Syrian troops, backed by Hezbollah, have set their sights on Quneitra, not far from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, aiming to retake the territory, which is largely held by al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra.
This is the first stop off in a reported southern offensive, which aims to retake all the territory around Damascus and to push Jordanian-backed rebels away from the Jordanian border.
Rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say they believe the goal is to eventually turn over the border areas to Hezbollah’s special forces, though why they would do this, other than to be provocative to Israel, is unclear.
Syrian forces have been trying to retake territory from various rebel factions since the US began its airstrikes, but this offensive seems to be the first such attempt of such size and specific territorial focus.
Assad obviously would want Hizbullah forces in those areas and not Syrian troops so his soldiers wouldn't get bombed and killed by the IDF
Denying the Israelis access to their Nusra/ISIS corridor they are USING to supply and coordinate groups of these fighters (as well as providing hundreds of them 'medical aid' cuz they are such humanitarians – bwahaha), as well as their own Israelis special forces which they use to interface with their Magic ISIS Army, is a brilliant move on the part of Iran/Hezbollah/Syria front
Cut off from these strategic passageways to ISIS, ISIS is going to have a lot more problems running it's Israeli financed/supplied/led Magic ISIS Blitzkreigs, and look for Sayanims McCain and Grahams to start screaming bl**dy murder… or am I being redundant?
Hope they succeed.
This is very interesting! Israel has set up a secondary buffer zone using Al-Qaeda as foot soldiers to protect itself and IDF present in Golan Heights? So Israel is cooperating with Al-Qaeda directly! What a screwed up world!!