On November 28, Russian air-defense forces deployed intercepted and destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Russian Hmeimim airbase in the province of Lattakia, according to local sources.
The intercepted UAV was probably an armed UAV launched by militants in a fresh attempt to attack Russian personnel and aircraft deployed at Hmeimim. The resumption of UAV attacks on Russian facilities in Syria is another sign of the wanng influence of the de-militarization agreement on Idlib province. It’s highly unlikely that radical militants are going to abandon their hostile approach anytime soon if a military operation to punish them is not launched.
Cells of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) continue their successful attacks on Turkey-led forces in the area of Afrin. On November 26, 4 members of the Hamza Division militant group were killed and 2 others were injured in an explosion of a YPG-planted IED on the road between the city of Afrin and the town of Basuta.
On the same day near the village of Gubele, the YPG destroyed a vehicle of another militant group, the Levant Front with an anti-tank guided missile.
On November 24, YPG members killed 2 Sham Legion fighters and destroyed their vehicle near the village of Birj Heyder.
Successful YPG operations in Afrin show a significant gap in the security system established by the Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish-backed militants in the area.
On November 28, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that the US had started establishing the first of its observation posts along the Syrian-Turksih border. The first post is reportedly located near Bir Ashiq in northern Raqqah.
With this move, which was announced by Secretary of Defense James Mattis last week, the US is in fact seeking to prevent a possible Turkish military operation against US-backed Kurdish factions in northern Syria.
Hannukah arrives on approximately the 10th December. The date is approximate because ‘no man knows the day nor the hour’ because it depends on sighting the new moon.
In other words, they don’t know the meaning of the word “ephemeris”.
US Military support to Kurds inside Syria:
6700 truckloads of weapons and munitions in recent months.
Turks will have a lot of targets when they make their operational moves against the Kurds.
SDF, YPG, ISIS are the boots on the ground for the CENTCOM strategy to divide Syria and create Kurdistan Syria to connect to Kurdistan Iraq.
Erdogan’s military is not strong enough for that conflict.
And if such a division of Syria occurs, it will be easy for Kurds to break off a chunk of Turkey for their own, also.
At some point, not too distant from now, Erdogan will need Iran-Iraq militias, Syrian Army, Hezbollah and Russian military Aerospace Forces to defeat the Kurds, control his border and maintain the integrity of his sovereign state as a unified nation. His needs align exactly with Assad’s needs, and also with Iraq and Iran’s needs. The Kurds are a menace to four nations under American direction. If they ever gain a state of their own, the Middle East will be altered forever and war will be ceaseless.
Russia has offered a significant solution for Syrian Kurds, but the US has tried at every moment to incentivize their Kurdistan plan. More war, no incorporation into Syrian Republic, and an expansive Kurdish state laid out on a map that the CENTCOM is making a reality.
Thousands of people are going to die and tens of thousands crippled and made homeless. 2019 will be another year of misery if the American plan continues.
My view is Turkey is about to close Bosporus with NATO help. The big hit is in motion. Damascus a smoking ruin. The Dardanelles aflame.
According to what I know of the statutes, closing the Bosporus is an outright declaration of war, not the proxy stuff going on all the time, but the real McCoy.
Is the USA stupid enough to delare war against Russia?
Erdogan has the ego to try, but will be the first to rue the day. And he may have to attempt it too early for his delusional ass to make a deal with anyone…
Your view is most interesting. War by Erdogan against Russia and Syria. And when that ended what would Erdogan gain? Turkey would be gone. NATO would be gone.
What is in flames is such silliness. The big hit?
Do you think an Article 5 war started by Erdogan would simply put Syria and Turkey in ruins and flames?
Brussels, London, North America, West Europe’s bases and capitals, all gone. Like the video game you propose.
Eschatology and rationality need not be aligned. A series of false flags coupled with cognitive and command deficiencies in a crowded theatre seems like an ideal situation for the video game outcome held in such derision.
https://www.unsealed.org/2017/01/the-revelation-12-sign-compendium.html?m=1
You may not agree with some of these peoples beliefs.
But a section of the US evangelical movement does.
Can you afford to mock.? Does the situation behoove you to open your mind a bit to at least understand such a big driver..?
Ha!
This is where Putin’s patient diplomacy pays off. If Putin ran around acting like a gangsta in a Hollywood movie, like many seem to urge him to do, then Russia might be in trouble. But, patient diplomacy between Turkey and Russia means Russia can laugh at this idea.
The Americans tried to kill Erdogon.
During the American-backed coup, Turkish fighter pilots who were a part of the attempt to overthrow the government were going to take their American supplied F-16’s and shoot American supplied air-to-air missiles into Erdogon’s plane as he flew home from a scheduled trip.
Russian intelligence picked up on the plot, and Putin called Erdogon and warned him and thus saved Erdogon’s life.
Russian – Turkey relations have been on a different course since that day.
Everyone knows this story, except the Americans. So, the Americans still look at their computer printouts and see that Turkey is still a member of NATO and they think they can still give orders. Except, Erdogon knows very well who tried to kill him and who saved his life. The Bosporus will remain open to Russian ships.
Old Joe,
Listening to Greek commentaries, I get the nagging thought that the coup may have been Erdo’s doing.
The zionazi-gays staged a new air attack on Syria.
Developing: Syrian air defense attempts to intercept possible Israeli missiles in southwest damascus
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/developing-syrian-air-defense-attempts-to-intercept-possible-israeli-missiles-in-southwest-damascus/
Update: Syrian military says several objects shot down over southwest Damascus
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/update-syrian-military-says-several-objects-shot-down-over-southwest-damascus/
Update: Syrian air defense targets enemy objects above Quneitra
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/update-syrian-air-defense-targets-enemy-objects-above-quneitra/
Videos of the Syrian air defense confronting enemy targets above Damascus
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/videos-of-the-syrian-air-defense-confronting-enemy-targets-above-damascus/
Syrian military says all enemy targets were shot down (photos)
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-military-says-all-enemy-targets-were-shot-down-photos/
WATCH Syrian Air Defences Intercept Hostile Missiles in Sky Over Damascus
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201811301070264247-damascus-missile-strike-interception-video/
The israelis deny they were involved, since the attack failed. Initially, the Syrians thought they shot down an israeli fighter and several missiles. Later they said they were mistaken about the fighter. Apparently all the attacking missiles (or rockets?) were shot down.
@vot tak. Update from Syrper; Canthama BTL #281121:
No IDF jet was downed, SANA has not taken any credit for that. What happened was that IDF jets launched missiles from their jets inside their airspace and over Lebanon, for the 1st time in months, maybe as a bate to see the S300s working. The attack took place SW of Damascus.
The S300s were not used, but the new integrated radar system was, which gave Syria’s AA a huge hand for the 1st time ever. All missiles and drones were hit with a mix of AA based on S125, S200 and Pantsirs. There is no confirmation of the use of TOR system at this time.
The event tonight, was targeted to happen precisely while G20 is meeting (Nov 30th). Hence the sequence: CW attack in Aleppo, Ukro-Nazis suicidal boats, and of course Apartheid Regime baiting the S300s.
The Empire of Chaos and its minions are crumbling, they know they are losing and must feel very disturbing for them….but it hasn’t begun yet for them actually.
The key sentence here is:
“The S300s were not used, but the newly integrated radar system was, which gave Syria’s AA a huge hand for the 1st time ever. All missiles and drones were hit with a mix of AA based on S125, S200 and Pantsirs.”
DNGM
Thanks for quoting the analysis from Canthama.
“Hence the sequence: CW attack in Aleppo, Ukro-Nazis suicidal boats, and of course Apartheid Regime baiting the S300s.”
All connected. The zionazi-gays have moved to the next level in their war against the planet.
Gas in Aleppo, Stranger than Truth
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/11/29/gas-in-aleppo-stranger-than-truth/
This suggests to me that relationship between Turkey and USofA has significantly improved. It must also have something to do with worsening situation between Greece and Turkey. Turkey needs to bribe the USofA to drop any possible support for Greece, just as Kissinger did it in 1974 in Cyprus.
I often wonder about: when is Greece going to smarten up, dump nato and join Russia.I guess Greece is so enslaved that it’s stuck in this quagmire.
Syria Accuses Israel of Supporting Terrorists Following Alleged Air Attack
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201811301070280152-syria-israel-attack-un-letter/
“The Syrian foreign ministry has sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General and the president of the UN Security Council containing a blistering criticism of the United States and Israel over their regular aggression inside Syrian territory.
Focusing its attention on Friday’s US-led coalition attack on the village of al-Safa, which led to the deaths of over 30 civilians, as well as the Israeli air forces’ alleged Thursday strikes, the letter argued that the strikes “clearly reflect the US’s disregard for humanitarian values and its confempt for international law.”
“The creation of the US coalition is completely contrary to the principles and foundations of international law,” the letter, cited by the Ikhbariya TV channel, said. “These repeated attacks continue the episodic aggression against the sovereignty, unity and security of Syrian territory, and their goals are similar to regular Israeli attacks, the last of which was carried out over the al-Kiswah area south of Damascus. This is just another piece of evidence that Israel supports terrorist groups and is trying to prolong the conflict in Syria.”
“Syria condemns these crimes and repeated acts of aggression and calls on the UN Security Council to take immediate measures to end and condemn them,” the letter stressed.”
US Allies France, Poland Eager to Help Turkey Bypass Pentagon Chopper Engine Ban
https://sputniknews.com/military/201811301070287307-turkey-may-replace-us-chopper-engines-with-french-polish-ones/
“However, in a move which Turkish defence procurement officials described as “purely political,” the Pentagon refused to provide Ankara with the engines amid escalating tensions between the two countries in recent months.
The withheld engines were believed to be part of Washington’s punishment of Ankara for its refusal to back out of its S-400 air defence system deal with Moscow, as well as tensions over US support for Kurdish militants in northern Syria, the Turkish refusal to support US sanctions against Iran, and other issues, such as Ankara’s detention of a US pastor and Washington’s protection for an Islamist cleric Ankara believes orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt.
Now, according to Hurriyet, engine makers in France and Poland have each expressed an interest in replacing the US and UK-built engines with French or Polish-made ones, with Turkish officials said to have received a “positive response” from both. Earlier, a senior Turkish defence official told Russian media that a Chinese engine maker was being considered as well.”
Syrian Arab Army, half hour ago:
“Before yesterday’s “Israeli” attempts to attack SAA yesterday, and also throughout the day, three spy plans were detected around Syrian airspace. They never entered Syrian Airspace, but flew sorties that extended from over the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, to Northern Palestine and all the way to Northeast Jordanian airspace.
The three planes were:
US-Operated Boeing P-8A Poseidon (168764) AE4EC9
NATO-Operated Boeing E-3A Sentry 4D03C8 LX-N90450
Israel-Operated Gulfstream Aerospace GV 738A4A 679
Those who think Syria is being attacked by a little country called “Israel” alone are mistaken. Those who believe that if Syria goes to war with “Israel” today it will not thereby be warring with NATO including the US are delusional.
Syrian Arab Army”
[This SAA communique is a sharp reminder that “Israel” is not only that little Multi-National implant in the Middle East; it is, more importantly, the widely distributed financial head and political control system of the EU$A and the Anglo$phere].