Posted on 05/26/2015 3:29:00 AM PDT by markomalley
Syrian regime strikes against ISIS in and around the ancient city of Palmyra have failed to halt their advance towards Damascus, a monitor said on Sunday.
The intense strikes came after the fall of Palmyra, named Tadmor in Arabic, to the militants last week. But so far, the strikes had failed to halt the militants, who advanced towards the capital Damascus and overran major phosphate mines about 70 kilometers south of Palmyra.
“ISIS has made further progress on the Tadmor-Damascus highway and grabbed the Khnaifess phosphate mines and nearby houses,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the group for its reports.
“It has extended its control over larger areas and even greater economic interests,” added the monitor.
A Syrian military source on Sunday told Agence France-Presse that the air force struck more than 160 ISIS targets.
“We are pursuing Daesh wherever they are,” the source said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“The air force struck more than 160 Daesh targets, killing and wounding terrorists and destroying weapons and vehicles equipped with machine guns” on Palmyra’s outskirts and elsewhere in the east of Homs province, the source said.
“Military operations, including air raids, are ongoing in the area around Al-Suknah, Palmyra, the Arak and Al-Hail gas fields and all the roads leading to Palmyra,” he said.
State television said “more than 50 Daesh terrorists” had been killed in the air strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least four civilians had been killed in the raids, which were the most intense since the militants overran the city on Thursday.
The strikes targeted several areas of the city, including some close to the city’s famed Graeco-Roman ruins, a UNESCO world heritage site, Observatory director Rami Abdul Rahman told AFP.
Dozens of people had also been wounded in the raids, and ISIS was believed to have taken losses when a military security building was hit, Rahman said.
ISIS is accused of executing hundreds of people in and around Palmyra since it swept into the oasis city last week after a lightning advance across the desert from its stronghold in the Euphrates Valley to the east.
What’s that got to do with what I asked?
I didn’t know that was in the works. Can you elaborate?
Just speculation. Perhaps Iran and ISIS aren’t the enemies people make them out to be.
You greatly underestimate them, and the situation that gives rise to them.
Militarily, I agree they represent a minor challenge, and their forces could be destroyed fairly quickly by an MEU with appropriate air and logistical support.
But their success is not principally military. The people of Northern Arabia have been denied their preferred means of social organization for almost 100 years (or, more exactly, the means of social organization they were deprived of in 1919-1921 and which loss they have been taught explains their shame and their poverty).
After ISIS is removed by force (if that were to happen), the problem of how to govern a primitive muslim population that wants a caliph will remain.
The US should be free to choose its friends and its alliances, and it should not be swayed by threats.
>>Study the Prophecy of the seven Shepherds very close.<<
?? Could you elaborate just a tad?
The Prophecy can be found in Micah 5:5
K...thanx
K...thanx
I forgot to add verse six sorry.
Well, well, well...that didn’t take long. In Isaiah 17 it also mentions “The cities of Aroer are forsaken.” The old city of Aroer would be present day in Jordan’s territory. The area is south of Ammon. Wonder what will be transpiring in that area soon?
http://www.bible-history.com/geography/ancient-israel/ot/aroer.html
The city's probably infiltrated with sleeper cells, so when the assault starts, it will be everywhere at once.Don't get the idea that Lurch will express derision with another "hell of a pinpoint operation" regarding Assad's regime. We know he won't, because he hasn't done so during the four years of chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and indiscriminate shooting and killing by regime forces and its allied militias.Thanks markomalley.
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