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The self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS has suffered a double blow in Syria and Iraq. While US-backed forces were democratically negotiating with ISIS-linked Arab tribes in the Omar oil fields and nearby areas, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces and the Republican Guard supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces undemocratically crushed the ISIS defense inside Deir Ezzor city. On November 3, Syrian forces liberated Deir Ezzor after they had retaken all neighborhoods which were controlled by ISIS terrorists in the northern part of the city. On November 4, the SAA secured Kati’ Island north of Deir Ezzor and secured the recent gains.
The SAA lifted the three-years long ISIS siege from Deir Ezzor city on September 5 and from Deir Ezzor Airport on September 10. Government troops needed less than a month to liberate the entire area.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) often referred by the mainstream media as “Iranian proxies” broke the ISIS defense in the al-Qaim countryside. Iraqi forces liberated the town on November 3.
Thus, al-Bukamal remained the only major town controlled by ISIS on the highway between Deir Ezzor and Baghdad. As soon as the Syrian part of highway is liberated by the SAA and its allies, Iraq and Syria will establish a constant major supply line between two countries. Thus, the last gap in a land route linking Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon will be filled.
Furthermore, a Russian-made T-90 battle tank and a Shilka vehicle equipped with the Syrian-made Sarab-1 active protection were spotted near al-Qaim inside Iraq. The both equipment pieces were operated under the flag of Kata’ib Hezbollah. Kata’ib Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militia. It’s a part of the PMU and operates in both Syria and Iraq. In Syria, the group actively supports military operations of the Damascus government.
This is a clear evidence that Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran and Moscow coordinate their efforts against ISIS in the Syrian-Iraqi border area.
On November 1, November 2, November 3 and November 4, Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers conducted massive strikes on ISIS weapons depots, fortified positions and command posts near al-Bukamal. Russia’s attack submarine Kolpino also launched six Kalibr cruise missiles on ISIS positions in the area on November 3.
These strikes took place amid the ongoing Syrian advance on al-Bukamal. The SAA and Hezbollah are advancing on the town from the T2 pumping station direction and the Tiger Forces are advancing from the direction of al-Mayadin. According to local sources, ISIS members are in disarray in the town. So, it will not take many time from Syrian forces to liberate it.
As soon as al-Bukamal and Rawah, the ISIS-held Iraqi town on the eastern bank of Euphrates, are liberated, ISIS’ Caliphate will be officially defeated in Syria and Iraq. ISIS will become a common terrorist group without a unified control over territory and governing bodies.
According to local sources, right now a large number of ISIS members, especially foreigners, are fleeing Syria and Iraq. The former ISIS members will soon appear in their countries of origin across Europe, North Africa, Asia and Middle East. The ISIS leadership may also make attempt to use some African or Asian countries, like Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Malaysia, Philippines, Afghanistan and others, to establish new rear bases and training camps. However, without an independent source of revenue, like illegal oil trading, this effort will be unsuccessful without an additional support of some powers interested in spreading instability in the particular regions.
ISIS, in form of a terrorist state, is witnessing its last days. However, this does not mean that Syria and Iraq will face calm soon. There are still lots of ISIS sleeper cells and former ISIS supporters in these countries, a Syrian al-Qaeda branch (now known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) controls Idlib, and the Kurdish-Arab tensions are smoldering in northern Syria and Iraq. These issues cannot be ignored and will become an important part of the post-ISIS standoff in the region.
Say goodbye ISIS and hello dozens of newly formed US backed terrorist groups.
eg
“Militant-affiliated websites reported on Friday that hundreds of Chinese terrorists trained by the Turkish intelligence officers have arrived in Northern Hama after intensifying clashes between the Syrian Army and Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at or the Levant Liberation Board).”
and more –
“two groups of Jeish al-Izzah and Jeish Idlib Hor, affiliated to the FSA, united with al-Nusra.”
and
Meantime, the FSA-linked Ferqat al-Wosta group also engaged in clashes with the Syrian army in Northeastern Hama
And the FSA and SDF and more coming onstream fresh from training with billions in top end weapons .
Do we even know how many terrorist groups there are and does it matter anyway if they are all on the US payroll attacking the Syrian government?
Syria has been partitioned.
Time to come clean.
I’ve noticed recently as the israeloamerican terrorist proxies are getting mopped up, and their end approaches, the sort of commenters who specialize in sowing a defeatist pov have doubled down in their efforts here. I suspect other sites are seeing a similar psywar campaign.
This resort to defeatist spamming is one of those indirect indications of the desperation and helplessness being felt among the zionazi ranks. :-D
There certainly isn’t any defeatism or spam or a psywar.
Yes the SAA are battling the terrorists in central Syria – but even there with very mixed success.
At Almasdarnews
“DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:40 P.M.) – On Monday, the Syrian Al-Qaeda branch and a couple Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions gathered all available fighters for a major joint counter-offensive in the northeastern countryside of Hama.
Targeting a rural area just north of the M42 Highway that was captured by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in recent weeks, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS/Al-Qaeda) and the FSA’s Jaish Al-Nasr and Central Division managed to retake the towns of Al-Baleel and Umm Turaykiyeh in the afternoon, reportedly using a chemical substance to kick off the offensive.”
and
At Almasdarnews
“BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham launched a powerful assault in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate, today, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions near the key town of ‘Atshan.
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s assault would prove successful, as their forces managed to seize two towns from the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF). ”
And that’s in the area of Syria considered under government control !
Fact – the country is totally occupied by the US and US mercenaries east of the Euphrates (check a map it’s about 25% of Syria.)The Russian MOD/SAA would be a better source as physically there fighting. Mod
Also the north of Syria is occupied by Turkey, Again, please stop making sweeping statements. Mod which is also launching fresh terrorists to attack the government forces.and is busy building some 8 bases. We’ll see what happens there.
If you look back at any of my posts over months you’ll see I have been consistent in my support for Syria and the multipolar project everywhere including standing up for the DPRK when other people were rubbishing it.
You and I are on the same side.
But I can see what is really going on in Syria simply because I go to the trouble of digging down a bit and I never just say something without having checked it out and sources.
You will notice I never quote western media because I don’t trust it.
What I am trying to get across in my own modest and I realise insignificant way is that we all need to wake up to the truth about Syria and not just selectively believe that SAA victories ae the whole story because the bigger picture is – imho – not looking good at all.
What is my own opinion on all this? Simple, Syria needs more help and the US must be confronted. Not an easy answer I fully agree but my view.
Hope this clears up any developing misunderstanding.
fraternally
Please note any personal attacks will go to trash. Mod
Farewell ISIS, Hello N.A.T.O. If you are strong enough, then Go and Deal with the N.A.T.O.
This is as simple as “Николай Давай, Давай”.
This seems premature.
Any military end to ISIS in Iraq depends on cooperation between the Peshmega and regular Iraqi forces. Now that Bagdad/Tehran has ended the ability of those forces to work together the only question is when (not if) ISIS reforms and reappears in Iraq.
It will take serious effort, sweat, tears and loss of life, but Syria will be completely liberated. Don’t think that SAA, RF, Iran and Hezbollah will accept any other outcome after having fought so hard and come so far… Anglozionist twats and their minions better get used to this certainty.
4 Russian journalists, 5 servicemen injured in blast in Syria – MoD
https://www.rt.com/newsline/408954-russian-jouranlists-military-injured-syria/
“Four journalists working for Russian TV channels NTV and Zvezda and five Russian servicemen have been injured in an explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by terrorists in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry said. All those injured received the necessary medical aid, a spokesman for the ministry told the news agency, adding that “their lives are out of danger.”
Gotta luv those trumpettes and their idea of having better working/diplomatic relations with Russia.
No way this wasn’t organized and carried out by israeloamerican special ops offal.
Russian journalists and servicemen wounded in Syria return home
http://sana.sy/en/?p=117399
Speaking about a Salafist & Wahabist state collapsing: What’s with the Saudi internal purge? Two “princes” have been killed in the last 24 hours, blowhard bin-talaal has be been arrested. We need saker analysis on this really interesting development (or at least by a subject matter expert on Saudi Arabia, the gulf and Mideast).
Is it really a “Montezuma’s revenge” style “purge” or is it just a case of loud political flatulence (ie just a lot of noise)?
The ISIS project is indeed done- discarded by the Deep State as long past its ‘use by’ date. Indeed the zionists and wahhabi leadership consider they got far more use out of ISIS than they ever dared to dream when it was first conceived.
Now comes the next Deep State project, and the next, and the next and the next. All designed to be vastly more deadly. And zionist trolls, passing themselves off as ‘anti-zionist’ will call anyone who points to the new forms of immediate danger “defeatist”. It is the oldest zionist trick to pat their enemy on the back and say “well done old chap, you’ve beat us fair and square” while discarding the now used up method, and preparing all the groundwork for the next stage. The zionist needs you to let down your guard- hence the use of the phrase “defeatist”.
Paris fell to the Viking invaders because Viking agents in Paris constantly described those who stated a need to improve the defenses as “defeatist”. Obviously a true ‘patriot’ would be proud of the existing defenses and proclaim them to be more than good enough. It’s an old old trick- one used by certain ‘bad pennies’ who keep turning up in these comments.
Remember, pro-zionist comments are not welcomed here, so zionist agents have to pass themselves off as ‘anti-zionist’ anyway. The ‘information war’ never ends. And if they’ve done their job properly, some of them will now be moderators- a tactic that was used to destroy Zerohedge as one of the few decent American-based discussion forums on the net (a rabid zionist gained a moderator position at zerohedge, and immediately started banning literate posters,and started a war against other moderators over the ‘pro-Russian’ nature of so many of the promoted articles. He was 100% successful, and after he was unmasked and left the owners of zerohedge kept his anti-russian policies).
Years earlier a similar thing happened at CommonDreams- a left leaning liberal outlet that was one of the few to criticise Israel. It allowed free comments. One comment poster kept leaving rabidly anti-jewish posts under stories about Israel, and eventually CommonDreams was so bothered by this they blocked comments and tried to track down this poster to engage with him. To their shock (yet oh so predictable), the young male was actually a zionist agent working on behalf of the Israeli government to close down free comment about Israel on english speaking sites. Even though CommonDreams discovered it was zionists who trolled their comments posing as anti-zionists, they rewarded the zionists by eliminating free comments for all time, and by reducing their coverage of Israeli crimes to near zero.
Those using the same tactic here are actually having some success- but thankfully not much. But all it takes is one rogue moderator- and other foreign language versions of this blog have already been hit harder by such methods
The worst troll here is always writing to say how it (for they are usually a collective who take it in turns to monitor a ‘problem’ outlet) can spot the rest of us as ‘trolls’ by our ‘defeatist’ content. Because, of course, the facts we need to spot in order to defend Humanity are ‘defeatist’. Like how it would have been ‘defeatist’ ***before*** War started in Syria to point out all the preparation the Deep State had made for that war. The true zionist hates the saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, for such a saying encourages the ‘goyim’ to monitor acts of evil against Greater Humanity and to act early enough to prevent the horrors ever playing out.
Today seven nations are flying with zionist terrorists in the foul apartheid state of Israel as part of their biggest air drills ever. Included are France, Germany and Italy as well as the United States, Greece and Poland. And India.
India, Italy and Greece. India, Italy and Greece. What the hell have these three nations got to do with the jewish terrorist state? How does judaism even connect to India or to Greece or to Italy?
This is how deep the game really goes, and why desperate pro-Israel people are calling people ‘defeatist’ here today. They want you looking anywhere but at the emerging new threats- and they want you thinking about anything ***but*** the powers behind these threats. They want you aware of the new games only when it is too late to do anything to stop them.
So you are going to hear a lot of “shut up your whining and sing the praises of the Russian ‘victory’ in Syria”. If you re-read animal farm you’ll see how many times the pigs use exactly this ploy against the other animals every time the other animals try to contemplate their future.
And as I type, the BBC, on its ‘serious’ news program is talking about how right Trump is for planning to attack Iran, and how the ‘master race’ of Israel is allowed nukes, but Israel must be allowed to destroy Iran if Iran seems likely to get nukes. I’m not joking. The BBC journo is stating this is the official position of the BBC, and represents the policy of all the major powers of the West. This is why you will be called ‘defeatist’ by certain comments here if you express these facts, and this is why the same posters are part of a collective desperate to get their people as moderators on this site.
Syrian has a future of massive car bombs, sabotage and assassination, as the same ‘sectarian’ violence becomes commonplace in ‘post-war’ Syria as we witness in Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan. Yet some ingeneously proclaim this will be a ‘paradise on Earth’ for the Syrian people.
No one here has denied the Russain success in wiping out the conventional military islamic terror forces in Syria- yet certain comments claim just this. These particular comments attack,and encourage the moderators to attack, other comments that don’t follow the simplistic ‘party line’- as if there is a party line here, which has never been the case. Animal Farm tells the origin of the ‘party line’ in a ‘forum’ that can be said to begin much like this blog.
Look at those 7 nations flying with Israeli terrorists practicing for war on Iran. The Gulf Wars and Libya War tell us that Israel will not be allowed to directly participate in the Iran war- Israel will be too busy exterminating Human life in Gaza and Lebanon anyway. But the friends of Israel, including India, Greece and Italy, are the ***enemies*** of Syria, Iran and Russia. The coming war on Iran, which will most certainly spill into Syria allowing the West to bomb Syria in a way they have been prevented for the last three years, will be fought by an alliance bigger than those which fought the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan after 911.
Saudi Arabia has just witnessed a palace coup by a West backed strongman that the BBC dishonestly calls a ‘liberal reformer’ cos he offered to change the law and allow (some) women to drive. But that law change was to mask an extreme wahhabi warmongering coming to power – a warmonger that has agreed to allow Saudi Arabia to be a conduit excuse to war on Iran.
Yesterday this warmonger, using British RAF pilots flying under Saudi colours, saturation bombed the capital city of Yemen and stated that Iranian assistance to the Humans of Yemen was a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.
Most Saudi leaders may be rotten, but they know what will happen to their nation if it attacks Iran. Iran can do little to defend itself, but it can launch tens of thousands of ground-to-ground missiles at targets across KSA. The palace coup in Saudi Arabia has placed in power a Deep State puppet who is willing to sacrifice Saudi Arabia. And this event changes everything.
Look, I sometimes think we forget where all this really started- with 911. Think about that false flag. Not in Russia, or KSA or even Israel but in Britain II, the USA itself. The Deep State slaughtered two giant skyscrapers full of people in their own homeland. Had the entire press parrot a laughable official conspiracy theory, made even more hilarious by blaming Saudi terrorists from the one regime Blair and the USA would say must never be punished in reprisal. The people who did 911 can and will do anything to further their plans, without any concept of Human mercy. And the BBC announced the impossible collapse of WTC7 minutes before the event, just to rub our faces in their audacity.
The architects of 911 have gone from strength to strength from that day- a fact some here would like you to forget. The BBC and Blair were at the forefront of 911, far moreso than any American entity. Indeed it was Blair and not any US politician, who toured the world rallying support for military action on the back of 911. And it was the BBC that propagandised 911 more than any other network on the planet.
Today Blair and the BBC lead the call for war on Iran. While Americans seem ‘rabid’ on the issue and thus lose support for the plan, prim and proper ‘brits’ sell this war so much better. But you, and you, and you are being told it is ‘defeatist’ to look beyond the conventional military success of Russia in Syria.
And another thing. The Deep State uses a very simple method in forums like this one. It tells members they are all on the same side and must thusly have each other’s backs. But we are not all on the same side. As I said, zionists posing as anti-zionists post here – not least because presenting a pro-zionist point of view would be hopeless. It is like when MI5 and Special Branch infiltrate protest groups in Britain, usually by having their agent offer to do ‘driving’ duties (always a big issue for protestors). Then when smarter members smell a rat, another agent tells naive members it is disloyalty to raise suspicion- even when suspicion is absolutely based on factual evidence. You see the ‘cohesion’ of the group matters more! Blind ‘loyalty’ to one another and the ‘tribe’. So the policeman can spend years at the heart of the group, directing it and collecting intelligence on very member. When the betrayal is announced (for that announcement is the finally psy-op), the group falls apart in deep psychic hurt.
I have no loyalty or brotherhood to those here I know are on the other side- obviously. And saying this is not disruptive, any more than exposing the driver as a policeman would be. My loyalty and brotherhood is to the future victims of the Deep State, and those of us that would speak out in time. Most that choose to comment here have their heart solidly in the right place. But I’m always annoyed when those that are on the other side bait and ‘play’ the good hearted here.
We need to turn our attention away from Syria, no matter how difficult some may find this. Russia ***has*** won the conventional war, and all the public opinion that could be swayed to our side has been. Russia will mop all the last foreign controlled regions and make them part of the true nation, even if they have the semi-autonomy we see in so many other peaceful lands like even the UK. Russia will then withdraw back to a small safe part of Syria after trying to train local peace-keepers, and the West backed usual sectarian terror will erupt across most of Syria, just like we see today in Iraq. But Syria won’t be worse than Iraq, and yet few of you track the daily atrocities that plague the people of Iraq.
We need to turn our attention to the coming war on Iran- and the massive planning and prepartion that is happening now- most of it in our face. We know pretty much the nations that are going to join with the UK and USA in attacking Iran- and the list is pretty much everyone except Russia, China, Pakistan, Syria, Israel and Iraq. If the war begins, Iran is finished and the death toll will be in the tens of millions. Only one nation can prevent this war, and that of course is Russia. But Russia is currently assisting the Deep State, not working against it.
Putin’s interference in Saudi Arabia allowed the palace coup- Russia showed itself weak and supine in its recent interaction with the King, so the coup plotters felt supremely confident in working to Deep State instructions. Putin has been offering Russia’s best air defense system to all possible regional targets of Iranian missiles. I feel ill even typing this. Putin is not (in his mind) working for war- indeed he is naive enough to think ‘defense’ will make potential aggressors less aggressive. But the Deep State is playing Putin like a fiddle, and has been since Trump was ‘turned’.
The Deep State has Putin contemplating withdrawing all Russian forces back to Russia proper so they can get ‘nasty’ on the borders where NATO is now operating. Putting Putin back into a ‘soviet’ box of necessary military action in East Europe. How neatly this would complete the demonisation of Russia and knock it out of greater world affairs like the Middle East.
It is interesting that those that call people like me ‘defeatist’ also attack me when I call for Putin to punch the USA very hard on the nose indeed. But this is par for the course. Putin does still have a winning move- and that is the reversal of the warmongering will of the American people. If Putin smashes America in the nose in an act of righteous military foreign policy, the blow will make the American people lose all taste for American wars. And without the support of the people, the Deep State project fails- immediately. Of course Putin, to his eternal shame, lost his best chance when Trump was first elected on an anti-war ticket. But Putin backed away, and the demons moved forward and claimed Trump.
Now Russia must use force. An act that allows each and every American to truly face what they will lose if they throw their weight behind greater aggressive wars. Putin might have hoped smashing ISIS in Syria would have done this- but it did not. The zionist mainstream media easily propagandised Russia’s victory in Syria into something harmless. But do I think Putin will act? No! I’m certain he will not. He could stop the coming Iran war, but he will not.
Russia’s ‘victory’ in WW2 is Russia’s greatest mental problem. Russia sees no issue with nations being flattened- it recovered so at the back of Putin’s mind is the idea that others can too. So the nazi actions in Russia are why Putin refuses to be troubled enough at the possibility of war on Iran. He simply cannot perceive the true nature of the outcome of the war. He doesn’t want it. He works (feebly and ineffectually) to stop it. But if push comes to shove, the idea of the war doesn’t freak Putin out.
An irresistable force is working for the Iran War. An immovable object (Russia) is ensuring it is not in the way of this force. Every smart person thus knows this war is going to happen. And the smartest people know the Iran War is a required stepping stone to war on Russia.
Reading ‘Goldfinger’ again, Fleming, in 1959, already describes small ‘safe’ ‘modern’ American nukes suitable for use in otherwise smaller conventional wars- nukes designed just to level single building complexes. Today people are so dumb they think the only nukes are those designed to blow up cities. Blair and the USA have promised to use nukes against Iran- it’s just most of you were not listening.
The military forces of the Deep State are in place. The military alliance has been built. The weapons supplies are produced, transported, stored and ready for use. The air bases and missile bases have been built all across the Middle East over the last five to ten years. All that remains is for something to light the fuse. So why aren’t we talking about the Iran War? If enough of us at the bottom make a noise, maybe, just maybe, Putin will have second thoughts and make a war preventing move before time runs out.
I see this a lot: “Putin must overreact.” It’s all up to Putin? Get off the drugs.
You further explain,
” If Putin smashes America in the nose in an act of righteous military foreign policy, the blow will make the American people lose all taste for American wars. And without the support of the people, the Deep State project fails- immediately.”
Is this a serious comment? Is this a deduction of some kind: “the cia depends on patriotism.” The cia produces patriotism by the gallon. They don’t need people. People can be invented.
We aren’t talking about an Iran war because we don’t need to.
The only crucial discussion for Russia on Syria is how to convince Damascus to allow increased Turkish involvement in the North, since Damascus probably cannot defend that territory in the long-run. One of the things all US spooks are doing is trying to keep Turkish/Syrian relations impossible. They’ve done a good job, with British Intel help. Many Syrians still “loving London” and wanting to show everyone how democratic they are. How democratic they are is how all this began.
Problems are abound. The Saudis just cut a big deal with top globalists, signing on to build a freakish roboto city. Still there’s no pressure. The Saudis are just as likely to pull a Kiev and go into endless bankruptcy.
Let the West’s sodomites throw their hissy fits. Don’t expect real men to join them.
great comment Ryan – I made a longer comment just now to you – but was told I was posting too fast and the whole f** comment disappeared
Hi Ann,
Use an old fashion simple text editor to write your comments. Then when ready copy and paste, voilà, no more lost work.
Cheers! Jac
Most of Syrian’s territories East of the Euphrates are under full control of N.A.T.O / Kurds. If someone, anybody, even tries to smash America in the nose (N.A.T.O), in Syria, their response could be a big scale, carpet-bombing by B-52.
Russian contingent in Syria is small, and if they even try to smash the America in the nose, there is an enormous N.A.T.O force in the sea and land, capable to wipe out everything including S-300 / S-400 systems first, and after start the carnage. I believe you are poking the Beast, and this is what the Beast is waiting for. The B-52 limited bombing in Raqa was the message, which is the prelude for “The Worst is Yet to Come”.
Quoting Twilight
“Putin will freak out… Putin will have second thoughts… Putin backed away…Putin refuses to be troubled” … “Putin is not (in his mind) working for war” …”But do I think Putin will act? No! I’m certain he will not.”
… such twilight insight into how Mr Putin thinks and behaves could only arise after smoking …. or eating a nothing burger
“The self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS”
‘ISIS’ is a brand name fully owned by Zion Inc. As is ‘the caliphate’. Goys are not allowed to ‘self-proclaim’ anything, as this could be viewed as anti-Semitic.
US Choppers Transfer Daesh Commanders From Syria’s Mayadin – Witnesses
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201711071058875799-us-helicopters-daesh-mayadin/
“US helicopters have transferred Daesh commanders from the town of al-Mayadin before the launch of the Syrian army’s operation, eyewitnesses told RIA Novosti.
“American military aviation first made a maneuver in the area […] near a Mayadin farm. Then [ the aviation] launched an airstrike, we tried to hide and saw several US helicopters. There were foreign Daesh commanders on the ground, who were waiting for them next to their headquarters… The helicopters took them outside of Mayadin,” a local shepherd, Muhammad Awad Hussein, told RIA Novosti.
He further said that he allegedly saw “US aviation… first a sound from it, then a massive strike that was followed by the US helicopters’ flight and transportation of Daesh leaders after which the airstrikes ceased.”
According to the 79-year-old man he had served in the Syrian army and can distinguish American aviation.
Other locals told RIA Novosti that they have allegedly seen how cars transported two foreign Daesh commanders with their families from Mayadin to the terrorist group’s headquarters […], after which helicopters arrived and took them in an unknown direction.”
US helicopters seen avacuating ISIS leader from al-Mayadeen before
arrival of Syrian Army
http://sana.sy/en/?p=117386
US Fails to Ensure Humanitarian Access to Syrian Rukban Refugee Camp – MoD
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201711061058865325-us-humanitarian-access-rukban/
“According to the statement, another meeting of the trilateral humanitarian group comprising Russian, UN and Syrian representatives took place in Damascus, during which the sides summed up the results of humanitarian aid provided in October.
“In course of the trilateral meeting, it was pointed out, that oncoming rainy season can drastically worsen the humanitarian situation in the Rukban refugee camp (al Tanf, Homs province) inside the zone controlled by the US grouping force. So far the US command in al-Tanf has given international humanitarian organizations including the UN no access to the zone,” the ministry said in a daily bulletin.”