The Syrian government has announced a major new offensive against the Nusra Front-held half of the city of Aleppo today, urging locals to avoid areas where terrorists are located and announcing a number of areas through which civilians can flee the area.
The offensive was announced after the latest efforts to revive the already collapsed ceasefire failed. Syrian officials withdrew from the ceasefire on Monday, citing weekend violations. The announcement was vague on whether this offensive would include attempts to send ground forces into the area.
Aleppo has been contested for years, with districts regularly changing hands but no one ever getting control of the entire city. Nusra and the Syrian government have it roughly split down the middle now, with repeated attacks and counterattacks yielding large death tolls but limited territory changes.
Once the industrial and financial capital of the country, it is unclear how valuable Aleppo would really be to a victorious force in practice, given how heavily damaged and divided it has become in years of fighting. Aleppo was once seen by many as the key to winning the civil war, and like the rest of the war, it has remained heavily contested.
Hopeless inannity goes on & on… Did Ash-hole Carter save ISIS in Aleppo by bombing the govt. defendes as the Israelis wanted…??? Saying they prefer ISIS to Hesbolah and want to keep ISIS extant to oppose Hesbolah… Sure hope they enjoy the $38,000,000,000.00 that we worked to earn, but gets confiscated by IRS and sent to assist the ongoing expropriation and genocide project….. Thanks a lot Congress…
As long as Syria has a dictator controlled by the Iranians and supported by Russia the rebels will have the support of Saudi Arabia Turkey and the USA it’s a proxy war we don’t even really care about.Its a distraction to keep Russia distracted while we surround them with NATO bases and missile systems…Open your eyes people we could’ve ended this a long time ago we just got bigger fish to fry..
“Dictator”?
Assad was elected twice !
Stupid ass.
I hope the Syrian gov. with the help of the Russians will succeed in recapturing Aleppo and drive out all the foreign mercenaries and their NATO-KSA-zion-SUPPORTERS and eventually end the war on Syria.
After that Syria needs a strong defense structure which prevents future conquest trials by foreign invaders. Best thing to join a military alliance with Russia, China, Iran.
Military force is unfortunately the only language that the Empire of Greed speaks and understands!
Zionazi ‘s who rule the US strictly for Israel’s benefit are going Nucking Futs!
it is sad to see many americans surrender their thinking process and blindly follow mainstream media propaganda as gospel truth.
the quality amount of propaganda and lies in today’s media are so amateurish and ridiculous, even a child can spot the obvious lies..
the world watched american govt acting like a bully trying to hold on it’s fading hegemony and failing.. the world saw china and it’s economic future plan in OBOR and they want in , while they also saw american govt pushing for conflict and trouble..
the filipino new leader bravely oppose america’s intent to use his country as pawn against china , more world leaders will show such defiance and then we know it is over for american empire..
Instead of bringing goodwill and peace in the world. american govt now seen as a violent agent of change , where they can flout the international rules and do whatever they want..