https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-january-26-2018-turkey-threatens-to-attack-manbij/
On January 25, ISIS units attacked positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the villages of Kishmah and Ghuraybah in the province of Deir Ezzor. According to the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq, ISIS killed several army soldiers and destroyed two battle tanks with anti-tank guided missiles.
However, the terrorist group did not overrun the SAA defense and was forced to retreat. According to the Syrian state-run media, 25 ISIS members were killed and several vehicles were destroyed in the clashes.
ISIS seeks to seize some area in the Euphrates Valley in order to lift the siege from its members besieged in the Homs desert.
The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA) captured 7 members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) during clashes in the Afrin area, according to Turkish media. In turn, the YPG claimed that it had captured 16 Turkish servicemembers. However, these persons are likely just members of the TFSA.
The YPG also said that it has lost 18 members in the clashes so far while the TAF claims that over 300 YPG members have been killed. The both sides provide contradicting reports about the casualties and the situation in the Afrin area. The propaganda is an important part of the Turkish-Kurdish standoff in Afrin.
According to Deputy Chief of General Staff of the TFSA Haitham Afeisi, a 10,000-strong force is already prepared for a military operation against Kurdish forces in the city of Manbij. Afeisi said that the Manbij operation will be started after the TFSA and the TAF finish their operation against YPG/YPJ forces in Afrin.
“Manbij is not the final destination; we won’t stop until Hasakah, Ayn Issa, Ayn al-Arab, Ras al-Ayn, Al-Malikiyah, and Tal Abyad are purged of terror,” he said.
This statement clearly follows the official rhetoric of the Turkish leadership. President Erdogan and others have repeatedly noted that Manbij may become a target of the Turkish military operation.
The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in Afrin area released an official statement in which it called on the SAA to counter the TAF attack on Afrin and to defend the Syrian border. The statement clearly contradicts previous statements of Kurdish officials and may indicate some shift in the YPG attitude towards the Damascus government.
“The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in Afrin area released an official statement in which it called on the SAA to counter the TAF attack on Afrin and to defend the Syrian border. The statement clearly contradicts previous statements of Kurdish officials and may indicate some shift in the YPG attitude towards the Damascus government.”
Or they are following orders from their israeloamerican masters and trying to get Syria fighting against turkey. Which would be a zionazi wet dream.
Already hundreds of articles on Turkey’s ‘Olive Branch’ operation has been written, all proving that nobody seems to know what is going on, actually. Canthama’s take preliminary take explains more than most comments:
” Situation in northern Syria is very volatile, too many variables at the moment.
1) Afrin canton is in talks to the Syrian Government for the past few days, contradictory reports are flooding the web, but yet it is not clear the outcome and details. The fact is that if Afrin does not embrace Syria, it will suffer the same sort of terrorist attack as most of Syria suffered in the past 7 years, the only thing they need to do to stop Turkish invasion is to re embrace the Motherland.
2) Many are saying the turkish regime invasion is a failed one, the facts are:
a) Both sides news channels are not reliable, a lot of lies and expanded version of the reality.
b) The turkish regime has NOT carpet-bombed Afrin city nor other city, it may indicate the first phase using turkish backed terrorists as a soft start, probing and letting Afrin decide about re embracing Syria.
c) In 2-3 weeks time, if the turkish regime intensify air strikes, Afrin’s casualties will mount, both fighters and civilians, after that a larger ground invasion may occur and then it will be too late. So far the turkish regime is trying to get “beach heads” that can be expanded upon later.
3) For 3 years, at least half of the Arab tribes in Hasaka and Deir ez Zour were quietly in contact with the Syrian Government, offering intel and young soldiers for training. They are still waiting for the right time to re embrace the Motherland. The situation with the kurds (collapse in Iraq, Turkish attack in Afrin and the tight connection with ISIS) is absolutely not accepted by many in those Provinces. The US occupation is also seen as very bad by many.
The time may not be now but it is getting closer and closer for the Arab tribes in Hasaka and Deir ez Zour to execute the re taken over of the Province. “
Turkey warns US troops to leave Manbij. RT.
https://www.rt.com/news/417159-turkey-us-warning-manbij/
Also from Southfront. Assad has not been fooled.
Assad: Turkish Operation In Afrin Is Part Of Its Strategy To Support Terrorists
The ongoing Turkish military operation against YPG/YPJ in Afrin is a part of Ankara’s strategy to support terrorists, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on January 21.
“The brutal Turkish aggression on the Syrian town of Afrin cannot be separated from the Turkish regime’s policy from the first day of Syria’s crisis, which was essentially built on supporting terrorism and terrorist organisations, whatever their names,” Assad said, according to the state-run news agency SANA.
https://southfront.org/assad-turkish-operation-afrin-part-strategy-support-terrorists/
The Turk government has claimed their invasion is not a land grab, but to return Syrian territory to the rightful owners. They claim to want to maintain Syrian territorial integrity.The Turks have not said the current invasion is in support of the government of Syria, though. Last I’ve heard, erdogan was still referring to Assad and the government as terrorists. So does the Syrian territorial integrity the Turks claim to support involve supporting a regime other than the current government?
I think that has been the $64k question all along.
I can only address your apparently optimistic attitude towards Erdogan and his AKP cohorts, vot tak, including their most recent invasion of Syria with Zionist trained and sponsered jihadi terrorists, and including soldiers of the Zionist NATO Turkish Army, by pointing to the history of British Zionist activites in modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and beyond.
Palmerston launches Young Turks to permanently control Middle East
by Joseph Brewda
But pan-Turkism was not created by the Young Turks or even in Turkey. It was first called for in the 1860s by a Hungarian Zionist named Arminius Vambery, who had become an adviser to the sultan, but who secretly worked for Lord Palmerston and the British Foreign Office. Vambery later tried to broker a deal between the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl and the sultan, over the creation of Israel.
The Young Turks also raised the banner of a pan-Islamic state. The idea was to bring all the Muslim peoples of the world into one empire, whether or not they were Turkish. This was another goal that meant conflict with Russia.
https://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/1990s/conf_feb_1994_brewda.html#brewda
To make a very long story short, vot tak, the AKP government of Tayip Erdogan is merely the latest vehicle for the long term project to set the Islamic world on fire and ultimately, to destroy Russia. Since you at least claim to be an enemy of Zionism, I have copy and pasted several additional titles which will be of interest to you or anyone else wishing to understand the nature of the Zionist Disease, all of which can be found at the top of the page at the link above.
The Venetian Takeover of England: A 200-Year Project—by Gerald Rose
How The Venetian Virus Infected and Took Over England—H. Graham Lowry
British Intelligence Subversion: Shelburne and Bentham—Jeffrey Steinberg
America’s ‘Young America’ movement: slaveholders and the B’nai B’rith—Anton Chaitkin
Freud and the Frankfurt School—Michael Minnicino
Jim Crow, a cultural weapon in the hands of the Confederacy—Dennis Speed
“can only address your apparently optimistic attitude towards Erdogan and his AKP cohorts”
“Since you at least claim to be an enemy of Zionism”
First you claim to speak for me, then weasel in a not so subtle smear. No point wasting my time reading any more trolls from you.
Panic in zionazia. The current head of israeloamerica is set to meet Putin (no sense wasting time sending the trump quisling, he’s too busy holding pense’s greasy hand).
Russian President, Israeli Prime Minister to Hold Talks in Moscow
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201801291061143254-putin-netanyahu-talks-moscow/
Netanyahu & Putin to discuss better coordination on Syria & Iran in Moscow
https://www.rt.com/news/417221-netanyahu-putin-moscow-meeting/
Neither article has much to say, but I will speculate the current Turk invasion of Syria and the threatened israeli invasion of southern Syria will be top of the list of things to “discuss”.
If neither article has much to say then why bother posting it?
In any case I will make a comment to put all of this Zionist nonsesnse into a proper perspective.
International Zionist Media is massaging the message, about the Zionist destruction of Syria, and about how Putin is at least publically treating the Israelis as honoured ‘partners,’ though they are in the business of murdering roughly 500 000 Syrians to date, plus selling the sons and daughters of Syria into sexual slavery, or chopping them up for use in organ transplantations into needy Zionists in Europe, the USA and Canada, amongst others.
I am so sorry it is even necessary to have to ask the question, vot tak, but how does that make you feel?
— as opposed to what you might see on RT, which progessively makes you feel less and less, becoming evermore amenable to the perspectives of psychopathic Zionistism, as our time on this vessel slowly passes us by.
Well written commentary on chem weapons use in Syria.
Who is using chlorine as a chemical weapon in Syria?
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/417181-chlorine-attacks-syria-responsibility/
“Former Scotland Yard detective Charles Shoebridge explains why claims of chlorine attacks in Syria should be treated with caution.”
Zion’s future in NE Syria.
“… I do believe the turkish regime will attack Manbij, it is a done deal, with or without US regime troops there, they are loudly alerting via the media and via backstage. Diplomatic relationship between US-Turkey is at its lowest since WWII, there is no US Ambassador for Turkey at the moment. All the discussions are held at NATO level in Brussels.
I doubt the US is looking for a possible Incirlik type base in NE Syria, no access to the ocean and surrounded by potentially angry countries, the US will most likely drop the kurds some time in the next 12-24 months. The US position is very fragile in the NE Syria, and without Turkish and Iraqi support the US would be doomed there, and as we know Turkey can cut US air space access anytime as well as Iraq/Turkey may take a hard stand and control the landline border cross at Semalka near the Turkish border from KRG.
All in one, we are seeing the the decision taken by Russia-Iran-Turkey against US presence in Syria, with a mild support by the Syrian Government (in part because the Syrian Kurds denied any progress in negotiations for the past 6 months in Khmeimim Air Base between Syrian Kurds-Syrian Gov-Russia).
Watch to the Iraq participation in Sochi, there is a very strong feeling Syria-Iraq are playing the Arab Tribes card, all the tribes in Hasaka and Deir ez Zour are the same tribes in Nineveh and Anbar Provinces, split 100 yrs ago by Sykes-Picot. This card may be the missing link to get the Arabs united under the Syrian Government and rebel from SDF.”
Upcoming offensives by the SAA & allies.
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Up coming offensives in Syria:
1) Several fresh troops arrived in the Idlib front, supplies are mounting and new forces arriving every day. All of the forces in Idlib and Southern Aleppo will continue to be under Gen Suheil al Hasan. Most of the ground forces are commenting that a direct route to Saraqib-Idlib will be executed. Maybe few days before the attack starts, so far RuAF has been very active in bombing wahhabeasts all over the area.
2) ISIS/al Qaeda pocket in Hama/Aleppo will be dealt with, Qalamoun Shield, NDF and some other forces are prepping the attack as the weather clears out. Do not expect major attacks, but eastern Hama pocket like advances.
3) ISIS Hunters, 11th Tank division and Iraq militias will start the cleaning of the large area under few ISIS terrorists in western Euphrates, it will be a slow process, I doubt there are more than low hundreds of ISIS there, very limited access to fuel, ammo and armoured vehicles, they have pick ups and are very mobile.
4) Buzz out of East Ghouta of a possible offensive by the SAA and some moderats against ISIS in Yarmouk.”
Syria showdown: Turkey takes aim at Manbij, but Washington says US forces aren’t leaving
https://www.rt.com/usa/417278-us-turkey-manbij-kurds/
“General Joseph Votel, head of the United States Central Command, told CNN on Sunday that withdrawing US forces from the strategically important city is “not something we are looking into.”
Who will blink first, turkey or pindoland?
Israel’s “Safe Zone” Is Creeping Farther Into Syria
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/israel-syria-safe-buffer-zone-golan-heights/
“Israel is expanding its influence and control deeper into opposition-held southern Syria, according to multiple sources in the area. After failed attempts to ensure its interests were safeguarded by the major players in the war next door, Israel is pushing to implement the second phase of its “safe-zone” project — an attempt to expand a buffer ranging out from the occupied Golan Heights deeper into the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daraa. The safe zone expansion marks a move toward deeper Israeli involvement in Syria’s civil war.”
A lot more detail in this long article about israeli involvement with the terrorists operating in southern Syria. It looks like the zionazi plan is for israel to attack from the south, while israel’s pindo pets organize the attack in the north. The turk invasion may be a monkey wrench in the works regarding the israeloamerican northern land grab using their kurd proxies.