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Israeli, Turkish and terrorist attacks across Syria

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Syria is currently a powder keg ready to explode. The calm days of status quo are apparently over, and fresh attacks are springing up in many locations. After 10 years of war, and a shattered economy, the Syrian people were hoping to get back to rebuilding their broken lives and homes. Experts are warning of new battlefields opening up which may bring stability and the end of occupation, or could dissolve into a greater international quagmire. The US and Turkey illegally occupy areas in Syria with no plans to withdraw. Israel conducts frequent unprovoked airstrikes all over Syria with impunity.

Russia is fighting Al Qaeda terrorists, and assisting the Syrian Arab Army to establish safe areas for civilians to return home to--while the west continues to support Radical Islamic terrorists in Idlib, who hold about 2 million persons under an oppressive regime. Syria is the only secular country in the Middle East and its people have fought 10 years to remain so. On July 17, President Assad took his new oath of office, and laid out his plan for recovery, including Syria going solar to solve the national electricity shortage. He also stated his government's intention to take back Idlib province, which is the last terrorist-controlled area.

On March 5, 2020, Russia and Turkey signed a deal concerning Idlib. The agreement reached proposed to free the M4 highway from terrorist control and have joint military patrols. However, Turkish President Erdogan did not enforce his part of the deal, and the terrorists are still in control of the M4 highway, which connects Latakia to Aleppo.

The US occupation of Syria

The US invaded Syria and stated their mission was to defeat ISIS. They completed their mission but refuse to leave Syria, and Iraq. The US troops in Syria guard the largest Syrian oil field, Al Omar, to prevent the oil revenues from Damascus, and the rebuilding effort of the Syrian people. The US has also stolen precious wheat from Syria to prevent Damascus from their own crops, and causing them to purchase wheat from abroad.

Turkey attacks North Aleppo

On July 18 Turkish military occupying Northern Syria attacked North Aleppo. Experts have questioned whether the attack was a message to Russia and Syria to not begin their attack to free Idlib. The terrorists in control of Idlib are under the support of the Turkish military, and the two attacks were under coordination of Turkey and the terrorists.

HTS attacks Aleppo

On July 18 terrorists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib shelled Aleppo University, and destroyed two residential apartment buildings. Aleppo University houses the teaching medical school and is a vital provider of public-health services to the largest city in Syria. The terrorists have attacked Aleppo University dozens of times over the past 10 years. Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said that 40 bombardments were reported in the Idlib de-escalation zone on July 18; the shelling came from the positions of HTS.

Israel attacks South Aleppo

On July 19 Israel attacked South Aleppo. Israeli airstrikes have been periodical, but have increased in number recently.

The airstrikes are always un-provoked, and usually have no response. Occasionally civilians are killed or maimed in the strikes. Israel attacks internationally with impunity.

Idlib

On July 20 HTS attacked the mountain village of Slounfa in the Province of Latakia. HTS first appeared in Syria in January 2012 as the Al-Nusra Front, and many still refer to the extremist group by that name. Classified as a "terrorist" group by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations, it arrived in Syria as an extension of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The group's current leader, a Syrian who calls himself Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, is a veteran of fighting against US forces in Iraq. "HTS definitely retains a sizeable foreign-fighter component, perhaps comprising at least 20 percent of its total fighting force," said Charles Lister, an analyst at the Middle East Institute. It has set up a civil administration that collects customs duties at the border with Turkey and imposes taxes on traders.

The group "derives so much of its power from being the authority over how trade flows into and out of Idlib, which helps fund the group and gives it power beyond its size," said Nicholas Heras, a researcher at the Center for New American Security. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced in a press conference that Russia does not agree with the United Nations on the different roots of sending aid to North West Syria; he added that Russia will VETO any regulation on the Bab al Hawa border pass with Turkey.

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I am Steven Sahiounie Syrian American award winning journalist and political commentator Living in Lattakia Syria and I am the chief editor of MidEastDiscours I have been reporting about Syria and the Middle East for about 8 years

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