually destroyed from years of war.
It does mean the FSA and the other moderates are now confined almost entirely to the Jordanian border, where they’ve yet to split with al-Qaeda, and therefore haven’t yet been wiped out by them.
The White House apparently thought the 'moderate' bit applied to their ideology.
Turns out it was their military abilities instead.
Next for Syrian and Kurdish people's army is to face the Saudis/UAE/ Turkish and the European barbarians making sure that Erdogan regime have enough hotl rooms to accommodate them.
What a good chance for US drones to welcome them at the border. If only…
“Once the nation’s economic and industrial capital, Aleppo is virtually destroyed from years of war.”
The majority of Syria never did support the rebellion and those who took up arms against the government did so with the criminal intent to motivate the NATO powers to invade and to help enslave the overwhelming majority in Syria.
Surely a crime against humanity is it for a minority to cause such an invasion, occupation and enslavement by a foreign power. Complain we must against corruption in government, but to get deadly against government and the majority, surely this is absolute stupidity