After weeks of relative calm in northwestern Syria’s Idlib Province, a new round of fighting has erupted, with al-Qaeda and its allies pushing into areas around their remaining holdings, and capturing a number of villages and other strategic locations.
At least 41 fighters were killed in the course of this, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with 22 al-Qaeda side fighters and 19 troops reported slain. While these were some of the biggest losses for Syria in awhile, the affair didn’t last long.
Backed by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian military had already launched a counter-attack against the morning offensive by the afternoon. They had already retaken a number of the lost villages, and seem set to reclaim the rest soon.
While Turkey tends to get furious when any Syrian counter-offensive moves beyond retaking what was just lost, it’s likely that they will want to push back further and deeply weaken al-Qaeda forces, that remain a big problem entering the post-war era.
Ex-Daesh member claimed that the British intelligence at the US Al- Tanf base recruited him to gather information on important Russian sites in Syria in order for them to be targeted at a later time.
It has been known for a long time that the US and its NATO puppets train and fund terrorist groups to create chaos, kill, assassinate and destroy in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/06/08/627039/Syria-Daesh-British-intelligence-Palmyra
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/05/15/625372/Captured-Daesh-terrorists-confess-to-cooperation-with-US-forces-in-Syria-al-Tanf
we will hire whoever we want and bomb wherever we want until we get the butcher assad out of there.
We eliminated the butcher of the Balkan . Now 20 years later we have admitted he was innocent . So we imprisoned the butcher of Bosnia but he was innocent too . Assad is only guilty of trying to protect his people from the butchers funded from abroad .
They will surely be beaten back once again. “Troop” is a unit though, not a person. The use for individuals was invented by the media to avoid the warlike “soldiers”, just like they avoid invasion, occupation, torture, attack.
Two American occupation soldiers died when they attacked resistance fighters – two U.S. troops were lost while engaging terrorists.
“The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.”
-George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
It was Goebbels whom instructed the media to quit using “partisans” or “resistance” , and use “terrorists”. Now, I read that in Goebbels diaries, but, don’t know German, to know how it all translated.
Mmm, looks like the marketing boys at Langley felt the need to bring out the “al Qaeda” brand again.
How about a more clear language and facts. The only Al-Qaeda in Idlid is HTS, that once controlled part of Aleppo. It was snd remains US and UK funded openly through mechanism called “White Helmets”.
Turkey incursion in Idllib and sealed borders crippled HTS — deprived them of “humanitarian crisis and refugees” narrative. Turkey deprived them of many militant groups that formerly were forced to serve HTS. Russian-Turkish deal has deprived them if controlling M-4 highway, east-west route that cuts southern Idlib off from HTS.
HTS and its mercenaries as well as western special ops are trying still to stay a factor in Idlib — to prevent this last parch of West controlled territory from folding. Once folded nothing would stop constitutional assembly from meeting (not Trump’s oil patch).
HTS tried few tricks to blame Syrian army fir death of Turkish soldiers.
They are left with one option — go after Syrian army and hope Turkey comes to rescue, Or at least to show to undecided militants that Turkey is double-faced — and not with them.
Turkey dies not need to put on any airs. St this point HTS is the enemy of Turkey. After months of trying to get HTS to accept deal that brought calm to the province, Turkey has at least convinced many militant groups nit to work with HTS. Nor are those groups attacking Syrian army.
What we see are attempts at stirring up unrest among groups that signed up with Turkey.
The ONLY attraction HTS has for militant groups — it pays money to leaders who keep loyalty of their group. Any group that signs up with Turkey must give up group leadership and decision -making. They all have same paramilitary uniforms Turkey provides for all former militants in Syria. They have to accept Turkish command. And Turkey provides humanitarian relief and health care. But militant groups in Idlib have seen the writing in the wall — and have given up Western supplied HTS ties.
This is not going to be pretty. HTS may have to be martyred by its bosses in order for Western media to have something to cry about.
The White Helmets seem to have gone quiet. Are they faking more chemical attack films.?
Ran out of money…
… Entering a post-war era with the war still on?
Its not over till Syrian territory restored to full sovereign Syrian control from the internationally recognized Syrian government in Damascus.