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Syrian Army on verge of kicking ISIS out of Aleppo province
[ALMASDARNEWS] Soon after the capture of the strategic Jirah Airbase in Aleppo’s eastern countryside, the Syrian Arab Army’s elite Tiger Forces would proceed to capture dozens of villages and hilltops from the wavering ISIS turbans of the so-called Wilayat Halab.

In the past few hours, the Tiger Forces captured the al-Ajouziyah area that is comprised of the "Second Farm", Mazran, Kinnawiyah, Rasm al-Hamam al-Gharbi, Mahsneh, and al-Jamiliyah villages. The most recent advances place the Syrian Armed Forces at less than 6 km from ISIS’s largest Aleppo stronghold of Maskanah located on the fringes of Raqqa’s provincial boundaries.

Violent festivities persist as units from the Syrian Army assault the Maskanah Sugar Factory. The Tiger Forces are using their infamous tactic of probing the enemy on several axes to locate a weak spot in their defenses before unleashing the blunt of their mechanized force on the weak spot seizing multiple villages without compromising any one real target.

Once Maskanah is captured by the SAA in the coming few days, ISIS will likely abandon the entirety of its areas in Aleppo province west of Maskana and east of the Khanasser-Aleppo Highway due to the lack of any viable line of defense past Maskanah.

The terrorist group finds itself overstretched and overpowered against its formidable SAA foe as the latter opens several front lines spanning hundreds of kilometers in the eastern part of the country. The so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
is currently battling the Syrian Army in east Aleppo, near Ithriya, in east Hama, east Homs, eastern Qalamoun, and eastern Damascus.

SDF shell opposition-held Mare’ north of Aleppo

Aleppo (IraqiNews) The Syrian Democratic Forces, on Tuesday, shelled the opposition-held city of Mare’, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Qasioun News Agency reported.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom...
opposition forces managed to foil an attempt by the Syrian Democratic forces to sneak into Ablah-Hezwan axis, in northern Aleppo, and injured a number of soldiers.

Yesterday, syrian opposition also announced repulsing an attack by the SDF on al-Hemran area, north of Aleppo, while at least 10 members of the Syrian Democratic forces were either killed or maimed in the mutual rocket and artillery shelling.
Posted by: Fred 2017-05-24
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