Syria, Russia and Iran have already rushed to confront the Turkish and US (and probably Israeli) funded HTS/Al Qaeda warlord’s breakout from the Idlib statelet, which has now seized most of Aleppo city…
Infiltrators celebrate in Aleppo City as Clashes continue between government forces and the ex Al Qaeda armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria, November 29, 2024
The interplay of external forces mirrors broader trends of rivalry among major powers, increasing the likelihood of a large-scale conflict
In recent days, northern Syria has witnessed intense fighting, marking the most violent clashes since March 2020, when a ceasefire was brokered with the involvement of Russia and Turkey.
On the morning of November 27, anti-government groups launched an offensive in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces. According to reports, the operation involves Islamist factions, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group banned in Russia, as well as armed opposition forces such as the US and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army.
By the morning of November 28, opposition forces declared the capture of about a dozen settlements, including strategically significant areas such as Urm al-Sughra, Anjara, and Al-Houta, located west of Aleppo..
Additionally, they claimed to have seized the 46th Brigade Base, the largest military base of the Syrian army. Rebel sources reported capturing five tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, and a stockpile of missiles.
On the same day, insurgents conducted a precision strike on a helicopter at the An-Nayrab airbase. Reports from Anadolu and CNN indicated that key positions, including Kafr Basma, Urum al-Kubra, and several strategic highlands, fell under rebel control.
On November 28, the group Al-Fateh al-Mubin announced the capture of Khan al-Assal, located just 7 kilometers from Aleppo, along with ten tanks.
The rebels claimed that panic and declining morale were spreading among President Bashar Assad’s forces.
Meanwhile, the offensive also advanced south and east of Idlib, a rebel stronghold since 2015. The rebels reported taking Dadikh and Kafr Batikh, and dozens of villages near the vital M5 highway.
Over the course of three days, militants reportedly captured at least 70 settlements, spanning approximately 400 square kilometers across both provinces.
By the evening of November 29, participants in the operation declared the capture of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.
In a surprise move on 3oth November a large force of Kurdish SDF from Rojava crossed SAA territory and entered Aleppo in support of Syrian State forces and to defend the Kurdish neigbourhoods in Aleppo, as the Jihadi HTS and other Turkish funded forces reach the city center.
The daring move by the autonomous SDF Rojava Multi-Ethnic coalition of militias could even lead to military reconciliation with Damascus and an end to defense reliance on the small and threatened US forces. The move is also surprising because Turkey and its NATO partner the US sponsor the Islamic Idlib forces now attacking Aleppo, resisted by the SDF which is also partly sponsored by the US to fight ISIS.
A large force of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reached on November 30 the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, joining the remaining forces of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) as militants led by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Aleppo Falls: Syrian Army ‘Retreats’ For Counteroffensive … YouTube · Times Of India
The jihadi extremists stormed the western parts of the city and managed to reach its center late on November 29, just two days after launching a large-scale offensive against the SAA.Militants led by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) widened their control within the northern Syrian city of Aleppo late on November 29, a few hours after storming it as a part of a large-scale offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), codenamed Operation Deterrence of Aggression.
screenshot– Rojava Rescue Convoy
Video evidence indicate that the militants have reached Citadel of Aleppo in the heart of the city after capturing many districts in the west, including al-Hamidiyah, al-Kallaseh, al-Firdaws, al-Hamidiyah, and Saif al-Dawlah, in addition to the University of Aleppo.
The Syrian_Democratic_Forces, 100,000 strong SDF revolutionary coalition, (which ironically is backed by the United States) has rushed thousands of heavily armed fighters from its areas of control in the eastern Aleppo governorate, through the government-held territory of Deir Haif, to Aleppo International Airport then to the Kurdish-held district of Sheikh Maqsoud in the city and to the town of Tel Rifaat in the northern countryside of the governorate.
Tel Rifaat is a small enclave right near the Turkish Invasion HQ in Azaz. It is controlled precariously under shelling by the YPG/SDF and has various refugees camps like Shahba/Shebha still holding tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees from NATO/ Turkey’s invasion and ethnic cleansing of nearby Afrin, abandoned by the international West. Erdogan has repeatedly boasted he will ‘conquer’ Tel Rifaat with his Islamic mercenaries..Tonight the SDF has arrived in force to defend the refugees.(see also.. NATO okays Turkish genocide of 170K trapped Afrin refugees in Tell Rifaat/Shebha enclave– July 2022)
Thousands of people joined a demonstration in Tel Rifaat town of the Shehba Canton on Sunday 10th Nov 2019 in protest at the Turkish state’s invasion and genocidal practices in northern Syria. 40% of the population of Efrin (Afrin) now survive in a semi no-man’s land, defended by the multi-ethnic SDF of AANES, after expulsion by the Turkish invasion, plantation and Turkification of their homes and properties
It is unclear yet if the force arrived to help the SAA launch a counter-attack, or to evacuate and protect Kurdish refugees and remaining Kurdish fighters from the city and its northern countryside.
The bold move was clearly coordinated with the Syrian government. It remains unclear if the U.S.-led coalition played any role in the agreement
While HTS and its allies did not advance much inside Aleppo on 28th Nov the ex Al Qaeda terrorists and others from the Turkish proxies Syrian National Army Jihadi groups (SNA) made many gains in the northern Aleppo countryside in the morning, capturing the towns of Tadef, Toman, Abu Taltal, al-Shumawiya, Anadan, Hareitan, Kafr Hamra, and Hayyan.
The assault in the northern Aleppo countryside was launched by HTS from the Greater Idlib enclave, as well as from SNA mercenaries settled in Turkish invaded and occupied areas in northern Aleppo, (Afrin and Al Bab).
At least 155 militants of HTS and 28 other Turkey-backed factions and some 79 Syrian troops had been killed since the start of the offensive in Aleppo and neighboring Idlib on November 27to 29th, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group.
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence SOUTHFRONT.PRESS– map now out of date!
Yesterday the situation around Aleppo was as follows:
most SAA units had fled, either out of cowardice or bribery (remember Iraq, Libya?).
At least a third of the civilian population had also fled.
HTS was in a kind of shambles and didn’t know what to do with the city,
The remaining forces loyal to Assad were also freaking out, just like HTS.
Today: most of the city has already fallen, nine years after the Damascus government expelled the rebels with huge destruction and loss of life– an estimated 31,000 people were killed in Aleppo during the conflict.[28]
DAA receives thousands of returnees from Aleppo, following Aleppo clashes.. The co-chair of the Drivers Union, Waddah Al-Jarijeb, said earlier: “The Drivers Union sent 60 buses from Raqqa, Al-Sahl and Al-Mansoura in the western countryside of Raqqa to Aleppo to transport students and families from fleeing the city of Aleppo to Raqqa.”
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish-majority neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Syria’s Aleppo is bracing for a possible attack by rebels who have gained significant territory in a surprise offensive against the Syrian army.
The People’s Protection Units (YPG/SDF), which controls the neighborhood, published a video early Saturday morning that it said shows “civilians… preparing to defend their neighborhood in the event of an attack.”
The footage, in which the faces of people have been blurred, shows men and women, some dressed in civilian clothes, readying rifles and setting up makeshift checkpoints in the streets.
“We love peace, democracy and solution,” an unidentified man says in the video, adding that the young and the old are ready to defend their neighborhood.
“SDF controls two towns near Aleppo”, says SOHR.… ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have declared control over two Shiite town in the outskirts of Aleppo.The SDF takeover of Nublus (includes Internatiomal Airport) and Zahra towns comes at a time when majority of Aleppo city has fallen into the hands of Syrian Opposition Forces, chief among them Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies.
Sheikh Maqsood has been attacked by jihadist fighters numerous times during the country’s civil war. The latest possible threat has come from rebel forces led by the jihadist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who launched a surprise offensive launched on Wednesday, seizing territory from government troops for the first time in years.
They entered the city of Aleppo on Friday afternoon after taking several villages in the surrounding countryside. The forces have reached the edge of Ashrafiyeh, another Kurdish-majority neighborhood that is held by the YPG and borders Sheikh Maqsoud, according to pro-HTS media.
In 2016, Amnesty International said that Islamist rebel attacks on the neighbourhood that year constituted war crimes. More than 83 civilians were killed in the attacks.
Farhad Shami, spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a United States-backed force spearheaded by the YPG, said on Friday that they are closely following the developments and that their arch-enemy Turkey is behind the offensive.
“The developments in northwestern Syria are highly sensitive. We are closely monitoring the developments with utmost attention. Regardless of the circumstances, our unwavering national and moral priority remains the defense of our people and our regions. Accordingly, we will intervene if necessary to protect them,” he said in a post on X.
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), told Rudaw on Friday that if the rebels do attack the YPG in Sheikh Maqsood, “there will be violent clashes.” However, he believes HTS does not want a confrontation with Kurdish forces.
Other Kurdish areas in Aleppo are Tal Rifaat to the northwest and Shahba to the north. Both are home to hundreds of thousands of Kurds displaced from other parts of the country, most of whom fled attacks by Turkey and its Syrian proxies.
Both areas are under the control of the YPG and there are also regime forces. Local sources told Rudaw on Saturday that the Syrian army has begun withdrawing from Shahba.
Rudaw English asked a senior Rojava official about the possibility of a Turkish attack on Tal Rifaat.
“Everything is possible now. Tal Rifaat is under threat,” said the official, who did not want to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Iran and Russia, staunch supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, have expressed their support for their ally. Moscow said its airstrikes killed over 200 rebels in 24 hours.
Both Iran and Russia, however, are in very different positions from the last time they helped Assad push the Islamist extremists out of Aleppo in 2016.
Russia is at war in Ukraine and Iran’s network of proxies, including Lebanese Hezbollah, has been weakened by Israel.
Turkey, which backs various Syrian rebel groups, has threatened in the past to carry out an offensive to remove Kurdish fighters from Tal Rifaat. It said it is closely following the situation and urged the warring parties not to cause “larger instabilities.”
Ankara also accused Kurdish forces in Tal Rifaat and nearby Manbij of “trying to take advantage of the current state of instability.”
As of Saturday, the clashes in Aleppo have claimed the lives of 277 people, including 24 civilians, according to SOHR.
ERBIL — The Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG/SDF) forces in Syrian Kurdistan have reportedly entered Aleppo airport, the eastern Aleppo suburbs of Nablus and Zahra, and neighborhoods around Aleppo following the withdrawal of the Syrian national army.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has stated that Kurdish forces took control of the checkpoints between al-Shahba and Aleppo, as well as the checkpoints in the Ashrafiya neighborhood, after the withdrawal of Syrian forces and the Fourth Division of its army.
Due to the violence in the area, families have been displaced from Tel Rifaat and northern Aleppo to the Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood, according to BasNews sources in Aleppo.
Kurdish forces also advanced toward the towns of Tal Hafar, Tal Aran, Tal Hasel, and other villages in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, after Syrian forces withdrew toward Maskana in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
ASSORTED TURKISH PAID JIHADIS ARRIVE, HOPING TO ATTACK TAL RIFAAT, IN 2022
Furthermore, Russian troops withdrew from the Tel Rafaat military checkpoint and Menkh military airport on Thursday, coinciding with the arrival of large forces of armed groups calling themselves the Syrian opposition, SNA, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, intent on looting killing and raping the Kurdish Afrin refugees in El Shahba camp, PHOTO BELOW.
Turkey has mobilised its proxy SNA terrorists to take over the Afrin Kurdish refugees still camped in El Shahba/Tel Rifaat since Erdogan invaded, ethnically cleansed and settled the jihadists in their Afrin home
Meanwhile, the Syrian Defense Ministry has acknowledged its defeat in Aleppo and said its forces have withdrawn from the city to reorganize and counterattack what they called the “terrorist” groups.
“A large number of terrorists in Aleppo and several fronts of clashes have led our armed forces to carry out a re-establishment operation,” the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
It added that the purpose of the reorganization is to strengthen the lines of defense, protect the lives of civilians and soldiers, and prepare for a counterattack.
Furthermore, armed groups of the so-called opposition front reached the outskirts of the town of Maarat al-Numan in northwestern Syria, 33 km south of Idlib, and took control of the entire town.
The little boy made blaster gun noises, for no reason except that they were inside him and needed to come out. I winced, the mum winced, and the dad turned round and smiled at him. ‘What are you doing? Come here.’ He pulled the child closer and ruffled his mouse-blond hair.[Page.107, A Flat Place, Noreen Masud.…]
To men, a little boy holding a toy gun is just a little boy holding a toy gun, yet to women, it’s a symbol of a lifetime of fear.
This is because attitudes towards violence, whether perceived or real, differ depending on whose perspective it is being viewed from, hence why women feel the need to cross the road when they see a man walking behind them, whereas men think nothing of it, continuing on their way as if their lives aren’t at risk (because they’re not). It’s girls and women who are at risk, and the perpetrators, overwhelmingly, are men…
Toxic masculinity has created a national emergency, with the figures to back it up.
The latest statistics from the National Police Chiefs’ Council analysis (2024) reveal that two million women a year are estimated to be the victims of male violence, with one woman being killed by a man every three days on average.
Spanish Women’s 8th March General Strike against Patriarchy!
The analysis goes on to report that crimes including stalking, harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence affect one in twelve women in England and Wales, with the number of recorded offences having grown by 37% in the past five years (they now run at 3,000 offences a day, adding up to 20% of all police-recorded crimes/more than one million offences a year). And, worryingly, the perpetrators are getting younger.
Data shows the fastest-growing groups of domestic abuse offenders are teenage boys aged 16 to 19.
There are a multitude of factors that play a role in violence against girls and women, particularly amongst a younger demographic, with issues of widespread misogyny being at the forefront.
Depictions of women in the media, for example, including porn which has very little, if any safeguarding measures in place to prevent young people from viewing its content, has put a skewed image in people’s minds regarding consent and what it means to be in a healthy relationship.
BDSM, which is a very specific sexual preference (note the word preference. It is not the norm) has been put forth as the ‘mainstream’ on sites like Pornhub. And when porn is the first experience that many people have with sex, this means that boys are growing up thinking that strangulation, for example, is a necessary element of sex that all women want.
What’s more, when girls watch porn too (yes, women do watch porn, despite the stereotypes), and they are also seeing such content that portrays what is undoubtedly abuse, if it’s not consensual, as the ‘norm’, they are at risk of putting themselves in dangerous situations, believing that this is ‘just what is expected’ of them.
So, what can we do about it
It’s not enough to have porn sites asking people to confirm if they are 18 or above with the click of a button. We’ve all been kids once, and we all know that curiosity gets the better of us and a ‘yes or no’ isn’t going to stop children from accessing harmful material.
To protect women’s lives then, we must safeguard the minds of our children, reminding them, several times daily, that oppression towards women is never acceptable.
It’s not acceptable (ever) that women must live with snipers poised against their chests solely for being born the so-called ‘lesser’ sex.
When a national emergency requires a national effort to rectify, we need an overhaul to the system to ensure that boys are protected from having their minds corrupted, and girls and women are protected from having their bodies violated.
It baffles me how, in the past, and still today in many countries around the world, women have been* (*are) treated as ‘subordinates’, whilst men are treated as the ‘superiors’, when women, quite literally, made every single man on the planet.
It baffles me how, the very same men that we birthed, have the audacity to tell us that; ‘we’re only good enough for the kitchen’, and that, ‘we’re only here to look pretty and serve men’/ that ‘the world wasn’t made for women’, when women quite literally made the whole world.
I just don’t get how men have the cheek to tell us that, when, without us they wouldn’t even be here.
I just don’t get it.
Completely nonsensical.
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Daniel Andreas San Diego had been hunted by the FBI for over 20 years, wanted for questioning in the 2003 bombings of Chiron and Shaklee, two businesses paying Huntingdon Life Sciences(HLS) to murder 500 animals per day testing products such as oven cleaner and pesticides.
The offices were only slightly damaged, injuring no one. There was an ongoing campaign at the time to crush HLS called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).
There was an ongoing campaign at the time to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) The offices were only slightly damaged, injuring no one.
Of course, San Diego is innocent of all the alleged charges unless proven otherwise.
The Animal Liberation Brigade had issued an anonymous communique in 2003 shortly after the bombings, and Daniel has never been linked to that communique.
The Revolutionary Cells (under which The Brigade operated) guidelines were posted on the Bite Back website after the second bombing:
To take strategic direct action (be it non-violent or not) against the oppressive institutions that permeate the world.
A las personas y organizaciones firmantes de la Declaración por la Vida
A las personas de buen corazón en México y el mundo
Arriba, el odio y la avaricia guían las decisiones de los señores de la guerra y del dinero. Nos amenazan con deportaciones masivas, genocidios, violencia feminicida y la devastación de la naturaleza. Imponen en nuestro horizonte la posibilidad de una guerra mundial con armas de destrucción masiva.
En México, esos mismos señores de la guerra con sus operadores políticos, llevan la situación al desastre: 117 mil personas desaparecidas, 13 feminicidios diarios, 6 mil fosas clandestinas, 261 personas defensoras del territorio asesinadas y 93 desaparecidas, e incontables proyectos de muerte como el mal llamado Tren Maya y el corredor Transístmico.
Hay quienes atraviesan día a día las caras más crueles de esta Tormenta, se ha derramado ya mucha sangre, se han arrebatado muchas vidas, desde México hasta Palestina.
En estas condiciones, madres y familias salen a buscar a sus seres queridos.
Resonancias del Caracol por Nuestr@s Desaparecid@s.
Junto con organizaciones y colectivas exigen justicia y resisten a lo largo del tiempo y frente a los malos gobiernos de LA POLÍTICA DEL DESAPARECER.
Sabemos que, entre las mentiras y eternas promesas, mantener la esperanza no es fácil.
Pero ustedes han demostrado que el ejercicio de memoria no es resignación, es lucha contra el olvido, es desnormalizar algo que se ha normalizado.
En medio de la destrucción, los pueblos defienden la vida y el territorio.
Como desde esta ciudad, la Toma del INPI nos enseña cómo Samir se ha vuelto semilla.
Desde el sureste, el EZLN también nos llama a “buscar a las buscadoras”… y hacerles saber que “No están sol@s.
Su dolor es nuestro dolor. Nuestra es también su digna rabia”.
Elbit is making $Billions from the Genocide of tens of thousands of innocents on Gaza. In the UK dozens of of Palestinians are jailed in a great successful campaign closing down Elbit! But their evil operations are Worldwide
Horror for thousands, profits for a few. At the headquarters of Elbit Systems, one of the main Israeli arms manufacturers, the calculator does not stop throwing up scandalous figures: in the third quarter of this year its income has grown again thanks to the sale of ammunition to the army of Benjamin Netanyahu, responsible for the massacre in the Gaza Strip.
The wind is blowing in his favour in the office of Bezhalel Machlis, the former artillery officer of the Israel Defense Forces who is now in charge of Elbit Systems. According to the latest business report published this week, the company has once again achieved historic figures.
6 MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE ABEL DEMONSTRATIO Saturday 30 November 19:30h Plaça Orfila, Barcelona **DEMO CALLOUT**
This November 30th will mark 6 months since our anarchist comrade Abel was kidnapped by the State and imprisoned in the Brians 2 CP Prison (Barcelona) with a firm sentence of 3 years and 9 months for the assault on a JUSAPOL protester who was carrying fascist symbols in 2018…..
170,000 people march in the largest anti rent demo in history of Spanish State
November 26, 2024 – By Sindicat De Llogateres (Rent Payers Union) 1207 views
Last Saturday, Barcelona experienced a historic day with the largest demonstration for the right to housing in the history of the Spanish State. 170,000 people filled the streets of the city center to demand the four urgent measures against speculation: lowering rents, indefinite contracts, recovery of empty, tourist and seasonal homes and a ban on buying for speculation. .
The march, called by more than 4,000 organizations, had around thirty separate columns that met up from all over Catalonia on foot, by bus or by train.
Demand.. Lower rents, indefinite contracts, recovery of homes and prohibition of speculative purchases….
The Free 