The largest foreign military fighting for Syrian President Bashar Assad is Hezbollah.
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A Reuters analysis last month of Russian Defense Ministry data showed that nearly 80 percent of Russia’s declared targets have been in areas not held by Islamic State.
This week, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Russian Federation was seeking its own interests in Syria regarding the future of President Assad, and suggested that Russian Federation may not care about keeping Assad in his post the same way the Iranians do. The base was “primarily responsible for most of the bombardment of towns and villages in the northern Hama countryside”, Muhammad said, as well as towns and villages in the Sahl al-Ghab plains region. “They have a lot of people outside the wire”, he said. The territory is now the heartland for the rebels, a mix of moderate nationalist factions and others with extremist Islamic ideologies.
The mission “cannot confidently determine whether or not a chemical was used as a weapon” by militants in the Jober area on August 29, 2014, it said. “They come to the rescue of each other on their different turf”. The group is fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner.
More than 250,000 people have been killed in the war, which began in 2011 and has frequently spilled across the border. According to Al-Arabiya, he said that “briefly, the Western countries should recognize that Russian Federation does not intend to change Assad’s regime and that he will stay in power. When it comes to urban fighting the Syrian army is still quite limited in its capacities to advance”.
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.
The only death the Russian government has reported was that of a serviceman who the military said died by suicide. The Saudi military has been launching air strikes in Yemen since March.
But the rebels have adapted by avoiding fixed positions and hiding their movements better.
The intensification of air and rocket strikes coincided with Washington’s shift in approach to the conflict after efforts to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS collapsed.
The loss of Morek cost the army the last town under its control along the main highway north from Hama to second city Aleppo.
IS fighters have lashed back.
The nearby town of Morek fell to rebels on Thursday.
In the Idlib province south of Aleppo, the report said, there were several incidents between March and May of 2015 that “likely involved the use of one or more toxic chemicals”. It disapproves of Iran’s pro-Assad activities in Syria, but favors its anti-IS activities in Iraq.
“Some of the partners are trying to boil down the talks to demands for Assad’s resignation”, he said.
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Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, said Moscow has failed to exact any humanitarian concessions from Assad as a price for Russian support.
