Syrian state media today reported that the military had “returned security and stability to the town of Ataman,” a small town just north of the Jordanian border, and near the main city on that border, Daraa, which was where the initial protests leading to the civil war were held.
The capture of Ataman came amid fighting with the rebel faction Liwa al-Mutaz, which is historically allied with the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The rebels reported heavy shelling and intense Russian airstrikes on their forces.
This is the latest in a string of victories by the Syrian military in Daraa Province, including the capture of the hugely strategically important town of Sheikh Maskin late last months, which gave the Syrian military a strong supply line into Damascus.
Daraa itself would be the obvious next step in this southern offensive, and with Ataman under military control there is basically no supply line for the rebels there anymore, particularly since Jordan, which previously hosted rebel train, has more or less sealed the border in recent weeks.
The Syrian Government has recovered a town from rebel forces. Describing the rebel group of Liwa al-Mutaz as “historically” attached to the amorphous FSA is a bit overstated. The FSA’s “history” is one created, sponsored, financed, armed and supported by foreign powers who seek to dismember Syria and has been around for just under five years. If that is history, it has been short and bloody.
If a closer look is taken at this terror group, you would find that it shares a political/religious philosophy more akin to ISIS than to Western ideas of freedom and tolerance.
If Jordan had not agreed to becoming a base for terrorists, this group would not have come into existence or been able to maintain its rebellion.
Whatever Jordan agreed, the terror groups based there would not have existed without US running the show on the Jordanian side. This is a US show, using Saudi money just like it has been in Central America and elsewhere. The “rebels” are cannon fodder for US geostrategic ambitions, these aimed at Iran, not Syria at all.
Vengeance driven terrorism, with our Empire builders using wars of aggression to generate the vengeance, then using dictators to brainwash and fund the terrorists and finally trading war materials for Middle-East to establish dominance and expansion over all the dictators and the people they enslave.
So, is not our voting majority, the 51% most criminal and greedy, those who empower the Clinton and Bush war hawks, are they not the most blood thirsty terrorists the world has ever known?
Neither security nor stability in being a Western-backed terrorist, I tell you I tell you.