Konflikten i Syrien

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Diplomatic Flights Used as Cover for Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

TEHRAN (FNA)- Investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva says arms manufacturers mainly from the US, Israel and the Balkans have managed to transfer hundreds of tons of weaponry to terrorists under the cover of diplomatic flights.

Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, in an exclusive interview with FNA, said that Azerbaijani Silk Way Airlines received diplomatic clearance to transport hundreds of tons of armaments to different locations around the world which finally ended up in the hands of terrorists and rebel groups.
According to the journalist, Azerbaijani embassies requested diplomatic clearance for Silk Way Airlines’ flights to transport the military cargo.

“The requests for diplomatic clearance included information about the type and quantity of the dangerous goods – heavy weapons and ammunition. However, the responsible authorities have turned a blind eye and allowed diplomatic flights for the transport of tons of weapons,” she added.

#BREAKING:

The Syrian Arab Army captured Marat and Madhlum village at the east side of the Euphrates after crossing it.

Yesterday a first clash of forces occurred. Syrian government and Russian special forces (red) have crossed the Euphrates at Deir Ezzor to reconnaissance the area for their next large operation. A crossing in force towards the north of Euphrates and east of Deir Ezzor is expected during the next few days. The Russian military had informed the U.S. of its area of operation. Despite that, formerly ISIS aligned tribal forces, now paid by the U.S. under the label SDF, tried to extend their areas north of Deir Ezzor (blue). A "warning shot" was delivered to them in form of a small air attack. Several "SDF" were wounded, the U.S. special forces accompanying and commanding them were not harmed.

The Russia military is asking who, really, those forces are:

“Over the past few days, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, Russian control and reconnaissance facilities have not identified a single combat of Islamic State terrorists with armed representatives of any ‘third force.’ Therefore, only representatives of the international coalition can answer the question as to how ‘opposition members’ or ‘military advisers of the international coalition’ managed to get to the IS-held areas in the eastern part of Deir ez-Zor without striking a blow.”

Our last summary noted that these new U.S. proxies Brett McGurk had hired, the 'third force' in the Russian statement, allegedly progressed some 30 kilometers into ISIS country without firing a shot. These forces are evidently ISIS fighters now under a new banner and with U.S. special forces directing them.

South of the river the Syrian government forces consolidate their positions around the two-thirds of Deir Ezzor city now under their control. To avoid unnecessary casualties and damage they push the Islamic State fighters out of the up-build areas instead of immediately surrounding and besieging them. They will be easier to eliminate in the more rural areas still left to them. The campaign south of the Euphrates will continue along the river towards ISIS held areas in the west and east.

The US regime is obviously in complete panic as the shocking realization that their sickening war against Syria is rapidly and irrevocably coming to an end.

# The deescalation zones have freed up tens of thousands of battle hardened SAA to fight in the quickly dwindling terrorist frontlines.

# The deescalation zones have almost completely neutered the US regime's ability to mount another fake 'chemical attack.'

# The US regime is being effectively sidelined by the post war talks between Syria, Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

# Russia appears to finally have had enough and dictating no go zones for the US regime mercenaries and terror forces. And the warning strike this week makes it clear that they are no longer just talking.

# I don't know the number of forces, but from what I am reading massive numbers of SAA are flowing into Deir Ezzor. Any Kurd/IS offensive against the SAA is going to be utterly crushed.

# The only way the US regime can do anything to materially change the outcome of the war is a full scale war time level aerial campaign against the entire country.

# Russian forces are now embedded throughout the SAA's frontlines and any such attack would be an outright declaration of war against one of the world's largest nuclear powers.

# Something I think people aren't picking up on with the Kurds is how small the number of troops they actually have. And just how lightly armed they are compared to the SAA. Even worse for the Kurds is Putin can at any moment let Erdogan off his leash and a huge portion of the Kurds in eastern Syria would be forced to rush back the Turkish border area to defend against an attack.

# Finally, I believe we are actually seeing the what has been unending supply of foreign terrorists and mercenaries flowing into Syria rapidly drying up. There is no more talk of newly branded US regime 'armies' forming in Jordan or other places. There are no new terrorist fronts opening up while the SAA is focused on Deir Ezzor. There is some activity around Aleppo but nothing remotely close to the previous years of the war where ten to twenty thousand strong terrorist offensives would popup everytime the SAA tried to mount a new major offensive.

I believe many people are going to be utterly shocked by how fast Syria, Russian, Iran, and Iraq wrap up the remaining areas in eastern Syria and western Iraq. It is mostly desert and open terrain. Most of the leadership of the various terror groups have been taken out. I think IS will be almost entirely confined to a few cities on the Eurphrates over the next few weeks or couple of months at most.

Even Western mainstream media sources are now coming to realize and report on the sheer extent of the destruction that has been bestowed upon Raqqa. To this end, one particular Western journalist has noted that the urban devastation inflicted on the city exceeds that seen in Mosul and Aleppo.

Speaking via social media, BBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville says the destruction he has witnessed in Raqqa outdoes what he saw in Mosul.

Sommerville added that one of his fellow journalists who reported on the battle of Aleppo likewise claims that the destruction suffered by Raqqa is the worse they have seen yet.

24 hours of coverage still wouldn't do justice to the total devastation across Raqqa. I've never seen anything like it.