🇮🇶🇸🇾🇺🇸🏴 According to reports circulating in Arabic-language Telegram channels, the American contingent is expected to withdraw from Iraq by September 2025 and from Syria by September 2026.

However, Associated Press noted that some personnel will remain in Iraq, but the exact number is currently unknown.

📌 Well, the American mission in Syria and Iraq has been accomplished. These countries have been devastated and are in complete ruin, with the population living in poverty thanks to the efforts of the US and its allies.

There is no longer a need to maintain such a large military presence. However, after the withdrawal of troops, the same problems that arose precisely due to the actions of the International Coalition will remain in these countries.

The West officially said a couple of years ago that ISIS, which they were fighting, had been defeated. However, in recent years, the activity of militants in these countries has increased.

The strange escape of ISIS terrorists from a prison controlled by pro-American Kurds, the increase in the number of attacks in major Syrian cities, and the overall instability in the region provide fertile ground for the restoration of the group's potential.
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🇷🇸 Serbian Vestnik @vestniksrb reports that the government of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo is supporting the global coalition against the "Islamic State". However, it believes that the funds allocated to fight the terrorist group will be embezzled before even leaving the region.

❗️The problem of sending militants from Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo and Metohija to the Middle East, as well as the problem of their return to the region and the organization of "sleeper cells" in Europe, is more acute than ever.

But the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic do not intend to solve this problem.

📌After all, it was the Kosovo Albanians who in 2012 first massively joined the ranks of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, and then formed the core of the Xhemati Alban group.

Upon returning home, Kosovo terrorists usually receive formal sentences: for example, Fitim Ladrovci returned from an ISIS training camp, served a couple of years, and then continued to agitate the local population for war against the infidels as if nothing had happened.

🔻We have already drawn attention to how the Western press has recently been extolling the threat from the Afghan branch of ISIS, the "Wilayat Khorasan", scaring the countries of Europe and Central Asia, but clearly underestimating the seriousness of the threat of the revival of the group in Syria. Similarly, little attention is paid to the processes taking place today in the Balkans, where the "warriors of Allah" are returning from the Middle East.
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🇮🇶🇸🇾🇹🇷 On the strikes of the Turkish Armed Forces on the positions of Kurdish units in Syria and Iraq

The Turkish command carried out a comprehensive operation to destroy the positions and facilities used by the "Syrian Democratic Forces" and the "Kurdistan Workers' Party" or in one way or another associated with them, after the terrorist attack this night.

The operation, sanctioned immediately after it was found that the PKK was involved in the terrorist attack, involved F-16C/D fighters, Akinci, Bayraktar, and Anka drones, and artillery units of the Turkish army.

The targets of the Turkish attack were underground bunkers, locations of Kurdish formations, oil depots and airfields used for the benefit of the Kurds. All night long, northern Syria and Iraq thundered with incessant explosions.

🔻In the form in which we observed the comprehensive operation, all this very much resembles fire preparation before the offensive. It is unknown whether the Turks will finally decide to start the ground stage of the operation this time. After all, they have been threatening to do so throughout the year.

But the terrorist attack itself looked ambiguous. In recent weeks, there were rumors of the PKK's readiness for negotiations. A day before this, the nephew of Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, Ömer Öcalan, was allowed into the prison on the island of Imrali, where the creator of the PKK has been sitting for more than 40 months.

And immediately after this, a strange attack on the plant occurs, which nullifies all agreements. At the same time, Erdogan flew from Kazan to Turkey, which may be related to the upcoming National Security Council - previous decisions on the start of operations against the Kurds were made at it.

❗️Another curious fact is that a week before the terrorist attack and already during the negotiations with the PKK, the Turks increased the intensity of strikes on the border areas of Iraq. As a rule, the artillery is practically idle or fires a few shells and that's it.

But this week, more than 20 shots were recorded at one of the border sections alone. Add to this the training of the air force and the unanimous condemnation by the collective West of the actions of the PKK yesterday, and we get a complete picture in which the activation of the Turkish Armed Forces may not be far off, and the terrorist attack itself happened as timely as possible.

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❗️🇸🇾🇹🇷 Militant Offensive in Western Aleppo, Syria: Further Collapse of Defense
As of 8:00 PM on November 27, 2024

The offensive by a conglomerate of Syrian groups in the west of Aleppo Province continues: unfortunately, Russian forces have been drawn into another round of the intra-Syrian conflict.

📍 A group of Russian specialists working near the front line was surrounded during the collapse of the front line, and one of them was killed. The rest were reportedly evacuated in time (a separate bow to the quickly responding evacuation team). The information circulating on the internet about the capture of some "three Russian officers" is not confirmed at this stage.

▪️Over almost 10 hours of the offensive, the militants have managed to advance by 8-9 km from the western outskirts of Aleppo at different sections. The offensive at this stage is following the best traditions of the "raid" by Ukrainian formations in the Kharkiv Region in 2022: maximum advancement along the main road directions without consolidating in populated areas in an attempt to capture as much loot as possible and mark new borders.

▪️Among the advancing groups, not only terrorists from "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" are noted: the participation of Uyghur militants from the "Islamic Party of Turkestan", who traditionally operated much further west (in the north of Latakia), Uzbek militants, the bulk of whom operated on the border with Hama Province, as well as parts of other groups, has been confirmed.

All this indicates a planned redeployment of a significant number of combat-ready units, which are also involved in the "psychological" attack on the Syrians: foreign militants have always been perceived as the "most dangerous" by the rather timid Syrians.

▪️Apparently, in some directions, the Syrian army with allies managed to stop the advance of the militants: footage of destroyed enemy armored vehicles is being published online. The terrorists failed to develop the advance north of Ash-Sheikh Aqil and so far have not been able to break through the defense near Kafr Naha and east of Anjara.

📌 In the information space of Syria, as before during any escalations, there is almost complete denial of the loss of settlements and calls to "not believe enemy propaganda." Such "lulling" words have long since ceased to work: the information resources of the militants are taking over with mass involvement of bloggers and propagandists who try to write stand-ups and record short videos literally from every piece of land, savoring the success in every way.

🔻 The transfer of fire brigades to the section - the same 25th Division (former "Tiger Forces") of Suheil al-Hassan - is not yet visible, so most likely the militants will be able to further expand the breakthrough area, taking advantage of the total unpreparedness of the Syrian Arab Army for defense.

Strikes by the Air Force of Syria and the Russian Aerospace Forces are currently clearly insufficient in scale to stop the breakthrough of the militants to the west of Aleppo.
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🇸🇾🏴 Over the past two and a half years, there have been so many crossovers between the Idlib terrorists from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, who are now advancing in western Aleppo, and the "valuable" Ukrainian specialists, that the Syrian militants seem to have found their own idols.

Judge for yourself: in the video, the HTS terrorists are wearing armbands of two colors 🔵🟡.

Of course, this is nothing more than a coincidence (no). Well, we just have to wait for Budanov and the GUR to take responsibility for the hostilities in northern Syria.
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🇷🇺🇸🇾 As Yevgeny Norin correctly noted, the current events in Syria are the best illustration of what would have awaited the DPR and LPR if the "Minsk Agreements" had continued. It's hard to find a more vivid example in this situation.

The examples of frozen conflicts in recent years teach that such "eternal peace" is illusory. In the best case, the problem still has to be solved, but from a less advantageous position and at much greater cost. In the worst case, what happened in Aleppo occurs.

Therefore, we repeat again: this is a very difficult lesson that everyone who sincerely believes that an agreement with the West or anyone else in the Minsk-3 format can be possible needs to learn.
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