Posted on 07/05/2018 1:21:35 PM PDT by BBell
The Syrian government and its closest military ally - Russia - have intensified their bombing campaign Thursday in the southern province of Deraa, after ceasefire deal between rebels and Russians broke down. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, said that had airstrikes intensified on Thursday as government troops advanced steadily to recapture lost territory.
“The relative lull in the fighting has now been shattered following the collapse of peace talks. Syrian government and Russian planes have been targeting a number of rebel-held towns in the province,” Khodr said.
“Dozens of airstrikes were reported by activists, mainly targeting the towns of Tafas in the western countryside of Deraa and in the eastern countryside of Saida.”
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP news agency that hundreds of missiles and crude barrel bombs were unleashed by Syrian and Russian aircraft overnight through Thursday morning. The war monitor said air strikes were ongoing, including on the town of Tafas in the northwest of Deraa province and on towns and villages near the Jordanian border. Samer Homssi, who had fled to the outskirts of Deraa with his wife and four children, described a fierce onslaught of regime air strikes and shelling. The Syrian government forces retook a security checkpoint along the Jordanian border for the first time in more than three years.
Six civilians, including a woman and four children, were killed in the town of Saida, which regime ground forces were trying to take, it said.
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This is how Russians negotiate.
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This is how we negotiate in the rest of the Middle East too.
The previous “regime” didn’t.
Deadlines are deadines
These are the hard core radical,islamists who refused to accept terms
Now are these “rebels” in the same vein the British use the term “Asian”? Meaning Muslim extremists?
Highly likely the rebels are the “freedom fighters” backed by America (Obama government & John McCain) and Turkey.
The rebels have been abandoned by Trump government,
but if “gas attack” accussation surfaces, Trump may still decide to help them.
Time lines and warnings do not work with these types. They only understand the barrel of a gun.
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