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    Assad troops force Syrian rebels to retreat from key town

    Assad troops force Syrian rebels to retreat from key town

    Assad is cleaning up the mess that outsiders (to include the US) caused. I wish him the best in taking out the trash.

    Bashar al-Assad has vowed to recapture all of Syria as his forces made significant battlefield gains and drove rebel fighters out of a strategic town he once attacked with chemical weapons.

    Syrian regime troops pushed rebel forces from Khan Sheikhoun, a town where Assad’s jets once dropped chemical weapons and killed nearly 100 people, prompting Donald Trump to launch retaliatory airstrikes in 2017.


    The town has been under rebel control since 2014 and its fall marks a victory for Assad as his troops attempt to conquer Idlib, the last opposition-held province in the northwest of Syria.


    Rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda, said they were retreating to an area south of the town but would continue fighting against the regime’s advancing troops. Regime troops advanced into the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun but had yet to fully occupy it.


    Speaking at a meeting with MPs from Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, Assad hailed his forces’ progress. “The victories that were achieved prove the determination of the people and the army to defeat terrorists until the liberation of the last inch of Syrian territory,” he said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Assad troops force Syrian rebels to retreat from key town

    Assad is cleaning up the mess that outsiders (to include the US) caused. I wish him the best in taking out the trash.
    I do too. This mess all started during the Obama-sponsored "Arab Spring," that turned into a colossal failure, bringing with it a death toll in the hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions of Arabs, many of which fled to western nations, and some of whom created chaos in those places.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    I do too. This mess all started during the Obama-sponsored "Arab Spring," that turned into a colossal failure, bringing with it a death toll in the hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions of Arabs, many of which fled to western nations, and some of whom created chaos in those places.
    As with many democratic revolutions in the past, the radicals are waiting in the wings for the pro-democratic crowd to do the initial hard work and then take over.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    As with many democratic revolutions in the past, the radicals are waiting in the wings for the pro-democratic crowd to do the initial hard work and then take over.
    Exactly. Arab people do not seem to be able to rule themselves democratically. The only democracy in the Middle East is Israel, and you'd think the libs would be more appreciative of that.

    But, they're not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Exactly. Arab people do not seem to be able to rule themselves democratically. The only democracy in the Middle East is Israel, and you'd think the libs would be more appreciative of that.

    But, they're not.
    Arabs are tribal. I was in Iraq for one election. People would go to their sheik and ask who to vote for.
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