Syrian War Report – July 13-17, 2019: Waiting For New Idlib Offensive
The situation in northwestern Hama and along the entire contact line around the Idlib de-escalation zone has remained stable but tense during the past week. The Syrian Arab Army, the Tiger Forces and their allies have repeatedly engaged in local clashes with Hayat Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and other radical groups. However, no side has undertaken any notable offensive operations.
Fresh satellite images of the Russian Hmeimim airbase showed the deployment of seven Su-24, four Su-25, seven Su-34 and four Su-35 warplanes as well as an A-50 airborne early warning and control, an IL-20 electronic intelligence plane, two IL-76 and an An-30 cargo planes.
The warplanes were all deployed on the airbase’s ramp. This indicates that the hardened aircraft shelters are still under construction. New revetments are being built in the northeastern section of the airbase. These measures are needed to prevent any damage that may be caused by repeated armed drone attacks by militants.
On July 14, a terrorist attack targeted a gas pipeline linking the al-Shaer gas fields in eastern Homs with the Ebla gas plant temporarily knocking it out of service. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, ISIS cells are known to be operating in the Homs desert, south of al-Shaer. Eastern Homs witnessed several attacks by the terrorist group in the last few months.
Earlier, on June 22, a sabotage operation targeted several underwater pipes of the Banias’ oil terminal on the Syrian coast. The attack damaged five oil pipes forcing Damascus to take emergency measures to repair the damaged infrastructure.
A unit of the Russian Military Police survived an attack by an improvised-explosive device (IED) in the southern Syrian governorate of Daraa on July 13, a chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria confirmed. The attack led to no casualties. According to the Russian side, it was carried out by remaining cells of illegal armed groups.
Pro-opposition and pro-Israeli sources immediately speculated that the attack may have been conducted by some Iranian-backed forces. Nonetheless, these speculations were not reinforced by any facts.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) received at least 1,730 trucks loaded with military supplies from the U.S. after the formal defeat of ISIS in northeastern Syria last March, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on July 14.
According to the UK-based monitoring group, the last two shipments included around 280 trucks loaded with logistics and military supplies.
The US decision to continue providing the SDF with military supplies, including armoured equipment, is a demonstration that Washington still considers employing its proxies in some kind of open clashes with other actors involved in the conflict. Taking into account that the US already declared the defeat of ISIS, the only possible targets left are the Syrian government in central Syria and Turkey-led forces in northwestern Syria.
Idlib will be dealt with, don’t worry.
“The US decision to continue providing the SDF with military supplies, including armoured equipment, is a demonstration that Washington still considers employing its proxies in some kind of open clashes with other actors involved in the conflict. Taking into account that the US already declared the defeat of ISIS, the only possible targets left are the Syrian government in central Syria and Turkey-led forces in northwestern Syria.”
ISIS was used by the U.S. as an excuse and placeholder in its war against Syria. ISIL came about under the nose of the U.S. troops in Iraq and where U.S. had the Iraqi army obedient and under its control. As ISIL took over Iraqi army depots, the U.S. was very calm, and in interviews they said they wouldn’t interfere. Some Iraqi military claim they were ordered to leave and retreat from key areas.
U.S. was still calm as ISIS invaded Syria and took over a huge amount of territory. Then when it expanded over much of the desert and low population areas to its max, the U.S. started staging these phony executions of their operatives/propagandists in order to get the U.S. people to condone U.S. going into Syria.
U.S. would only help the non-Syrian forces against ISIS and where they could quickly occupy those areas, while it would bomb and kill Syrian soldiers fighting ISIS.
ISIS, a Mi6 and CIA creation, came out in Iraq in a miles long procession of hundreds of brand new Toyota trucks that all could have been wiped out in a few sorties by the hugely Exceptional US AF.
The Russians would have spent half an hour to turn them into ashes.
Instead, Mosul fell to them for years and Syria was invaded and torn to pieces by them.
These freaks on Captagon (amphetamines) were the penultimate chaos makers unleashed by the satanic Intel agencies and abetted by the professional military of the democratic nations. No virtue of the Western nations survives scrutiny as one parses each battle, each atrocity, each mass execution and beheadings, each crucifixion and callous use of human shields by the takfiris.
The literal rivers of human blood from beheadings, slit throats, mass executions was the fuel of their terror, sanctioned and patronized by Washington, Paris, London, Munich, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Brussels and other governments of EU and NATO.
As the truth of all wars sooner or later becomes know and made permanent history, so will the whole truth of what has transpired in Syria, Libya and Iraq.
Idlib, most likely, will be the moment in history that puts an end to the Syrian catastrophe, though there will be years of counter-insurgency work to wipe out the hangers-on cells of terrorists and others paid to sabotage the reconstruction and civil renaissance of Syria.
ISIS, Daesh, AQ, al Nusra–all are creations underwritten, trained, guided, armed, succored by governments through their Intel Agencies and Militaries.