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The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allied local militias have kicked off an advance on ISIS positions in the eastern part of al-Suwayda province. It’s interesting to note that some former units of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which has reconciled with Damascus, are participating in the advance.
The SAA artillery and the Syrian Air Force carried out about 50 strikes on ISIS targets in the areas of al-Waer, Ard al-Karaa, Mazrea al-Hhatib, Sneim al-Ghirz and east of Dabatheh, Rabbet al-Hisn and Tel Razin.
The Syrian media says that ISIS suffered heavy casualties in these strikes, but no photos or videos to confirm these claims were released.
The goal of the ongoing operation is get rid of ISIS cells hiding in the desert. In July, these cells carried a series of sensitive attacks in the government-controlled areas thus triggering the decision to deal with them as soon as possible.
In early August, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and Jabhat al-Wataniya lil-Tahrir, an alliance of militant groups created with Turkish assistance, started a wide-scale effort to crack down on supporters of reconciliation with the Damascus government in the province of Idlib.
According to local sources, militant groups have already arrested at least 60 civilians and local figures who support a deal with Damascus to put an end to hostilities.
These developments are an obvious attempt by militant groups to undermine a possible peace process in the Idlib de-esclation zone. According to some sources, Turkey, which is one of the guarantor states of the de-escalation zones deal reached in Astana, has behind the scenes been encouraging militants in their effort.
Recently, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared that they had established full control of the Syrian-Iraqi border on the eastern bank of the Euphrates defeating ISIS terrorists there. However, the SDF security situation is still ongoing in the area because a notable amount of ISIS cells are still in operation there.
Huge convoy of 200+ US Coalition trucks enter eastern Syria (video)
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/huge-convoy-of-200-us-coalition-trucks-enter-eastern-syria-video/
Supposedly to fight daesh, but more likely reinforcements for the units refusing to reconcile with the Syrian government.
Russian envoy, Kurdish delegation discuss war on terror and situation in Syria
http://tass.com/politics/1016237
“The meeting focused on the discussion of the current issues on the Middle East agenda with special attention being paid to the Kurdish issue regarding the developments in Iraq and Syria, in particular the task to consolidate global efforts in the fight against ISIS (a former name of the Islamic State, outlawed in Russia – TASS) and other terror groups,” the ministry informed.
The delegation members also informed the deputy minister on the results of the conference of the International Federation of Kurdish Communities, highly evaluating the level of “cooperation and solidarity between representatives for Kurdish non-government associations, including in Russia and Central Asia.”
American and Israeli state-sponsored terrorism against Syria continues apace.
Move along, nothing to see here….
In the Last 24 Hours: More US, Israeli Weapons Found in Terrorists’ Positions in Southwestern Syria
https://syria360.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/in-the-last-24-hours-more-us-israeli-weapons-found-in-terrorists-positions-in-southwestern-syria/
Middle East Intelligence Official: Mossad Behind Syrian Rocket Chief Car Bomb
https://sputniknews.com/world/201808071067020730-mossad-history-syria-assassinations/
“It’s been reported a senior Middle East intelligence agency official has blamed Israel’s controversial intelligence agency Mossad for the assassination of a top Syrian rocket scientist.
Mossad apparently targeted Azbar as it was suspected he headed a classified weapons development program — Sector 4 — at the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center. The Center in Masyaf has repeatedly been the target of Israeli airstrikes — one attack in April killed a number of staff stationed there.
The official alleged Israel had been tracking Azbar for years, wanting to assassinate him over his prominent role in Syria’s weapons program prior to the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011. It’s allegedly the fourth time in three years Mossad has assassinated a weapons engineer in a foreign country. For instance, a Hamas rocket scientist was shot dead in Malaysia in April, and a drone engineer was killed in Tunisia in December 2016.
Whether Mossad is responsible for Azbar’s executions or not, it’s unquestionable the Israeli state is responsible for killing more people than the agents of any other state since World War II.
As Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman has documented, the number of deaths attributable to Tel Aviv will never be known for certain, but undoubtedly run to thousands — after all, Israeli operatives have carried out around 800 assassinations in the past decade alone. He argues the Talmudic direction “if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first” has been the spying agency’s guiding principle since the state of Israel’s establishment in 1948.
Often, these slayings are luridly elaborate, using resources evoking the improbable lethal gadgetry of James Bond novels and films. For instance, in January 1978, after six years subject a Mossad ‘kill order’, Wadie Haddad — founder of the far-Left Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — was killed via poisoned toothpaste. A Mossad agent — known as ‘Sadness’ (interesting, there is a comment writer at this site who uses the same name, is it a homage to this zionazi war criminal? – vt) infiltrated Haddad’s inner circle, and switched his toothpaste for an identical tube laced with a deadly toxin, developed in a secret Israeli laboratory.
Every time the man brushed his teeth, a tiny quantity of the toxin worked its way through his gums into his bloodstream, and slowly but surely, he started dying. He was eventually flown to hospital in East Berlin, but he died in agony ten days later, bleeding from every orifice.
These state-backed hits haven’t always been successful, however. In another fantastical operation in 1968, directly inspired by conspiracy thriller film The Manchurian Candidate, Mossad hired a Swedish-born psychologist to brainwash a Palestinian prisoner into murdering Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
The psychologist spent three months hypnotising the subject, with the simple message — “Arafat bad. He must be removed”. The prisoner, known as Fatkhi, was also trained to shoot pictures of the popular Palestinian leader, hidden in a specially prepared room
In December that year, Mossad smuggled him across the River Jordan, from where he was supposed to infiltrate Arafat’s headquarters. Five hours later, they received some bad news — Fatkhi had gone to a police station and accused Israeli agents of trying to brainwash him.”
The article goes on to describe other israeli terror ops.
Clearing the Syrian Desert from ISIS.
” The Operation to clear the Syrian desert east of Suweida from ISIS is on going as reinforcements continue to pour into the area, yesterday the SAA had penetrated deep in ISIS territory and today more advance is happening, it is hard to know the pocket size but the map below tries to indicate it as best as possible.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32.971804&lon=37.098083&z=10&m=b&gz=0;368114089;327191324;5465698;2365402;2193833;1685275;841141;0;621409;906518;223159;1728515;0;2500787;2362060;2993190;2547453;3445037;2550887;3447916;2162932;4724489;3367993;5006008;4137040;3994427
Based on the latest advances, ISIS may be completely encircled in several areas. Air attack is concentrated at the al Safa volcano, key ISIS stronghold at the moment.” (Canthama)
ISIS Hunting in Eastern Suweida Coming to an End.
” the Operation Dignity in eastern Suweida and SE Damascus Provinces are heading toward the end, the main target was to push ISIS away from the inhabitant areas in Suweida, deep in the desert and cut ISIS off from al Tanf. IN the past 3 days the SAA and some elite RGs have done exactly that, and today al Safa volcano was fully liberated, this was ISIS main gathering spot. ISIS will be annihilated to the last one now. The ops will be done in few days max.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=32.970652&lon=36.813812&z=10&m=b&gz=0;368213653;328092074;0;2034866;322723;0;2465057;1211107;2966308;1735406;1414489;1977285
The video below represents well what this Operation Dignity is all about, it is a slow hunting party, checking cave by cave to kill ISIS terrorists. Check out the SAA soldiers long frontline, spread out in the desert with tank/BPM support.” (Canthama)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7v5BrqiKg&feature=em-uploademail
Details of the Upcoming Idlib Campaign.
” It is confirmed the arrival of the core Tiger Forces in NW Syria, it seems positioned to advance toward the al Ghab plains and key objective is to liberate Jisr al Shughur. The most important battle will be to gain control of Kabanah area, the loss of Kabanah will create a ripple effect all the way tot he turkish border and al Ghab plains. It is expected some 2-3 different axis of attacks, all eastern frontline in Idlib has seem thousands of SAA arriving in the past few days
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=35.717458&lon=36.234713&z=14&m=b
Once the battle to annihilate ISIS in the Syria desert ends, the on going preparation to the offensive toward Idlib will be intensified, with thousands more troops pouring into the area.
It is expected that khara will hit the fan between terrorists’ factions in Idlib before that, daily news of dozens of civilians being arrested due to the desire for reconciliation with the Syrian Gov’t, over 100 cities and villages are ripe to reconcile, with many terrorists willing to lay down their weapons, so before any offensive, a intra terrorist civil war is expected.” (Canthama)