Syria’s Victory in Deir az-Zor

The following is an article by Hugo Turner for Global Research titled “Syria’s Victory in Deir az-Zor”.

The recent string of victories of the Syrian government over US-Saudi backed takfiri terrorists has turned the tide of the war in the favour of President Bashar al-Assad, thanks to the support he enjoys from the Syrian people and armed forces, as well as Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah, in addition to air cover provided by Russia on request and the vital advisory role of the Islamic Republic of Iran which has honoured its commitment to the long-standing defence cooperation agreement between the two countries in the face of aggression.

The Syrian Arab Army has achieved yet another dramatic victory this time lifting the Daesh terrorists’ siege of the heroic city of Deir az-Zor. For years Deir az-Zor has been surrounded by enemies and under siege first by the so-called US-backed Free Syrian Army and the an-Nusra Front and then by Daesh. The people of the city have withstood repeated attacks by the US-NATO air force most infamously last fall when the Americans bombed Deir az-Zor right after agreeing to a ceasefire, a treacherous move that paved the way for a nearly successful Daesh offensive to capture the city.

The brave defenders of Deir az-Zor withstood these endless attacks becoming a symbol of the heroic resistance of all of Syria. For years Syrians and their friends around the world have dreamed that one day this siege would be lifted. Our dreams have finally come true and faster than anyone could have imagined.

The liberation of Deir az-Zor from the Daesh siege is the culmination of months of dramatic government victories over the terrorists. Now we dream that a final victory may be near in Syria. Once again the Syrian Arab Army and their allies Hezbollah, Russia, and Iran have stunned the world.

The empire of Chaos is in a panic. Netanyahu of Israel is hysterical with rage attempting to spoil the victory in Deir az-Zor with yet another of its illegal and cowardly air strikes on Syria. The whole strategic balance of the world is changing before our eyes. And it is all due to the enormous courage of the Syrian people who have withstood this dirty war launched by seemingly half the world on their country.

Syria has resisted the US, Israel, the British, the Saudis, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Kuwait, France, Germany, and the rest of the PGCC/NATO lackeys that make up the Axis of Chaos. They have resisted armies of fanatical, brutal, killers recruited across West Asia, North Africa, Europe, and Central Asia. They have defeated a CIA trained horde of torturers, rapists, slavers, cannibals, and of course killers.

Has any country in history battled against the odds Syria has faced? Is the victory in Deir az-Zor the most glorious in human history?

Only a few short months ago it was unclear whether Deir az-Zor would survive long enough for the Syrian Army to lift the siege. Daesh launched offensive after offensive and with the help of the earlier US air strikes Daesh even managed to cut the city in half last January. Then even more desperate offensives followed and Daesh made some dangerous strategic gains. Daesh always began every offensive with their trademark suicide truck bomb attacks. However the Syrian army managed to crush these Daesh offensives turning the town into the graveyard of Daesh.

The Syrian Arab Army in besieged Deir az-Zor was under the command of the legendary Major-General Issam Zahreddin who has lead the defense of the city since July of 2014. Every day for over 1000 days the Syrian army, Hezbollah and the local national defense forces were on the frontlines defending the cities’ 100,000 residents from Daesh. The civilians were equally heroic in withstanding years of siege especially the defiant women of Deir az-Zor who braved kidnappers, snipers and rocket attacks to find food for their families. Their husbands were often dead or fighting on the frontlines and it was the steadfast bravery of the women of Deir az-Zor that allowed the city to survive the siege. The people of Deir az-Zor withstood untold suffering their electricity was cut off, food was scarce, medicine hard to find.

Because of the treacherous attack of the US air force Daesh was able to seize the town’s clean water supply and the town was forced to drink polluted river water to survive. Rockets, artillery, mortars and sniper fire terrorized them like so many Syrians who have survived these terrorist sieges. They lived in constant fear that Daesh might capture the city. Despite all this they remained defiant determined to resist to the end. I’ll never forget the sight of hundreds of Syrian mothers, and grandmothers armed with Ak-47s and warning Daesh they would fight to the death to defend their families. Thankfully due to bravery of the SAA and their allies it never came to that and against all the odds the city resisted every attempt to capture it. In the end they were defending the city with only 2 tanks and artillery that were long past their life expectancy after being fired so many times without replacement.

The victory at Deir az-Zor is the culmination of months of offensives by the Syrian army that has liberated thousands of square kilometers in the past few months. To the North expanding on the victory in Aleppo the government forces steadily advanced east towards and then past Raqqa. To the south of them was a huge swath of Syrian territory occupied by Daesh separating them from government-held territory extending into Palmyra.

In a stunning series of victories the Syrian army managed to cut this Daesh pocket off from its supply lines divide it in two and completely encircle them liberating a huge amount of territory and opening the way for the final push towards Deir az-Zor.

Daesh is still desperately resisting its inevitable defeat but it is clear that the Syrian army, Hezbollah and Russia have dealt it a decisive defeat in Syria. These victories owed much to Syria’s elite Tiger Forces who also played a decisive role in both the victory in Aleppo and the end of the siege of Deir az-Zor. In a war where battles have raged for weeks over a tiny village or even a single building the Syrian army has managed to liberate thousands of miles in recent weeks. Once again the government forces have accomplished the impossible.

It is no wonder Syria’s enemies are acting even crazier than usual. The US has sent its SDF Kurdish mercenaries to try to block further advances by the government forces. The Kurds would be wise to break out of their servitude to the empire soon before the Americans provoke some terrifying disaster. At the same time the US is trying to embroil the Kurds with a war with the government forces. Rumor has it the US has already made plans to abandon them to their fate.

In the week before the siege on Deir az-Zor was broken the US sent its helicopters in to evacuate certain key Daesh commanders exposing yet again that Daesh is nothing but a mere tool of the CIA and its allied intelligence agencies.

In retaliation, Russia bombed Daesh with a thermobaric bomb and has been showing off its cruise missiles in devastating attacks on Daesh which are also a warning to the US and its SDF Kurdish pawns.

The US responded to the liberation of Deir az-Zor by bombing a nearby refugee camp killing Syrian children in a criminal and cowardly attack. The US is also in an ever intensifying panic over Russia although it seemed impossible for the anti-Russian hysteria to grow even crazier. They are locked in a diplomatic war with Russia by expelling each other’s diplomats and imposing more harsh sanctions on Russia, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela. They are targeting Russian TV (RT) and Sputnik.

It has gotten so out of control that the paper ‘USA Today’ foolishly attacked my blog for exposing the fascist coup in Ukraine. It was part of the latest Russian propaganda hysteria backed by the CIA/BND Front the German Marshall Fund and it’s Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Hamilton 68 Project which spies on 600 pro-Russian twitter accounts or as they call them “Kremlin controlled bots and trolls.”

Basically anyone who opposes fascist Ukraine or the schemes to have al-Qaeda and Daesh destroy Syria is now being labeled a Russian propagandist regardless of whether they are Americans, Canadians or western Europeans and are accused of destroying democracy by informing the public. This arrogant NATO think tank believes the only way to secure what it calls democracy is to destroy free speech. Luckily they are far too late to prevent the world from realizing the criminal nature of American Foreign Policy which brings destruction, misery, poverty, and war to the entire planet.

Syria’s other enemies are also in a panic. Netanyahu of Israel made himself into a global laughingstock when he traveled to Russia to beg Putin to stop the Syrian Arab Army advances which he insanely believed was Iranian expansionism.

Putin told him Iran was a Russian ally and they say Netanyahu flew into a rage and threatened to bomb Assad’s presidential palace. He had to content himself with yet another illegal Israeli bombing. Still Israel remains dangerous and unpredictable and is in a panic over the fact that Hezbollah has only grown stronger during the war imposed by the Wes on Syria.

In related development, Hezbollah achieved a major victory in the Qalamoun Mountains finally cleaning out a nest of Daesh terrorists who were forced to evacuate in busses to their ever shrinking territory in Eastern Syria.

The Saudis are feuding with the Qataris while they continue their US-UK-NATO backed genocidal war on Yemen.

Meanwhile the whole world is wondering whether mad emperor Trump will embroil the world in a nuclear war over North Korea. I predict that the whole thing is just an embarrassing bluff that may turn out to be another humiliation for the Empire of Chaos.

Still the US is on the attack everywhere in the world. Its latest coup plot in Venezuela has met a humiliating defeat the fascist opposition discredited themselves with their reign of terror and Venezuela has voted to further advance the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution.

Meanwhile in Syria they are celebrating and rebuilding, Syrians who were forced by the terrorists to flee as refugees are now returning home now that the NATO death squads have been driven out of so much of the country. Where two years ago there was a gloomy determination now Syrians are again dreaming of the bright future ahead when they have rebuilt their country.

The liberation of Deir az-Zor was celebrated across Syria especially in Deir az-Zor itself. Now that the Syrian army has broken the siege food and medical supplies can finally enter the town and children can now go to school without fear of being shot by snipers. Everywhere in Syria people are dreaming of a final victory and the return of peace. Unfortunately the war is far from over but Syria has become an inspiration to the world a symbol of heroism and resistance. In the face of all the Axis of Chaos could throw at them the armies of terrorists, NATO bombers, the US marines, the CIA plots, the billions in weapons, the sanctions and the propaganda war to which Syria refused to surrender.

A lesson to everyone resisting the empire of chaos remember Syria and never stop fighting.

AS/MG