Last weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces, the 4th Armorued Division and other pro-government units delivered a devastating blow to the defense of militant groups in the eastern part of the Eastern Ghouta region, near Damascus.
Government forces liberated al-Shaffoniya, Beit Nayem, al-Rayhanah, al-Muhammadiyah and other points and deployed within about 3.5 km of dividing the militant-held area into two separate parts.
Jaish al-Islam, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Ahrar al-Sham and Faylaq al-Rahman were not able to organize an effective defense there. However, pro-militant sources claim that the SAA and its allies had suffered significant casualties – about 150 soldiers. This number is not confirmed by photos or videos.
On Monday, government forces advanced further attacking militant positions in the areas of Mersaba and Beit Sawa. Should the SAA liberate them militant groups will have little chances to achieve a kind of victory in the ongoing battle.
Reports are circulating that the 5th Assault Corps and Liwa al-Quds have been also deployed to Eastern Ghotua to support the SAA offensive.
Over the last few days, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have retreated from the villages of Ramadiyah, Sheikh al-Hadid, Mistekan, Hajji Khalil, Rajo and other settlements in the Afrin area under pressure from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
On March 4, the Kurdish Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the YPG had killed 9 Turkish special operations soldiers in the Rajo disitrict. On the same day, the TAF’s general staff said that 2,688 so-called terrorists had been neutralized in the Afrin operation.
A limited presence of pro-government National Defense Forces in Afrin was note enough to stop the Turkish advance. A comprehensive deal between the YPG and Damascus has still not been reached.
In western Aleppo and southern Idlib, clashes are still ongoing between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Syrian Liberation Front, a coalition of Ahrar al-Sham and Nour al-Din al-Zenki. According to local sources, HTS is steadily taking an upper hand in this standoff.
On the Lamentable Situation of the Afrin Canton:
“[…] the Afrin’s leaders did not re embrace Syria, did not accept the terms to hand over the administrative part of the canton to the Syrian institutions and did not allow the SAA to get into the canton. Only NDF from Nbul and al Zahraa could get into Afrin but this is not enough to fight the turkish regime and its terrorists. NDF losses will happen and will continue to happen, maybe they will decide soon to leave Afrin.
Afrin’s leaders and its YPG leaders are fully accountable to lose 30% of the canton to Turkey (won’t return it to Syria as Antakya) and soon this nbr will grow to 40-50%. Afrin’s choice was to be enslaved by the turkish instead of re embracing Syria. Let be clear to all Syrian Kurds what their leaders are doing and show that their alliance to NATO means only one thing, enslavement to NATO thru the turkish regime.
The SAA focus is to liberate East Ghouta, it must be done now so 400,000 civilians are liberated, a large NATO backed terrorists are killed and neutralized, so Damascus can be safer and many dozens of embassies can return to operate in Syria. This is needed so the Syrian Government returns to be globally recognized by the Diplomatic personnel. The SAA will not get distracted to save Afrin since its own people elected to be turkish slaves.
Afrin will become even uglier in the next few weeks.”
Green Buses for Jewish Mafia Military Advisors Deployed in Easth Goutha?
“As it happened in eastern Aleppo, the US/UK/France/KSA/Jordan/Israel are desperately trying to save their operatives from East Ghouta, mind that these countries supporting terrorists of the worst kinds had their operative for years in Ghouta where they performed 2013 CW attack, killed countless civilians, directed attacks toward Syrian bases and trained the terrorists in the use of advanced weapons.
In Eastern Aleppo a deal was broken and their operatives left in busses from al Shahba park, windows shaded, few may remember those scenes.
Same is happening right now, to make it happen, US/UK/France/KSA/Jordan/Israel will try to force their hands in a false flag to negotiate what they need, the same happened in Aleppo (UN convoy was destroyed by al Qaeda under US/UK/France direct orders).
The UN knows every detail of it and never ever did anything about, only to complain about the Syrian Government, as the UN is doing now in Ghouta.
Take a deep breath, these deals make anyone sick, these operatives deserve to be publicly paraded for the whole world know about them and the countries behind their support to global terrorism, and executed in public as foreign spies that killed innocent Syrian civilians.”
Elijah J. Magnier
6 hours ago
Humanitarian aids were allowed in Ghouta by Jihadists (blocked for 6 days at Wafedeen crossing waiting for Jihadists to agree):
24 trucks with 5500 food portions
16 trucks with medical support
6 trucks with 5000 tons of wheat
Latest:
” The frontline is dynamic, the terrorists also counter attack and sometimes a village shift sides, east Ghouta saw a lot of shifts in the early stage of the offensive. Al Rayhan is a current example of shifting sides few times, even few hours ago.
Right now it is safe to say there are many villages with minimum amount of terrorists, with the sole objective to delay the main SAA forces, that is the case of many farms, Hawsh al Ash’ari, Hawsh Qubaybat, Aftris among others.
Today, several reports indicate that Muhammadiyah has been finally liberated, which in part places Hawsh al Ash’ari and Hawsh Qubaybat as impossible to be defended by the terrorists, so we will hear soon either the SAA is inside them or they were liberated.
The midlands area was the heart of the terrorists, this is where they used to feel safe for over 6 years, all the 3 villages that will soon be facing the Tiger Forces and RGs, Mesraba, Beit Sawa and Hamouriyah (near where Alloush was sent to hell), were the key areas they held their families, this is basically over now, these towns are under shelling at the moment and some are trying to negotiate their preservation which we know it is very unpopular attempt with the terrorists.”
Mailman here. On SyrPer 3hr ago Bundy reports SAA outflanking the expensively built defenses for NATZO’s terrorists in E.Ghouta, and US citizen PacificNorthWest applauds the brilliant move: “capture of Beit Naem is significant and offers promising tactical possibilities.captured the fortified town of Ar- Rayhan and began to outflank militants’ defensive line between Muhammadiyah and Jisreen
The areas south of Ain Terma + Jisreen are heavily fortified.
Today’s advance will enable #SAA to bypass enemy defenses and attack them on the right flank + rear areas”