Syrian War Report – Jan. 15, 2019: Turkey, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Work To Defend ‘Syrian Revolution’
Leader of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham Abu Mohammad Al-Joulani declared his support to an expected Turkish military operation against Kurdish armed groups in northeastern Syria during an interview with Amjad Media on January 14.
He stressed that his group supports “the operation to liberate the eastern Euphrates”. He also rejected criticism from his militant counterparts that the recent Hayat Tahrir al-Sham expansion within the Idlib de-escalation zone opens a route for a Russian-backed military operation in the area. He recalled that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which just recently was the official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, is an important part of the so-called “Syrian revolution” thus justifying its further actions.
Recently, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham de-facto established a full control of the most of the Idlib de-escalation zone by defeating the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation and forcing it to accept own rule across the area.
Now, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leadership is working to consolidate its gains in security and media spheres. Experts say that the main idea of Al-Joulani and his inner circle is to become an irreplaceable partner of the Turkish government in Idlib-related issues and this approach has worked so far.
On January 14, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlet Cavusoglu stressed that Turkey is doing what is required to maintain peace and prevent violations in the Idlib de-escalation zone. He even claimed that the Idlib de-escalation deal has been “successfully” implemented despite difficult conditions and that the Syrian government and the countries that support it are to blame if Idlib becomes “terrorist nest”.
Cavusoglu somehow forgot to mention that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is the internationally designated terrorist group, was excluded from the ceasefire regime established in the Idlib zone and is a legal target of military actions, which were expected to be undertaken in the framework of the deal. However, now it became clear that Turkey’s attempts to prevent the further military successes of the Damascus government in northwestern Syria openly contributed to the expansion of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-like entities there.
Meanwhile, the political leadership of the Syrian Kurds was once again encouraged by harsh statements of US President Donald Trump towards Turkey and announced that it had paused talks with the Damascus government.
An official representative of the Syrian Kurds in Moscow, Rshad Bienaf, told the Russian media that there was a “dialogue”, but no results were achieved because the Damascus government is not ready to change the constitution in the favor to the so-called “democratic system” established in the US-occupied area of northeastern Syria.
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So much for the American “withdrawal” from Syria.
US Intends to Maintain Presence in Syrian Airspace to Protect Turkish “Buffer Zone”
https://syria360.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/us-intends-to-maintain-presence-in-syrian-airspace-to-protect-turkish-buffer-zone/
Then, again, eric prince and blackwater are aggressively pushing to move into syria, the diminsions of that flustercuck cannot be conceived at this time.
77https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-15/blackwater-founder-says-us-troops-syria-could-be-replaced-private-contractors?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
” Kurdish armed groups in northeastern Syria ”
Would these be the Kurdish groups currently occupying (note that word: occupying) NE Syria in collaboration with the Zionist West? Context really, really does help. Turkey is not the main “bad guy” now in Syria — the Kurdish groups are implementing Oded Yinon before our very eyes.
Kurds will get a painful lesson. Then, the Turks will get a painful lesson.
Al Nusra (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) will be destroyed. Their “lesson” is liquidation.
All these are inevitable because Russia, Iran and Syria won the large war against the US+coalition+ISIS+AQ+Turkey+Israel.
The remaining war, Syria 2.0, is Idlib, and the Kurds’ space and deal with Assad, and the pockets and cells of ISIS and other proxy leftovers in the east.
Russia will decide how and when Syria 2.0 is fought and won. Assad has enormous patience. The Russian-won cities with the vast numbers of Syrian population are coming back to life.
The power geopolitics of US vs Turkey over the cause of the Kurds will be another disaster for all three.
If a deal between Kurds and Damascus is not realized, Russia will create a solution. The Kurds need an ally. Russia is that ally who can restrain the Kurds’ enemies and deliver a reasonable solution. The US can only bring hell down on the Kurds and then leave them to history.
Erdogan does it again. His latest is turning Al Nusra into a proxy. The Kurds influenced by Zio-Amrika holding out against the Syrian government and the suffering goes on.
it is imperative that idlib be sealed off.
“Meanwhile, the political leadership of the Syrian Kurds was once again encouraged by harsh statements of US President Donald Trump towards Turkey and announced that it had paused talks with the Damascus government.”
Which is exactly why the zionazi-gays had their trump asset make those statements.
“because the Damascus government is not ready to change the constitution in the favor to the so-called “democratic system” established in the US-occupied area of northeastern Syria.”
LOL.
Up is down and east is west…
Turkish state terrorism rears its ugly head again.
Likely, the Americans have been pushing and encouraging the Turks to ratchet up their support for these Sunni jihadist and terrorist allies, as the USA redeploys its troops from Syria to Iraq.