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While the Syrian Tiger Forces and their allies are preparing for a final push towards the ISIS-held town of al-Bukamal, important developments are also taking place in the area west of the Ithriyah-Khanaser road.
Since October, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the National Defense Forces (NDF) have been conducting a military operation in the area against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) in order to expand the buffer zone near the Ithriyah-Khanaser part of the Ithriyah-Aleppo highway and to shorten the frontline in northeastern Hama.
Some pro-government sources even speculate that the SAA and the NDF may seek to reach the Abu Duhur Military Airbase, but this would take a large-scale advance, which would require deployment of additional reinforcements.
Recently, government forces have liberated the villages of Abu Ghar, Sarha Janubi, Mushayrifah, Husaywat, Jundya and Rasm Kahal and the hill of Sawan. The SAA and the NDF also entered Sarha Shamali where intense fighting was reported between government troops and terrorists.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists responded by attacking SAA positions north of al-Maqarayh and capturing Umm Turaykiyah and Al-Balil after repelling a government attack on Musharifah.
According to pro-opposition sources, the fighting is ongoing amid constant Russian airstrikes on terrorist weapons depots and convoys. However, the intensity of the strikes is relatively low.
As long as the town of al-Bukamal in eastern Syria is not liberated, the Syrian military cannot deploy the manpower and military equipment to the northeastern Hama frontline, which would allow them to crush the HTS defenses there and to reach the Abu Duhur Military Airbase. However, this moment may be closer than some HTS supporters would like to believe.
After years of civil war, Syria is now a country that lies in ruins. Thousands of people have died, millions have fled.
With no end of the war in sight, groups continue to battle for control over large parts of the country.
With Islamic State near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a new confrontation that could draw the United States in more deeply and complicate Russian diplomacy.
Rivalry between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), supported by the United States, and the Syrian government backed by Iran and Russia is emerging as a fault line with their common enemy – Islamic State – close to collapse in Syria.
The Syrian official said the SDF could not keep control of oil resources. “We won’t permit it,” said the official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity as he was giving a personal view.
The United States has not spelt out how military support for the SDF will evolve after Islamic State’s defeat, a sensitive point due to the concerns of its NATO ally Turkey.
Ankara regards Syrian Kurdish power as a threat its national security as its forces are fighting Kurdish PKK rebels over the border in Turkey.
The U.S.-led coalition, which has established several military bases in northern Syria, has been helping the SDF shore up control of the recently captured al-Omar oil field in Deir al-Zor province.
http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2017/11/2/3ab5fc3d2f884b2cac13e054220ef8d4_6.jpg
The above message reminds me of a little German Jewish boy sheltering in a London tube during the blitz; he was crying to a little English Jewish boy of my aquaintance: “We are doomed, I tell you, doomed! Noone can resist the armed might of our Wehmacht”.
And there are sound, empirical grounds for fear in the face of NATZO’s self-proclaimed “irresistible armed might”: the Serbian leader ended up in a kangaroo court where he conveniently died of “heart failure” before he could call witnesses for the defense; the Iraqi leader was hanged by the occupation forces, who spat on his body while it was dropping through the trapdoor; the Libyan leader died with a NATZO Daesh bayonet through his rectum; the Ukrainian president fled for his life before NATZO’s Jewish protegees and their Neo-Nazi thugs.
So, wonder why the Syrian president, a mild mannered eye-doctor and his public spirited wife are smiling lovingly at each other as they take time out to stroll to a bookshop?
@ Dr. NG Maroudas
Please stop taking things personally, and don’t be emotional. I’m not worrying about what you think about me, because it isn’t true. We are here to discuss, not to humiliate each other. While I’m talking based on facts you are Speculating. If the Kurds/ US/ NATO doesn’t control about 25 % of Syria’s territories and 80% of Oil and Gas, Please Correct me.
Regarding your question:
“So, wonder why the Syrian president, a mild mannered eye-doctor and his public spirited wife are smiling lovingly at each other as they take time out to stroll to a bookshop?”
Answer is:
Because they do not care about, what is left on their territories is, a lot of sand, a lot of destruction and very little other things, needed to feed the people, under their control.
@Anon. That last sentence is a giveaway: the cloak of anonymity hides an MSM junkie. “Bashar Assad the bloodstained tyrant who doesn’t care how much his country may suffer.” I guess you really believe that.
“Middle East correspondent Elijah Magnier returns to the show to discuss the latest turmoil in the Middle East and his recent article “ISIS into History’s rubbish bin and Iraq neither Iranian nor American.” Magnier shares what he knows about the resignation of Assad Hariri in Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia’s role in the latest Middle Eastern mess. Magnier then discusses the history of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the distinction between the terrorist group and the parliamentary party, which has considerable political power and popularity.”
https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/11617-elijah-magnier-mayhem-lebanon-saudi-arabia/
These reports are now doing more harm than good to our cause. Why? Because, as they say in the UK, they are designed to turn people into ‘trainspotters’- ‘fans’ who find themselves obsessed with the latest minor details of a complex machine whose function is now guaranteed.
-Russia has won the conventional war in Syria
-Russia will return central control over all of Syria
-The Syrian government will allow semi-autonomy in those region that had semi-autonomy ***before*** the war
-American forces will be shortly gone
-The Deep State will turn to the kind of horrible unstoppable terrorism seen today in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. This could be prevented by Russia striking hard at Deep State assets in Jordan, Turkey, Libya, Israel and Saudi Arabia- but we all know hell will freeze over before Putin does this- so terrorism it is.
Today, apart from the people on the ground in Syria, only ‘trainspotting’ can explain why anyone on our side would demand their daily fix of war porn from Syria. We’ve ‘won’ as far as most people define ‘winning’ and we have far bigger fish to fry.
The British government is about to expel a jewish terrorist from its ranks- an Indian woman named Patel. An Indian conspiring with jewish terrorists in Israel. But today India is one of the 7 (mostly catholic) powers taking part in Israel’s air exercises preparing for the coming war on Lebanon. Most of you here haven’t a clue about the blood ties between India and Israel. Most of you here haven’t a clue about the power the Vatican wields in India (which is why ordinary Indians, to this day, suffer such lousy social conditions).
But while our side ‘trainspots’ and is encouraged to go ‘trainspotting’, greater awareness cannot happen. Smart people fix a problem and then ***move on***. And Syria has been fixed as much as it is ever going to be (which is very sad when you think about it). When you all stop looking, the Syrian people will get on with the job of rebuilding their nation, but it will all be burnt down again when the Great Middle East war kicks off.
The story of jewish terror at the heart of an otherwise zionist government in the UK should be a headline here- combined with coverage of the 7 nations working with Israeli war plans. But our side is always a day late and a dollar short- often because behind the scenes zionist infiltrators are putting pressure on people by stating that covering such issues would be ***’defeatism’*** – their psy-op way of discouraging discussion of facts that actually matter at the current time.
The ‘war party’ will soon be ready for action in Saudi Arabia, and then its on.
Historical moments. SAA, Hezbollah, IRGC and Iraqi PMU’s have entered Bukamal, the last city in our corner of the universe occupied by Zion’s elite mercenary force ISIS.
https://southfront.org/syrian-troops-entered-isis-held-city-of-al-bukamal-hezbollah-linked-media/
Syrian Army Reportedly Enters Abu Kemal, Daesh’s Last Largest Hotbed in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201711081058916793-syria-army-abu-kemal/
“According to al-Manar television, the Syrian army has entered Abu Kemal, the last largest Daesh stronghold in Syria, after surrounding the town.
An informed source on the ground has confirmed the report to Sputnik, saying, “The Syrian army has completely surrounded Abu Kemal,” adding that government forces plan to crush the last Daesh hotbed in the next several days.”
Al Bukamal liberated:
“The battle for Al Bukamal is over, cleaning on going. ISIS could not resist the encirclement, many ISIS terrorists fled north and NE. Soon we will hear the Syrian MoD announcement of the end of the battle. Too many mines though.
Some next steps may include the cleaning of the Doubayat gas field cauldron and the cleaning of the villages under ISIS at the lower Euphrates north of Bukamal.
Another key step forward is the Syrian Government decision to move toward NE Syria, toward the oil fields, decision is on the making and may involve part of the TFs.
Interesting days ahead.”