Islamist terrorists in Syria wavering

[dunksby]

Terrorists losing

The Syrian army advanced toward the Turkish border on Monday in a major offensive backed by Russia and Iran that rebels say now threatens the future of their nearly five-year-old insurrection against President Bashar al-Assad.

Iranian backed-militias played a key role on the ground as Russian jets intensified what rebels call a scorched earth policy that has allowed the military back into the strategic northern area for the first time in more than two years.

"Our whole existence is now threatened, not just losing more ground," said Abdul Rahim al-Najdawi from Liwa al-Tawheed, an insurgent group.

"They are advancing and we are pulling back because in the face of such heavy aerial bombing we must minimize our losses."

The Syrian military and its allies were almost five km (3 miles) from the rebel-held town of Tal Rafaat, which has brought them to around 25 km (16 miles) from the Turkish border, the rebels, a residents and a conflict monitor said.

The assault around the city of Aleppo in northern Syria has prompted tens of thousands to flee toward Turkey, which is already sheltering more than 2.5 million Syrians, the world's largest refugee population.

In the last two days escalating Russian bombardment of towns north west of Aleppo, Anadan and Haritan, brought several thousand more, according to a resident in the town of Azaz.

Rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo are still home to 350,000 people, and aid workers have said they could soon fall to the government. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted at the weekend as saying Turkey was under threat.
After around a week of heavy Russian air strikes, Syrian government troops and their allies broke through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite towns in northern Aleppo province on Wednesday, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey.

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The Syrian army's success in opening a route to the Shi'ite towns of Nubul and Zahraa enabled it to cut a main highway that linked rebel held areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo with the eastern part of Aleppo held by insurgents since 2012.

The latest gains by the Syrian government brings it to the closest point to the Turkish border area since August 2013, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The capture of the towns of Mayer and then Kafin, just north of Nubul and Zahraa, in the past 24 hrs have opened the road toward Tal Rifaat, the next focus of the army assault. The capture of that would leave only the town of Azaz before the Turkish border itself.

The prospect of the loss of Azaz, just a few miles from the Bab al Salama border crossing, would virtually wipe out the insurgents from their main stronghold in northwest Syria.
Russian bombing has for weeks targeted rebel routes to the main border crossing that was once a major gateway from Europe and Turkey to the Gulf and Iraq.

Since it fell to insurgents, the crossing has been both a major commercial lifeline and arms supply route for rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

The army's advance has also been indirectly helped by Kurdish-led YPG militias who control the city of Afrin, south west of Azaz. They have seized a string of villages including Ziyara and Khreiybeh in the last few days, rebels said.

The Observatory also said they had secured the villages of Deir Jamal and Maranaz from Islamist insurgents.

[fiddy]

thanks Obongo

inb4 Turkey, UAE and SA start WW3 by invading Syria to protect their investments

[StephHamann]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70V0J5NHIfE

[tomtucker]

good, then we can send all the refugees and migrants home

[kNIOKAS]

good, then we can send all the refugees and migrants home

Home sweet Syrian home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoRdCbDd50o

[tomtucker]

Home sweet Syrian home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoRdCbDd50o

yeah, muslims love to kill and be at war....we all know that part

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here is japan and germany after ww2
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[tomtucker]

soon muslims will be at war in another country and the same sob story continues.....europe just have to take them all in, right ? fukk the original population , right ?

[tomtucker]

[B]this is europe

[dunksby]

[QUOTE=tomtucker][B]this is europe

[senelcoolidge]

aren't they moving to Libya though?

[Akrazotile]

The Middle East is like a sports team that can't get over the hump.

Time to blow it up.

[zoom17]

thanks Obongo

inb4 Turkey, UAE and SA start WW3 by invading Syria to protect their investments

Saudi Arabia is struggling with the Houthis going against Syrian army, Iranian advisers backed by Russian help would be really dumb. Even though Erdogan is a crazy Islamist he would be stupid to even think about it. NATO will not have his back on this one.

[BlazerRed]

The Middle East is like a sports team that can't get over the hump.

Time to blow it up.

I've been saying this for so long, people get upset every time. Pu[COLOR="Black"]s[/COLOR]sies

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

I've been saying this for so long, people get upset every time. Pu[COLOR="Black"]s[/COLOR]sies

You're fat, ugly, likely physically weak, idiotic, egotistical (and what for?), have never contributed anything good to mankind, born with a silver spoon, have no heart, no compassion and it would be a stretch to call you a human being by any means. And now you're bragging about an evil idea being yours and actually think valuing life is "puccies". Everyone on this board has more virtue by every single metric than you do. Thank you for combining all that is detestable into one smorgasbord of disgusting.

You don't get to make decisions that lead to the deaths of innocents.

Got it.

And Chris is also a piece of sh!t, but he knows this deep inside and tries to change. Kudos.

[tomtucker]

Stop derailing this thread dickhead.

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