Syrian troops continue with their gains against anti-Assad rebels in the northern Aleppo Province, and have now virtually surrounded the city, controlling all but a single road, which is yet held by a US-backed faction.
Once the country’s industrial and financial capital, Aleppo is virtually a ghost town at this point, and the Syrian military seems set to retake what’s left of the rebel-held portions of it.
Yet the US plan for Syria centered heavily on installing moderate rebels across the nation, with Aleppo as an ideal northern capital for them to launch their war from.
The moderates, however, have been losing ground left and right, whether to ISIS or al-Qaeda or the Syrian military itself. The Assad government retaking Aleppo would be a huge blow to what passes for a US strategy, as the smaller, moderate factions are simply getting pushed out.
Aleppo again? I thought they already had it. Guess not. C'mon Assad, re-take the whole country. With Assad making gains, Iran and Hezbollah have got to join the fight and kick out IS, FSA, and whoever else the US is financing, once and for all.
But they shouldn't stop there. They shouild take the war to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, etc.etc. so that they feel what Syrians have felt.
Might save a lot of bother if we just surrendered already.
USG and NATO deliberately been destroying syria and Iraq, in few years they are going after Lebanon and Iran,. This is the best news thus far, which is a good news for the Syrian people to take back their country from saudis barbarians and international cartel of thief's, the European, the Turkish and american oil and gas companies and their oil, gas mafiosi.
"anti-Assad rebels" , is that what you call these Saudi/Turkish/Chechen/Tunisian and whatnot except Syrian, freaks now? Again Ditz? Still? Seriously i thought you where way past that now.
Yes against the elected President but these Wahhabi retards are pretty much anti everyone else but themselves. The anti-Al Assad meme was yesterday, now it is all about establish the Caliphate and US and israel are arming and supporting them right until they reach occupied Palestine, that is..
By "moderate", we mean "receiving US money and weapons", correct?
Well, the "moderates" prior to receiving US money and weapons, must declare that they will be forever friends of the US and their allies and promise not to stab them in the back…cross their hearts…
"seeking" They are the ones with their hands out to us, so they might just maybe possibly do some small part of what we want.
The U.S. has no strategy in Syria, it’s more of a Israeli strategy the U.S. is trying to keep in place.
Odd headline.
Of course Syria surrounds Aleppo since Aleppo is in and part of Syria.
"Syrian army surrounds Aleppo" would be better.
The reason for making note of this is that the headline makes it seem like Aleppo is not part of Syria.
Assad — How could he be any more pro-West?
Here we are, an Empire seeped in brutal imperialism and hell-bent on expansion, and yet President Assad sits silent while we bomb a series of warehouses filled with grain, destroy a multitude of oil wells filled with oil and in the end the Syria infrastructure will look like a Vietnam aftermath.
For most pro-West is Assad, from his English wife to his full support of criminal Israel, surely the good people of Syria deserve to be liberated from such tyranny.
If Assad is so pro-West, we never hear anyone in western jMSM talking him up. Just his very cute wife…and that was before 2011.
So even if he is complaining about the destruction of civilian infrastructure, we don't hear it. And what will he do anyway, fire at US planes so as to make the pain worse?
Plus the mass of people who voted for him, know he is not responsible for the terrorist and AmeriKan bombing campaign, it's the judenrat puppet -apes who wants war with everyone, but only if AmeriKa sacrifices.
Why do we never hear in MSM the gains and abilities of the Syrian Arab Army?
Russia should be sending them night vision goggles, body armor, satellite intercepts, the works.
russia never coems to the rescue of her allies-look how they stopped s-300 to iran jsut to please russiaan anglo enemis. in syria russia should have helpd more but russia wants her allies to fight on her own and will give a trickle of arms supplyrather than the whole eharted suooprt that ther anglo pirates give to their criminal allies.
This has to be the stupidest headline today: "Syria Surrounds Aleppo". One would think Aleppo is located in Turkey or even in Europe!
Syrian Arab Army have been fighting off hoards of US and US allied trained armed and funded ISIS/FSA/Al Qaeda factions for 4 years. They would NOT have survived thus far without Syrian support. ISIS would be gone by now if it were not for the US and their allies keep sending them in their "moderates". That the Syrian arab army is gaining control over the city is great news. Aleppo governate covers most of north of Syria. Kobane which the western media has focused on is one small area in Aleppo.
US Had pinned hope on Aleppo as eventual 'Moderate' Capital. Another Blow to to the idiot US War Strategy
And by the way Aleppo city is not a ghost town! Aleppo City is a city of 3 million people and is full of residents/ life. Half of the city is occupied by terrorists and half the city is government retained for most of 4 years. Most aleppians have lost someone to foreign terrorists Syrian residents of Aleppo back their army and also voted for Bashar al Asaad government in recent and closely monitored elections, and won by a landslide.
If Assad is smart he'll be spending the next two months ignoring ISIS and Al Queda as much as he can and instead focusing on taking out as many of the so-called "moderate" anti-Assad groups as possible. He'll want to make sure that when the GOP hawks get seated in the new US senate, that there aren't any moderate anti-Assad factions left for the US to ship arms to.
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I just love the term these extremists in DC use installing moderate rebels to describe putting their slavish tyrant into power, crush all descent and do all the bidding for them. Don't these clowns get it how used they are by these corrupt belligerent tyrants of Washington?