ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra Attempt to Cutoff the Syrian Army’s Only Supply Route to Aleppo

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When it comes to fight the legitimate government, both actually competing Islamist abominations get together...
... and fail together.

"Earlier this morning, both the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) and the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra” launched a simultaneous assault that targeted the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) only supply route to the Aleppo Governorate, resulting in the Khanasser Highway’s closure for approximately two hours.

The attack began when Jabhat Al-Nusra conducted an assault on the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses to the east of Al-Si’in that was geared to cutoff the road from the strategic town of Ithriya to the Khanasser Highway; if Jabhat Al-Nusra was successful in this military endeavor, they would have successfully positioned themselves to obstruct this imperative roadway.


To the east of the Khanasser Highway, ISIS carried out a surprise attack on the National Defense Forces’ positions near the long stretch of oil fields in the Hama Governorate’s eastern countryside that borders the Al-Raqqa Governorate; this assault required the NDF to call for reinforcements from the Aleppo Governorate in order to help beat back the encroaching terrorists.

Luckily, reinforcements from Liwaa Al-Quds (Palestinian paramilitary force from Nayrab, Aleppo) and Kataebat Al-Ba’ath (Al-Ba’ath Battalions) arrived in time to repel all of the Islamist infiltrators before any ground could be gained.

According to a field source at the Hama Military Airport, the Jabhat Al-Nusra and ISIS assault was believed to be coordinated; however, he did point out that Al-Nusra has recently concentrated on the east Hama front, while ISIS has regrouped near the Al-Raqqa town of Tabaqa to restart their operations at the Al-Salamiyah District."

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article...the-syrian-armys-only-supply-route-to-aleppo/
 
Is all Assad's fault...

Kerry Blames Assad Regime for Deadly Attack on Syrian Kids' Hospital
Apr 29, 2016 | Syria and Russia denied responsibility Thursday for a devastating airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Aleppo supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least 50 and left the so-called "cessation of hostilities" in shreds.
The strike Wednesday night against "yet another medical facility in Syria" destroyed a vital hospital in the northern city of Aleppo and "the main referral center for pediatric care in the area," said Muskilda Zancada, head of the Syria mission for the Medicins Sans Frontiere (Doctors Without Borders) medical group. Zancada asked, "Where is the outrage among those with the power and obligation to stop this carnage?" Pablo Marco, operations manager for MSF in the Middle East, told CNN that at least six of those killed were hospital staff -- two doctors, two nurses, one guard and one maintenance worker. The United Nations and humanitarian groups have estimated that more than 300,000 have been killed in the five-year-old Syrian civil war.

In a statement, Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the airstrike that reportedly came from a missile launched by a warplane. "We are outraged by yesterday's airstrikes in Aleppo on the al Quds hospital supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which killed dozens of people, including children, patients and medical personnel," Kerry said. "It appears to have been a deliberate strike on a known medical facility and follows the Assad regime's appalling record of striking such facilities and first responders. These strikes have killed hundreds of innocent Syrians," Kerry said. Syria's state-run SANA news carried an official statement denying that Syrian government forces were involved and the Russian Defense Ministry also denied responsibility for the airstrike.

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A man helps an injured man as others stand in rubble after airstrikes and shelling hit Aleppo, Syria​

The U.S. military has repeatedly said that its air campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has not struck near Aleppo and has previously condemned "indiscriminate" bombing by the Russians. In attacks in early February, Russian airstrikes reportedly hit hospitals and schools, killing more than 50. Tim Shenk, a spokesman for MSF in New York, said at the time that the estimated death toll for an airstrike on one of the hospitals supported by the group in northern Syria had more than doubled to 25. World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told Turkey's Anadolu news agency that "since the beginning of the conflict, almost 700 health workers have been killed and an estimated 58 percent of public hospitals and 49 percent of primary health centers are either only partially functional or have closed."

Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a Pentagon briefing from Baghdad at the time, "We know the Russians and Syrian regime frankly conducted strikes in areas where those hospitals and schools were hit." He also said that the Syrians were using "barrel bombs" dropped from helicopters. In late January, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special envoy for Syria, won agreement from 17 nations, including the U.S., Iran and Russia, for a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria but the agreement has been falling apart amid stepped up attacks by the Syrians and Russians and the withdrawal from negotiations of a main rebel group.

Kerry Blames Assad Regime for Deadly Attack on Syrian Kids' Hospital | Military.com
 

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