Syrian government troops have launched several ground offensives against rebel forces since Russian Federation began its bombing campaign.
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If there is one person to blame for the four-year tragedy it is Bashar Al Assad, who instructed his army to slaughter his own citizens rather than heed his people’s call to step down.
While certain Western and non-Western countries insist that Assad can not be part of any future government in Syria, Iran and Russian Federation say only Syrian people are to decide about such internal Syrian issues. Top commanders from both Hezbollah and the Iranian contingent have been killed, a sign of the intensity of the battles.
Its air force said on Tuesday it had flown 1,631 sorties and struck 2,084 militant targets since the start of the campaign.
The FSA groups totally dismissed recent reports that their representatives are going to meet with the defense and foreign ministers of Russian Federation next week in UAE’s city of Abu Dhabi.
Additionally, the group has been resupplied with TOW missiles which had run out last week, said a member of the group’s leadership council, Abu Ahmed Hani. “What we care about is Assad leaving, not turning this from a war against the regime to a war against terrorism”, he said to the Guardian. It has had limited success in retaking territory gained by rebels earlier this year. At the end of the day, Assad no longer has the power to create such a police state regardless of how much help he receives from his allies. “They come to the rescue of each other on their different turf”.
Nikolay Kozhanov, a fellow with the Russian Federation and Eurasia Programme at the global affairs think tank Chatham House, said Russia’s intervention is “not enough to completely change the situation in the favor of the regime….”
In the last election, many regions and certain people groups were excluded from the vote, causing the United States and others nations to condemn the election as illegitimate, according to Reuters.
Assad’s chips at the table simply aren’t as numerous as many would think, and the crimes that led to the Syrian protests in the first place have multiplied to a point where they are downright unforgivable.
The jihadists “seized full control of the town of Morek after a fierce offensive”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said.
“Yesterday there was a big Russian air strike, but we organized ourselves, with the rest of the factions”.
In late October, it showed he had uploaded pictures from Aleppo, one of which showed him holding an assault rifle while wearing civilian clothes.
A media spokesman for a rebel group operating in the area under the banner of the Free Syrian Army said it had shot the plane down. Russian Federation says it is striking mainly Islamic State extremists, although numerous airstrikes have focused on areas where rebels are fighting to topple Assad.
More than 135,000 Syrians fled their homes after the Russian bombardments, seeking refuge even in foreign lands, thus adding to the already enormous refugee crisis facing Europe.
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By all accounts, the Russians aren’t leaving anytime soon. Government forces are trying to break the Daesh siege of an air base to the east of Aleppo. They have so far reached about 5 miles away in heavy fighting that killed a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, Gen. Hossein Hamedani. On October 25, they announced a joint agreement to boost their military and diplomatic effort in aid of the Syrian rebels.
