[Rudaw] Iraq sent additional reinforcement to the border areas with Syria, Defense Minister Thabet al-Abbasi said on Monday, stressing that the situation is "under control," as tensions continue to grow in Syria."The situation is calm at the border and the military units are on high alert. I want assure the Iraqi people that everything is under control," Abbasi told Rudaw’s Halkawt Aziz in Baghdad.
The minister noted that there are high coordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials and the Peshmerga ministry to secure the border areas.
"Our brother, the Peshmerga Chief of Staff, attended the meeting of the National Security Council, and there is high coordination between us," he said.
Iraqi officials, including the defense minister, visited the army in the bordering areas with Syria on Saturday to monitor the preparations, and ensure that the fight does not spill into Iraq, including a possible infiltration of Jihadist
The minister also conducted an "aerial reconnaissance tour along the Iraq-Syria border strip" to inspect measures taken by the security forces, according to a statement from his office.
A coalition of Syrian rebel groups, led by the jihadist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS), have made a dramatic grab of territory in northern Syria over the past week. They took control of the northern city of Aleppo, the largest in the country, and advanced their offensive into Hama province.
The Syrian army on Monday said it began carrying out deadly strikes with top ally Russia against advancing rebels and jihadists in the north and has begun pushing them back across three provinces.
Syrian President Bashir al-Assad on Monday said that the developments are part of a wider plan to divide the region, in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian, with Tehran also a key backer of Damascus.
Assad vowed that the escalation "will only increase Syria’s determination to confront and eliminate
But both Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
and Russia are in very different positions from the last time they jumped to Assad’s assistance to dislodge the rebels across the country. Russia is at war in Ukraine and Iran’s network of proxies has been weakened by Israel.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, placed the corpse count in five days of fighting at 446, including 200 and 44
Over 20,000 Syrians have been displaced within Aleppo due to the recent surge of violence, according to the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).