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Government forces, led by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces and pro-government tribal forces, have liberated the villages Wadi Kharrar, Subayat, Salim Hammad, Abu Hammad, Muqla Saghir, and Muqla Kabir and fully encircled ISIS terrorists in the Sabkah area in the southern part of Raqqah province.
Following the full encirclement of this area, the SAA and its allies started pressuring ISIS in Zawr Sham, Jibil, Rahbi, and Sabkah. In turn, ISIS members launched a series of counter-attacks in the area and even temporarily entered Ghanim Ali. Intense fighting is now ongoing in the area. However, government forces, backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, have an upper hand in this battle.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Hezbollah made a ceasefire deal in the Jaroud Arsal area at the Syrian-Lebanese border. According to the deal, HTS members are withdrawing from Jaroud Arsal to the province of Idlib. This will allow Hezbollah to launch the second phase of the operation in Jaroud Arsal and to focus on combating ISIS in the area.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), supported by the US-led coalition, have further advanced against ISIS in the districts of Shahada and Husham Abdulmalik in the city of Raqqah. The SDF is attempting to isolate the Old Raqqah area from the southern direction in order to launch another attempt to seize this area from ISIS.
The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have repelled another ISIS attack in the border area with Syria, the PMU media wing reported on Monday. According to the report, the PMU killed 100 ISIS members and destroyed 26 ISIS vehicles during the clashes. However, without photos or videos, these numbers remain unconfirmed.
According to the Iraqi government, the Iraqi Army and the PMU will soon launch a joint military operation to liberate Tal Afar, one of the last remaining ISIS strongholds in Iraq.
I did not write this article, but I agree with most of it.
SYRIAN ARMY ENJOYS FIRE CONTROL OVER AL-SUKHNA; EYELESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BULLY-BOY TRUMP FLAILS AGAINST IMAGINARY ENEMIES;
Donald Trump is obsessed with Iran and North Korea. Because he doesn’t read anything historical, or even political, he relies on late night Fox programming and the National Enquirer. This is the leader of the most powerful nation on earth who has access to daily intelligence summaries prepared by his “highly trained professionals”. Leave aside the fact that all American intelligence agencies have been penetrated by Zionist sympathizers, it remains puzzling why the president chooses to rely on the “fake media” instead of his own American, ultra-professional lie factories.
I cannot tell you who has got Trump’s ear on Iran, but, it must be someone linked to the Zionist Apartheid State. I write this because of Mileikowski’s (“Netanyahu’s) own personal crusade during Obama’s tenure in office to scotch the Iran Nuclear Deal. No one party was as active and rabid as the Zionist Entity when it came to speaking before Congress about the dangers of letting Iran off the hook. Luckily for everyone, Mileikowski did not succeed and the deal continues despite cryptic tweets from Trump about scuppering the whole protocol.
Trump is a 5-time deferred draftee. He never served in the military and that makes him doubly dangerous. Like other Republicans – think of G.W. – he envisions himself a warrior and war-time president although he never got to taste the glories of war – the screams of the injured or the pleasant aroma of burned human flesh – the sounds of babies under bricks or collapsed buildings or the uplifting sight of human limbs spread out around a bomb crater. He missed all the good times. But, he persists in flailing at enemies, most of whom are arming themselves to the teeth because they perceive there’s a bully on the block.
Who is the bully, you ask? Well, aw shucks, you know, it’s that bully who runs around the globe invading other countries, destroying infrastructure – assassinating leaders – murdering hundreds of thousands of people. And who could that be? It couldn’t be a country as democratic as the United States, could it? Could it be a country that pretends to support democracy by enveloping other nations in a shroud of cordite, napalm and Agent Orange, a minor deficiency sufficient to keep that civilized country voluntarily off the list of nations who have signed on to the International Criminal Court? I mean, why wouldn’t the bully be a part of the ICC? Because, it’s just a bully? That’s it?
From Vietnam, where the U.S. gleefully slaughtered over one million Vietnamese civilians to Iraq where the figures are somewhere between 400,000 to 800,000; to Panama where the U.S. extracted a whole government with whom it was not at war to a little island, called Grenada, whose only sin was having Cuban engineers building a runway for it; to Rwanda where Clinton could have done something (like lifting a finger) to prevent a genocide – but, didn’t because: who in the Hell cares about a bunch of black people? ……..all the way to Syria where a media blitzkrieg attempted to convince a war-weary American public that the U.S. should invade a member state of the United Nations even though Syria had never done anything to damage the U.S…..all the way to Syria where American support and training for cannibals, savages, jihadists and other forms of parasite were tasked with bringing down a secular government which protected all sectors of society and which was on the verge of departing the Third World.
And don’t forget Libya. That’s where the Russians got snookered by the foul-smelling English and their French skunk cousins into supporting a U.N.S.C. resolution aimed clearly at protecting civilians from the rampaging Qaddafi forces, a fig leaf for “regime change” when it appeared that the Bad Boy of Benghazi wasn’t going out the easy way. This one act of perfidy, so vile it makes the hair follicles on my otherwise bald head quiver, resulted in the death of Libya’s leader at the hands of a child, watched ostensibly by adult “revolutionaries”, who then shoved the leader’s own pistol between his haunches to fire one bullet that would insure the strongman’s death. This monstrous act was filmed. And so was Hillary Clinton’s reaction in front of a camera: “We came. We saw. He died!”) This was followed by the scag caterwauling with delight as onlookers rolled their eyeballs in disbelief. So much for American diplomacy. Class?
Libya is in ruins and irreversible decay. Trump would like to bring the same to Iran and North Korea. Obama wanted to bring this to Syria. Bush did bring that to Iraq. Obama and Trump are bringing it to Venezuela, too. Land of liberty and the home of the brave.”
V.T.
You should, please, say who DID write essay you have published here. I would prefer a moderation policy that insists that such use of the writing of others always carry an attribution — standard procedure in the world of publishing. Thanks for the good little essay, but we need to know who wrote it.
Hi Guys, just read it on Chinese news(Aug. 1st) , Turkish army moved into northern Syria where Russian vacated. America instead got soot at in the middle of Turkish, Kurds fight, choose to put pressure on Syrian government by moving a carrier into Syrian water. More troubles are coming.
Stay safe.
Again, what comes after in Putin’s liberated Syria, when Putin chooses to be a most excellent ally of Israel and Saudi Arabia?
This report shows that where military might has an obvious target, the wahhabi forces are crushed in Syria. But why is this completely pointless in the mid-term when Putin actively rewards the nations responsible for ISIS et al?
Well imagine a near future date where Putin can declare “mission accomplished”. All Syrina settlements are ‘liberated’ and all major wahhabi forces destroyed. Now Syria returns to being a target rich environment for terror spectaculars, including Israel’s two favourite ‘covert’ methods- namely massive car bombs and high profile assassinations.
And the West’s favourite subverting method starts all over again- fake ‘protest’ movements where the protestors are eventually seemingly gunned down by the regime.
In smaller settlements wahhabi goons start grass roots power grabs by intimidaing the local populice with standard murderous gangster methods (“work with us or keep your mouths shut else members of your family will die and/or your business will burn down”)
When the backers of terror organisations are still in power and still unpunished, the terror will always return- ***always***. Syria is surrounded by nations that have promised to continue with the terror until Assad and Russia are defeated. And Russia has excellent diplomatic and trade relationships with each of these terror backers.
For sure, Russia has carved out its own safe ‘green zones’ in Syria for its own purposes- and these will continue to be defended, save for the frequent Israeli planned car bomb. But the ordinary people in Syria are on a hiding to nothing. Putin has done literally nothing to get the UK, USA, Israel or Saudi Arabia to back down. The CIA may no longer directly train terror gangs in Syria- but they’ll continue recruiting and training them in their bases in Jordan, Qatar, Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia etc.
Ukraine shows the pattern. NATO Ukraine murders innocent civilians in East Ukraine daily- and the murder rate is low only cos NATO finds it hard to recruit ‘white’ cannon fodder stupid enough to waste their lives fighting on the border of Novorussia. But my point is that NATO Ukraine continues to use terror tactics just as much as it can.
The wahhabi terror forces that will continue to flood into syria are ***not*** in such short supply, however. Putin negotiated no functioning political settlement in Ukraine, because he presented a weak front to the West. So good people carry on dying there. And Putin has failed with every attempt at a functioning settlement in Syria. Only force of arms, and the current willingness of the wahhabis to fight (somewhat) like a regular army gives Russia its momentum there.
Wars never bring peace. Treaties and political settlements bring peace. And the West refuses absolutely to negotiate with Russia, and Russia refuses absolutely to make the West negotiate.
Things are now so bad, a US senator felt safe publicly calling for the extermination of N Korea, Not its weapons or army- the entire nation of N Korea including all of it people. This is what Putin causes when he allies with nations like Israel and Saudi Arabia and praises the US military in Syria, without demanding anything in return. The West is trained by Russia into thinking it is above the Laws of Man- for Russia never holds the West accountable.
Today the US sheeple think “why shouldn’t we just murder everyone in N Korea- we all know they deserve it”. Even Alex Jones- who usually sells an ‘anti-war’ platfrom, raves about destroying N Korea. All that saves N Korea is the ***fact*** that it never was an enemy of the USA, but a mechanism to keep Korea far below its geo-political potential, to keep Japan the regional no.2.
But the demonisation of Iran and Russia has no such nature.
Putin thinks by demonstrating Russian military prowess in Syria, and moving many Russian forces to ‘veteran’ status, he is making his enemies think twice. Thus Putin can forgive himself for ultimately betraying the Syrian people by cosying up to those nations directly responsible for the destruction in Syria. But no informed person that mattered ever doubted Russian military strength. And the demonising propaganda that successfully paints Putin as ‘weak’ and ‘evil’ works better than ever with the sheeple of the West- who never hear the truth about anything.
I really wish more people here would start to care about the lives of ordianry people in Novorussia and Syria, and demand Russia acts to give these people permanent peace and security. Even nazi Germany and Imperial Japan knew, after WW2 ended, that its people would no longer be targeted by ***any*** forces. Why can’t Putin deliver the same to the people of Novorussia and Syria?
America is directly responsible for every shell, missile, bullet and bomb that continue to murder civilians in Novorussia, yet Putin praises the US military in Syria and calls them Russia’s partner. Why do so few people see how wrong this is- and fail to get that in rewarding American warcrimes, Putin ensures far more of them in the future.
“America is directly responsible for every shell, missile, bullet and bomb that continue to murder civilians in Novorussia, yet Putin praises the US military in Syria and calls them Russia’s partner. Why do so few people see how wrong this is- and fail to get that in rewarding American warcrimes, Putin ensures far more of them in the future.”
You guys are still posting this machine generated spam? Why? Never seen this spammer respond to feedback.
i agree.
i first wanted for the admins to ban this “twilight” person or bot or whatever it is.
it clearly is an agitprop – hustling for an emotional response from the audience.
but then i realized – no, let him post his nonsense – it clearly shows
how utterly desperate they are for Russia/China to do a wrong move
and inadvertently do the West’s bidding.
No you let the jibberish stand as it exposes their utter desperation for war. The old baiting tricks are so worn that no one even bothers to engage in their worn out debate. There is work to be done, and it will be done in spite of them, and a better future created.