5 More Turkish Soldiers Perish Under Syrian Army Artillery Fire in Syria
Turks fired at the Syrian army and the Syrians fired back
Earlier today reports broke out that the Turkish military — which had recently greatly bolstered its numbers in Syria’s AQ-held Idlib — had joined the Islamist rebels in a counter-offensive against the Syrian army, which would mean Turkey had joined the war in Syria on al-Qaeda’s side. That turned out to be a mere virtual “Twitter” offensive, albeit something like that can’t be excluded for the future.
In the meantime in real life, the Syrian army continued its dive and captured a few more settlements:
The Syrian Arab Army captured Qanatir, Khirbat Jazraya, Miznaz and Kafr Halab from jihadist forceshttps://t.co/49Hh6dZ1GA pic.twitter.com/sCl5nKoaD9
— Syrian Civil War Map (@CivilWarMap) February 10, 2020
Another thing which happened is that Erdogan got 5 more of his soldiers killed and just as many wounded. Turkish artillery at Taftanaz airbase which they had recently occupied started firing at Syrian army positions in the key strategic town of Saraqib. The Syrians returned fire, killing 5 Turkish soldiers, and destroying some artillery pieces:
Wounded Turkish soldiers evacuated from Taftanaz airport https://t.co/QkdjCvV8jK via @MGhorab3 #Syria pic.twitter.com/dF23tocQou
— Liveuamap MiddleEast (@lummideast) February 10, 2020
#Turkey helicopter, seen about 30 minutes ago near #Syria borders, heading into #Idlib, reportedly to evacuate injured soldiers in #Taftanaz Airbase. The helo is seen passing over a convoy of tank transporters. pic.twitter.com/UoiptMdwKI
— Riam Dalati (@Dalatrm) February 10, 2020
5 Turkish soldiers killed & 5 wounded in the Taftanaz air base, the largest concentration of Turkish soldiers inside Idlib, after shelling by the Syrian Army.
Turkish chopper flying over southern Turkey to evacuate the wounded. pic.twitter.com/FzgzTbOGe5— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) February 10, 2020
— UPDATE — The number of Turkish KIA from this incident has been updated to 6.
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Remember 9/11/2001? ANYONE? “We will get AlQuaeda wherever they are” … SURE.
The REAL reason America killed Soleimani, he played a massive role in halting the spread of ISIS.
Of course the USsrael is mad at Iran for fighting ISIS …. ISISrael is OUR dog.
ISIS never runs out of ammunition or explosives. ………….. WHY?!
ISIS never, ever, attacks ISISrael ………………………………… WHY?!
ISIS is completely surrounded by supposed enemies.
Everyone of the countries surrounding ISIS is SUPPOSEDLY an ally of the USA.
Time for the USA to take a good hard look at it’s “allies”.
Our “intelligence” agencies should have identified and destroyed those who are supplying ISIS but have not …… WHY?!
“our” Generals have not destroyed those who are supplying ISIS ………… WHY?!
You know DAMN WELL WHO supplies their weapons, that kill American Troops.
The FIRST thing a general that WANTS TO WIN a war does ….. is cut off enemy supplies. Time to clean out the Traitors.
The chaos in Syria was winding down. The TRAITORS in the Pentagon had spent 24 months at $10MILLION a DAY bombing sand. ISIS continued to hold miles long parades of OUR equipment complete with flags on clear, dry, sunny days, and the TRAITORS in the Pentagon “could not seem to HIT them with any of those thousands of bombs”. ..
Then the Russians came in and blew the ISIS asses off. Did you notice the parades ENDED. We had no problem with thousands of stealth tankers daily moving oil from isis-controlled areas to turkey(Erdogan’s SON), and on to the entity. Too bad Putin blew ’em up, blew ’em up real good! “Russia didn’t want Syria turned into a #FailedState like Libya & entered the war on Sept 30th 2015. They started bombing 100’s of ISIS oil tanker trucks and oil fields with just 35 planes. ISIS revenues were cut by 50% & things turned around.
ISIS has ZERO antiaircraft abilities. the TRAITORS in the Pentagon could have dropped bombs from HOT AIR BALLOONS or BIPLANES ……. We KNOW who the Pentagon is working for and it is NOT America.
That would be a “tragedy” for Israel and Turkey who are BOTH plotting to seize Syrian land for “greater” Israel and the “caliphate” of Turkey all the while genocidally flooding White, CHRISTIAN Europe with muslum invaders …………. they had to get that war going again …..
President Assad is trying very hard to discourage Erdogan without starting a full-blown war with either Turkey or the US.
That is essentially what is happening, I believe.
I am glad to see the Syrians showing at least some spunk against Erdogan.
True. Both Assad and Putin are determined to avoid a broader war – especially with the US.
What’s funny is how Erdogan is on his knees eating sht out of the i$raeli-Amerijew asspipe…
Why was that turk chopper not shot down? Shows this is just theatre. Syria allows the turk to fly? WTF? They do have manpads, no? What about S300? Right. Switched Off.
IDIOTS.