(Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Rana Abdul)
(Zaman al-Wasl)- The Syrian regime's military campaign against Islamic State west of Raqqa city seemed in full coordination with the unspoken ally, the PYD-led Syrian Democratic Forces who fight ISIS on two battlefronts in northern Raqqa and near the Turkish border.
The three fronts have showed 'hotline' between Moscow and Washington who are scared of Jaish al-Fateh advancement in Aleppo southern countryside that might affect negatively the mutual plan to strike Isis in Raqqa due to Russia insistence on dismantling this army which was the cause of its direct intervention to support the Syrian regime in September last year.
All this comes after a meeting between leaderships in regime forces and SDF alliance to agree on Raqqa city’s fate following recapture from Isis. These meetings came in conjunction with SDF official spokesperson Tala Silou talk with Sham F.M radio station, close to regime, saying “following liberation of Raqqa, we will negotiate with the regime and Raqqa population will decide its fate.”
If we look at the military situation on the banks of Euphrates River, it is apparent that regime forces and its allies are essential party in the war on Isis in cooperation with Democratic Union Party (YPG) and American allies. US-led coalition then reveals a mutual understanding that Raqqa will be controlled by regime forces whereas the northern countryside will be controlled by SDF alliance.
When SDF announces capture of villages of Qabir Aymo, Naymiyeh, Jwtheh, Hasan agha, Talet Siraj following clashes with Isis in Manbij battle starting on last Tuesday, regime military sources said they extended military operations in Athrya area in Hama eastern countryside with Russians air back up at a time when regime forces fight hard to keep strongholds in Deir ez-Zor and military airport there.
The assault around the Syrian city of Manbij, backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes and a contingent of American special forces, aims to help cut off Islamic State's last major stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier by seizing territory in northern Syria west of the Euphrates River.
In this context, the massacres of civilians by both alliances in the Euphrates basin comes into the scene. The latest one is al-Buleel massacre in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside in which 15 civilians were killed including a child and 4 women. The Raqqa people were given two choices either death under the rubble or their homes or displacement.
Perhaps the only absent party from the scene on Euphrates banks is the military force that believes in the Syrian revolution without any absolute subordination to any of the alliances. As it seems, the Syrian Coalition President Anas al-Abdah failed to include “Syrian Peshmerga” forces in the battles north of Aleppo so far to claim a small part of the big land divided between America allies and Russian ones.
The United States had agreed with Russia on a ceasefire between rebel factions and regime forces on February 27 with the exception of Isis and al-Nusra Front which gave the regime a huge opportunity to participate in Raqqa battle without fear of losing the gains in neighboring Aleppo.
Hasaka province includes American and Russian military strongholds which turned the province into an operation room to coordinate against Isis which formerly controlled most of the province. Isis lost most of the province to the SDF alliance except for Markada in the far west in the past two years.
(Zaman al-Wasl)- The Syrian regime's military campaign against Islamic State west of Raqqa city seemed in full coordination with the unspoken ally, the PYD-led Syrian Democratic Forces who fight ISIS on two battlefronts in northern Raqqa and near the Turkish border.
The three fronts have showed 'hotline' between Moscow and Washington who are scared of Jaish al-Fateh advancement in Aleppo southern countryside that might affect negatively the mutual plan to strike Isis in Raqqa due to Russia insistence on dismantling this army which was the cause of its direct intervention to support the Syrian regime in September last year.
All this comes after a meeting between leaderships in regime forces and SDF alliance to agree on Raqqa city’s fate following recapture from Isis. These meetings came in conjunction with SDF official spokesperson Tala Silou talk with Sham F.M radio station, close to regime, saying “following liberation of Raqqa, we will negotiate with the regime and Raqqa population will decide its fate.”
If we look at the military situation on the banks of Euphrates River, it is apparent that regime forces and its allies are essential party in the war on Isis in cooperation with Democratic Union Party (YPG) and American allies. US-led coalition then reveals a mutual understanding that Raqqa will be controlled by regime forces whereas the northern countryside will be controlled by SDF alliance.
When SDF announces capture of villages of Qabir Aymo, Naymiyeh, Jwtheh, Hasan agha, Talet Siraj following clashes with Isis in Manbij battle starting on last Tuesday, regime military sources said they extended military operations in Athrya area in Hama eastern countryside with Russians air back up at a time when regime forces fight hard to keep strongholds in Deir ez-Zor and military airport there.
The assault around the Syrian city of Manbij, backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes and a contingent of American special forces, aims to help cut off Islamic State's last major stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier by seizing territory in northern Syria west of the Euphrates River.
In this context, the massacres of civilians by both alliances in the Euphrates basin comes into the scene. The latest one is al-Buleel massacre in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside in which 15 civilians were killed including a child and 4 women. The Raqqa people were given two choices either death under the rubble or their homes or displacement.
Perhaps the only absent party from the scene on Euphrates banks is the military force that believes in the Syrian revolution without any absolute subordination to any of the alliances. As it seems, the Syrian Coalition President Anas al-Abdah failed to include “Syrian Peshmerga” forces in the battles north of Aleppo so far to claim a small part of the big land divided between America allies and Russian ones.
The United States had agreed with Russia on a ceasefire between rebel factions and regime forces on February 27 with the exception of Isis and al-Nusra Front which gave the regime a huge opportunity to participate in Raqqa battle without fear of losing the gains in neighboring Aleppo.
Hasaka province includes American and Russian military strongholds which turned the province into an operation room to coordinate against Isis which formerly controlled most of the province. Isis lost most of the province to the SDF alliance except for Markada in the far west in the past two years.
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