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Earlier this week a photo of the alleged ceasefire deal between the US-backed Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) and ISIS appeared online. According to the document, the two sides reached a ceasefire agreement to avoid clashes in eastern Syria, especially in the province of Hasakah. The SDF allegedly agreed to avoid engaging ISIS units, fighting with sides not involved in the agreement – in other words, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Within the framework of the agreement, the sides would establish a hot line and a military coordination room to maintain the ceasefire and to inform each other about military movement close to the contact line. Civilian and economic traffic would also be open between the SDF-held and ISIS-held areas.
On Tuesday, the SDF media wing released an official statement on the issue and claimed that the circulating document was fake adding that this is a part of the propaganda campaign against the SDF.
Even if this particular document is fake, the SDF is the main side responsible for the fact that people are ready to believe in such reports. The US-led coalition and the SDF have repeatedly insisted that they make no deals with ISIS. Meanwhile, they made deals with ISIS in the cities of Manbij, Tabqah and Raqqah and allegedly made a deal with ISIS-linked tribes in the area of the Omar oil fields.
In the province of Deir Ezzor, the SAA eliminated the entire ISIS-held pocket south of Mayadin and are now deploying units for an advance to clear the ISIS-held area northwest of al-Bukamal.
In northeastern Hama and southern Aleppo, the SAA has liberated the villages of Abisan, Aziziyah, Ramlah and Rasm Khala and repelled an attack on the village of Rashadiya by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formelry Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda). In total, government forces have liberated 17 villages from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham since the start of the advance west of the Ithriyah-Khanasser-Aleppo highway earlier in November.
There is some very hopeful news.
http://theduran.com/a-secret-deal-between-assad-and-netanyahu-with-putin-mediating/
This could lead to Assad remaining in power without Iranian direct or proxy involvement on Syria’s southern border. Syria as a Russian client state would have a stable border with Israel.
This solution is in everyone’s interest with the exception of Erdogan & his dreams of empire, Iran, and Obama holdovers in the CIA. I guess we will see if one of them manage to blow up efforts at a sustainable peace.
China to deploy ‘Night Tigers’ 2Syria 2support Assad’s forces as the East Asian country becomes increasingly concerned about the presence of Islamic militants in its far western region of Xinjiang. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/11/29/china-to-deploy-night-tigers-to-syria?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sf
Zion dreaming. The Syrian fiasco hasn’t registered yet in its echo chamber. All responses it has come up with have been mere muscle reflexes, no cognition involved. Very good.
From Elijah J. Magnier’s twitter account:
” Gas production in Syria is nearly all time record by 12/2017, oil fields under the Government control will fill up Syria’s refineries on the coast, no exports. Off shore gas exploration will move together with Lebanon’s.”