I do feel I must apologize to readers... I have NOT posted any articles concerning the ongoing war in Syria, other than a weekly tidbit in my weekend rants, for well over a month now.... In all that time the war had turned into a "stalemate" as the good guys, the Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, had made no significant gains against the last of the France, United Kingdom, and US (laughingly called at times "FUKUS") led and financed "terrorists" in the Idlib pocket located in northwestern Syria.....Well, last week when the Syrian government forces FINALLY launched their major offensive operations against the Idlib pocket, with the attacks apparently being a series of "pincer movements" to surround and isolate the southern part of that pocket into smaller "pockets" of resistance, while continuing a slow advance northwards into the pocket itself liberating villages along the way...In fact, here is the link to the latest "Syrian War Report", as presented by the Southfront website, at www.southfront.org, that gives everyone a pretty good understanding of the present situation in the battle for southern Idlib, as well as what else has been recently happening elsewhere across Syria itself... Here is that link here:https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-august-16-2019-militant-groups-lose-lots-of-equipment-in-southern-idlib/OK, the facts are that as of last week any chances of any more of those bullshit "ceasefires" that have halted the Syrian government forces against Idlib should now be a thing of the past... The Syrians and Russians had given the so called "rebels", led by the US of course, still holed up in Idlib plenty of chances to accept and abide by these "ceasefires" and in every case for the last few months, those idiots in Idlib basically rejected them all... In fact, these "ceasefires" were used for nothing more than a respite to allow the fraud "rebels" to be rearmed and repositioned across the Idlib pocket for further resistance against the SAA forces....Well, apparently there is no stopping the advance of the SAA into Idlib now... As the primary focus of the recent attacks are indeed to attack north of the key southern Idlib pocket city of Khan Shaykhun, and basically trap any "rebels" south of that key position into a large pocket that will be isolated and eliminated.... And I do want to turn to a link to a report from the Moon Of Alabama website, at www. moonofalabama.org, that was put out two days ago covering this significant operation in great detail... Here is that link here:https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/08/syria-frontline-breach-opens-door-to-a-deep-battle-for-idlib.htmlIt must be noted that since that report was filed by Moon Of Alabama, the so called 'rebels' in the northern parts of the Idlib pocket have shifted some of their forces southbound to oppose this move by the SAA, and resistance in and around Khan Shaykhun has in fact 'stiffened' and the operations from the eastern side of the pocket to attempt to close the pincer around that key city has been halted.... Operations, however, on the western side of the pocket are still continuing and the SAA has made significant grounds in their attacks north and east of that city...The entire operation by the SAA apparently is now focused on further isolation of the rebels in the southern Idlib pocket, while developing operations focused in on securing the key M5 motorway that runs from southern Idlib right through to the key and major centre of Saraquib further to the north... If the SAA is able to continue to make gains and move along the M5 corridor to Saraquib, then the entire Idlib pocket could indeed collapse.....I for one am not a military genius by any means, but I have long wondered why the SAA with their battle hardened "tiger forces" have not launched a major operation from a point somewhere between the key city of Aleppo and the southern edge of the entire pocket in the western direction focused on seizing Saraquib? But apparently the terrain in the pocket itself between that eastern edge and that key city favours defence and such an attack could be disastrous in terms of losses by the SAA if they attempt such an attack.... Therefore reducing the pocket by continuing to attack the southern flank apparently is the safe bet by the Syrian forces and their Russian/Arabic allies, although agonizingly slow and tedious at times......The facts are now that the final battle for the elimination of the Idlib pocket in northwestern Syria is finally a reality..... It will be interesting to see what the US/Israel/NATO criminal cabal does to try to save their 'terrorists' now? We may not have long to wait, and I will do my best to have that report here when that happens.. Stay tuned..More to comeNTS
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