On Tuesday, Syrian troops launched a 24-hour offensive against ISIS forces surrounding the area around Kuweires Air Base in the Aleppo Province, ending over two years of ISIS having the facility surrounded and several hundred Syrian troops trapped within.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is now confirming the scope of the battle, saying at least 100 combatants on both sides were killed in the fighting. The exact split was unclear, but the Observatory said most of the slain were ISIS fighters.
Syrian officials presented the recovery of the area around the base, freeing the trapped soldiers, as a major victory, and had been facing growing pressure from the families of those soldiers to do something to free them. The recovery was one of the first targets in Syria’s new Aleppo offensive, launched with Russian backing.
The fighting in Aleppo has mostly centered on supply lines around the city of Aleppo itself, with several factions taking and losing territory around there over the past several weeks. The shift to the airbase appears to be the first long-term territory change of the entire offensive.
The more Putin bogs himself down in Syria the better. Heads Ukraine wins, tails Putin loses!
Keep on cheering for ISIS. While "Putin" on daily basis destroys on hundreds of ISIS and Al-Nusra ammunition depots, underground explosive factories, arms warehouses, convoys of trucks carrying crude oil, training facilities, communication centers, vehicle compounds, artillery, rocket factory, etc. etc., we are looking around the desert for Jihad John. These idiots actually think that US public is so juvenile that all they have to do it show some Hollywood and we will be happy.
Now, it is people in Paris that are getting the taste of allowing this monster grow. And without Russian intervention, would have grown bigger and bigger.
Naturally, those running the country have much in common with Michael Kenny. Now, they are plotting how to stir things up, using Ukrainians for cannon fodder, to get more problems for Russia.
Well, shame on the rest of the world. While Syrians have for years now defended themselves alone against the thousands groups with thousands disgusting ideologies, nobody helped them. Now, when the help came, the sour-faced western nerds of politicians just HATE that somebody had to step in, and START cleaning up the mess. How on earth have all these groups been able to get so much military supplies, while we were supposedly having the "coalition" on their tail. No, we were too busy destroying electric and water systems for cities, so people would have to flee.
And shame to the world for letting the thugs in Kiev get away with preventing money go to the their citizens in the east of the country — their money. And are not allowing food to go, as well as fuel.
And these idiots actually think that this is THEIR country, while trying everything to make the people flee. Kiev government, as well as the rest of the world, is guilty. Allowing such ethnic cleansing on such scale is sick — yet, nobody except Russia is trying to help.
In Europe, how much help has US sent to those poor Balkan countries that are now inundated with refugees trying to make it to Germany? Zero. How much has EU paid up so far of the promised money to Macedonia or Serbia? Zero. Only Russia's emergency response center in Serbia has been rolling out help from temporary shelters, to blankets and food. And now, high capacity generators to power heating in camps — as the weather is getting cold, and people are under open air.
Shame. Now, some people have no shame, and will cheerfully keep on cheering for ISIS. And hoping ISIS wins — and Russia loses. Well, time has come for all to WAKE UP.
Now, I hear that our mighty mouse, the West, is asking G-20 to meet to address refugee crisis!
Really? Those that caused it — pay up.
Michael, how touching that you have swallowed the politically correct narratives of UKraine and Syria.
We have been informed that Putin and Russia are going to fail and lose prestige any day now–we have heard this propaganda spin for years.
So actually resist the jihadist terror and make progress against this scourge–others pretend to fight it (while they actually create it).
But, please, keep believing the narratives that your corporate/state talking heads signal that are politically correct and official.
Dollar Store patriots, gotta love them.