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The Syrian Army Tiger Forces and Tribal Forces have captured Qurat Rumailan, the Rumailan Dam, and 15 oil and gas wells 10km east of Dibisan in the southern Raqqah countryside. Government troops have also captured the Dibisan 1 and Dibisan 2 pumping stations.
ISIS allegedly lost 7 VBIEDs, a battle tank, and four vehicles during the clashes. At the same time the terrorist group headquarters in the vicinity of Al-Zemla was bombed by the Syrian Air Force.
According to pro-ISIS sources, 8 Syrian soldiers were killed near the village of Abu Allaj at the Raqqah-Ithriyah road. General Mundhir Mayhoub and Brigadier General Ayman Habib of the Syrian Army 5th Assault Corps were allegedly killed in the same area. However, this still has to be confirmed.
Reports are circulating that the Tiger Forces and Tribal forces have almost reached the southern entrance to Raqqah after capturing the Ittihad University near Qusrat Afnan. However, no videos or photos have appeared which might confirm these claims by pro-government sources.
Recently, the Syrian military command increased military censorship and operations security, preventing soldiers from releasing and spreading information about army movements, actions, and plans. A lack of information from the ground is related to this issue.
Government forces advanced east and northeast of the Al-Heel field and deployed within about 10 km from the ISIS-held town of Sukhna at the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor road.
Earlier this week, the army and its allies captured a number of hills in the area steadily setting up the ground for the storm of Sukhna.
ISIS claimed that 19 Syrian soldiers were killed after their fighters attacked SAA positions east of the Al-Heel field. The terrorist group allegedly destroyed two army tanks with an ATGM and a rocket-propelled shell during the clashes.
ISIS attacked army positions in Wadi al-Wa’ar near the Syrian-Iraqi border and allegedly killed 25 Syrian soldiers and captured 3 others. ISIS also destroyed several SAA vehicles and seized weapons and ammunition.
ISIS expanded its operations against the army and its allies in the Palmyra countryside and near the border with Iraq in order to prevent government forces from advancing on Deir Ezzor.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) received a new batch of American weapons and equipment, including M-ATV US armored vehicles and D7R armored bulldozers. Tankers were spotted in the military convoy loaded with fuel for US helicopters which are deployed at several bases inside Syria.
Meanwhile, the SDF, backed up by the US-led coalition, is developing momentum against ISIS in the southern part of the city of Raqqah. The US-backed force was not able to seize the old city area and is now attempting to isolate it from the southern direction.
Political analyst Igor Ryabov says this region is key to Syria’s economic recovery because it contains not only oil but, more importantly, grain. “Who wins this, wins all”. No wonder the Zionaziz are digging in there.
https://riafan.ru/876342-iranskii-gambit-smozhet-li-siriya-osvobodit-provinciyu-deir-ez-zor
Thank you for this information. On July 18th Thierry Meyssan (Voltairenet.org) posted an article entitled “Billions of dollars worth of arms against Syria” that offers further astonishing details on how the powers of hell have tried mightily to destroy that nation and its people. The people of Syria are now living in a post apocalyptic society. My fellow Americans: Do not ever wonder how billions and billions of dollars go “missing”. I’m now going to modify a quote, attributed to Churchill, honoring the resilience of the Brits during the London “Blitz”, which can well be applied to the brave people of Syria: “The New World Order has said it will wring Syria’s neck like a chicken. — Some chicken! — Some neck! ” — And upon this small country Syria, in the ultimate “David vs.Goliath” confrontation, the New World Order will wreck itself.
Hardly any news coming in from Syria. SAA & allies are operating under a news blackout and cowardly Zion, who shuns all mirrors in fear of seeing a monster, has stopped reporting on Syria anyway. Canthama has this:
SAA at Euphrates.
“… the situation is way much better then the map shows, the blackout news do not allow us to get MoD confirmations but there are few reporters, on the ground, that are sharing hints, daily, on the progress of the Tiger Forces.
The Tiger and allies are way deep toward the Euphrates and it will soon control the the main crossroad from the Euphrates to Bishri mountain, with all the gas fields and new axis to advance toward Der ez Zor. The SAA has blocked any further control of SDF from the right banks of the Euphrates, important to note that SDF forces in the right banks are way much smaller then the ones in the left banks, there is no intention from both sides to create conflicts.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFL2aBeXYAIITkX.jpg
“… It proves the SAA is so deep in the Euphrates vs what is heard from sources. RuAF CAS so far from the map frontline indicates the frontline in the map is way behind the reality, so it goes with media blackout.
Keep an eye on Ghanem Ali, major cross road that will give protection the the Tiger to advance toward Jabal al Fusayyat and the almost full control of Mount Bishri.”
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SAA 10km from Sukhanah.
“… Southern axis: 5th Corps with Hizaballa/Liwa al Quds/Militias are 10 kms SW of Sukhana, from the desert area, they soon will be able to by pass Sukhana and press on toward al Shulah.
Northern axis: The Tiger was reported near the critical al Taybah crossroad, this is 20 kms north of al Sukhanah, a very important aspect is the control of Mount Dahiq, as shared here many times, the control of this mountain blocks the access to al Sukhanah from the NW and NE roads, with the southern axis about to be cut the 3rd road, al Sukhanah will most likely be gone without firing a single bullet inside the town, similar to Dayr Hafer, Maskaneh etc…Tiger’s Modus Operandis.”
“IIaqi troops arrest a suspected Daesh militant in western Mosul, Iraq, February 26, 2017. (Photo by Reuters) Saudi Arabia had dispatched more than 100 intelligence officers to Mosul to join the Takfiri Daesh militants and direct them in battles against Iraqi government forces and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, a recent report has revealed. Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Manar television network, citing a report published by Qatari [ 286 more words ]”
https://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/…/150-saudi-intellige…/
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“The former British foreign secretary, William Hague, admitted that his country’s secret service (MI6) had used hardline terrorist groups such as ISIS in an attempt to topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
A conservative politician, Mr. Hague acknowledged that over past three years , the western intelligence bodies sought to overthrow the Syrian regime by any means, including arming the most fanatic militants.
“ After ISIS overrun large Iraqi towns in early and mid-July, our relation with Iraqi rebels began to deteriorate but still we maintain our contacts with the moderate faction within ISIS,” Said the British perspicacious politician on Tuesday.
Referring to ISIS abominable war crimes especially those against the western citizens, William Hague added that his ministry could not continue its routine contacts with the so-called Islamic State due to increasing public aversion against the ISIS insurgents in Europe and United States.
“I firmly believe that the best strategy to cope with spelling sectarian and ethnic violence in the Middle-East is to target the al-Qaeda-affiliate rebels in Iraq , while in the same time fostering the moderate Islamic militias notably al-Nusra Front and ISIS, in the neighboring Syria,” RT cited the former British minster as saying.”
http://www.awdnews.com/society/the-former-uk-foreign-minister-we-worked-with-the-islamist-terrorists-including-isis-hoping-to-oust-assad
come on-there has to be a lawyer out there who could help Syria take these people to ICJ and sue for reparations??????
Lavrov Strikes Back at CIA’s Pompeo, Questions Legality of US Bases in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707211055757280-lavrov-pompeo-us-bases-syria/
“There is no legal basis for US military bases in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press briefing Friday.
Responding to CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s comments Thursday, claiming that the Russian presence in Syria is due in part to Moscow’s wish to “stick it” to the US, Lavrov pointed out that he had read there are 10 US bases in Syria.
“The United States does not advertise its bases very much, and the fact that these bases do not have a legal basis is also obvious to all,” Lavrov told NBC News.
“It turns out that, by and large, Mr. Pompeo wants the same thing as us in Syria, only several times more. One more big difference: we do not hide our two bases, they are created and operate on the basis of intergovernmental agreements, and their task is to assist in the fight against terrorists,” Lavrov said.”
The ‘liberal’ newspapers in the UK have their one-time story about the true level of civilian deaths in Mosul and Raqqa- two cities that the USA and UK have bombed flat in their desperate attempt to be seen to match the Russian operation in Alleppo.
The ‘trick’ of the zionist mainstream media is to ensure forms of outlet where the truth does get published ***once*** (once the truth is so out there it can no longer be denied), so in the future shills for the zionists can point to the reporting and claim their media does reveal the truth. But in reality the truth, once reported, is immediately treated as if it never happened- and the viewers/readers who trust these outlets mostly don’t notice the story- and those that do soon forget it.
Meanwhile- getting far more enduring coverage is the statements by the head of the CIA that Russia has done ‘nothing’ in Syria- and that all the achievements in Iraq and Syria are down to the West. This lie will be continued to be repeated again and again and again on the BBC, CNN, etc etc. And the oft repeated lie becomes the ‘truth’ for the sheeple- 1984 style.
But the thrust of the CIA statement was to demonise Iran once again, and make it clear America is going to war with Iran in the near future. Russia could be acting now to prevent this- but instead Russia actually chooses to ally with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and Egypt instead. The S400 missile systems Russia is seling to Turkey (that it refuses to sell to Iran) ensure Turkish safety once the USA and UK start bombing Iran.
In the short term- despite the hilariously bad lies of the CIA chief, Russia has exterminated all significant elements of the current ISIS system. ISIS is reduced to very effective hit-n-run tactics – the ultimate asymetric warfare method that doesn’t by itself give back control of regions- but ensures every regime figure running those regions is in imminent danger of assassination- see East Ukraine for how poorly Russia can respond to this terror tactic of the West.
ISIS car bombings and assassinations will continue until the head of the snake is crushed in Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc- but Russia will no more crush the head there than it will crush the head of the neo-nazi butchers in Ukraine. So poor innocent civilians will continue to suffer terribly in both Syria and Ukraine while Putin plays geo-politics. Syria will have its own ‘Green Zones’ where Syrian regime elites can ‘entertain’ their foreign ‘guests’ but for ordinary syrians, the Russia success in smashing ISIS will only be one of degree- and far worse will come once the war on Iran begins.
In the meantime the young muslim idiots that continue to be recruited in their hundreds of thousands via Saudi funded programs across the planet will be redirected to other targets- especially Africa, Asia and the West. Some of this Saudi directed action will be terrorist atrocities, and some the co-opting and take over of existing moderate modern muslim communities. In the UK for instance, increasing numbers of muslim women are frightened to go out in public without headscarves because of the presence of Saudi enforcers- enforcers who have the explicit support of the Liberal, Conservative and Lab
our parties.
Day by day, week by week and year by year once enlightened ambitious Western appreciating muslim immigrants are caving in to pressure to sink to the status of wahhabi cult members- and billions of dollars of Saudi money spent in America, the UK and West Europe oils this engine of change. When I was at school, the muslim kids were the same a all the others- and actually chose to attend the christian propaganda classes forced upon british schools by parliament. The jewish kids, by comparison, exercised the religious right to refuse to attend christian assemblies and classes. Muslim integration into UK society was perfect back then.
Today, things couldn’t be more different in the UK. The vast majority of muslims live highly segregated lives- and become every more primitve/extremist islamic. And not through their own choosing- but as a result of perfect zionist orchestrated societal pressure. According to the BBC, a muslim that integrates and chooses western values is a race traitor to be shamed. Funny that the BBC never says the same thing about british jews.
But despite everything, british muslims refuse to be violent- which is one reason the british deep state seeks to carry out such sickening war crimes against muslims in other nations- to anger british muslim youth until some of them strike back.
The media demonisation of Russia is partly to halt the success Putin has had in capturing the hearts and minds of independent thinkers in the West. The idea is that while such thinkers will never reverse their opinions- they will feel more and more reluctant to express them in public and private- for fear of negative response by friends and familly sheeple who suck on the BBC teat all day and night.
In Animal Farm, George Orwell expressed the importance and power of this ‘counter-revolutionary’ propaganda play by having the ***sheep*** bleat out all the speeches made by smarter animals who had spotted how badly the revolution was turning out. We get the term ‘sheeple’ from this book – where the sheeple are both people who believe the official propaganda but also people who loudly attack those in their community who don’t.
And finally too many of us are busy cheering little victories in Syria to properly focus on the real meaning of the Russian Demonisation project. Putin and Russia are successfully portrayed as ‘devils’ who are too powerful to be destroyed today- but who must be confronted and confounded in every possible way until the ‘angels’ of the West devsie a strategy to take them down. This is the road to WW3, and just because we don’t know exactly how long the road is does ***not*** mean the road won’t reach its destination.
“The ‘trick’ of the zionist mainstream media is to ensure forms of outlet where the truth does get published ***once*** (once the truth is so out there it can no longer be denied), so in the future shills for the zionists can point to the reporting and claim their media does reveal the truth. But in reality the truth, once reported, is immediately treated as if it never happened- and the viewers/readers who trust these outlets mostly don’t notice the story- and those that do soon forget it.”
I have also noticed this trick. Another variation is to give 70-80 % of the truth and omit the inconvenient details. Then broadcast another version with a different mix of missing details. This results in a confusing mix of “news”. So if someone read story X they use it in their arguments. But when confronted with someone who read version Y they proceed to argue and chase each others tail. Frequently a lot of time is needed to piece the details to try and get to the truth.
Now that the media is concentrated in 6 or less corporations, the job to fool the nation is much simpler then when there were 20 such companies.
http://www.corporations.org/media/media-ownership.gif
“Russia could be acting now to prevent this- but instead Russia actually chooses to ally with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and Egypt instead. The S400 missile systems Russia is seling to Turkey (that it refuses to sell to Iran) ensure Turkish safety once the USA and UK start bombing Iran.”
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For now we are using financial War.
“The dollar is a major form of cash currency around the world. The majority of dollar banknotes are estimated to be held outside the US. More than 70% of hundred-dollar notes and nearly 60% of twenty- and fifty-dollar notes are held abroad, while two-thirds of all US banknotes have been in circulation outside the country since 1990.” Linda Goldberg. Quote
Source:
http://voxeu.org/article/dollar-s-international-roles
So what would happen if that process suddenly reversed and massive piles of dollars started coming back into the country? Quote
Source”
http://investmentwatchblog.com/red-alert-frontside-intel-coming-in-trillions-of-dollars-coming-back-to-the-us/
Then we will see WW3
Unconfirmed:
Russia deploys Su-25 attack aircraft at T-4 Airbase in Homs
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-deploys-su-25-attack-aircraft-t-4-airbase-homs/
Update:
Lebanese Army & Hizbollah Fighting Side by Side in Northern Qalamoun.
“… The terrorist’ defensive lines in the northern Qalamoun mountains are collapsing quickly, a mix of deep advances by Hizballah, Lebanese Army and SAA are pushing the terrorists to retreat and to negotiate. This will be over very fast.
Though it is hard to believe that the Lebanese Army would perform after so many years of inactivity, they are indeed pushing hard, and this is a very good trial for them.”
“… the LA was for many years a paper army, no training, not equipped etc. as if a simple police force, not military force.
It was the NATO/Israel/GCC interest to keep the Lebanese Army “toothless”, so they did it for decades.
With the was of aggression in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, the majority of the people in Lebanon knew it would come to them, but then Hizballah was there and beefed up its force from 10-20,000 well trained to today’s “guessed” 50-60,000 well trained soldiers, battle hardened in urban, desert and modern warfare.
In the past 6 years the LA received new “used” equipments (artillery, M113, etc…), and most recently started to receive new modern equipments, such as Guarani armoured vehicles and soon turboprop Supertucano, excellent for CAS and guerrilla warfare.
The LA lacks size and battle experience, this is why this campaign in northern Qalamoun will be very important to them.”
ISIS claimed, ISIS attacked, ISIS expanded, three consecutive paragrpahs. According to pro-ISIS sources, 8 Syrian soldiers were killed… this still has to be confirmed.
See my problem?
The party never ends at the Ministry of Truth.