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Syrian government forces have repelled a series of ISIS attacks in the countryside of Palmyra and continued their advance in the direction of Sukhna. An intense fighting is now ongoing in the mountain area overlooking the ISIS-held town. If it is taken by the army, the fate of Sukhna will be determined. ISIS is fiercely defending the town because its last ISIS major defense site on the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor road.
On Tuesday, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) attacked Aharar al-Sham in the province of Idlib. HTS stormed Ahrar al-Sham positions near the village of Hizareen and reportedly seized the village after series of firefights. At least two Ahrar al-Sham members, including a field commander, Yousef Al Fadl, were reportedly killed. Clashes also erupted in Maarat Numan and Jabal Zawiya. On Wednesday, firefights continued in the aforementioned areas as the both sides were deploying reinforcements in order to take an upper hand in the standoff.
The escalation became a result of a series of tensions between the two groups over the influence in the militant-held province. HTS and Ahrar al-Sham compete for the political and military leadership in the province as well as for the control of cash and weapon flows through the Turkish-Syrian border.
HTS is excluded from any kind of negotiations to solve the Syrian conflict because the group has ties with al-Qaeda. Thus, the group seeks to establish a full control over Idlib in order to sabotage any possible agreements between the militants and the Syrian government.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), heavily supported by the US-led coalition, are facing in Raqqah a problem similar to the problems faced by Iraqi security forces in Mosul and by the Syrian army in Aleppo. Militants are actively using urban areas, human shields and suicide bomber in order to counter the attacks. The old city of Raqqah remains a key ISIS defense site in the city.
Meanwhile, the US is increasing its military presence in the SDF-held area of eastern Syria as well as expanding its involvement in the battle for Raqqah. The SDF is an important part of the American diplomatic strategy. Washington is going to use the SDF-held area as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic standoff over the fate of post-ISIS Syria with Damascus, Tehran, Moscow and Ankara.
Seismic Shift In Syria: Trump Ends Covert Obama-era CIA Program Which Sent Arms To Jihadists
Trump is shutting down the CIA’s covert program to arm rebels fighting the Syrian government.
This is a monumental shift in terms of US priorities in Syria which throughout most of the 6-year long war have focused on removing Bashar al-Assad.
The zionazis storm troopers are upset:
Turkish Media Reveals ‘Sensitive’ Info on US Forces in Syria, Pentagon Outraged
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707191055695816-10-us-military-posts-syria-kurds/
“The United States now has as many as 10 military posts in Syria on the territory controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Anadolu news agency reported.
“For operational security reasons, we do not disclose the locations of Coalition forces operating in Syria to defeat ISIS,” Pahon said. “While we cannot independently verify the sources that contributed to this story, we would be very concerned if officials from a NATO ally would purposefully endanger our forces by releasing sensitive information. We have conveyed these concerns to the Government of Turkey.”
As the bases are inside kurd quisling occupied territory, they would not be subject to serious military assault. Nor would these bases be any secret to the forces actually operating on the ground in Syria.
What israel’s cowardly gofers are upset about is that their covert build up of forces to occupy Syria for israeli interests is being given public exposure. The Turks are the ideal vector for exposing this. For many reasons. ;D
This has been part of the most evil NA*O/IS-ra*l’s plan all along; create the Cannibal/Necrophiliac/Pedohile IS/ISIS/ISIL (as Snowden revealed these most vicious terrorist groups are actually created by MOSSAD/CIA) and break up Iraq, Syria, Libya and the whole Middle-East, that will include Palestine on the whole (especially to annihilate Ga*a) and Yemen, and further on, Turkey – towards their double-face puppet regime, Kur**stan.
This is in order to achieve their absolute goal, to control the Mediteranean Sea and the Indian Ocean-Red Sea – as part of the ZNWO’s plan to conquer politically and economically, the whole 5 major TRILLIONS deep sea oil/gas-rich world oceans with their major Straits; whilst destroying anti-ZNWO Islam and Catholicism along the way!
That’s why it’s so strange that these Kur*ish fighters could win so easily territories, from the IS/ISIS/ISIL terrorists; whilst their so-called ‘liberation’ wars with NA*O-Tr*mp’s regime are Conquering and Depopulating in Genocide, as many as possible, Ar*b Musl*ms and Cathol*cs from these nations!
Trump to end CIA support for anti-Assad forces in Syria – reports
https://www.rt.com/news/396872-trump-cia-arming-syria/
“The White House declined to comment on the reports at their daily briefing. The CIA has also refused to comment when reached out to by Reuters.”
The israelis main enforcers to stop supporting the zionazi terrorists attacking Syria? Say it isn’t so, joe.
More likely, the zionazis are having their american quislings switch overt support from daesh to their various kurd proxies. Covert zionazi/pindo colony will continue as before, though.
Covert zionazi/pindo support for their terrorists will continue, though. There is still Lebanon, Iran, the Philippines and Central Asia on the zpc/nwo “to do list”.
And Venezuela, not to forget.
What a FAKE, this ZNWO-controlled Tr*mp is! He pretended to be different from the ever vicious warmongering Lib Demc-Oba*a/Hilla*y; but they’re all from the same cannib*l belly of the Luciferian BEAST!
All, with the ultimate evil aims – for the BEAST of the Revln, i.e. the Fascist ZNWO Empire, through NA*O, to conquer the world 5 major oceans and all the major Straits, whilst destroying the strongest anti-ZNWO institutions of Islam & Catholicism, and their many and diverse believers/peoples and nations, along the way, under the ZNWO’s increasing genocidal Depopulation agenda (including through their most evil terrorist cells, IS/ISIS/ISIL – which are created by MOSSAD/CIA as revealed by the brave Snowden)!
And both ZioNa*i-controlled Lib/Consv Democ/Tr*mp’s/IS-ra*l/NA*O regimes are part of this ZNWO Empire’s beastly horns or heads!
It is hard for me to comprehend why ISIS is still in Raqqah, while US took the Kurds side?