ISIS update 2/26/2016..Ceasefire deadline looming
International Military Review – Syria, Feb. 26, 2016
Russia: No plan B for Syria ceasefire
‘Regime change only US plan for Syria’
Obama: We have to defeat ideology of ISIL; Assad must go
Obama OK’s Turkish Northern Syria Shelling Despite Agreed on Ceasefire
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/02/obama-oks-turkish-northern-syrian.html
by Stephen Lendman
Erdogan does nothing belligerent without US approval or complicity, including attacking Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
His terror war rages intensively – intending to continue shelling Kurdish YPG forces in northern Syria after US/Russia cessation of hostilities is implemented on February 27 at midnight Damascus time.
Longstanding US double standards are notorious. Washington virtually ignores his naked aggression, beyond meaningless lip service remarks claiming otherwise – short of backing punitive Security Council action.
At the same time, it demands Russia cease bombing terrorists in Syria – calling CIA-trained cutthroat killers “moderates.”
Washington considers Turkey a valued ally. Both nations partner in each other’s high crimes – waging terror war on Syria. US/Russia negotiated cessation of hostilities changed nothing.
Turkey continues supplying ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria with heavy US/NATO/Israeli produced, Saudi paid for, weapons – assuring continued conflict. Expecting ceasefire to work is pure fantasy.
Assad said over 80 US-led so-called coalition countries continue supplying terrorists in Syria with armaments, financial, logistical, political and material support.
He called foreign sponsors of terrorism “active” and “unlimited,” showing cessation of hostilities is talk without intention, sham US cover for continued war, Russia and Syria to be irresponsibly blamed.
On Wednesday, a Syrian Foreign Ministry statement blamed Washington and its rogue allies for waging war on Syria “and continuing it…supporting terrorist gangs.”
It condemned John Kerry’s so-called Plan B – partitioning Syria in flagrant violation of international law if attempted.
Syria and its people remain determined to defeat terrorism, preserve the nation’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence, the Foreign Ministry statement stressed.
Conflict resolution won’t happen without achieving these objectives. Putin and Assad remain committed to combating ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups infesting Syria.
Putin supports the right of Syrians alone to decide who’ll lead them, free from foreign interference.
On Wednesday during a Security Council session on the nation’s humanitarian crisis, Assad’s UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari said his “government is open to cooperate and coordinate with all states and UN organizations working in Syria” on providing humanitarian aid where it’s desperately needed.
At the same time, it rejects interventional “side deal(s)” entirely for political reasons. Ongoing conflict can’t be addressed responsibly “without engaging seriously in tackling the reason reason behind the crisis, mainly the presence of (foreign-backed) terrorist groups” waging war on the Syrian people, al-Jaafari stressed.
“How (can) we end the humanitarian crisis in the country in light of the silence about Erdogan’s military attack on the Syrian territories in support of the terrorists and the use of the Turkish lands as a passage and haven for tens of thousands of terrorists,” he added.
Ending ongoing conflict in Syria requires defeating terrorism, he explained. His government is committed to continue combating this universal scourge.
UNSC to meet over resumption of Syria talks
Ceasefire deadline looming: Syrian opposition groups agree to respect truce
Intel Drop, February 26, 2016
By Gordon Duff
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/02/26/intel-drop-february-26-2016/
Two issues have brought to light the extent Saudi Arabia and Turkey will go to in Syria, but there is more. While the US is visibly working with Russia on the upcoming cease fire, supposedly to come online in less than 36 hours, the US is also involved in bizarre plots with not only Saudi and the Turks but as Ian Greenhalgh points out, “the moderate head choppers” as well.
Here is what we are seeing and why John Kerry “has some splain’in to do.”
The battles along the Aleppo road clearly demonstrate that ISIS has cut military supplies to forces fighting inside Aleppo city in partnership with Free Syria Army units as a coordinated and highly sophisticated military operation. The idea of giving the FSA a pass during the upcoming cease fire is absurd. They were long ago taken over by ISIS and al Nusra, their command structure ceased to exist and returned to their “day jobs” with Turkish intelligence and the “rank and file” of the FSA are now all mercenaries.
The US is totally aware of this and fully complicit. Saudi fighters arrived at Incirlik air base in Turkey, a base they share with the US. Last week Saudi Arabia brought up to 5 tactical nuclear weapons into Incirlik to use against Russian and Syrian forces as part of what John Kerry has coined “Plan B.”
Now we have information that Turkish intelligence, yesterday morning, delivered one tactical nuclear weapon to the city of Aleppo, where it is being used to blackmail the Syrian government into stopping military operations inside the city and leaving a phony moderate “American backed” and again as Ian says, “moderate head chopper” force in place in Aleppo.
Turkey is actively involved in military operations in Latakia, having moved artillery up to the border in support of Turkish military dressed as “moderate head choppers” who have retaken villages as seen in the Southfront video.
It has become increasingly clear that the United States is providing intelligence and combined warfare assistance to ISIS in both Syria and Iraq with American commanders “on the ground” in al Raqqah, Deir Ezzor, Mosul and until recently Ramadi and Fallujah, where they had to be extracted by helicopter in broad daylight recently.
Key to all of this are events in Erbil, the capitol of the KRG in Iraq. There plans are being made to pull away from the Baghdad government with military support from the Turkish government which has already sent troops into Iraq despite protests by the government there. It is the intent of Turkey to empower a “Barzani Caliphate” from the border of Iran, even into Turkey and taking a wide swath of Northern Syria. Barzani has signed a secret agreement with Turkey to allow them to purge “communists” from this region, which in actuality would represent an ethnic cleansing of Kurds much as Turkey had done with Armenians in 1915. The deal is this; Barzani will finally get his Kurdish nation except that Turkey has the right to march in, jail or kill who they want when they want while Barzani secretly or not so secretly works with his Israeli friends who hope Mr. Erdogan will fall down a flight of stairs in a “not so accidental” accident. What they have planned for the Saudis is well along the way, a move that will soon turn Saudi Arabia into a full and total Israeli client state, something Israel may well need if ISIS, now totally out of control, ever conquers Syria.
Syrian army makes key gains in Aleppo countryside
Syria hails Russia’s campaign against Daesh
Aleppo’s countless frontlines: Exclusive report from divided Syrian city
Syrian army recaptures 3 villages in Aleppo
Russian night airstrikes on Darat Izza in northwest of Aleppo
AA/NDF/Hezbollah Operations in E.Aleppo: Pt 2: Battle for Khannaser Road
On the ground with anti-IS Kurdish fighters in Syria
Intense Syrian airstrikes on Darayya prior to ceasefire on Saturday
Heavy Russian Airstrikes on Jobar in Damascus Suburbs
Iraqi Special Forces Golden Division rescue over 500 civilians from Ramadi countryside
Ruins of War: Iraqi army retakes major part of Ramadi from ISIS
Iraqi forces discover mass graves in Anbar province
Iraqi Special Forces Golden Division Soldiers and Abrams combat with ISIS in Al Sijaria
Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army, Popular Forces Purge More Strategic Regions of Terrorists
The Syrian army backed by the air force and popular forces drove out Takfiri terrorists from more important territories in key provinces across the country.
The army regained control over further Key villages, towns and cities in Hama, Aleppo, Lattakia, Deir Ezzur, Dara’a and Damascus provinces pushing back militants from their military positions and strongholds.
Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured in heavy clashes with the Syrian army and aerial bombardments of Syria’s fighter jets.
Hama
A commander of Jeish al-Izza terrorist group, affiliated to the FSA (the so-called Free Syrian Army), was killed in the Syrian army’s airstrikes in Hama, a military source said on Thursday.
“Musa Abdallah, a commander and TOW launcher in Jeish al-Izza was killed in joint airstrikes by the Syrian and Russian air force units on Lataminah in Hama,” the source said.
The Syrian warplanes targeted a number of positions and center points of terrorist groups in the Eastern province of Hama, killing dozens of militants and destroying their military hardware.
The Syrian army jets also attacked several terrorist positions in Kefr Zeita, some 39 kilometers Northwest of Hama, and regions around Hor Benafseh town.
The air raids claimed the lives of dozens of militants and left many more injured, inflicting heavy damage on militants’ positions.
The Syrian air force also pounded military positions and gathering centers of the terrorists groups in the city of Balada al-Sarmaniya and the village of Qarqour, inflicting heavy losses on them.
Aleppo
The Syrian army and popular forces liberated another village Southeast of Aleppo on Thursday, and inflicted a heavy toll on the ISIL that included tens of foreign terrorists from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Chechnya, Lebanon, Malaysia and Pakistan.
The Syrian army along with Liwaa Al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigade), the Republican Guard and the National Defense Forces (NDF) liberated another village from the ISIL hands in Khanaser Plains after advancing North from the recently captured city of Khanaser this morning.
According to a military source, the Syrian armed forces imposed full control over the village of al-Muqayrat after a violent battle with the ISIL near the strategic city of Khanaser.
The source added that several militants from the ISIL were killed during the successful military operations to liberate the village of al-Muqayrat, including several foreign fighters from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Chechnya, Lebanon, Malaysia and Pakistan.
With al-Muqayrat under their control, the Syrian forces and their allies have advanced towards the village of Hawaz, which was seized by the ISIL during their offensive just 48 hours ago.
Also, the Syrian army units won back the strategic town of Khanaser, Southeast of Aleppo province, which was the scene of fierce battles in recent days.
The army’s latest advance in Aleppo province was made after heavy clashes with the terrorist groups in the region.
Military sources said on Thursday that tens of terrorists were killed and several others were injured in the battle.
Lattakia
Field sources in Lattakia revealed that scores of militants stationed in several parts of the Northern province are now crossing the border into Turkey following heavy attacks by the Syrian army and after hundreds of fresh forces crossed the border from Turkey into Syria through one crossing in Northern Lattakia to stop the fleeing militants.
“Tens of Takfiri terrorists are trying to cross the border into Turkey after recent victories of the Syrian army and its allies in the Northern parts of Lattakia province,” the sources said on Thursday.
The Syrian army and popular forces made gains in several regions in the Northeastern countryside of Lattakia, purging them of terrorists.
The Syrian Army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, purged the terrorists from Barza al-Tahtani village and Katef al-Zaitona, Daher Sando, Tal Ghweirat and Jabal Abu Ali regions Northeast of Lattakia province, field sources said on Thursday.
Stability and security was restored to these areas after army operations, they added.
The Syrian army and popular forces continued their advances in Lattakia, inflicting heavy losses on the terrorists in the mountainous regions of the coastal province.
Deir Ezzur
The Syrian air force and artillery units launched large-scale attacks against the terrorist positions on the outskirts of Deir Ezzur on Thursday.
The Syrian warplanes pounded the terrorists’ positions in Haweija Saker region, Abu Omar town and two villages of al-Mura’yeh, Hatleh and al-Jafra on the outskirts of Deir Ezzur.
Also the army’s artillery units in the same region concurrently pounded the gathering centers of terrorists in Hatleh village.
Dara’a
Three medical experts who cooperated with al-Nusra Front terrorist group were killed in the Western outskirts of Dara’a.
The three who had sheltered in the trenches dug by al-Mothana terrorist group in al-Taira region were killed by the Syrian army’s heavy fire on the Western outskirts of Dara’a city.
In another development on Thursday, the Syrian army’s artillery units attacked the terrorists’ positions in the towns of Dae’l and Tal Antar on the outskirts of Dara’a.
The army also launched a high-precision missile attack against a military vehicle of terrorist groups on Abta’-Dae’l road on the Northern outskirts of Dara’a which killed and wounded all on board.
Damascus
The Abdal al-Sham terrorists affiliated to the FSA held captive several members of their rival group, ISIL, including two commanders, on the outskirts of Damascus city.
Members of Abdal al-Sham surrounded the house of an ISIL member in Kefr Zeit village in Bardi valley on Thursday and held captive their leaders, Abu Maryam al-Araqi and Abu Mosa’ab Sarqaya, along with 12 other ISIL terrorists.
Also, in another development on the outskirts of Damascus city, the Syrian warplanes pounded the terrorists’ positions and gathering centers in Darayya and near Tal Farzat region.
Also, tens of terrorists were killed and wounded in clashes with the Syrian army in Darayya city in the Western Ghouta of Damascus.
The Syrian artillery units also targeted the terrorists’ positions in the city of Hai Jobar in the Eastern parts of Damascus and Duma and al-Rayhan towns on the outskirts of Damascus.
The Syrian army discovered an extensive network of tunnels stretched for hundreds of meters in Darayya dug by al-Nusra Front terrorist group to infiltrate into the city.
Commander of the army’s operations in Darayya in Western Ghouta in Damascus countryside said that the tunnels which were discovered on Thursday are all equipped with ventilation and lighting instruments.
He confirmed that all terrorists inside the city of Darayya are affiliated to the al-Nusra Front.
Also, members of the army said that they fought fierce house-to-house battles with terrorists and killed many of them while the rest of terrorists fled away and now they are besieged inside small sites in the city.
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Syrian Army, NDF Score More Victories against Militants North of Lattakia
Syria: Militants Withdraw from More Positions in Aleppo
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Scores of Militants, Including Non-Syrians, Killed in Clashes with Army in Deir Ezzur
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/02/isis-update-2262016ceasefire-deadline.html
