Aday after entering Aleppo, rebels have reportedly seized most of the city, Syria’s second-largest, pushed south toward Hama and captured much of Idlib province on Saturday in their surprise offensive launched on Thursday. In reaction, the Russian Air Force bombarded rebel positions in Aleppo, the first time they’ve struck the city in any robust capacity in the better part of a decade . Meanwhile, there are unconfirmed reports of a coup attempt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the capital of Damascus.
You can catch up with our previous report on the rebel advance here.
Led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, this offensive is its first major attack against the regime in four years and comes as Iran’s top proxy force Hezbollah and Russia – Assad’s biggest backers – are embroiled in their own conflicts. Hezbollah, which supports the Assad regime, has been greatly degraded after open conflict with Israel and some Russian resources have been realigned away from Syria to fight in Ukraine. HTS, formerly an al-Qaida-affiliated group known as al-Nusra Front, has since cut its ties to the notorious Sunni jihadi organization.
“What is Aleppo?”
~ Gary Johnson
Aleppo? Isn’t that dog food?
Bashar can put his head between his legs and kiss his Damasscus goodbye!
A Leppo? A person with Lepprocy.
Don’t seem to be any good guys in this fight.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Muzzies gotta muzz.
At least its on each other.
It does point out nicely however that large weapons caches are useless if there is no hand to wield them…
^^^ Don’t tell that to Alec Baldwin!
Bashar Assad is an opthlalmologist and an Orthodox Christian.
Your US/UK ‘news’ organizations neglect to report a decade of burning/closing Christian churches by CIA-backed(?) terrorists.
Russia, a Christian nation, defends an ally, and stands against US-lead destruction of Western Values. Name all the countries that the US and UK haven’t totally degraded: Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Greece, Turkey, Croatia… soon to add S Korea, Georgia, the EU countries are teetering.
A New World Order NECESSARILY requires the destruction of all nations’ sovereignty. A world FULL of refugees is dismissed as triffling ‘collateral damage’. TRILLION$ stolen in the money laundering operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, currently Ukraine, soon to be Taiwan….
Qui bono??!!!! Do you fellow American expect to hold onto your civil liberties??
Pelosy/obama/McConnell/Bush(both) had no problem pissing in your cornflakes.
“Don’t seem to be any good guys in this fight.”
Open your eyes and wipe off the DENIAL. The bad guys is US.