Syrian War Report – November 18, 2019: Further Escalation In Southern Idlib
Over the past days, southern Idlib, southern Raqqah, northwestern al-Hasakah remained the main points of tensions in Syria.
On November 16, the Syrian Army repelled an attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies on the hill of Khaznah in southeastern Idlib. According to pro-government sources, at least 7 militants were killed in the clashes.
The Syrian Army, backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, liberated the Khaznah hill and the village of Luwaybidah on November 14 in an attempt to expand a buffer zone between militants’ positions and nearby civilian areas. Despite this, attacks in the area continued. If government forces want to remove the threat of shelling by militants to nearby villages, they will have to push deeper into southern Idlib.
On November 17, the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a series of strikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham near Maarzita and Misherfah eliminating several strong points.
On November 15, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces retook the villages of Bir Tmah and Sa’dah from Turkey’s Syrian National Army. On November 15 and 16 clashes were also ongoing north of Tell Tamir.
On November 17, a Russian military convoy deployed in the Tell Tamir area. According to reports, the Russians will establish an observation post in the area as a part of the local de-escalation deal. Under the same deal, SDF units will reportedly withdraw from the town and Turkish-backed militants will abandon several villages north of Tell Tamir.
In the period from November 14 to November 15, Israel, the United States, Germany, Italy and Greece participated in the Blue Flag 2019 military drill at the Uvda Air Force base north of Israel’s Eilat. According to the Israeli Defense Forces, the drill involved 70 aircraft, including F-35I, and approximately 1,000 personnel.
The storyline guiding the exercise was based on two fictional neighboring countries, one blue and the other red. The scenarios included large aircraft formations, including fighter jets, remotely piloted aerial vehicles, transport aircraft and helicopters. The blue force’s mission was protecting Israel’s skies and overcoming the red’s air power and air defenses.
Several pro-Israeli media outlets and military experts reported that the Red’s Patriot surface-to-air missile systems simulated Russia’s S-300 and S-400 air defense systems, which were successfully overcome during the exercise.
The success demonstrated by US-made Patriot missiles in Saudi Arabia, where they defended a half of Saudi oil production from Houthi strikes, is widely-known on the international level. So, there are no reasons to doubt the result of the drill.
Hmmm so a battle will be half won at the same time it is half lost? This happens Only in cyberspace playtime fantasy war games. It is like saying the Battle of Borodino was won by the French because at the end of the day they held the field.
The proof ,they say ,is in the putting when push comes to shove when events get down to the real nitty gritty. And in the end, time will tell just as it did then as it will now.
Pyrrhus is accorded high esteem as a general, but he still became a byword for debilitating ‘victory’.
Pyrrhus was an Ancient Greek general and statesman.
The idiot you referred to is called David H. Petraeus
The biggest mistake the Greeks ever made was to side with the West against Russia. Now, Russia is compelled to support Turkey in the eternal Greek-Turk conflicts.
They say “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”.
How interesting to see the Greeks licking the Zionazi jackboot. I suppose all that debt heaped on the country by Goldman Sachs, comes in handy, for arm-twisting purposes.
this exercise was aimed against turkey.
they are contesting the oil/gas fields around Cyprus,
hence greek & italian involvement.
not so long ago, italian drilling ships were chased off by the turkish navy.
RATM
Once israel completes their greater israel plan, gobbling up Syria, Lebanon, parts of Egypt and Turkey, while leaving the remainder of the last two balkanized and destroyed, they will have control of the vast gas/oil reserves in the eastern Med. and become a major energy hub, themselves. This is why they have tried to derail energy supplies from Russia to Europe through having their eu and pindo colonials try to sabotage Nordstream, like they did the Southstream line proposal. The pindo lng isnot really considered a permanent viable alternative to Russian energy supplies, it is temporary to supply europe between the times when Russian supplies are closed off and israeli supplies get producing, which will at least be a few years from now.
That’s the zionazian plan, anyway. Syria, and her Allies, are wrecking it by not handing Syria over to israel, as the zionazis planned for.
i absolutely concur. that is their plan.
Syria’s Air Defenсe System Shoots Down Alleged Israeli Missiles in Southern Syria
https://sputniknews.com/military/201911191077346529-syrias-air-defense-system-shoots-down-israeli-missiles-in-southern-syria—security-source/
“Syria’s air defence system detected and shot down several missiles that were launched by Israeli war aircraft toward military positions in southern Syria, a security source said on Tuesday.
“Israeli war aircraft tried to attack one of the military positions in the country’s south by the use of missiles,” the source said.
He added that the Syrian Army’s air defenсe system detected the missiles in the vicinity of the southern village of Damascus, near the city of Quneitra, which is located in the Golan Heights, and eliminated most of them.”
Initally it was reported there were attacks also near Damascus, but that turned out to be the sounds from the attack near Golan.
Syrian, Israeli forces traded missile fire along the border
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-israeli-forces-traded-missile-fire-along-the-border/
“At approximately 5:00 A.M. (Damascus Time), explosions were reported by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) near the Damascus International Airport.
However, approximately one hour ago, ground reporters in Damascus denied any attack took place near the airport, adding that the explosions took place closer to the border of the occupied Golan Heights.
The confirmed attacks took place along the border of the occupied Golan Heights, where both the Israeli and Syrian forces claimed to have intercepted each others rockets.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said their Iron Dome system intercepted four rockets fired from Syria, while the Syrian Army said they intercepted missiles fired from the occupied Golan Heights region near Mount Hermon (Jabal Sheikh).
Neither side reported casualties and it is still not clear what promoted this exchange this morning.”
The israeli claims are obviously bogus. The timing of this jewnazian provocation with their trump boy toy’s announcement on the illegal israeli occupation of Palestinian land is also obviously not coincidental.
“The success demonstrated by US-made Patriot missiles in Saudi Arabia, where they defended a half of Saudi oil production from Houthi strikes, is widely-known on the international level. So, there are no reasons to doubt the result of the drill.”
Nice concluding para. :-D