https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-march-8-2017-isis-defenses-collapsing-in-aleppo-province/
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The Syrian army’s Tiger Forces, backed by Russian warplanes, reached the Euphrates River in the province of Aleppo, liberating a large chunk of the area from ISIS. The town of Khafsah and the nearby Water Treatment Station were the most important gains.
The liberation of the Khafsah Water Treatment Station will allow the Assad government to restore water supplies to the city of Aleppo which had been disrupted when ISIS terrorists damaged the station.
The ISIS-held Jihar Military Airbase will likely become the next target in the province. While the airbase has a strategic value itself, controlling this site government forces will de-facto encircle the ISIS stronghold of Deir Hafer. This will allow to successfully retake this town from the terrorist group soon.
Russian and US military servicemen closely cooperate in the outskirts of the city of Manbij controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Times reported. According to spokesman for the Pentagon, Jeff Davis, the both forces know about the location of each other in the area but have no desire to enter into a conflict with someone other than ISIS terrorists.
Syrian troops and some Russian military servicemen entered a number of villages west of Manbij, but the official list of these villages remains unclear. Photos show servicemen of the Russian Military Police near Manbij are also available online.
The Syrian army units took control over the al-Amiriyah mountain and the nearby hills located 5km north of the Palmyra Airbase in the province of Homs.
Ahrar Al-Sham and Tahrir Al-Sham reached a ceasefire deal which is aimed to end the infighting between rival terrorist factions in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. The sides have to remove the recently created checkpoints and to release fighters captured in clashes. The groups are also creating a joint body to coordinate military actions against government forces.
Interesting, US – and Russian military beginning to exercise the finishing of war,
an old Russian speciality.
Some additional material on the Manbij arrangements.
How Moscow Just Saved Turkey, the US and the Kurds From Duking It Out in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703081051384230-manbij-buffer-zone-analysis/
Briefly, on the plus side this prevented a fight in Manbij, for now, saving many civilian lives and returned more territory back to government control.
On the negative side, it gave israel’s american proxy a toehold they didn’t have. This could later down the line possibly lead to an israeloamerican “safe zone” used to defend their kurdish proxies and try and carve off Syrian territory. The balkanisation of Syria being a stated zionazi goal, this latter possibility needs to be prevented.
This relates to the discussion about Raqqa in the article above.
US Marines Arrive in Syria to Aid Raqqa Offensive
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703091051388052-usa-marines-arrive-raqqa/
“US marines have arrived in Syria to establish an outpost in support of the operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh terror group, US media reported on Wednesday.
The marines belong to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit that departed from San Diego in October of 2016, The Washington Post reported citing US officials.
The force includes an artillery battery capable of firing 155-millimeter shells from M777 Howitzers, according to the report.”
See also:
US confirms deployment of hundreds of Marines to Syria to fight ISIS
https://www.rt.com/news/379977-us-marines-syria-raqqa/
“We are talking about an additional 400 or so forces in total, and they will be there for a temporary period,” coalition spokesman US Air Force Colonel John Dorrian said, as cited by Reuters.
The deployment is an addition to the existing 500 US forces already in Syria and is aimed at accelerating the defeat of IS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa city, Dorrian said.
According to the official, the additional forces would be working with local partners in Syria – the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Arab Coalition. He stressed they would not have a frontline role.
Dorrian said the new forces comprised a Marines artillery unit and Army Rangers.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-invades-syria/5578671
Trump Invades Syria
Make no mistake: this is big news. And very bad news
By Daniel McAdams
Global Research, March 09, 2017
Ron Paul Institute
Although the Syrian army, with its ally Russia, has made significant gains against ISIS over the past week or so, the Washington Post is reporting tonight that President Trump has for the first time sent regular US military personnel into that country in combat positions.
This is an unprecedented escalation of US involvement in the Syrian war and it comes without Congressional authorization, without UN authorization, and without the authorization of the government of Syria. In short it is three ways illegal.
[…]
Unbelievably sick.
Swedish Doctors for Human Rights: White Helmets Video, Macabre Manipulation of Dead Children and Staged Chemical Weapons Attack to Justify a “No-Fly Zone” in Syria
http://theindicter.com/swedish-doctors-for-human-rights-white-helmets-video-macabre-manipulation-of-dead-children-and-staged-chemical-weapons-attack-to-justify-a-no-fly-zone-in-syria/
These are excerpts from the section about the children.
“An examination of a White Helmets video, conducted by Swedish medical doctors, specialists in various fields, including paediatrics, have revealed that the life-saving procedures seen in the film are incorrect – in fact life-threatening – or simply fake, including simulated emergency resuscitation techniques being used on already lifeless children.
Instead, the only footage is of an enclosed indoor space with no contextual filming to evidence where they are in Syria or that an attack has just taken place. The indoor environment certainly resembles a makeshift hospital emergency room. White Helmet “rescuers” parade in and out, manhandling and maneuvering the limp, lifeless bodies of three children. The naked bodies of these children have no external, visible injuries and do not respond when the various “medics” perform all manner of ostensibly “life-saving” procedures, in a haphazard effort to resuscitate these children.
Dr Leif Elinder, a known Swedish medical doctor profile, author and specialist in paediatrics, summarised the following in his reply: [7]
“After examination of the video material, I found that the measures inflicted upon those children, some of them lifeless, are bizarre, non-medical, non-lifesaving, and even counterproductive in terms of life-saving purposes of children”.
Further, I received a detailed clinical statement from Dr Lena Oske, a Swedish medical doctor and general practitioner. In her statement, Dr Oske referred to the presumed, adrenaline injection, performed in the White Helmet video (excerpt in the photo above). Her specialist opinion dismisses the procedure conducted in the White Helmet video, as unqualified and incorrect. Furthermore, she describes the earlier assessment of the procedure by a colleague who had exclaimed:
“If not already dead, this injection would have killed the child!”
Excerpts from Dr Lena Oske’s statement to SWEDHR: [8]
“Intracutaneous injection with adrenalin may be used if any other resuscitation measure does not succeed. Especially under precarious circumstances – such as in field emergency settings– where safer ways for the administration of medication (i.e. endotracheal, intravenous, or intraosseus) might be difficult or unavailable. But not in the way shown in the video”.
“In order to perform the injection, CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) has to be interrupted, and then the CPR resumed immediately after. Which is not done in the procedures shown in the video.”
And referring to a correct medical procedure, the Swedish specialist MD adds:
“The technique is simple. Long needle, syringe with 1 mg adrenaline, find the 4th or 5th intercostal space and insert the needle just adjacent to the sternum, left side, deposit the medication after checking you are in the right position (aspiration of blood and no resistance), take out the needle and immediately resume CPR! So, the doctor who wrote the comment, ‘If not already dead, this injection would have killed the child’ was right! What a macabre scene; and how sad.” [8]
[Both colleagues, doctors Leif Elinder and Lena Oske, are senior members of SWEDHR, and on behalf of the SWEDHR board I fully endorse each other’s statements.]”
Iraqi Militia Creates Brigade to Liberate Golan Heights From Israel – Spokesman
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703091051390813-iraq-militia-liberate-golan-haeights/
“The Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba movement, Iraq’s Shiite militia organization, has formed a brigade to liberate the Golan Heights from Israel, spokesman for the movement, Seyed Hashem Moussavi said on Wednesday.
He added that “if the Syrian government requests, we are ready to take actions to liberate Golan.”
Meanwhile, war criminal and all round freak netanyahoo is in a panic and making the usual threats.
Netanyahu Says Upcoming Meeting With Putin Vital for Israeli Security
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703091051389186-netanyahu-putin-meeting-important/
“According to the statement, one of the meeting’s goals would be to maintain the coordination between Russian and Israel on the resolution of the conflict in Syria, while the second goal would be for Netanyahu to express Israel’s “strong opposition to the presence of Iranian forces, and those of its proxies, on our northern border and in the Mediterranean Sea in the context of the talks on a settlement of any kind.”
The statement went on to add that Netanyahu would say at the meeting that the Golan Heights, an Israeli-controlled disputed area on the country’s border with Syria, would be off the negotiating table.”
One thing that always boggles my mind watching these videos is the way most of these middle east fighters on whichever side waste ammunition by the ton firing endlessly at nothing in particular. It’s not like they aim and shoot at a target – they just blaze away in the general direction of the supposed enemy until they run out of ammunition. Apparently running out of ammunition, or conserving it until you actually have something to shoot at, never enters their heads. I guess their patrons have bottomless supplies to use up.
A soldier might shoot at a human target, but also at a rock or a bush to deny access by the enemy to an area, keeping them pinned down or controlling where they can move.
In both World War One and World War Two, as well as in the US genocide and invasions of Korea and Vietnam, it was found that fewer than 20% of soldiers will aim to kill. They hope to miss. But if they do kill someone they want it to seem, to them, to have been inadvertent.
The talmudo-satanists, who always profit from war and violence, keep having to find a way around that fact.
Lots of bullets, automatic weapons, saturation bombing, drones and missile attacks are some of the clever wheezes they have found to help them out in their quest.
And training, and video games, desensitizing soldiers. Even so, area denial remains a tactic.
Hollywood too is a key CIA asset. It is during ‘entertainment’ especially that what few critical faculties people have are fast asleep.
A lot of shooting is done simply to keep the other side’s heads down so they can’t return fire.