Syria updates – US increase military in Middle East, Israel attacks Damascus countryside

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Latest Israeli attack on Damascus countryside

At 2.20 am on the 7th August Israel carried out an air attack from the occupied Syrian Golan territories targeting the southern Damascus outskirts. The majority of the missiles were intercepted by the Syrian Air Defence but four soldiers were killed in the attack and two were injured. Material damage was also caused.

The names of three of the soldiers killed in the attack – Major Eng. Issa Taha Hammoud, Lieutenant Louay Bassam Muhammad, Lieutenant Ahmed Mare’e.

The timing of the Israeli attack, as always, coincides with increased Russian/Syrian attacks on the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (Al Qaeda offshoot) in Idlib (north-west) and the Syrian military build up in the northern region of Syria. Israel is effectively the U.S. attack dog in the region and Israel’s intention is to destroy the capability of Syria to defend itself by targeting air-defence systems and personnel.

Of course these attacks are a violaton of international law and of course these attacks will go unmentioned at the BBC or CNN unless justified by the “Israeli pre-emptive self defence” trope. For Israel this is the war-between-wars – the strategy to destroy Syrian defence and offensive weapons before any major escalation of conflict between the two countries and their allies.

Russian strikes on HTS headquarters in Idlib

Russian strikes on HTS positions in Idlib

On August 5th Nusra Front terrorists (Al Qaeda in Syria) bombed civilian homes and infrastructure in the village of Qalaat Mirza in Hama countryside injuring two women and causing extensive structural damage. Syrian Arab Army artillery intensively targeted the military positions and bases of Nusra Front in Jisr Al Shughour City and surrounding countryside in Idlib province.

On August 6th, the day before the Israeli attack on Damascus – Russian and Syrian jets destroyed the headquarters of HTS terrorist forces in the countryside of Idlib City. According to local sources, the buildings contained important facilities for the terrorist group.

Almost immediately the CIA/MI6 White Helmet construct sprang into action to condemn the Russian/Syrian offensive:

“Russian air strikes this morning” to the west of the city “left three people dead from the same family” and “six other people wounded”, the organisation said. The Syrian Civil Defence organisation known as the White Helmets said the three dead were a man, his wife and their son.

The familiar images appeared on Twitter of HTS-linked operatives wearing pristine White Helmet uniforms clambering over rubble that could be anywhere. Even the EU-funded Syrian Observatory of Human Rights known for their anti-Syrian-government position admitted that the strike had hit an “opposition” facility.

Another claim was that the buildings were vacant but this was debunked by various analysts on Telegram with screenshots showing clearly the activity in the buildings immediately before the strike:

The Russian Ministry of Defence has also announced that terrorist organisations in Idlib and the northern countryside of Lattakia and Aleppo are preparing to carry out attacks against the positions of Syrian and Russian forces. The intention by Al Qaeda is to carry out suicide attacks against Syrian and Russian patrols – according to the deputy head of the Russian coordination centre in Hmemim, Rear Admiral Vadim Collett.

Russia targeting terrorist positions in south-east Syria – the US illegal military base of Al Tanf

At the same time as Russian and Syrian warplanes are pounding terrorist positions in the north-west, Russia is continuing a bombing campaign against terrorist positions in the proximity of the US illegal military base at Al Tanf in south-east Syria.

I reported in my last summary that the U.S. intention is to create a terrorist hub in Al Tanf on the border with Iraq and Jordan from which they can oversee attacks against Syrian Arab Army positions, convoys and threaten the security of Syrian civilians as they have been doing more regularly recently.

Syrian Russian joint night tactical military live fire exercises

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