Little protection anticipated for Syrian rebels

“There is a large mobilisation of the Syrian army … elite Hezbollah fighters, and thousands of Iranians who arrived in stages in recent days”.

The arrival of Iranian troops reinforces fighting under the cover of Russian air power further strengthens the view that Russia’s main goal is to shore up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s embattled government.

Syrian Arab rebels have been told by Washington that new weapons were on their way to help them launch a joint offensive with their Kurdish allies on the city of Raqqa, held by Islamic State fighters, a spokesman for the rebels said on Monday. Russian Federation states its airstrikes are supposed to weaken the Islamic State group & different terrorists in Syria, still Western officers & Syrian rebels allege most the strikes have focused on areas in central & northern Syria where extremist group doesn’t have a robust presence.

Syria’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Europe was trying to misrepresent the Russian intervention, which it said had “demonstrated the credibility and determination of the Russian and Syrian leadership to combat terrorism”. “It will only add more destruction and displacement”.

“We met the Americans and this has been approved and we have been told these new arms… are on their way”, said the spokesman.

Russian Federation is “deliberately targeting” U.S.-backed forces in Syria in an air campaign that has killed up to 150 CIA-trained rebels, according to an official.

Dramatic footage claims to show Russian cluster bombs exploding over Syrian rebels in southern Idlib.

“However, the world has entered the 21st century and people’s thinking should enter the 21st century as well”, it said.

Fierce fighting in the key village of Kafr Nabuda in the province forced pro-regime forces to retreat and killed 25 of them, the Observatory said. Washington has been increasing support for rebel groups it backs in Syria, and one group said Tuesday that US-made anti-tank missiles were turning the tide in a major battle in the country’s centre and northwest.

A second official, who is close to the Syrian government, reaffirmed the plan. The rebels are backed by the USA, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, including a few ultraconservative groups and al-Qaida affiliates.

And yet, rebel commanders say the offensive has failed to dislodge the various insurgent groups from territory they control that leads to the heartland of Assad’s power.

Saoud, the 13th Division commander whose fighters received TOW missiles, said he worked in the same trench with a faction from the Army of Conquest.

“With all that firepower, with new launchers and a hail of airstrikes… they were not able to advance”, Saoud said of the government troops.

“We are using the (TOW missiles) more now to turn up the heat on the front lines”.