Posted on 12/02/2024 4:56:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Iran-backed militants entered Syria yesterday to bolster dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime against the Islamist rebels who seized Aleppo.
Militias crossed into the war-torn country from neighbouring Iraq, following a lightning offensive against the Syrian army by rebel forces from the hardline Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Turkish rebel groups.
Their seizure of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, and swathes of territory in the north of the country has reignited the deadly civil war in Syria and shocked its allies in Russia and Iran.
President Assad blamed the West for the ‘terrorist escalation’, and accused the US and its allies of attempting to redraw the map of the Middle East.
A statement from his office said: ‘The terrorist escalation reflects the far-reaching goals of dividing the region and fragmenting the countries in it and redraw the map in line with the objectives of the United States and the West.’
Russia and Iran vowed to continue their support for the Assad regime, and Russian premier Vladimir Putin spoke with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday.
He sent Russian fighter jets to pound Aleppo and the rebels’ northern stronghold Idlib, and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated 500 people had been killed since fighting began last week, including 92 civilians.
Hundreds of Iranian-backed militias crossed into Syria from Iraq, including fighters from Kataib Hezbollah, an elite Shia armed faction with a reputation for deadly attacks against military and diplomatic targets.
It is the most powerful group in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has claimed more than 150 attacks on US forces since the war in Gaza began, and has been designated as a terrorist organisation in the US.
They were expected to head north to support the Syrian government forces in counter attacks against the HTS offensive.
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I can never follow this stuff.
The US likes Assad.
The US dislikes Iran.
Iran is entering Syria to help Assad.
Whatever dude.
Turkish Muslims, Syrian Muslims, and Iranian Muslims, and Russians.
Is it bad that I don’t care which ones beat the crap out of the others? Just stand back and enjoy the show.
The USA is part of this show's main cast.
Yep was stupid for us to get involved in Syria from the start.
I just wonder how come these old guys never die! He’s been in power forever, hasn’t he?
Urgent: Christians in Syria ask for prayer as rebels take control of Aleppo
Syrian Christians are asking for urgent prayer as a rebel group, HTS, has taken control of Aleppo and more than 50 nearby villages.
https://www.opendoorsuk.org/news/latest-news/aleppo-hts-pray/
Supporting actors. US troops are in the NE with the Kurds, etc. So far not engaged, though there are reports of airstrikes vs Iraqi Shiite militias.
More significantly the US is providing arms to Israel, and it is the Israeli destruction of Hezbollah leadership and infrastructure that seems to have kicked off the apparent collapse in Hezbollah morale. They seem to have just fled, and since they were holding the frontline, they were followed by the Syrian support troops. Hence all the videos of intact airbases, tank workshops, etc. Their enemies seem to have just been expanding into a vacuum.
Syria is the modern-day equivalent of Spain 1936.
It depends on who you are I suppose. The Israelis would probably vote for Iran and its dependents as the biggest evil (Hezbollah Hamas and Houthis). So would the Saudis.
No. The USA does not like Assad. Obama attempted to overthrow Assad (one consequence of which was the migrant crisis in Europe) and he and Clinton worked with the Qataris to run weapons to CIA-supported Islamist groups in both Libya and Syria, via Turkey. Some claim this was coordinated out of the CIA annex in Benghazi, which was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012
This has been the situation since.
Ukraine. Syria IS another “Spain”, but Ukraine is a much bigger war.
Get ALL our troops out, and then let them have at it l. Not our busniess.
They decided to take on another front by attacking Israel. That left them exposed in Syria.
I have wanted the US to close their terrorist training camp for years.The ÚS is not neutral in Syria.
I can’t find it now, but our presumptive Secretary of State tagged along with those jackals, IIRC.
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