November 18, Israel’s Shin Bet Chief met with Turkey’s intelligence agency
November 25, NATO Chief met with Erdogan
November 26, Al Qaeda and ISIS launched an attack against the Syrian state
Terrorist Offensive in Aleppo Reeks of US and Israeli Involvement – Expert
Nov. 29, 2024
The sudden escalation in Syria where anti-government groups launched a sudden offensive towards Aleppo betrays the involvement of several foreign powers, including Israel and the United States, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, political analyst and professor at Tehran University.
“We see thousands of foreign fighters affiliated to al-Qaeda* from across Central Asia,” Marandi tells Sputnik. “They’ve been mobilized and well trained to carry out this assault.”
The offensive, he points out, takes place “literally a day after Netanyahu said he needs the ceasefire in order to deal with the so-called Iranian threat,” and it appears that the goal of this offensive is “to cut off Syria from the Axis of Resistance in order to isolate Lebanon.”
“Obviously, this is being done in coordination with the United States. The whole dirty war in Syria since 2011 was led by the United States,” Marandi adds. “We know that Jake Sullivan back then, who is now the national security adviser of Biden, said in an email to Hillary Clinton on February 12th, 2012, that in Syria, al Qaeda is on our side.”
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Turkish intelligence directing extremist offensive in northwest Syria: Report
Nov. 30, 2024
Militants from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) currently invading Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, are taking orders from Turkish intelligence, French news agency AFP reported on 30 November.
HTS, formerly known as the Nusra Front, launched a lightning offensive from the group’s stronghold in Idlib Governorate on Wednesday. Its fighters took over numerous villages in the Aleppo countryside before taking control of large parts of Aleppo City on Saturday, including the ancient citadel.
AFP writes that “Opposition sources in touch with Turkish intelligence said Turkey had given a green light to the offensive.”
An AFP correspondent in HTS-held Idlib further reported that “The jihadists and their Turkey-backed allies took orders from a joint operations command.”
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Syria could be the next target of Israel aggression after Lebanon truce
Nov 30, 2024
Syria could be the next target of Israel’s regional military offensive after a ceasefire for Lebanon was agreed this week, with the war against Hezbollah likely to be expanded beyond the Lebanese borders as Bashar Al-Assad rapidly loses support from his neutered patrons.
Syrians have already felt the pain of the Lebanon war with at least 111 refugees killed, including 39 children, during the most intense stage of the Israeli assault between 23 September to 28 November, forcing thousands of families to reluctantly flee to Syria where there is already a strong Hezbollah contingent supporting the Assad regime.
This week’s Lebanon ceasefire was reportedly agreed with a separate secret US-Israeli addendum which gives Israel the green light to strike Hezbollah targets inside Syria, including suspected supply chains, something it has already done hundreds of times over the past 10 years (although it rarely admits to the strikes) but monitors have noted a sharp increase in recent months.
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Ukrainian Trained, Turkish Sponsored Syrian Rebels Lead Assault on Aleppo
Dec 1, 2024
The offensive thrust into Syria’s Aleppo governate that began on Nov. 27, is being carried out by a coalition of Islamist militant groups led by the Turkish backed former Al Qaeda affiliated group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
According to reports on some Islamist social media sites, the rebel groups based in the Idlib region – which is said to include members of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) – had received operational training from special forces troops from the Khimik group of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR). The training team focused on tactics developed during the war in Ukraine, including on the use of drones.
HUR’s Khimik group was credited with the attack on a Russian military base on the southeastern outskirts of Aleppo on Sept. 15, in which Russian attack drones and “camouflaged improvised explosive devices,” were destroyed according to a Kyiv Post military intelligence source.
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Syria at the center of Israel’s strategy to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its arsenal
Nov 30, 2024
During the two months of the war in Lebanon, Syria became an extension of the front opened by Israel against Hezbollah. The Israeli army intensified its strikes against Hezbollah’s leaders, ammunition warehouses and smuggling routes, in order to prevent it from sending weapons and reinforcements to Lebanon. Syria continues to play a pivotal role in the ceasefire agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday, November 27.
While the Israeli army estimates that it has destroyed around three-quarters of Hezbollah’s stockpile of medium and short-range rockets, as well as a significant proportion of its missiles, the challenge now is to prevent the Shiite group from rebuilding its arsenal, with the help of Iran. Under the terms of the agreement, Lebanon has undertaken to tighten border controls to prevent the entry of illegal weapons. In the event of the Lebanese army failing to meet its obligations, Israel has obtained the right to act from the United States, in a letter of guarantees signed on the sidelines of the agreement.
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Islamic nations must not let US, Israel exploit Syrian crisis
Dec 1, 2024
Masoud Pezeshkian made the remarks in an address at a plenary session of Iran’s Parliament on Sunday as he pointed to the latest developments in Syria and the ongoing clashes between the country’s military forces and foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists in and around the northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
“We hope that Muslim countries intervene and will not allow America and Israel to exploit this domestic conflict within this Islamic country,” the Iranian president said.
Stressing that the aggression by Takfiri terrorists on Syrian soil is supported by the United States and European countries, Pezeshkian said, “These actions are being carried out with American and European weapons.”
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allied terrorist factions have since Wednesday advanced into sections of Aleppo and seized some areas following heavy clashes with Syria’s government and popular forces.
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Turkey won’t support peace plan with territorial concessions, Ukrainian lawmaker says
Nov 29, 2024
Turkey won’t support a peace plan that involves freezing the war in Ukraine and Kyiv making territorial concessions to Moscow, Ukrinform reported on Nov. 29, citing Ukrainian lawmaker Ahtem Chiygoz.
Chiygoz earlier took part in a meeting of the friendship groups of the parliaments of Ukraine and Turkey in Ankara. During the event, Turkish officials expressed support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, including the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, Chiygoz said.
“There are constant accusations, especially from the Russian side, that Turkey is committed to a peace formula that involves freezing the conflict and concessions in territorial integrity,” he added.
Continue reading at kyivindependent.com
US no longer objects to use of S-400 air defense systems by Turkey, Defense Minister says
ANKARA, November 26. /TASS/. The United States no longer have any objections regarding the use of S-400 missile air defense systems purchased from Russia, Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said.
“During our recent meetings [with the Americans] we rejected what they wanted from us in the context of the S-400. Now, the Americans have no objections in this regard. An order is the only thing that is necessary to send these systems to [their designated] regions. It would take about 12 hours to deploy the system to a condition when we are able to use it,” the minister said, according to T24.
Turkey was excluded from the F-35 development program after it bought an S-400 regiment kit from Russia in 2019. According to the Pentagon, these missile air defense systems could help revealing certain specifications of jet fighters and thus negatively affect their combat capabilities.
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