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Insurgents breach Syria's second-largest city for first time since 2016

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HTS aka Al Queda aka ISIS aka US supported moderate rebels.

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Where's Russian forces?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war

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terrorists.there are not insurgents.

pure terrorists.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

This is actually Mr. Osama Suleiman, an anti Assad Suni Muslim who "exiled" himself to a semi detached house in Coventry, England.

Why the western news quote him as a reliable source of information is a mystery. He is nothing more than an anti Assad propaganda machine. Mystery solved?

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How does it connect to 2016???

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Funny how ISIS magically becomes 'insurgents' when they attack the DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA (sure the people who deem the scofflaw regime and the Azovian regime 'democracies' will insist that there is no way Syria is a democracy despite, well, the facts, and the definition of that term fitting the Syrian government as well as a secondhand suit, but fitting those other 2 regimes as well as a child's doll's dress would fit Arnold Schwartzenegger) rather than 'terrorists', 'extremists', or 'militants'.

Did the illegally invading and occupying American forces supply them weapons, or Netanyahu?

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I thought for a day or two we might have averted regional conflict but it seems that option is still very much possible.

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America's "moderate rebels" aka sunni islamist headcutters are back? Clearly someone restored their support again.

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How does it connect to 2016???

Anti Syrian government Sunni rebels controlled Aleppo until they were run out by Russian and IRGC forces in 2016.

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HTS aka Al Queda aka ISIS aka US supported moderate rebels.

Sigh. HTS and IS are mortal enemies. If you are going to comment at least have your facts straight. HTS has some support from the Turkish military but not the US. The US supports the Kurdish Regional Government in northeast Syria and is fighting IS there. HTS is a fragmented hodge podge of feuding local tribal militias and a former branch of Al Qaeda called Al Nusra. Three weeks ago local militias that operate under the umbrella of HTS were at war with each other.

The Turks were actually telling HTS not to attack Syrian forces but HTS ignored them sensing a power vacuum due to the damage done to Hezbollah, IRGC and Russian forces in Syria.

Al Nusra/HTS has been on the US list of terrorist entities since 14 May 2014

https://www.state.gov/executive-order-13224/#state

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Shaky Assad is even further from "winning" his civil war.

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TheRegulatorToday 07:04 am JST

HTS aka Al Queda aka ISIS aka US supported moderate rebels.

The US ended ISIS with very little help from Syria/russia.

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Man, my heart goes out to that burned out Land Rover so sad to see it like that, also that classic 60's FJ model Land Cruiser in the back ground of the 6th photo what a beauty.

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