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The United States-Backed Syrian Free Army (SFA) had taken control over the town of al-Dumayr close to the Syrian capital, Damascus, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on March 30.
Al-Dumayr is located some 35 kilometers to the northeast of Damascus and just under 12 kilometers to the east of the strategic M5 highway leading to the capital. One of Syria’s most fortified air bases is also located in the eastern outskirts of the town.
Photos posted by the SFA on the X social network seemed to confirm that the group’s fighters were managing checkpoints in al-Dumayr, as reported by the SOHR.
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Prior to the fall of the Assad regime last December, the operations of the SFA were limited to the eastern Syrian area of al-Tanf, which borders both Iraq and Jordan. The U.S. military maintains a large garrison with some 200 troops there. At the time, the group itself was estimated to have around 600 fighters.
The SFA is currently led by Salem Turki al-Antri, a Syrian military officer who defected and joined the rebels in the early years of the war in Syria.
During the fall of the Assad Regime, al-Antri led the SFA fighters in an offensive from al-Tanf towards the ancient city of Palmyra in the eastern Homs countryside.
After defeating government forces there, the SFA, under al-Antri’s command, both assisted in the Homs city offensive and routed the government to Damascus, in a battle that resulted in the fall of the city to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which installed a new government.
The SFA later expanded its influence to Palmyra and the nearby town of al-Sukhnah, with reports suggesting that the group grew to some 3,000 fighters.
Al-Antri met with Syrian Minister of Defense Murhaf Abu Qasra on January 9, where they discussed the unification of rebel groups and “shared security challenges”.
Later on January 29, the commander led a delegation of the SFA to a conference declaring the victory of the Syrian Revolution. However, he still retained his forces and did not announce its dissolution like other groups allied to HTS.
The current status of the relationship between the SFA and the Islamist-led government remains unclear. Still, the group said on X that its recent deployment in al-Dumayr was carried out in coordination with the ministry of interior to secure the key town.
The administration of the former U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and was quick to engage with HTS. However, the administration of Donald Trump appears to be more cautious towards the new government in Syria.
Earlier this month, the U.S. worked with Russia to pass a statement in the United Nations Security Council condemning a government crackdown on the Syrian coast that claimed the lives of more than 1,600 civilians, mostly members of the Alawite religious minority. Since then, Washington has upped its criticism of the Syrian government.
Once a small group, the SFA is now slowly emerging as a key player in Syria with strong influence in the country’s southern region and close to the capital.
Washington will likely use the group to further its interests in the country, and even to put more pressure on the Syrian government.
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funny how every country is progressing in ai except russia. russia has fallen behind, not even in the military are they making ultra-precise ai-powered drones. they fell off since like 2022. china dethroned their #2 status and title ages ago.
i think that by population, israel (+druze) ranks first in terms of military capability.
i genuinely believe israel could singlehandedly take out iran and their entire chain-of-command if they ever wanted to.
maybe that’s why nuttyyahoo is constantly kvetching and oy veying to his goy whores in washington to do his dirty work for him.
typical nei nazi anti american comment
try it and see what happens.
showing your iranian pro palestinians nazi alliances .as usual .
amerikunts are morons–nobody listens to idiots unable to think
ukroners dunnit wot
ukraine is the battlefront for ai. every country progressing in a.i. is still losing to russia in ukraine. you need to adjust your delusional assumptions
russia couldn’t utilize and capitalize on ai drones, otherwise ukraine would have been dominated ages ago. us had to use ai through satellites to inform ukrainians on where the russians are positioned, why can’t russia do the same? even china could take on them as of now.
p.s.: excluding nuclear armaments.
this is beginning to resemble the lybia depopulation and chaos scheme favored by former cia chief bush sr.
it’s a continuation of anti american propagandas yes the bush’s were very good at it imo .always the same always the opposite layers of duplicity .
9,000 alawite people who were employed by the saa surrendered to isis in damascus in december and disappeared into the grave. the druze don’t want to get darwin awards and they don’t want erdogan’s servants to sell druze daughters in idlib and slaughter druze sons.
there is nothing more nauseating than joo kiddie killers and genocide merchants feigning fake concern for moslems.
since moslems dont see druze as acuall moslems and israelis and druze have a good relationship in isreal where the druze are the only nonjews to join their military i dont think your take fits in this case.
yes there is there’s globalists seeking imperialism pretending to be freedom fighting democrats there’s agents provocateurs for globalism pretending to be patriots for nationalism .
read my lips: syria won’t be broken up into druze, kurd, sunni, alawite warring fiefdoms.
they could already be under the fake superficial image of unity.
thanks to russia & iran!!!
hehehehe
thanks to the chosen folk and their shabbos whores in the jewsa, jewu and jewk,and the arab quislings for destroying another country. there will never be peace in the world till these people are dealt with.
your ridiculously transparently a nazi.
zionazi bastards like you.
it is pointless to refer to syria. syria does not exist anymore. i am astonished to see ‘loves’ and ‘likes’ attached to this article. i didn’t know that sf had so many pro us and pro headchopper lovers.
they’re working for wef .allegedly everyone knows geirge soris boasted how he would fill these sites with his trolls .he hates jews and worked with the nazis selling them to be sent to auschwitz .that’s how he made his money in the beginning. allegedly
take off the tin foil, dumbass moron.
president assd’s administration wasn’t regim, you dirty sob. it was democratically elected president and the government.
correct and the country was filled with subversive mercenary agents of destabilisation paid for with intentions to create order out of chaos .
according to this article the revolution was won from battles in these cities. but i’ve heard there wasn’t even battles when assad’s army fell. they just surrendered.
what really happened? i don’t know.
same as in any war where the usa are involved the dollar happened. if the usa would have attacke ukraine the ukrainian army would have not known how to fight cause they would have bought their generals and those in charge of radars and air defences.
it’s not the usa .at all really but it is tge plan ti make them seem to be the evil empire threatening the globalists dream of everyone living g happily ever after owning nothing.
exactly this article is nonsense, notice the wording here. its referring to the terrorist genocide on syria coast as “govt crackdown”. those with shred of logic knows there is no syria govt anymore. only terrrorists that took over the country. syria has and will be reverted to the dark ages. also there was were no battles in palmyra, saa just melted away or were not there, this author here is just another retarded cheerleader
living on ” donations ” from the soros foundation in disguise. most likely running subtle ( hahaha ) anti american propagandas .
correct it would have been bribery and corruption that won that battle.
they are former isis members of the homs desert which have changed clothes…
the star of david ?
no .the empire.
the onces that kept the territory ocupied around al tanf and whenever the saa wanted to take them out the usa fired at them from their garrison and their troops in nearby jordan.
isis is egyptian it’s the trinity of isis horus and set or seth .isis the terrorist group were funded by big banks laundering drug money .basically.
it is well known that the us supports the murder tourist industry in the middle east . over throwing governments is far preferable to making peace to cia / mossad pirates . especially if you worship greater israel
if you’re a nazi you’d believe that .
zionist cowards are just child killing genocidal murdering bastards and won’t stand up against a few palestinians kids in sneakers and track suits.
yeah no, let me use the same logic arabs and turks use against kurds: palestinian traitors want to divide the nation and rebelled against the legitimate government that feed them. israel will not be divided :)