naturalplastic wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Russia, Hezbollah, Iran, the Kurds, and the SAA will crush ISIS in Syria, they are surrounding Aleppo and have cut off all of ISIS's supply routes from Turkey so no more flow of fighters or money into the country. The Turks and Saudis are crying because their ISIS allies are being annihilated.
Unfortunately, it seems ISIS is shifting its focus to Libya where they now have 6,000+ fighters.
The siege of Aleppo has nothing to do with fighting ISIS.
Remember that its a multi side civil war.
Assad and his foreign allies are surrounding rebels in Alleppo who are a mix of almost every faction BUT ISIS: The Free Syria Front, a couple of other secular groups, an Islamic group, and some Sunni Groups. Aleppo is to the northwest of Assad's capital in the center of the Syria in Damascus. ISIS territory is in the opposite direction to the east (straddling the border with Iraq).
ISIS is in Aleppo too but I believe most of the rebels in the area are al-Nusra which is al-Qaeda, not exactly better. The Turks thought they'd essentially be able to annex the north of Syria for an oil pipeline to Europe and to stop the Kurds from having a viable state, they had a lot of their own militia in the area too up until they stupidly decided to poke the Russian bear. Hezbollah, Iran, the SAA, and Kurds have made huge gains since the Russian started. It is funny, weren't we bombing them supposedly for years? 'But Russia is able to essentially break their back in less than year with a bombing campaign? We didn't want to win this war, the Saudis and Turks had other priorities the well-being of their fellow Muslims. How many Syrian refugees has the Kingdom taken by the way? Last time I check it was ZERO! There really is no legitimate opposition left in Syria, even the FSA is seeing the writing on the wall and cooperating with the Russians.