Syria/Iraq update 6/14/2018..Russia Warns Rebels, U.S. Forces are Plotting New Chemical Attack in Syria

Russia Warns Rebels, U.S. Forces are Plotting New Chemical Attack in Syria

Russia Warns “Credible Information” Of Impending Staged Chemical Attack In Syria

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-14/russia-warns-credible-information-impending-staged-chemical-attack-syria

As the world’s attention was focused on Singapore and the historic Trump-Kim summit this week, and with broad media acknowledgement that Assad has won the war for Syria, the time could be ripe for some kind of major event to jolt the globe’s focus back to the war, now in its seventh year, which could be slowly winding down.

It seems to occur every time the Syrian Army is on a trajectory of overwhelming victory: an ill-timed and strategically nonsensical mass chemical attack on civilians supposedly ordered by Assad — inevitably giving the West an open door for military intervention, new rounds of crippling sanctions, and yet more international media condemnation heaped on Damascus.

And this week the Russian Defense Ministry has warned of just such a scenario. Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said early in the week that US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces are planning a “serious provocation” aimed at justifying a new round of Western coalition missile attacks against Syrian government bases and facilities.

Konashenkov, in a statement carried by Russian state-run TASS and subsequently featured in a One America News report, said “According to the information confirmed through three independent channels in Syria, the command of the so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’ aided by the forces of the US special ops units are preparing a serious provocation involving chemical warfare agents in the Deir ez-Zor province.”

The TASS media release explained further:

According to Konashenkov, FSA militants have delivered chlorine cylinders to the Syrian Deir ez-Zor province to simulate another “chemical attack against civilians.”

“After being published in western media a staged video is set to initiate a missile strike on Syria’s state facilities by the US-led coalition and justify an offensive operation by militants against Syrian governmental forces on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River,” he said, adding that Russia’s Defense Ministry warns that the use of such provocations for destabilization of the environment on the Syrian territory is unacceptable.

Though there’s currently no way to verify if such claims are true, and no “staged video” has yet to surface on the internet, the Russian Defense Ministry appears to be painting a potential future scenario much like last April’s chemical attack incident: it was video of mass civilian death which directly led to Western airstrikes on Syria.

After the Saudi-backed jihadist group Jaish al-Islam, working in tandem with the US/UK sponsored White Helmets, claimed a Syrian Army chemical attack against civilians in Douma on April 7, the US-led coalition launched over a hundred missiles on government facilities primarily in and around Damascus. This was done even as the UN and global chemical watchdog organization, the OPCW, said there were no independent observers on the ground to confirm whether or not a chemical attack even took place, much less who was to blame.

Some among the first group of journalists to gain entry inside Douma, located just outside Damascus, such as the UK Independent’s Robert Fisk and One America News Network’s Pearson Sharp, found no evidence that a chemical attack took place in Douma, contrary to what was widely reported in international media. A formal OPCW investigation is still ongoing.

….if recent history provides a pattern for the future, once the media establishment and political leaders in the West begin acknowledging “Assad is here to stay,” this portends that a major regime change precipitating event is just around the corner.

Assad slams US intervention in Syria

The SDF tightens its grip on ISIS in eastern Syria

This Militia is Threatening American Troops in Syria

Fighters from the Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have pounded the positions of the DaeshTakfiri terrorist group in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as the militants are seeking to sneak through the border into Iraq.

QassemMesleh, PMU commander for Iraq’s west Anbar region, said in a statement on Wednesday that the volunteer forces – commonly known with the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi – have targeted Daesh positions inside the Syrian territory, dealing heavy blows to the extremists. Mesleh noted that many Daesh militants have also escaped from the border regions with Iraq, leaving behind a considerable amount of munitions and improvised explosive devices. Meanwhile, Qutri al-Samarmad, a Hashd al-Sha’abi commander in Anbar, told Arabic-language Basnews news agency that DaeshTakfiris had executed 30 fellow terrorists in Hajin region near Abu Kamal city.

A videotape of some residents of Al-Rikban/Rukban camp, located on the Syrian-Jordanian border, showed that they did not receive any assistance/Humanitarian aid from the American base in al-Tanf.

He says that those who left the camp said that some aid is provided from Jordan, in the absence of its presence from the American side, and that the bread is sold in cash, and who does not have money can not buy it The Russian Defense Ministry has announced earlier that the United States is preventing access to humanitarian aid to the camp of the Al-Rugban on the pretext of the lack of security of food convoys, while providing aid and food to armed supporters loyal only Special Task Force

NDF reinforcements heading to N/E Suweida desert where Offensive vs ISIS is ongoing…

The Islamic State (ISIS) launched a large-scale counter-offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Badiya Al-Sham region of Al-Sweida on Wednesday. ISIS began the attack on Wednesday by attempting to overwhelm the Syrian Arab Army troops near the large hilltop of Tal Barakat.

For a few hours, the Islamic State repeatedly stuck the Syrian Army’s defenses at Tal Barakat in a bid to overwhelm the pro-government troops. However, the Islamic State’s assault would eventually lose momentum by sundown, forcing them to withdraw back into this vast region region in Southeast Syria.

According to a military report, the Syrian Army, alongside their allies from Hezbollah and the National Defense Forces (NDF), was able to reestablish full security around Tal Barakat. The report added that scores of Islamic State terrorists were killed during this brief battle on Wednesday.

Since launching their southeast Syria offensive, the Syrian Army and their allies have liberated a large chunk of territory in the Badiya Al-Sham region, placing them within striking distance of the Islamic State’s stronghold, Al-Kara’a. If the Syrian Army can take control of Al-Kara’a, the remaining Islamic State terrorists will likely be forced to take refuge in the large number of caves in the region.

Some of the ammo & IED’s found and dealt with in Hula – Homs countryside

During the sweep of the area, the Syrian Arab Army forces found a cache of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), mines and some homemade weapons. And there are still warehouses containing some weapons and containers, will be removed later. ”