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| Top Syrian official visits Homs after army setbacks |
| 2015-06-05 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syria's defense minister has visited army units to the east of Homs city, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported on Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of morale-boosting trips by bigwigs to military outposts. The government has lost large areas of land in the last two months to holy warriors including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group that last month seized the ancient city of Palmyra in Homs province. General Fahad Jassim al-Freij, who is armed forces deputy commander as well as defense minister, told the troops in the eastern Homs countryside he was confident in their ability to defend Syria from what he called "terrorism and its supporters". Homs lies 150 km (90 miles) to the west of the Palmyra, also known as Tadmur. The Syrian army and militia fighting alongside it have also lost swathes of territory in the northwestern province of Idlib to an alliance of holy warriors including the Nusra Front. State media reports did not give the exact location of Freij's visit. A video showed vehicles driving on a dusty road through a desert landscape and Freij addressing troops outside. It is at least the second high-level visit to Homs since the fall of Palmyra. Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki has also been, visiting a gas plant that is a major source of fuel for government-held areas. |
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