Syrian Army forces successfully pushed into the city of Deir Ezzor Monday to relieve a defensive garrison from a three-year ISIS siege. Now, they want to ensure they can keep doing that, seeking to carve out a secure corridor into the city.
The city of Deir Ezzor is the capital of Syria’s province of the same name, and while ISIS has long held the overwhelming majority of the province, a military garrison held part of Deir Ezzor city for years, along with a nearby military airbase.
The Deir Ezzor Province is oil-rich and valuable, and has been the latest goal is Syria’s military offensive eastward. Ensuring that the extent garrison and air base holds would give them a foothold to push into ISIS territory.
Holding the corridor is almost certain to be difficult, as ISIS has long sought control over the air base, and will doubtless try to use its presence throughout the province to try to attack weak points on the supply line.
Sure, they will try. And US is just letting ISIS from Raqqa to move to Deir Azzor.
But Syrian Army has two flanks on each side of the troups that oushed forward. They will clearly use them to deal with regrouping. But at least, iver 160,000 population is getting tons of supplies by land, moving in water putification stations, gereratkrs and mobile clinics. Many patients already evacuated. Syria will have to push across Euphrates to secure the area from ISIS controlled pojnts. But for niw, ghey are just manevering fhe two flanks to secure the corridor temporarily until the rest of army positions are in place. Either way, great day for people who lived under siege for fhree years, living off air drops. ISIS lived comfy in that area, not bothered much by the “coalition”. Hopefully, Syrian army offensive will not be an annoyance.
Gotta love the western corporate fake news ….
If the Pentagon announces something, then its treated as though it must be true and greeting with hosannas and shouts of praise at how wonderful the Pentagon is.
Even stories where someone makes something up and then won’t put their name on it get great play ….. un-named sources say ……
But, it the Russians announce they’ve accomplish something, then its treated as questionable and a wait and see approach is adopted. And there are no stories about how people are grateful and happy to be rescued from CIA/terrorist control
Of course the next step after punching a whole through the terrorist/CIA siege of Deir-Ezzor is to widen and secure the corridor. That’s normal. But if it was the Pentagon announcing this, that would be treated as routine and probably barely mentioned, but in this case it seems as though there is great question and cries about how difficult it will be to keep beating the CIA/terrorist coalition.
And then they wonder why everyone now just laughs at their fake news.
We learned in the 1970’s, during a small moment of peristroika, about how the CIA buys and uses journalists. No doubt at all that most of what now passes as western ‘news’ is actually under CIA control. Does anyone doubt that now they do on a much bigger scale the stuff the Church committee uncovered?
All the news the CIA sees fit to print.
What’s wrong with how the Western MSM portrays events?