Posted on 10/14/2015 7:08:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Iran has sent around 1,500 fighters to Syria over the past few days, a regional official and Syrian activists claim.
The Iranian soldiers, bolstered by Russia’s airstrike campaign, are preparing for a grand offensive against militants in the northern Aleppo province, which would be announced in the coming days, the official told the AP. They’re also accompanied by a new wave of Hezbollah fighters.
The soldiers were arriving at Damascus airport and transported to a military base in the coastal town of Latakia.
The presence of Iranian troops could strengthen Russia's mission of empowering Syrian President Bashar Assad's embattled government.
"Sending more troops from Hezbollah, and Iran only increases the shelf life of the Syrian regime, which is destined to end," Maj. Jamil Saleh, the leader of Tajammu Alezzah, a CIA-backed Free Syrian Army faction, told the AP. "It will only add more destruction and displacement."
Their arrival is almost certain to fuel a civil war in Syria which has already claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and displaced half of the country's population.
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We have no business being in Syria. We don’t even have diplomatic relations with Syria. We closed their embassy in DC in June of 2014....and sent their diplomats home.
Game on!
I'm having a problem finding a downside to this.
Of course. Whenever a ragtag bunch of head-cutting fanatics invades your country, the only wise choice of action is to surrender right away. /s
The First few batches of Iranians have been used up already
I can’t keep up....are we FOR the Syrians?..against the rebels?....
There are so many groups fighting in Syria it’s the Monty Python movie Life of Brian (1979) The People’s Front part
Nothing new - just another story on what we already knew.
Active Duty ping.
Does anybody get the impression that Murdoch’s Fox News is very anti-Assad, and is in bed with McCain, supporting the jihadis who are fighting Assad?
Hence, we see story after story from Murchoch’s Fox News about how bad the Russians are for bombing the jihadis?
Awesome. More factions of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage joining the fray means they’ll all just slaughter each other. Let God sort them out. Doing the rest of the human race a huge favor as far as I can tell.
Al waleed Ben talal. Fox has changed a lot in the past six, eight years. For the Freeperless.. I feel sorry for them. No debate, minimal truth.. I do enjoy fox sports.. For now. They turned so far left and either got burned or blackmailed maybe.. They just don’t have teeth... Like they used to.
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