mahatir
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He doesnt care about PKK, but he does care about Deir Ez-Zur. He tried to reach Deir Ez-Zur with Palmyra way, they failed.
Give Assad a guarantee about "we will give you constant AF and howitzer support when you capture Qamisli, Hasakah, and then connect to Deir Ez-Zur and then connect it to Palmyra, and let SAA armor go through our territory, and constant ceasefire between FSA-SAA, and co-operation against Al-Nusra terrorists => will be a great deal.
Naive thinking , most of Assad forces are actually foreign shia militias loyal to Iran . Do you think iran will accept using their own militias to act as border guards for Turkey against PKK/PYD ? if that was the case then they would have cleaned qandil decades ago right on their border.
Assad does not have enough loyal forces to hold big cities , this war will continue for decades . Groups like Isil will never be destroyed as long as Mullah regime in Iran exists . Islamic terrorism will not end until a new ideology comes out to erase it , Americans spent over a decade in Afghanistan to destroy Taliban and they failed , before that soviet union spent over decade with the same result .
The only best option I see is carry out a new Euphrate shield operation in Riqqah " Tal-Abyad " after completing operation west of the river .
I was going to write it. Cause its the most important point for isis to keep alive in syria.
Another thing is go to damascus. But russian will appear then. They lost al bab and wouldnt risk it for rakkah
Isil existed since 2003 , they do not need to hold cities to survive . The group started deep inside the caves and isolated settlements in the deserts of Syria and Iraq where no one lives .
Remember Isil started as a clandestine terrorist organization relying on sleeping cells to carry out attacks against opponents . They only transformed recently into a state when they saw central governments in Syria and Iraq crumbling .
They will fight hard for Riqqah just like Mosul to inflict the largest losses on PYD as its the last city they hold in either Iraq and Syria .
From the latest events I see now Isis are retreating back to the desert where they came from . The group will start again rebuilding itself and will carry out a long insurgency to weaken the new forces whether PYD , Iraq Army and Syrian army before launching a new attack to take over regions they lost past 2 years .
This is like a long ping-pong game that never ends , the new difference here is now Isil will have to deal with weaker opponents in the future after they managed to weaken and destroy the national armies of Syria and Iraq .
After the Americans completely withdraw from middle east under Trump you will see this game replicating itself again .