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| US-backed commander vows to capture Afrin and Idlib from Turkey |
| 2019-04-19 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the U.S.-backer Jaish al-Thuwar(al-Thewar Army) faction, Ahmad al-Sultan (AKA Abu Arraj) told ANHA this week that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s position in Syria both "difficult and shameful". Al-Sultan said that Turkey is between a rock and a hard place regarding the acquisition of Russia’s S-400, pointing out that if they do receive them, they will cause a great deal of turmoil with their NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... partners, most notably the United States. The Jaish al-Thuwar commander also criticized Turkey’s role in Idlib, which he described as disastrous because of the ongoing conflicts between their allied rebel groups and the Syrian Armed Forces. "Idlib’s southern countryside has been destroyed by aircraft, the Syrian regime, and the modern weapons that Russia is testing in that region," al-Sultan claimed. He claimed that if the Syrian military were to attack Idlib, it would cause a humanitarian disaster with over one million people fleeing the Syrian governorate. The Jaish al-Thuwar commander would conclude by renewing his pledge to retake Afrin from the The commander concluded by pledging to "walk on their approach until the liberation of the city of Afrin from the |
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