https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-june-30-2017-government-advance-isis/
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Syrian government forces, backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, have fully secured the important village of Humaima following about a week of clashes with ISIS terrorists in the border area with Iraq. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies continued advancing in the direction of the T2 pumping station in southern Deir Ezzor.
Meanwhile, some pro-government media spread rumors that US-led coalition troops may leave their garrisons in At Tanf and al-Zquf. However, this seems unlikely in the nearest future because the garrisons in the area allow the coalition to control a chunk of the Syrian borders with Jordan and Iraq.
The SAA Tiger Forces, Liwa al-Quds and the National Defense Forces made gains against ISIS east of the Ithriyah-Khanasir road. Government troops have liberated the villages of Al-Shreima, Jadidah and Rasm Askar as well as several strategic hills east of Khansir.
Separately, the Tiger Forces have retaken Bir Abu Al’Allaj and entered the Habbari field area where clashes are now ongoing. ISIS has conducted an attack against the SAA east of Resafa but failed to break the SAA defense.
In eastern Damascus, the SAA advanced in the Ayn Tarma area and took few buildings near Al-Sanabel gas station. The SAA also reached the Ayn Tarma Roundabout and imposed a fire control over it.
Faylaq al-Rahman claimed that it managed to destroy a bulldozer of the SAA with an ATGM in Ayn Tarma. It also claimed to destroy a SAA tank in Jobar district.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the villages of Kasrat Affan and Mustajd Naqib in the southern Raqqah countryside.
An ISIS VBIED targeted a gathering of SDF troops in Al-Mashlabi district. Another VBIED targeted the SDF in Al-Sabahia village west of Raqqa. No confirmed reports about casualties in the SDF ranks are available online.
Summing up the recent events, ISIS is collapsing on multiple frontlines in Syria under the pressure of the SAA and the SDF. At the same time, the so-called moderate opposition backed up by the US and its regional allies are focused on attempts to make some progress against government forces in southern Syria.
US Claims About Possible Chemical Attack in Syria to ‘Hide Its Own Defeat’
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707011055138350-us-claims-chemical-attack/
Commenting on the above reports, Syrian MP Ammar al-Asad, deputy head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Syrian parliament, the People’s Council, told Sputnik Arabic that the new wave of claims about chemical weapons in Syria is needed to distract attention from the “landslide victories of the Syrian army in the Syrian Desert on the border with Iraq and its effective cooperation with the Iraqi People’s Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), (Al-Hashd Al-Sha’abi).”
“The US is using all types of lies and falsifications in the Syrian crisis. At the same time, Israel is advancing in the south, and Damascus has already made sharp statements to Tel Aviv on it. Israel is now escalating the situation in the Golan Heights and Quneitra Governorate in order to seize these areas out of the Syrian control,” he said.
”Sometimes the US and Israel change roles. Tel Aviv is now supporting terrorists in Quneitra Governorate, However they are losing there as the Syrian army is returning control over strategic positions in these regions,” Ammar al-Asad said.
The military who are fighting against Syria need this war. Because they are trading weapons and are bound with the arms corporations. And the US is acting in the interests of Israel, the Syrian MP concluded.”
The Syrians don’t need to be diplomatic about israel or their control of the usa, they don’t have a zionist 5th column.
The Rise and Fall of USIS: inexorable rise from 2011 to 2015 while supposedly being “fought” by NATZO, rapid fall from 2016 to mid 2017 when Russia joins Syrian allies.
https://twitter.com/MmaGreen/status/880855847458484225
Some updates:
Eastern Khanaser Pocket Closed.
“… good news that the MoD decided to announce the liberation of the eastern Khanaser pocket, it has been cleared few days ago as we shared at Syrper comment section. Note that the large pocket was declared free overnight in a lightning speed.
The MoD was waiting for the forces in northeastern Hama to gather (Desert Hawks were the last one), to start the offensive there, they could only do it when the Ithriyah-Resafa could be openly declared safe.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDkGMZAWsAQCCIW.jpg
Continuing News Blackout.
“… The many on going fronts in Syria are dealt with complete news black out, the only info leaving the front are from soldier to family members and yet a glimpse of the reality. Most of the “official” news we hear are 2-3-4 days old.
All the fronts in Syria look really good, it is imperative the SAA and allies deliver a quick death blow in northeastern Hama and central Homs, that would create a solid frontline to the Euphrates, continue from Raqqa to the Iraq border, it would free up tens of thousand soldiers, and I have no doubt it will happen.”
Suweida Pocket & Deir Ezzor.
“… Watch closely the SE Syria frontline as well, the Suweida pocket will not exist passing July. The same with Der ez Zor siege, SAA and allies will get so close to it that the siege will be gone in July, the SAA and allies are battling the “dirt roads” war to get to Der ez Zor.”
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170629005484/en/
Zion is monitoring its business venture ISIS with great interest. The latest numbers, though, are very disappointing for investors. Also known as ‘the Califate’ – unthinkable without Zbig, the father of al-Qaida – ISIS’s territory in Syria shrank by a staggering 60% since its peak in January 2016. The financial situations looks even bleaker. Revenues down 80%.
“The group is unlikely to survive its fourth year,” the report concludes without much fanfare, before switching gears and predicting – despite everything – an unexpectedly bright future for the ISIS enterprise.
“Military defeat and the loss of territory in Syria and Iraq will be insufficient to sway the views of Islamic State supporters…
… Territorial losses are driving the Islamic State to intensify its campaign of terrorist attacks abroad to compensate. “
To compensate? For what?
I heard Joe Atwill describing the sense of humor expressed by the elite, the oligarchs, Zion, as genocidal. Take the last quote and replace ‘Islamic State’ with ‘Zion’ and see for yourself.
What do we get? A thinly veiled declaration of war against half of humanity, no less:
‘Zion will intensify its campaign of terror all over the Western world’, the decoded sentence reads.
Here it comes?
“Free Syrian Army accuses Syrian Army of a new chemical attack”
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/free-syrian-army-anew-accuses-syrian-arab-army-chemical-attack/
Thanks for this, Zena. I have posted it on RSS feeds in Non-fake news. Well-spotted.
Look for around July 8th when the GA meets.
Russia Gathers Evidence Proving Use of Foreign Weapons by Terrorists in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707011055151537-russia-gathers-syria-foreign-evidence/
“A diplomatic source said that Russia gathered incontestable evidence proving the use of foreign weapons and ammunition by terrorist groups in Syria.
Russia gathered incontestable evidence proving the use of foreign weapons and ammunition by terrorist groups in Syria, a diplomatic source told Sputnik on Saturday.
“Russian officers of the Center for Syrian Reconciliation registered on Saturday 48 mortar shelling of the Al-Qabas quarter from the positions of illegal armed formations in Ein Tarma and Jobar. Moreover, they gathered incontestable evidence proving that terrorists use foreign weapons and ammunition — took photos of shatters of the shells produced abroad with serial numbers,” the source said.
Earlier in the day, a number of Syrian opposition internet portals reported that the alleged government troops’ chemical attack in Ein Tarma left 30 militants poisoned. The command of the Syrian Armed Forces denied the allegations calling the reports “false and not consistent with the reality.”
No Stone Unturned? Pentagon Admits Major Flaws in War Casualty Counts
https://sputniknews.com/military/201707021055152834-pentagon-admits-casualty-count-flaws/
“Adding fuel to the fire in documenting the hotly debated collateral damage figures in Washington’s ongoing wars in the Middle East, the Pentagon has admitted that its casualty estimates are not based on witness or victim accounts.
Contained within the transcript of a news conference at the Pentagon, Brigadier General Paul Bontrager, the Deputy Director for Operations with Central Command, stated when they tally the death of innocents in battle, US forces do not attempt to gather information from victims, witnesses or anyone on the ground, relying instead upon in-house estimates based on data recorded by satellite, aircraft and other surveillance platforms.”
In honest talk, the zionazi quislings are selling/promoting war crimes.
What does one do with war criminals of this depraved caliber?
Right.
“Adding fuel to the fire in documenting the hotly debated collateral damage figures in Washington’s ongoing wars in the Middle East, the Pentagon has admitted that its casualty estimates are not based on witness or victim accounts.”
LOL.
In other words, the American military high command behaves according to the “Make Sh*t Up and Lie Through your Teeth” doctrine.
That’s nothing new.
See America’s deceptions about “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq” for even more obvious examples of this behavior.
Zakharova: Propaganda campaign on ‘Damascus using chemical weapons’ is launched
https://www.rt.com/news/394986-propaganda-campaign-damascus-chemical/
“As we warned a few days ago, a media propaganda campaign on the ‘use of chemical weapons by Damascus’ has begun,” Zakharova wrote on Facebook.
Zakharova’s post was accompanied by a screenshot from a video being shared on social media allegedly showing a hospital in eastern Ghouta. The speaker in the video claims the people he is filming have been affected by “chlorine gas used by the regime.”
“There will be more of such videos, and they will be of different quality – either low-grade, like this one or of Hollywood level. There will be many fakes, the planned campaign is a massive one,” the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.”
Russian MP Links Possible Use of Sarin in Syria to Arrival of US Carrier Group
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707021055166551-sarin-syria-us/
“A provocation involving the use of sarin in Syria being prepared by the Jabhat Fatah al Sham terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, may happen in the near future, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich told Sputnik on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, a military-diplomatic source told Sputnik that the Jabhat Fatah al Sham was preparing provocations with the use of the sarin poisonous gas in the towns of Khan Sheikhoun and Kefraya.
“Undoubtedly, this information has a high confidence level. I expect this provocation to happen in the near future,” Klintsevich said.
He said that Russia was working on the issue.
Klintsevich also pointed out the connection between the provocation and the soon arrival of a US carrier strike group to the Syrian shore.
“As soon as it [the group] arrives, the provocation with the use of chemical weapons will occur and the United States will launch an air attack,” the lawmaker said.
In an interview with Sputnik on April 21, Assad characterized the alleged chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun as a provocation to justify the US strike on Ash Sha’irat. The Syrian leader also warned of the possibility of the new provocations similar to the one in Khan Sheikhoun.”
Nusra Preparing Sarin ‘Provocation’ in Syria’s Khan Sheikhoun, Kefraya – Source
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707021055163285-nusra-front-khan-sheikhoun-kefraya/
“The source pointed out that a group of foreign citizens including those from the United States and Turkey as well as one of Jabhat Fatah al Sham’s senior leaders had arrived in Idlib to take part in the preparations for the provocations.
“According to the obtained information, a preparation for organizing a provocation with the use of the sarin poisonous chemical is being carried out in the Al Magarah settlement [the Idlib province], in a big technological building. The shells with this poisonous gas are presumably held in this storage,” the source said.
“There are reasons to believe that this provocation will be committed in the settlements of Khan Sheikhoun and Kefraya. Its goal is to discredit the Syrian government and to wreck the Astana negotiation process scheduled for July 4-5,” the source added.”
‘Israel doing everything to prevent Syria from prevailing against terrorists’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/395002-syria-israel-military-terrorism/
“Investigative journalist Rick Sterling says the situation could escalate, as Israel now seems to be launching cross-border strikes into Syria on an almost daily basis.
“As the Syrian army advances and slowly but surely is crushing the armed opposition, the terrorists within Syria, Israel is escalating its attacks and its intervention. It should be noted that where these projectiles are falling is actually Syrian territory; it is Israeli occupied Syria,” he told RT.
“It is extremely dangerous. It is clearly a violation of Syrian sovereignty. Also, Israel is attacking Syria, even if the so-called projectiles come from the terrorist groups there. So, they’re using this as an excuse, and it has been pointed out that the terrorists can just fire some projectiles into the Israeli occupied territory and get the Israeli to come in and to attack the Syrians in alliance with terrorists,” Sterling said.
The journalist noted that Israel has been actively involved in the Syrian conflict “from the start supporting the terrorist campaign.”
“The former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, who was the ambassador to the US – he said explicitly they would prefer the terrorists to the Syrian government. He said: ‘We’d prefer the people we don’t like, who aren’t associated with Iran to those who are.’ Israel has a lot at stake here. They are hell-bent on preventing the Syrian government from stopping terrorism, because they would view that as basically it’s Hezbollah and Iran in alliance with Syria, which is fighting terrorism in Syria,” he said.
“As the possibility approaches of the Syrian government and their allies prevailing in the conflict, Israel is interceding to do everything they can to prevent that,” Sterling concluded.
Massoud Shadjareh, the chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, has stated that Israel’s retaliation is not justified, while also labeling the latest developments as “extremely dangerous.”
“I think it is now very clear that Israeli government and the military are actively involved against the Syrian government. Around nine months ago there were many photographs and evidence presented that Israeli armed forces and, indeed, medics were bringing these terrorists who are opposing the Syrian government into Israel and giving them medical treatment, and then sending them back. Last month [it was reported] that the Israeli government is involved in financing these rebel groups,” Shadjareh told RT.”
I got/read information that Israeli choppers attacking government forces near the Golan height now