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On February 1, government forces continued developing their advance in southeastern Idlib. They liberated several new positions and besieged a Turkish observation post south of Maarat al-Numan. MORE HERE
Progress Of Syrian Army Offensive In Southern Idlib On Febriary 1, 2020 (Map Update)
After liberating the M5 highway, the SAA should take the M4 highway and create a large pocket in the south.
Yes, that would be a nice big chunk of territory! :)
The Zawiya and Arbeen moutains could be liberated more easier when they are besieged.
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The battle for Saraqib will be intense. That will certainly tip the ‘fleeing refugee’ scale once and for all. They’re all going to go west or north and flood Turkey. Turkey will bus ALL of them (including those in the camps) to the Aegean Sea coast for NGO boat rides to Greece or transport them through Istanbul to flee across the Greek and Bulgarian borders. Inhumane and a direct result of Turkey’s actions, but it will happen nonetheless.
Erdogan has no reason to go back on his promise to do so. He wants all the refugee camps emptied and doesn’t care whether the refugees are resettled in Turkish-held Syria or the EU, but they won’t be staying in Turkish camps or allowed into Turkey from Syrian camps. Syria will take Syrians that reconcile – as usual.
That leaves the ‘problem’ of the 30,000 CIA Uyghur head-choppers in Jaysh al Sughur area. Uyghur Muslims whose ‘unfair’ treatment by China brought crocodile tears to western MSM. Let’s see how humane the west becomes when those 30,000 head-choppers face annihilation by the SAA or deportment back to Evil, inhumane China. Something tells me Minnesota is about to acquire the largest population of Uyghurs outside of China. The gang wars between the Hmong, Somalian and Uyghurs should be epic.
The refugees who can’t escape through the humanitarian corridors can go to Turkey and after Idlib is liberated, they can go back to Syria. I’m just worried about the Jihadi supporter who will flood Europe. I don’t want more of those criminal rats walking through our countries, raping our women and murdering civilians.
Yeah Erdo doesn’t care where they go to. He even sent some refugees towards Idlib. I recently read about a case where a refugee from Salamiya was sent to Idlib and immediately arrested by HTS. Poor guy. When ISIS was on the offensive he maybe thought that they would capture Salamiya as well, so he fled to Turkey, but Salamiya was never captured by ISIS. The people there are living their normal life and he sits in a HTS prison.
The Uyghur Jihadis should get annihilated in Jisr ash-Shughur. This should be their graveyard. No return to Xinjiang, only death in Idlib – what they deserve.
Turkish border crossings have been closed for weeks for any Syrian refugees trying to cross INTO Turkey, xTheWarrior22. There’s plenty of refugees that want to do exactly what you said, but they can’t. They’re just piling up at the border for now. When the SAA starts getting close, they’re going to panic. Besides, there’s all ready maybe three million refugees inside Turkey, most in refugee camps. Many of them are not even Syrians and would rather be shot than return to ‘Assad-controlled’ Syria. If Erdogan doesn’t want to shoot them to force their return to Syria, then he’s going to have to bus them to the western border. It’s not open to debate as far as he’s concerned.
I’m wondering if any of those refugees could try to escape to Manbij via the ES-held area. Some refugees already made it to Manbij by this way.
There are no more than 15,000 foreign Jihadists in Idlib in total now, and even though the Uighurs do make up the biggest group ethnically, there numbers are generally thought to be about 5,000, the Chechens probably make up the next biggest group,
“China’s special envoy for the Syrian issue, Ambassador Xie Xiaoyan, said in July 2018: “I’ve seen all sorts of figures — some say 1,000 or 2,000, 2,000 or 3,000, 4,000 or 5,000, and some say even more.” Last year, Syrian ambassador to China Imad Moustapha suggested that up to 5,000 Uyghurs were fighting in various militant groups in Syria, adding that China should be “extremely concerned.”
A lot of foreign fighters have been killed already 150,000+, and many of those left alive have fled back home if they were able to, so it’s only the Jihadists that no longer have a home or anywhere else to go that are mostly left here now, the really desperate ones that will fight to the death. Isis also has 2 or 3,000 foreign fighters in Syria too. Turkey released a very detailed analysis of the terrorist groups and their numbers last year, surprisingly no one at all challenged the accuracy of the Turkish report, the US, UN, Syria, Russia, no one, so they must’ve been pretty accurate, and the total numbers for foreign Jihadists in Idlib was only 15,000. Most estimates for the total number of all terrorists and opposition numbers in Idlib are from between 65,000 min to 95,000 max, and just about every report you read will all also add that the high estimates are very dubious, they all believe real numbers are much lower.
Jihadists = fighters. The Uyghurs brought their whole family with Turkey’s help and have been breeding more little head-choppers in Syria for the last four years. 5,000 Uyghur fighters number might be high, but if that’s right, then it means another 10,000 Uyghur women and children already settled in stolen homes and farms around Jaysh al Sughur. Low end, there’s got to be 5.000 Uyghur women and children in Syria whether or not their husbands are still alive. I’ve never heard of Turkey allowing migration back to China – widows wouldn’t leave anyway. Syrians are not going to let them stay in Syria, and damn sure are not going to let them keep the property and land they stole from Syrians.
Yes the 5,000 only refers to fighters and not total numbers, add in families and the real numbers would be 4 or 5 times that, maybe even close to your 30,000 estimate, they do breed like flies as you mentioned, 4 or 5 kids each over the last 9 years, yes 30,000 is looking like a pretty good number. I was going to say you should’ve left out the head choppers part in your 30,000 estimate to be correct, but since the Uighurs start their kids terrorism training really young, maybe you were justified grouping them all in together, maybe your comment isn’t so far off the mark after all, 5,000 fighters, 5,000 wives, and 10,000 of the 20,000 kids, that makes 20,000 Uighur terrorists with 10,000 too young to push a suicide button. So I wish I hadn’t of said anything now, the more I think about it your estimate is even more correct than the Turkish one, LOL. I’ve seen the pictures of their maniacal expressions as they burn down Christian churches, you don’t end up that way unless your trained from birth to be like that, sadly the Chechens are the same too and there’s about 2,500 to 3,000 of them. I’ll bet by the time the SAA and Russia finish with them their numbers will be down to just the hundreds, and that’s including their families, most of them don’t want to leave here alive, they want to go to heaven here, LOL, and they will. The Uighurs were in Idlib 3 days ago and in Aleppo yesterday and today, so they’re moving around a bit now and not all stuck in Jisr ash Shugur [the gates of hell] anymore, desperate times call for desperate measures and the Turks are getting desperate. :]
I think this is the plan. Capturing M4 highway and besieging the jihadis in a massive pocket. However, there will be no green buses and surrender or flee to Turkey will be their only option.
Idlib will be their graveyard.
Better vision: SAA -Russia-Iran-Hezboah must liberate the whole Idlib area and get rid of the Turkey terrorists forever.
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