Situational Report from Rojava
Under attack by Turkish led Jihadists
02.12.24
Since the major offensive launched by jihadist militias around the so-called “Syrian National Army” (SNA) and “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS) against the area starting last Wednesday, November 27, large parts west of the Euphrates River have now fallen into the hands of the jihadists. Resistance is still holding out in the self-administered neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo.
Since the last week, the jihadist militias have rapidly advanced towards the second largest city in Syria, Aleppo. Within a day, they managed to take control of large parts of the Aleppo region and at the same time advance further south, where they are currently trying to break the defensive lines that the Syrian regime has set up in front of the city of Hama. At the same time, sleeper cells and armed groups have emerged from cover throughout the area under Damascus’ control, attacking regime soldiers and in some cases taking entire towns in the center of the country under their control. The long-planned attack is directed against Iran’s influence in Syria on the one hand and against the Syrian regime on the other. The weakening of the regional power Iran and the Syrian regime is not something that contradicts the West’s plans for restructuring the Middle East. On the contrary, as a NATO member, the Turkish state has the role of supporting the jihadists with intelligence and preparing them for the current attacks with weapons and training. The areas from which the attacks were launched, Idlib and Afrin, which was occupied in 2018, are controlled by Turkey.
In addition to weakening the regime and Iran’s influence in the Aleppo region, the current offensive has the particular aim of isolating the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and creating a starting point for further attacks on the Revolution. On Saturday, September 30, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) managed to open a corridor between the Euphrates River and the city of Aleppo to send reinforcements to the region and thus prevent a massacre against religious minorities such as Christians and Shiites, and the Kurdish population. Due to the overwhelming number of jihadists, the corridor could only be maintained until Sunday, December 1. In the afternoon of the same day, the SNA began an advance from different directions on the Shehba region, which is located north of Aleppo. Among other equipment, US-made M113 armored vehicles were used. The People’s Councils of the Shehba region, where hundreds of thousands of refugees from the canton of Afrin, which was occupied in 2018, live, decided to evacuate in order to prevent a massacre of the population. At the moment, there are kilometer-long streams of displaced people heading to the territories of the Autonomous Administration further east, where emergency shelters are currently being set up at a rapid pace near the Tabqa Dam.
With the capture of Aleppo and the occupation of Shehba, the Turkish state is following through on the plans it has been announcing for years: to establish the borders of the “Misak-ı Millî Pact”, which was agreed in 1920 and envisions the creation of a greater Turkish empire with influence and control stretching into northern Syria and Iraq. Turkey is trying to move step by step towards this plan by continuing its attacks on the liberated areas of Southern Kurdistan and launching new attacks on the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. In this sense, it is not surprising that HTS has raised the Turkish flag on the citadel in Aleppo, that Ottoman marches are sung by the advance on the city of Tel Rifaat in Shehba, and that pictures of Erdogan and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk hang on the wall at the headquarters of the commander of this attack.
Due to the escalating situation, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria declared a general mobilization on Sunday, December 1. In a statement, it was said that all young men and women were called upon to rally around the Syrian Democratic Forces. In addition to the SDF, which also declared mobilization on Sunday, large parts of the self-administration are in a state of emergency. From youth organizations to women’s structures, to society as a whole, everyone is preparing intensively to defend the Revolution in the sense of Revolutionary People’s War. As the mothers sing while preparing food for the Revolutionary People’s War in Sheikh Maqsoud “İro cerxa şoresê fireh digerinê” , “Today the wheel of revolution turns”, the echo of this verse is heard in all the squares where demonstrations are taking place all over the world, contributing to the defense of the revolution.
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Situational Report from Rojava
Under attack by Turkish led Jihadists
02.12.2024
Since the major offensive launched by jihadist militias around the so-called “Syrian National Army” (SNA) and “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS) against the area starting last Wednesday, November 27, large parts west of the Euphrates River have now fallen into the hands of the jihadists. Resistance is still holding out in the self-administered neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo.
Since the last week, the jihadist militias have rapidly advanced towards the second largest city in Syria, Aleppo. Within a day, they managed to take control of large parts of the Aleppo region and at the same time advance further south, where they are currently trying to break the defensive lines that the Syrian regime has set up in front of the city of Hama. At the same time, sleeper cells and armed groups have emerged from cover throughout the area under Damascus’ control, attacking regime soldiers and in some cases taking entire towns in the center of the country under their control. The long-planned attack is directed against Iran’s influence in Syria on the one hand and against the Syrian regime on the other. The weakening of the regional power Iran and the Syrian regime is not something that contradicts the West’s plans for restructuring the Middle East. On the contrary, as a NATO member, the Turkish state has the role of supporting the jihadists with intelligence and preparing them for the current attacks with weapons and training. The areas from which the attacks were launched, Idlib and Afrin, which was occupied in 2018, are controlled by Turkey.
In addition to weakening the regime and Iran’s influence in the Aleppo region, the current offensive has the particular aim of isolating the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and creating a starting point for further attacks on the Revolution. On Saturday, September 30, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) managed to open a corridor between the Euphrates River and the city of Aleppo to send reinforcements to the region and thus prevent a massacre against religious minorities such as Christians and Shiites, and the Kurdish population. Due to the overwhelming number of jihadists, the corridor could only be maintained until Sunday, December 1. In the afternoon of the same day, the SNA began an advance from different directions on the Shehba region, which is located north of Aleppo. Among other equipment, US-made M113 armored vehicles were used. The People’s Councils of the Shehba region, where hundreds of thousands of refugees from the canton of Afrin, which was occupied in 2018, live, decided to evacuate in order to prevent a massacre of the population. At the moment, there are kilometer-long streams of displaced people heading to the territories of the Autonomous Administration further east, where emergency shelters are currently being set up at a rapid pace near the Tabqa Dam.
With the capture of Aleppo and the occupation of Shehba, the Turkish state is following through on the plans it has been announcing for years: to establish the borders of the “Misak-ı Millî Pact”, which was agreed in 1920 and envisions the creation of a greater Turkish empire with influence and control stretching into northern Syria and Iraq. Turkey is trying to move step by step towards this plan by continuing its attacks on the liberated areas of Southern Kurdistan and launching new attacks on the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. In this sense, it is not surprising that HTS has raised the Turkish flag on the citadel in Aleppo, that Ottoman marches are sung by the advance on the city of Tel Rifaat in Shehba, and that pictures of Erdogan and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk hang on the wall at the headquarters of the commander of this attack.
Due to the escalating situation, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria declared a general mobilization on Sunday, December 1. In a statement, it was said that all young men and women were called upon to rally around the Syrian Democratic Forces. In addition to the SDF, which also declared mobilization on Sunday, large parts of the self-administration are in a state of emergency. From youth organizations to women’s structures, to society as a whole, everyone is preparing intensively to defend the Revolution in the sense of Revolutionary People’s War. As the mothers sing while preparing food for the Revolutionary People’s War in Sheikh Maqsoud “İro cerxa şoresê fireh digerinê” , “Today the wheel of revolution turns”, the echo of this verse is heard in all the squares where demonstrations are taking place all over the world, contributing to the defense of the revolution.
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