Aftermath of an insurgent car bomb attack in South West Aleppo at the start of the desperate insurgent offensive of late October.Syrian soldiers with an elderly female resident of the 1070 apartment complex on the south-west fringe of Aleppo city. The photo is remarkable because it dates from early October, the 1070 housing had been a scene of intense fighting for several months at this point, having been contested since late July until the Syrian army and their allies finally prevailed in the 1070 and the adjacent Hikma area in early November. Ending all hope for the insurgent attempts to break the siege of the east Aleppo pocket.The area around the 1070 apartments was a key battleground in the failed insurgent offensive of late October, the area had been contested since late July, in early November the Syrian Army finally seized the housing complex and nearby Hikma, one of the achievements that has ended all hope of the insurgents breaking the siege. The months of effort to break the siege had started with the massive car bomb attacks on Hikma of late July 2016.Recent map of the military situation in Aleppo city( Syrian Government areas shown in orange, yellow section is their Kurdish allies) shows the siege over the east Aleppo pocket now has depth across the entire perimeter. It is clear after months of intense fighting that the insurgents lack the military tools to break the siege. They have repeatedly thrown hundreds of fighters into the fray for little or no long term territorial gain.This young girl is one of the hundreds of civilian casualties caused by the indiscriminate insurgent shelling of Government held Western Aleppo, home to 80% of the population of the city but disappeared completely from the narrative by the Western media along with all the suffering they endure at the hands of al Qaeda in Syria and their Western backed allies. Seven children and a teacher died when insurgent shelling struck their school this week. This girl was one of the luckier ones.SAA/Hezbollah soldiers engage insurgents at close quarters in Western Aleppo, November 2016.Drone view of massive insurgent car bomb at the start of the failed late October offensive on West Aleppo city.Destroyed insurgent APC in Minyan, West Aleppo following the failed insurgent offensive.Insurgents film themselves as massive explosions rock the building.Pinned down by heavy artillery fire from the Syrian Army, one fighter consults the Koran for what may be the final time.The recently deceased insurgent fighter is caked in thick dust from the destroyed building he was using as a fighting position creating an eerie, life like impression.Loyalists celebrate their victory in Western Aleppo’s Minyan district by firing tracer rounds into the Aleppo sky, November 2016.A female civilian grieving following the death of two male civilians in the Eastern Aleppo pocket.Multiple airstrikes hit the insurgent held east Aleppo pocket, November 2016.Minyan was reduced from a largely undamaged suburb of Western Aleppo to this war torn wreck in the space of weeks following the insurgent attack upon and brief seizure of the area.Onboard footage from Russian air force flying over Syria.Russian missile strikes insurgent position, November 2016.Massive fireball follows Russian airstrike on insurgent rear position, November 2016.Children in West Aleppo.Displaced families returned to what is left of their homes in the 1070 housing complex following the Syrian Army victory there in early November following months of desperate close quarters combat.This is how it will end- Ahrar al Sham fighters being evacuated from the surrounded eastern pocket of Aleppo city in late October 2016. Eventually the remaining fighters will choose this path and will be evacuated to Idlib just as their Homs and Daraya counterparts have done.
November 24th, 2016.
Syrian Victory in Aleppo now Inevitable.
In late October insurgents outside the Aleppo city pocket made what now seems a final desperate attempt to break the siege. The offensive caused a great deal of damage, saw the insurgents take a high number of casualties and kill many civilians and achieved no territorial gains at all.
After the offensive the insurgents hold considerably less territory than before it started.
The encirclement and impending loss in Aleppo have inspired a welter of hysteria and an avalanche of propaganda from the Western media.
So desperate did the Western propaganda become as the regime change project faced defeat and the insurgents in east Aleppo were surrounded and besieged, they took a “young Syrian girl”, gave her a twitter account and had her demand World War 3!
This has brought us many wonders in the field of lies but it is hard to surpass the fake twitter account with a seven year old girl calling for World War 3 . There should be an award for lie of the year, and that should be a contender.
Although to be fair, the widespread pretense that the more than one and a half million occupants of Government held Western Aleppo city do not exist and are not being killed and wounded in large numbers by the indiscriminate shelling of the insurgents was also an impressive and audacious lie (of omission as opposed to commission) propagated almost across the board by our wonderful media.
“At least 74 civilians, including 25 children, were killed in the 8-day-old offensive launched by Syrian opposition fighters against the western edge of the government-held part of Aleppo city.” (Source)
The fighters inside the pocket are incapable of any meaningful offensive operations and the fighters outside the pocket cannot break the siege despite throwing absolutely every possible resource towards the task over several months.
All insurgent attempts to break the siege of the eastern Aleppo pocket having failed, the insurgents are going to have to accept defeat in the Battle of Aleppo in the coming days and weeks.
There will be no total victory in the conventional sense, the Syrian army and their allies are not going to seize east Aleppo by force or kill every insurgent in the pocket, rather they are going to force the insurgents to accept a deal that will see them relocated by the government to insurgent held Idlib. Identical deals previously saw insurgents evacuated from Homs city, Daraya and in recent days the town of Khan al Shih in the Western Ghouta area of the Damascus countryside and their departure from Aleppo will end any meaningful insurgent presence in Syria’s major cities and with it any hope of regime change in Syria.
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You will be blatant. Face us off. James, we need ya. Come on now… suffering and our voice. This unlike the New York Times and hides away in sheep along but… so they say? “But they pay me” – is that all/is? Proper journalism here. Thanks now, Mark.
You’ll notice on the dead guy that they took his picture up close so you could see it was real. In that France Truck attack, we are never allowed an up close shot of anyone or anything. In fact, blankets are over them to cover and hide the “lack of evidence.” Real Journalism does not hide the graphic horror of violence and killing.
Thanks James, was a hasty yet meant well comment. This is a both terrible and hopeful read. Bit like, want too see – yet, look away. I’m quite tragedy worn-down, desensitised, can easily understand how people come to give-up looking, caring, while exclaiming “…well what can, we do?” Mainstream makes me so angry, duping masses, while coming across so smug. And a few hours ago Memory Hole Blog ‘officially shut down’ by its server. What a contrast: One of the few finest of outposts censored and – what you call, the ‘field of lies’. Referencing the NYTimes was due to Trumps drooling along yesterday. Lulling us into believing they’re somehow different, to the lot he slagged off a day earlier. Not for me to judge his efforts too harshly, at least he’s broadly articulated the truth in general – they lie, not report about… don’t investigate, do what they proclaim. On Syria, complicit and some, in causing this destruction to continue. Not much to comment but reiterate; These posts matter, voicing the less heard about and those in the midst deserving we know. And in this, care.
I think it has received more than it deserved already but many thanks Mark.I will recheck Memory Hole in the hope that has been reversed. Only obscurity is protecting our sites from the same type of treatment. That is one reason I cane see the benefits of a low profile, they cannot persecute you because they have not heard of you! Given the volume of evil trash on the internet the idea that site could be done over is a sick joke.
Regarding Trump, you make a good point, we do not know what the Trump presidency will bring but we know damn sure that the controlled media, the collaborator media are going to be telling wall to wall lies throughout whether he is the best or worst President ever. They will be waist deep in lies as this is the business they are in. I just checked and MHB is not on the internet. Unbelievable. Many thanks for that comment and your encouragement I will try and be more fruitful in the near future.
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You will be blatant. Face us off. James, we need ya. Come on now… suffering and our voice. This unlike the New York Times and hides away in sheep along but… so they say? “But they pay me” – is that all/is? Proper journalism here. Thanks now, Mark.
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Many thanks for those kind words Mark.
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You’ll notice on the dead guy that they took his picture up close so you could see it was real. In that France Truck attack, we are never allowed an up close shot of anyone or anything. In fact, blankets are over them to cover and hide the “lack of evidence.” Real Journalism does not hide the graphic horror of violence and killing.
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That is an excellent point truth1. Many thanks for commenting.
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Thanks James, was a hasty yet meant well comment. This is a both terrible and hopeful read. Bit like, want too see – yet, look away. I’m quite tragedy worn-down, desensitised, can easily understand how people come to give-up looking, caring, while exclaiming “…well what can, we do?” Mainstream makes me so angry, duping masses, while coming across so smug. And a few hours ago Memory Hole Blog ‘officially shut down’ by its server. What a contrast: One of the few finest of outposts censored and – what you call, the ‘field of lies’. Referencing the NYTimes was due to Trumps drooling along yesterday. Lulling us into believing they’re somehow different, to the lot he slagged off a day earlier. Not for me to judge his efforts too harshly, at least he’s broadly articulated the truth in general – they lie, not report about… don’t investigate, do what they proclaim. On Syria, complicit and some, in causing this destruction to continue. Not much to comment but reiterate; These posts matter, voicing the less heard about and those in the midst deserving we know. And in this, care.
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I think it has received more than it deserved already but many thanks Mark.I will recheck Memory Hole in the hope that has been reversed. Only obscurity is protecting our sites from the same type of treatment. That is one reason I cane see the benefits of a low profile, they cannot persecute you because they have not heard of you! Given the volume of evil trash on the internet the idea that site could be done over is a sick joke.
Regarding Trump, you make a good point, we do not know what the Trump presidency will bring but we know damn sure that the controlled media, the collaborator media are going to be telling wall to wall lies throughout whether he is the best or worst President ever. They will be waist deep in lies as this is the business they are in. I just checked and MHB is not on the internet. Unbelievable. Many thanks for that comment and your encouragement I will try and be more fruitful in the near future.
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