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Voiceover by Lance Ramsay
Syrian government forces, led by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces, have achieved a major victory in the battle against ISIS in eastern Aleppo. Late on Friday, the Tiger Forces encircled the ISIS stronghold of Maskanah and took control over the N4 highway. On Saturday, army troops liberated Maskanah itself and started removing mines and IEDs set up by terrorists in the area. A majority of ISIS terrorists had withdrew from the town in the direction of Palmyra, according to local sources.
Separately, units of Liwa al-Quds and the Republican Guard advanced east of Khansser and captured the Alam hill and the nearby points.
A contact line between government forces and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces will likely be established south of Dibsi Afnan. Then, the SAA may continue developing advance expanding a buffer zone along the Ithriyah-Khanasser-Aleppo road.
The liberation of Maskanah also opens additional opportunities for operations against ISIS in the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzor.
ISIS responded to this with a large advance against the SAA in the city of Deir Ezzor. ISIS units operating had received additional reinforcements, including artillery pieces and military equipment. This allowed them to capture the Panorama roundabout and the Panorama School in the area of the 137th Base. A fierce fighting is ongoing in Tal Umm Abboud and Tal SyriaTel. If the 137th Base falls into hands of ISIS, this may lead to a collapse of government forces defenses in a large part of Deir Ezzor. The situation is critical.
In turn, ISIS has invested a large number of its resources in this operation and if it fails, this may open a road for the government advance on al-Sukhna on the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor highway.
Deir Ezzor and al-Bukamal are located at a strategic highway linking Raqqa and Mosul. If ISIS wants to keep at least some presence in the Syrian-Iraqi battleground and to get some freedom of operations, it desperately needs to capture the city of Deir Ezzor. This is why many militants redeployed from other fronts, including the ISIS-held area of Iraq and Raqqa are involved in this effort.
Since June 3, it has liberated more than 1400 square kilometers east of Palmyra city. The operation involves large forces of the SAA and its allies armed with dozens of armored vehicles and battle tanks, including modern T-90A battle tanks. The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force support the operation.
ISIS claimed that 21 Syrian soldiers were killed by a VBIED attack in the Abbasiya area. 14 Syrian soldiers were reportedly killed in a suicide attack in Al-Gharb hills. ISIS destroyed a battle tank of the SAA near Al-Mahaor with an ATGM, and targeted a gathering of soldiers there with an ATGM, allegedly killing five soldiers. The casualties of ISIS forces in the area are unknown.
The US-led coalition has set up a new military base in at the Syrian-Iraqi border. The base is located at Al-Zkuf, 70 km northeast of Al-Tanf and 130 km south of the ISIS-held town of Al-Bukamal. The declared goal is to assist US-backed militant groups, like Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra, in their battle against ISIS.
Meanwhile, US-backed militants have continued their attacks against government troops in the southeastern desert. However, they have achieved no notable results. The SAA maintains positions in about 40-45 kilometers from Al-Tanf.
The situation is also escalating in the city of Daraa as government forces have deployed reinforcements in order to prevent further militant advances in the provincial capital. The army has launched an intense bombing campaign against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies in the area. Government forces also conducted few counter-attacks. According to some pro-government sources, the army may launch a military operation in order to liberate the whole city. However, this looks too optimistic, considering the situation in Deir Ezzor and near Palmyra.
Great site rep on Syria. South front is improving.
However, I’m so disappointed that this site did not devote an article to the horrible, earth-shattering completely significant world-stopping and really scary terrorist attack in London. An attack carried out in London by some of the very Syrian “moderate opposition freedom fighters” that were carefully nurtured, coddled, armed and trained by the not-evil not-debauch non-murderous non-atheistic wonderful and progressive elite of the UK government. (ok, for the intellectually challenged that are about to burst an artery in fake indignation: I’m being sarcastic.)
Seriously though, has anyone here drawn the dotted line between the terrorist sponsoring UK government organs and this case of blowback (or do people here think it was a staged false flag?).?
One very important thing I will point out: both Chinese and Indian State News devoted roughly 30 seconds to the latest London terrorist attacks while devoting 10 minutes to such important subjects as: “this years bumper crop in cabbages”(China’s CCTV & Xinhua) and “this years bumper crop of lentils” (Indian Doordarshan). Sends a message to the British Establishment doesn’t it?
I will start to watch the Indian and Chinese state news as well as the Russian!
http://82.221.129.208/
vids of actors supposedly dressing up for attack on jim stone freelance
Worth alook at possible alt realities.
I cant say what is true but mostly its lies.
You can call it a rose but you wont fool my nose.
“However, I’m so disappointed that this site did not devote an article to the horrible, earth-shattering completely significant world-stopping and really scary terrorist attack in London. An attack carried out in London by some of the very Syrian “moderate opposition freedom fighters”.”
You may want to watch this video about all theses fake false flag ‘attacks’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNntN-RbAfw
All so-called terror attacks of recent years in the Zionist occupied zones of America and Europe have been scripted, directed, filmed and executed by Zion’s Intel agencies. Hundreds of professionals, dozens of companies are involved in each single event. The Manchester mega-hoax is no exception.
The good news: Hardly anybody ever dies in these synthetic incidents.
The bad news: The ‘terror entertainment industry’ is rapidly growing. Expect more to come, and worse to come.
I kind of miss the good ol’ days when there always was rock-solid evidence to be had in the form of a passport conveniently found right at the crime scene. This is what the MSM has on offer today for its faithful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixU8rxKCHFA
They did find his passport. That is their MO to announce the patsy.
The claim of a passport found of one of the terrorist on 9/11 was retracted 4 to 6 months after the attack.
It sounds like Deir Ezzor is the key battle right now, and that
s really more about the US than it is about ISIS, which is a US proxy force (where did it get its new artillery!) – the US wants that eastern border and Russia stays mum about it.
Thanks so much. Haven’t checked in with SF lately because I don’t like raw war news but glad I did this time. I’d send SF $ by cash and snail mail but that seems not an option. I avoid the other NSA monitored payment systems like the plague. That’s just me.
Interesting tidbit:
“Saker Island” Is on the Euphrates river just east of Deir Ez-Zur and just north of the airport.
I have seen reports saying that coalition forcec have bombed pro government forces ner Al Tanf again