Syrian War Report – August 6, 2019: Syrian Military Vows To Resume Operations Against Militants
The new ceasefire agreement designed to cease hostilities in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib has just collapsed.
On August 3, the leader of Hay’at Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Abu Mohammad al-Julani, announced that his group would not withdraw “a single fighter or a weapon” from the demilitarized zone and vowed to recapture the areas, which had been liberated by the Syrian Army. The withdrawal of radicals from this demilitarized zone had been the key demand behind the establishment of the ceasefire.
On the same day, Abu al-Walid al-Tunisi, a senior commander of al-Qaeda-affiliated Horas al-Din, was killed in an improvised-explosive device (IED) explosion in Taftanaz in eastern Idlib. Some pro-militant sources immediately blamed Damascus.
On August 4, the al-Qaeda-linked coalition of militant groups, “Wa Harid al-Muminin”, shelled the town of Slanfah in northern Lattakia with rockets inflicting civilian casualties. The terrorists also claimed that they had foiled a Russian special operation near Khirbat al-Naqus in northwestern Hama. The coalition said that 2 of its fighters were killed in the clashes.
On August 5, Syria’s General Command of the Army and Armed Forces announced that militant groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone refused to abide by the ceasefire and continued attacking civilians in nearby areas. In the released statement, the General Command said that Syrian forces will resume combat operations against militants regardless of the names that they are using and described the Turkish presence in the country as a destabilizing one. Syrian air and artillery strikes were reported in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib.
Earlier reports appeared that the Syrian Army may resume full-scale ground operations against militants after the end of Eid al-Adha on August 15 if they continue to violate the ceasefire.
According to the Damascus government, since the start of intervention in Syria, Turkey has deployed inside the country 10,655 military personnel, 166 battle tanks, 278 armored vehicles, 18 rocket launchers, 173 mortars, 73 vehicles armed with heavy machine guns, 41 anti-tank missile launchers, and around 280 policemen.
On August 4, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey is planning to enter northeastern Syria, currently controlled by US-backed Kurdish armed groups, and has already shared these plans with the US and Russia. On August 5, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army shelled positions of Kurdish groups east of the towns of Marea and Herbel.
Meanwhile, the Afrin Liberation Forces, a Kurdish insurgency organization created to carry out attacks on Turkish targets in the area of Afrin announced that the recent AFL operations resulted in the killing of 19 members of Turkish-backed factions. Tensions in the area are growing.
Low-level continuous war.
Suits the US/Russian MIC right down to the last dead Syrian.
Low-level bot speak.
Apt moniker.
Suits you Zionazis even more. Oded Yinon uber alles, eh Schlomo.
Forget the ceasefire,i would like to have seen a full blown Russian and Iranian expeditionary force go into Syria tens of thousands strong and finish this once and for all,give Idlib the Berlin 1945 treatment,many lives would have been saved.
Yes, I have to agree that Idlib must be cleared of the jihadi vermin.
It will be. The Turks can only hang onto that territory for so long, and the SAA’s patience is clearly running out.
Idlib’s days under jihadist control are numbered.
When the Tigers and Russia work together to take territory, they are pretty much unstoppable. Have you all seen the videos of Russian airstrikes in Idlib? They are utterly massacring every jihadist tank, technical, BMP, ATGM, and concentration of troops in their way.
The only wildcard left are any potential future false flags involving chemical weapons, to be blamed on Assad, of course.
Unfortunately the number of people that believe in these false flags is still high. I can’t go 5 minutes on Reddit or FB without seeing some brainwashed fool talk about how Assad is a user of chemical weapons and killing his own people, blah blah blah. The fools! They are incapable of seeing through this charade.
“Unfortunately the number of people that believe in these false flags is still high. I can’t go 5 minutes on Reddit or FB without seeing some brainwashed fool talk about how Assad is a user of chemical weapons and killing his own people, blah blah blah. The fools! They are incapable of seeing through this charade.”
These people simply don’t want to see through the charade, as this might actually blue-pill them and cause them to question the crimes of the Anglo American Empire in sponsoring and supporting these jihadist terrorists to begin with.
They might even ask themselves: How can the Anglo American Empire claim to be fighting jihadist terrorism, even as it arms and sponsors jihadists terrorists around the world in Syria, Libya, and beyond?
God forbid, this could further compel them to ask whether the Anglo-American War on Terrorism is a Nazi-style Big Lie to begin with and the catalyzing event for this war–Sept. 11th–is the American Reichstag Fire.
No, most people simply don’t *want* to know, and would rather dutifully parrot Anglo American propaganda about Syria or whatever country is the object of their current Two Minutes of Hate.
Such is the nature of the “moral values” that the Anglo Americans are always running their mouths about.
They are morally bankrupt–just as surely as their vaunted “democratic” regimes and rulers.
Thank you. Unfortunately, what you say is the truth.
As the Syrian Government moves to extirpate the last infestation of salafist butchers, the fakestream media presstitutes in Austfailia, loyal and lying hypocrite supporters of the jihadist vermin from Day One, have simply redoubled their propaganda lies. Like the terrorist infestation in Aleppo, every square inch of Idlib is occupied by a ‘hospital’, or ‘school, or ‘nursery’, ‘day-care centre’, ‘creche’ etc. The takfiri monsters are sweet and innocent ‘rebels’ and just like their fellow employees of the US Empire in Hong Kong, all they want is ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. The White Helmets have new, even cleaner and shinier uniforms, not soiled by a speck of dirt, dust or blood, with their logo emblazoned in English across their shoulders, and yet, still, no fakestream presstitute scum-bag dares blow the whistle on this vicious scam. And, hideously, but as expected, the moribund UN, now, and long, totally controlled by the West, is joining in the jihadist propaganda orgy. For once I agree with John Bolton.