Over 40 dead from the double attack in Homs. Like every striking event today, Homs makes the news, but the media niche the geopolitical findings of the fact. Homs is back under government control and the umpteenth attacks against civilians prove the desperation of ISIS terrorists, responsible for the massacre but in clear difficulty on all fronts.
The incomplete and often distorted information of Western newspapers and TV is a chapter in itself in the Syrian tragedy. We note that despite an exhausted population that considers the conflict an aggression from the outside (it would be enough to consider the percentage of foreigners in the jihadist ranks) most of the media continues to talk about civil war.
The national networks in particular continue to provide partial reports, limiting themselves to news bounced by correspondents never entered Syrian territory.
It is the night of the news for example of the conquest by the Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces of Shadadi, a city in the east of the country. The major press is quick to point out the US sponsor of the militias, giving them on the road to Raqqa. Raqqa (Arab city and not Kurdish by the way) is far from Shadadi which instead falls within the quadrant of Deir ez-Zur, besieged by 3 years by terrorists and defended by the Syrians with a resistance become legend. The important fact is that until a few months ago the desert area east of the Khabur river was the undisputed realm of the Caliphate whose ISIS acronym recalls the overlapping area between Syria and Iraq. Today it falters.
The circle around the Islamic State continues to tighten even in the north. Departments of Qawat Al-Nimr (Tiger Forces), specifically the special units Cheetah, supported by Desert Hawks, they would have closed the game in the district of Jibrin in Aleppo. It is the industrial zone that winds as soon as you exit the airport along the 4 highway heading east.
In the last hours the 4 motorway has become a nightmare for ISIS terrorists (a bit like the Italian A4 for motorists on bridge days). Locked in a bag in the plain of Al Safira, 7-800 militiamen would be fleeing leaving their positions. In the whole area the reclamation of IED devices scattered and the consolidation of all the villages reconquered by the Syrian Armed Forces in the last days is now in progress.
40 km east of Aleppo, on the outer side of the aforementioned bag, is the famous Rasin El Aboud airbase, better known as Kuewereis. In November 2015 the Syrians would have broken the siege by winning an important victory against the terrorists whose Dayr Hafir stronghold is less than 15 from the base. Among the next objectives of the government reconquest should be precisely Dayr Hafir and Al Bab, another "historic fortress" of the Islamic State. Free these two cities, for the ISIS the countdown would begin.
Further south, in the Raqqa Governorate the jihadist forces would retreat to Tabaqa airport, still tightening their positions towards the Euphrates river.
The Syrian Armed Forces free hundreds of square kilometers from the Islamists every week but on the international front the winds of war do not calm down. Paradoxically, the worsening of the crisis is directly proportional to the difficulties of the jihadist militias that revolve around the Caliphate. In light of the request for unconditional help addressed to the USA from Turkey in case of widening of the conflict, we await the developments of the next hours.
(photo: web)
