Syrian government forces have continued to develop momentum in southern Idlib and liberated Tal Afghar from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda).
Previously, government troops established control over Ruwaydah, Tall Khinzir, Zafaria, Shutaib and other points in the area.
According to local sources, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is now regrouping its forces and preparing to attack government forces in southern Idlib and southern Aleppo.
Iranian-backed forces are deploying reinforcements to the cities of al-Qaim and al-Bukamal in the Syrian-Iraqi border area, according to pro-government sources.
Experts link the growing activity of the Iranian-backed forces with the recently opened land route that links Teheran, Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut. The Al-Bukamal-Deir Ezzor part of the road is its most vulnerable segment because it borders with the ISIS-held part of the Homs-Deir Ezzor desert.
Last weekend, reports appeared that the first Iranian military convoy crossed into Syria via the recently established land route. If Iran seeks to provide supplies via the road on a regular basis, it will need additional forces to defend them while the threat of ISIS remains.
On December 18 and 19, clashes between protesters and security forces of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) left 16 protesters dead and over 90 injured, according to local sources covering the tensions. According to reports, the KRG security forces opened fire and used tear gas on the protestors after they had torched some offices of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) loyal to former KRG President Massoud Barzani.
The KRG has been facing a significant pressure since the illegal independence referendum held in the KRG-held area in September. The KRG was not able to use the referendum to further its own interest. In fact, it lost a number of contested areas and then faced an additional pressure at the regional and international levels. Subsequently KRG President Barzani resigned. Now, the region is facing an internal political and economic crisis.
Syrian minister saying SDF are the “new” isis…..southfront also reporting that groups within the usa backed SDF have been repelled by SAA and russian air support…..gloves coming off?https://southfront.org/us-backed-syrian-democratic-forces-might-be-new-isis-syrian-deputy-foreign-minister/
https://southfront.org/syrian-army-repels-jaysh-al-izza-attack-in-northern-hama-kills-chechen-commander-of-al-qaeda-photos-videos/
This article written by a student at a University in Newcastle, England, is astonishing in its detail, and readability. It quotes, highlights, summarises, impeccable real journalist sources with irrefutable evidence.
If you actually buy or read the once wonderful Manchester Guardian, or even The Daily Mail or Sun, read this first before you ever spend a penny on what is now total trash written by evil brainwashed war supporting morons. These people are at least complicit, if not directly responsible for the complete horror of millions of innocent people’s deaths and mutilation over the last 20 years.
“WHITE HELMETS: The Guardian Protects UK FCO Destabilisation Project in Syria”
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/12/20/white-helmets-guardian-protects-uk-fco-destablisation-project-syria/
Intro
“Today in Too Long Don’t Read: It’s hard to tell what’s going on in the world, isn’t it? Whom do you believe when there are competing, totally irreconcilable narratives out there? Are the White Helmets heroes or villains? The mainstream narrative has them as a neutral, unarmed, grassroots (and Oscar-winning) humanitarian group with no political affiliations, nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Independent journalists, notably Vanessa Beeley, Eva Karene Bartlett, Patrick Henningsen, and Khaled Iskef, among a few others, suggest a radically different picture, in which the White Helmets are nothing more than a propaganda front for terrorist groups like the Al Nusra Front.”
Tony
Well written Tony,
MSM are trash today ….. sad twisted contradictory rubbish ! and all those authors who subscribe to promoting these lines have lost all their credibility…. regardless of what they write about.
The Syrians Iranian Russian and Hezbollah militaries are gaining real battle field experience fighting an armed opposition. (who are also experienced). They have become superior fighting forces cleaning up the disgusting mess created by Washington s stooges……
The US/Israel UK Fr NZ Germ Aust and Canadian plus other westies militaries advisors and saudi financial backers of ISS who are only skilled at killing mostly innocents in their combined operations This activity are dirty wars to precipitate chaos which benefit military industrial environment in each nation involved..
Feel sympathy for the westy troops who are sold a pack of lies to go and fight in the Middle east. They then find they are being shot at by western made military equipment…. in their show case of “attacking” the bad guys ….. Fog of war …. No wonder so many westies military person s return home totally wacked in the head…. and confused …. Patriotism my …. rectum ….. defending what ????? Democracy freedom ?
there is no Democracy or freedom anywhere on this tiny planet ….. Its a myth …. always has been …
Our western governments, their supporting state department sectors plus the trashy western media are totally disgusting today ….. May they all dissolve quickly once their nations sheep wake up ….
Reply to Tony_0pmoc on December 20, 2017 · at 6:51 pm UTC
Try reading the Off Guardian a healthy antidote to the thoroughly toxic Guardian : https://off-guardian.org/about-2/ and https://wikispooks.com/wiki/OffGuardian.
As also revealed by RT (Question less : The Guardian whitewashes all criticism of Syria’s foreign-funded White Helmets Published time: 18 Dec, 2017 17:20 https://www.rt.com/uk/413551-white-helmets-guardian-syria/) you can read a pack of barefaced lies on the White Helmets from Olivia Solon. Writing in the Guardian, this professional storyteller expostulates on this NATO PR Job, without a single mention of a former British military intelligence officer and ex-mercenary, James Le Mesurier who founded the White Helmets in 2013. Heavily financed by UK, US, Netherlands and other taxpayers, the group has been lauded for its “humanitarian” efforts in Syria, but they have actually functioned more as a logistics and propaganda arm of Syrian based terrorist al-Qaeda branch, (ie Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (جبهة النصرة), known as the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (جبهة فت الشام, transliteration: Jabhat Fataḥ al-Šām) after July 2016) complete with training from Le Mesurier.
Whited Sepulchre Olivia Solon pushes dubious cosmetics and synthetic biology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj6hlGnhr_g) and publishes other crap at Wired (https://www.wired.com/author/olivia-solon/), a West Coast subsidiary of Condé Nast Inc. an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications
More on James Le Mesurier : The British Mercenary Who Founded The White Helmets – 21st Wire … Whitney Webb | In the hybrid war that has been waged against Syria, there are very few coincidences. http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/08/01/james-le-mesurier-the-british-mercenary-who-founded-the-white-helmets/.
All the best … TMWNS
@Tony. I re-posted your comment to Off-Guardian, and today they put up their own piece on the topic you raised.
https://off-guardian.org/2017/12/21/the-recent-guardian-whitewash-of-the-white-helmet-is-more-sinister-than-we-realise/comment-page-1/#comment-96801