Posted on 12/05/2016 4:17:29 AM PST by Cronos
By December 5, ther Syrian army and pro-government militias liberated Karm Tahan and al-Qaterrji neighborhoods and the National Hospital in about 800m from the Aleppo Citadel. In coming days, the army and its allies will likely able to reach the Aleppo Citadel and militant defenses north of it will collapse.
compared with this image from yesterday
Good news! Aleppo should fall soon.
Good news. And my Christmas wish is that we disavow the neocon Old Testament-esque foreign policy and now embrace a New Testament-esque foreign policy. Just as the birth of Christ inaugurated a new era.
Meanwhile in Libya: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/isis-sirte-libya-pro-government-forces-say-battle-for-city-is-over-a7456481.html
I hope they are experiencing the pant crapping fear of someone who knows they are doomed, and their last day on Earth is rapidly approaching.
Hard to imagine Aleppo was once the business center of Syria. Many hotels. Foreign travelers. Videos now display destruction on a par with WW-2 type devastation. What buildings remain standing are in many cases, ‘gutted.’
The government forces holding the citadel is an epic tale.
...Good news! Aleppo should fall soon....
And on to Raqqa, and crushing the Capitol of the savage stone age so called caliphate
I wonder if the true stories of SYRIA will ever be told
“Hard to imagine Aleppo was once the business center of Syria. Many hotels. Foreign travelers.”
Same could be said about Beirut and the Lebanese civil war, which lasted well over a decade. Lebanon, and Beirut specifically used to be known as “Paris of the Middle East”.
Anyway, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq are not in better shape - that’s war generally does.
They look surrounded to me.
To me, not surrendering, at this point, is tantamount to a war crime.
To me, not surrendering, at this point, is tantamount to a war crime.
What would that new policy be? Turn the other cheek?
Thanks for the ping.
It’s good news. Though I’m not cautiously optimistic.
Wait to see Trump’s decisions and actions regarding Syria.
I’m not = I’m cautiously optimistic.
I’d settle for not carrying out Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s whims whenever they pay us to do so.
Hmm. Are you under the impression that it’s ISIS in Aleppo? Aleppo is held by Jaish al-Fatah (JaF), a coalition of rebels (some moderates, but also a lot of islamists, including an estimated 15% of the fighters in the city who are in Jaish Fatah al-Sham (JFS) (formerly Jaish al-Nusra)). JaF opposes both the government and ISIS (who they consider too radical).
Raqqa, by contrast, is the capitol of ISIS’s “caliphate”.
As for the post itself: I follow other sources about the ongoing operations and I can confirm that this is the status today. But it may stall out or even reverse, at least for a day or so. There’s an ongoing rebel counterattack as we speak which has been having at least some degree of success against the SAA. That said, nothing changes the underlying dynamic. They’ve been cut off for reinforcements too long and too much force has been amassed against them to hold out indefinitely.
There may be some outside attempt at a breakin, but I don’t expect to see much success, even though Turkey has dramatically upped their arms shipments of late. While their second to last breakin attempt was successful (plowing right through the artillery academy of all places), their last one failed before they even made it a third of the way in.
And will do here if it comes to war,
Correct.
That’s the thing about America.
Apart from very limited Jap bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the American civil war well over a century ago (which obviously Americans today never personally experienced), America has not had a “real devastating war” inside its borders. Europe, and other places have and much more recently. So Americans generally can only imagine it, watch movies and see photos - not the same though.
.... Are you under the impression that it’s ISIS in Aleppo...
Had read that Al Baghdadi was in Aleppo at the time the battle began and they closed down exiting the city. Don’t know. But, if he is, yes,ISIS is in Aleppo.
Regardless, Raqqa needs fumigated to rid it of the vermin there.
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