On April 25, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies established a full control of Eastern Qalamoun following a withdrawal of the last batch of militants from the area. However, the Syrian Defense Ministry still has confirm the control of the region in an official statement.
It is important to note that a large number of militants remained in the area in the framework of a reconciliation deal reached between Damascus and them. These militants have chosen to settle their legal status in the area. Some of them will joint the pro-government National Defense Forces.
In southern Damascus, government troops continued pressuring ISIS in the Yarmouk area. The main clashes have taken place in the Madaniyah area. ISIS claims 3 SAA battle tanks have been recently damaged by its members.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) announced that its members had killed 12 Turkish Army soldiers and Free Syrian Army members in hit and run attacks during the last week.
According to pro-Kurdish sources, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), that mostly consist of YPG members, will soon resume anti-ISIS operations in eastern Syria. However, according to some Syrian experts, this will not be a major effort because Washington is interested in remaining weak ISIS cells in the border area because they justify the US military presence in the country.
On April 25, the Russian Defense Ministry held a press briefing revealing additional details about the April 14 cruise missile strike carried out by the US, the UK and France on Syria.
The defense ministry revealed wreckage of the allegedly intercepted missiles and said that two unexploded missiles (a Tomahawk and a high-accuracy air-launched missile) had been delivered to Russia from Syria.
According to the April 25 press briefing by the Russian military:
- only 22 US, French, British missiles hit their targets;
- 46 missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems covering the capital of Syria and Duvali, Dumayr, Blai, and Mazzeh nearby airfields;
- 20 missiles were intercepted in three areas of the responsibility zone of air defense of Homs;
- a part of the missiles failed to reach their targets by different, apparently technical, reasons.
According to the Pentagon’s version of the events, the UK, the US and France launched 105 missiles and all they hit their targets. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon described the April 25 briefing by the Russian military as “another example of the Russian disinformation campaign”.
WRONG! Any sort of presence in Syria (or anywhere else) of the US of America has absolutely no justification, whatever, except in their own mad-minds and in those of their body-lice hangers-on ….. who we all recognize now.
Ray McGovern: “US military intelligence knows that 3/4 of cruiser missiles were shot down by Syrian Air Defense.”
he mentioned in clip after 13 minutes….
http://davidswanson.org/talk-nation-radio-ray-mcgovern-russia-and-u-s-senators-want-disarmament-u-s-media-does-not/
The Brits and the French are not happy their pathetic script has disintegrated and are now throwing up mud, hoping some will stick:
Russia says its witnesses discredit alleged chemical attack in Syria
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43912739
“Russia has produced what it says are witnesses from Douma in Syria, aiming to support its claim that an alleged chemical attack there was staged.”
“The UK, US and France boycotted the event, which a UK official dismissed as a “despicable” stunt”
“The French ambassador to the Netherlands, Philippe Lalliot, said: “This obscene masquerade does not come as a surprise from the Syrian government, which has massacred and gassed its own people for the last seven years.””
“The OPCW is not a theatre,” said Peter Wilson, UK envoy to the watchdog.”
Wherever there’s chem false flags in play you will find ex Brit army Hamish:
“The inspectors will be looking for three types of evidence: environmental, biomedical and documentary, said Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a British chemical weapons expert who has investigated previous attacks in Syria.
Another source of evidence is the dead. Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, OPCW inspectors should have access to any piece of evidence they want, including corpses. But first the bodies have to be found.
“If the inspectors find no bodies, that tells you something,” Mr de Bretton-Gordon said. “If those bodies have disappeared, that would be a very strong indication that something was very wrong.”
Douma ‘attack’: How do you test for chemical weapons?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43801091
Did you get that? As this was a fake chem attack and there are no bodies then if no bodies can be found by the OPCW then this is evidence of guilt of a chemical attack.
There’s a chemical attack all right -one of a vitriol smear attack by the likes of Hamish.
Thanks for the link.
Imaginary member of OPCW’s reaction to Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK regime’s CBRN battalion’s interview:
“If the inspectors find no bodies, that tells you something,” Mr de Bretton-Gordon said.
Well, Hamish, the inspectors could find no bodies because they’re all here at OPCW HQ in the Hague giving evidence in the flesh. Very kind of the Russians to bring them here at their own expense. Our Advisory Body on Administrative and Financial Matters will be delighted with the gesture.
Hmm, let’s see … ah yes, Hassan Diab, the boy in the video is in the room. Talk about biomedical and documentary evidence, Hamish. Not only do we have a body, but it can sit and talk too. So much better than the hair and nails that you suggested in your BBC interview, eh Hamish? What, did you say urine too? Well, yes, I suppose he can assist us by supplying a flaskful of the stuff, and still warm too. Test it to your heart’s content Hamish.
“If those bodies have disappeared, that would be a very strong indication that something was very wrong.”
Yes, something’s very wrong indeed, Hamish …. with your story. LOL
https://www.rt.com/news/425240-opcw-russia-syria-douma-witnesses/
basil
Russian navy reportedly unleashed ongoing major Mediterranean based submarine cruise missile attacks against ISIS over past couple of hours, Syrian rebels with Americans advisors/special ops also reported killed just north of Homs, and between Homs and Latakia.
Updates here (the only source reporting this so far):
http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/world-news/2439-russian-navy-unleashes-missiles-against-isis-and-rebels
Now it’s the turn of war criminal, traitor and israeli quisling mattis to get his marching orders.
Mattis, Israel Defense Chief Meet to Discuss Iran’s Destabilizing Activities
https://sputniknews.com/military/201804271063948785-mattis-lieberman-meeting-iran/
There, the quisling got his specific orders, his general orders from israel, he already disseminated.
US Going to Expand Fight in Syria – Mattis
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804261063934500-syria-operation-us-daesh/
“Right now we are not withdrawing [US troops from Syria],” Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We are continuing the fight, we are going to expand it and bring in more regional support.”
Well, israel’s terrorists are in the last stages of being mopped up, of course this war criminal and traitor wants to come to their rescue.
The best way on South Damascus,is likely the east,under FSA control,for cleaning the ISIS stronghold.
Army Finds Terrorist Depots With Chemicals Produced in UK, Germany – Damascus
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804261063941099-syria-chemicals-germany-uk/
“In the depot with chemical weapons left by terrorists in Douma, we have found chemicals from Germany, the United Kingdom, from the Porton-Down laboratory in Salisbury,” Syria’s deputy envoy to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ghassan Obaid said after a briefing in The Hague on April 26.
He called on OPCW experts to visit the site and expressed hope that it will finally dispel all allegations.
The envoy’s statement echoes Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s earlier statement that containers with chlorine and smoke bombs manufactured in Britain and Germany had been found in the territories liberated from militants in Eastern Ghouta.
A terrorist-held laboratory with chemicals was discovered earlier in Douma.”