Latest news from Syria:
Latakia
The SAA despite shelling from Turkish Army positions inside Turkey have been steadily pushing north in the Latakia province towards the Turkish border with the help of Hezbollah and Christian militias. The Turkish and Western backed Sunni Islamist 'moderate' rebels like Jaysh al Fatah and other Al Queda/FSA/Turkman affiliated groups are in full retreat.
The SAA are mopping up in the strategically important town of Kinsibba, flushing out the remaining 'moderate' Jabhat al Nusra and 'FSA' with the help of RuAF who have been conducting 20+ sorties against the 'moderate' rebels.
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Kinsibba was once a flourishing village in the Kurdish Mountains that was known for its orchards and beautiful hilltops; its populous was mainly Antiochian Orthodox Christians until they fled the Islamist rebels of Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Kinsibba, Al-Ghassaniyah, Halouz, and Slunfeh were among the most densely populated Christian villages in both the Latakia and Idlib governorates – almost all of these civilians fled to Slunfeh, which is the only one of those four villages under the Syrian Arab Army’s control.
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russ...r-assault/
Aleppo
The SAA are pushing north for the Turkish border and west to close the salient. 'Moderate' rebels in Aleppo City will soon be cut off from their Turkish and Western suppliers.
East Aleppo
Heavy fighting as SAA Tiger Forces approach Thermal power plant
and capture a new village
In this video, here we see a 2S1 self propelled artillery piece Gvozdika doing direct fire
- several Hull Down tanks firing.
- A tank destroying a VBIED
We also see BMP-1s in action, bringing Infantry to their positions and Infantry advancing to the town supported by a tank
Result: Village captured, 18 Daesh KIA, BMP-1 captured, several HMG rockets and mortars and a Slat armoured T-55 (probably from Iraq) captured.
Also the Daesh insignia reads says "Jaysh Khilafa". That's their elite unit.
These guys are the only IS troops which aren't permanently attached to a single province. They constantly redeploy from one hotspot to another.
The last scene of video shows the smoke stakes of the thermal power plant
South
The SAA have begun their offensive to retake the town of Nawa near the Jordanian border.