Though US and Russian officials brokered something of a ceasefire inside the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, villages near the city are still being contested. Overnight, al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front led a major offensive against the village of Khan Touman, just southwest of Aleppo itself.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting over the village, with at least 73 people killed, 43 of them from the Islamist rebel factions and the other 30 from the Syrian military and its allies. Rebel sources bragged of the “liberation” of the village.
Syrian Army officials, however, disputed the idea that the village had completely fallen in the offensive, and suggested that the battle has not been fully ended. The battle included several Islamist factions aligned with al-Qaeda in the neighboring Idlib Province, but notably did not include the Free Syrian Army (FSA) faction that usually participates.
When Syria launched its offensive against Aleppo, they initially pushed into this area to the south of Aleppo itself, trying to secure supply routes. This, however, also cut off potential Nusra routes from neighboring Idlib, which has made the area of high importance for all sides.
In my opinion, Obama and his globalist regime’s empathy or leanings toward Wahhabi Sunni Islam explains clearly his animosity and hatred toward Russia and Syria. Russia and Putin because they are mainly white and Christian and Syria because of their secularism. Look who Obama and his henchwomen and men openly support: Al Nusra, Muslim Brotherhood,
jaish al-Fatah and the other violent Sunni Salafist groups operating in Syria whom are well funded, armed, trained, and harbored by their masters in Sunni Wahhabi Turkey and Saudi Arabia. All I ever hear on the corporate state media in the U.S. is Putin is this and that and Assad is this and that but they never seem to mention how their man in the white house and their friends in Saudi Arabia and Turkey support the most barbaric terrorist groups in the world. Go figure.
This is one of the weirdest “collaborations”. For the Obama government a major objective in Syria is “Assad must go”. With regards to the current Obama policy in Europe it is “Putin must go”.