Adam
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The Syrian Arab Army has fully defeated one of the strongest ISIS contingents remaining in Syria. The battle took places in the Raqqa governorate in a area of the Euphrates Valley that had been under ISIS control since 2013.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry,
“Amid the operation 800 terrorists, 13 tanks, 29 pickup trucks with high-caliber machine guns mounted on them, and mortars and artillery pieces totalling nine have been destroyed”.
RT further reports,
“According to the Russian ministry, the government forces involved in the operation are now advancing east along the river towards the Deir ez-Zor governorate. Its capital, the city of Deir ez-Zor, is controlled by the government but has been surrounded by rural IS-controlled areas for years. The Syrian army has been trying to break through the blockade for quite some time”.
SAA recaptured all the hills overlooking Al Sabkha to Ghanem Ali which were recently taken by ISIS at Euphrates #Raqqa
— The'Nimr'Tiger ???????? (@Souria4Syrians) August 26, 2017
Syrian Army/Tiger forces/tribal forces overlooking Ghanem Ali after recapturing all the hills pic.twitter.com/Os0Hhvs0fr
— The'Nimr'Tiger ???????? (@Souria4Syrians) August 26, 2017
Simultaneous to this, other divisions of the Syrian Arab Army made gains along the Sukhnah-Deir ez -Zor Road.
This brings the Syrian Arab Army closer to Deir ez-Zor city, the last major bastion of ISIS left in the country.
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Now this is what an army with the conviction of being right fights like! They are defending their motherland from foreign invaders and have the moral upper ground. Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan only have corporate greed to sustain them – and they don’t benefit from it.
Support our troops – bring them back home.
It must be a hard pill to swallow for the US & their NATO proxies not be be able to bomb the SAA on Syrian soil at will anymore, or at all for that matter. Russia finally clearly saw what needed to be done, which was to provide support (and cover) for SAA ground troops conducting their operations.
Shows the US & NATO are in fact cowards when they won’t attempt these immoral actions when knowing their planes have opposition.
i think they were ruined when russia and syria cut them off with that swift march to the border
is woorld peace in WC ?
They should turn Deir ez-Zor into a top tourist attraction after this. I would visit the city of heroes
This is the Stalingrad of Syria. Heroes against barbarians.
Yes. Heroes against Barbarians. Russia should get film crews in there ASAP so that the Western MSM Hate Machine can’t whitewash the facts. And get an S400 in there as well… just in case.
Latest News 28.08.2017:
Russian Defense Ministry: “In the past 24 hours, Russian aviation destroyed terrorist targets in Deir ez-Zor. Russian aviation continued to successfully attack Daesh targets, destroying four tanks, 16 all-terrain vehicles armed with heavy machine guns, six heavy vehicles with ammunition, and two fortified artillery positions. The effective actions of Russian warplanes allowed the Syrian government forces under the command of Gen. Hassan Sukhel to continue the offensive along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River to Deir ez-Zor aimed to lift its siege.”