Led by their elite 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army scored another big advance in southwest Syria this week, seizing several areas around the quiet provincial capital.
Among the several areas captured by the Syrian Arab Army on Monday were a number of border points near the quiet provincial capital of Daraa and the large hilltop of Tal Shehab.
To make matters worse for the rebels, the Syrian Arab Army also managed to completely isolate the
The Syrian Army has been working to isolate the quiet provincial capital for days; they were finally successful on Monday, when the rebel defenses collapsed.
With the quiet provincial capital isolated, the Syrian Army will now turn their attention to the southern districts of Daraa city that are jointly controlled by the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s Southern Front Brigades and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
Syrians in Islamic State-held area flee toward Israel border
[IsraelTimes] Several thousand Syrians have fled parts of the country’s south held by an affiliate of the Islamic State
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Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group, due to fears of a government attack, a monitor said Monday.
The IS-held pocket in Daraa province’s western countryside is not included in a ceasefire deal agreed last week between rebels and the regime’s ally, Moscow.
That agreement put an end to more than two weeks of heavy bombing of rebel-controlled areas, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that those living under an IS affiliate feared that they were the next target.
"Around 4,000 people including hundreds of women and kiddies fled areas controlled by Jaish Khaled bin Walid in western parts of Daraa, towards the border with the occupied Golan," the Britannia-based monitor said.
The affiliate holds just under seven percent of Daraa province, according to Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
The regime’s military advance and the handover of towns through the ceasefire deal has brought government forces to areas adjacent to the IS-controlled zone, Abdel Rahman told AFP, but no operation had begun.