ALEPPO UPDATE: Al-Qaeda led Jihadis admit defeat, end of effective resistance
ALEPPO UPDATE: Al-Qaeda led Jihadis admit defeat, end of effective resistance
As reports speak of Jihadi resistance being confined to one small area less than a mile across Jihadi news sites admit resistance is about to end.
Latest reports from Aleppo appear to contradict a claim by Al-Masdar of an agreement between the Syrian authorities and the remaining Jihadi fighters in Aleppo who are still offering resistance.
According to this report the Syrian authorities had supposedly agreed to allow the Jihadi fighters to leave Aleppo for the Anadan plains near Mount Simeon.
However reports suggest that if the Syrian authorities ever made such an offer, then it was soon after withdrawn.
Reports from the Jihadis themselves say that they are now confined to an area less than a mile wide between the River Aleppo and the Salaheddin district near the main sports stadium. Even they now admit that their resistance is almost entirely at an end. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a monitoring group that has consistently sided with the Jihadis throughout the Syrian conflict, is reporting it in this way
“The battle of Aleppo has reached its end. It is just a matter of a small period of time . . . it’s a total collapse.”
If the Syrian authorities have indeed at this eleventh hour refused to let the Jihadis leave Aleppo, then this is a reflection of the bankruptcy of US diplomacy. Earlier in the day Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov made the following withering statement about US diplomatic actions
“The problem is very simple. We say – let us first of all agree on what corridors will be provided to militants, given the previous experience when gunmen used any pause for regrouping, receiving replenishment from abroad and terrorising the civilian population even more furiously.
