Western-backed Syrian counter-revolutionary forces pushed deeper into Syria today as regional revolutionary and resistance factions process the challenges and prepare for unprecedented difficulties in the near future.
The Syrian army collapsed on multiple fronts as reactionary militias, supported by Turkey, the West and the Zionist regime, began slowly articulating new plans for the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed his state’s collusion in the operation on Friday expressing hope for “a smooth continuation of anti-regime forces’ advance toward Damascus.”
“…Idlib, Hama, Homs, and the target, of course, is Damascus. The opposition’s march continues. Our wish is that this advancement in Syria continues without accidents or disasters,” Erdogan stated to reporters following Friday prayers in Istanbul.
Erdogan also voiced dissatisfaction with Syria’s leadership, saying, “We made a call to (Bashar al) Assad. We said: ‘Come, let’s determine the future of Syria together.’ Unfortunately, we did not receive a positive response to this.”
This operation was launched the next day, after the ceasefire in Lebanon, demonstrating a level of collusion between the Turkish and Zionist regime that has shocked many considering Erdogan’s public, and hypocritcal stance on Gaza.
Furthermore, Turkey has been sleepwalking through a tremendmous defeat to PKK and HBDH guerrillas in the Medya Defense Zones in Iraqi Kurdistan. While trying to find an exit, it seems the Turkish state opted for a more extreme escalation, attempting to bury Kurdistan and Palestine in one step.
PKK-KCK member Sabri Ok stated, “The Turkish state is always looking for an opportunity. It is calculating how to make its plans for Syria succeed. The Turkish state has supported tens of thousands of ISIS gang members and mercenaries and their versions in Idlib, on Syrian soil. Most HTS are essentially ISIS members. The Turkish state says that territorial integrity must be preserved in Syria, but it has occupied three-fifths of Syrian territory. It has not only occupied it but also annexed it. It took its own state system there. It has opened schools, administrative districts, governors, and governors, and annexed it in every sense.”
He concluded that the PKK put up great resistance against ISIS and the “fate of HTS will be the same.”
Throughout the offensive, the Zionist regime has attacked the border crossings between Lebanon and Syria trying to destroy the landbridge that funnels weapons to the Resistance, in collusion with the Takfiri fighters. In a Times of Israel interview today a “FSA” fighter stated, “We are open to friendship with everyone in the region – including Israel. We don’t have enemies other than the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against Hezbollah in Lebanon helped us a great deal. Now we are taking care of the rest.”
While Hezbollah Secretary Sheikh Qassem noted that the aggression on Syria is “fostered by [the] US and Zionists following their powerlessness in Gaza and their failure in attempts to sideline Syria.”
In a message to the Arab states, he stressed, “Know that every win for “Israel” is a loss for you, not just for Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and it will have ramifications on your countries.”
He added that the Takfiri groups intend to take Syria away from its stance on the side of the Resistance, to a stance that serves the occupation.
“We now face a very dangerous Zionist project against the Middle East,” he warned.
The Central Command of the Palestinian Resistance Forces Alliance confirmed that the aggression carried out by these Takfiri organizations on the provinces of Aleppo and Hama is part of a American-Zionist-Turkish scheme, falling within the framework of the aggressive war being waged against the forces of the Axis of Resistance.
The Central Command considered this aggression to be part of the war being launched by the Zionist entity against Palestine and Lebanon, following its failure to achieve its objectives in both. It emphasized that this aggression, backed by the Turkish regime, the U.S. administration, and the Zionist entity, constitutes a new escalation against the liberation struggle. It described this as a reckless and miscalculated step by these organizations and their sponsors, who will fail to achieve their objectives in Syria, just as they have failed in Palestine and Lebanon.
The statement expressed the solidarity of the Palestinian Resistance Forces Alliance with Syria, which has thwarted the “New Middle East” plan since 2011.
The Palestinian Resistance Forces Alliance is a coalition of Palestinian factions. It includes Hamas, PIJ, PFLP-GC, Fatah Al-Intifada, PPSF, Al-Sa’iqa, PLF, and the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party.
Kataeb Hezbollah in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq spokesperson, Hajj Jaafar Al-Husseini, stated to HTS, “Before your masters taught you how to kill innocent people and displace the vulnerable, they should have given you lessons in the etiquette of speech when you mention Iraq and its people. You should ask your instigators in the capitals of evil and normalization what it means if Kataeb Hezbollah decides to enter the battle, and what will happen to you and the zionist monkeys who are cheering for the current events—as well as what will happen to those capitals that support your criminality!”