THE RUSSIAN BOMBINGS HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATED TO PROP THE BASHAR AL ASSAD OF SYRIA BY ATTACKING SYRIAN REBELS AND NOT THE ISIS AS THE IS STATE HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE BEFORE THE RUSSIANS COMING INTO THE FIGHT IN SEPTEMBER 2015–THE AGENDA LOOKS TO BE TO PROMOTE A RUSSIAN SYRIAN IRAN POWER IN THE MIDDLEEAST WHILST THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO CHAOS WILLING TO WHEEL AND DEAL AWAY THE MIDDLEEAST TO THE PUTIN AND THE US IS NONE THE WISER

Russia’s involvement in Syria is facilitating ISIS’s territorial gains, while also strengthening Assad. Russia is supporting the Syrian regime’s offensives in Latakia, the al-Ghab Plain, and northern Hama. Russia also intensified strikes on rebel-held northwestern Aleppo, likely to set conditions for an imminent Russian-Iranian-Syrian regime offensive in the area. U.S. defense officials and local Syrian activists reported the arrival of hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force fighters and other Iranian proxy forces in Aleppo over the past few days. Russian strikes largely concentrated along the rebel-held supply route leading to the besieged regime enclaves of Nubl and Zahraa northwest of Aleppo City. If the regime can link with these enclaves, they will successfully sever the rebel-held supply route from Aleppo City to the Turkish border. Simultaneous regime offensives in both Hama and Aleppo Provinces will likely fix rebel forces along multiple fronts and prevent them from reinforcing their positions across northwestern Syria, resulting in a loss of terrain for the Syrian opposition.

ISIS is benefiting from Russia’s strikes on the Syrian opposition. On October 9, ISIS advanced 10 kilometers against rebels in northeastern Aleppo, the largest advance by ISIS in the province since August 2015. ISIS continued to conduct probing attacks against rebels northeast of Aleppo City from October 10-14. The Syrian regime and ISIS have historically leveraged one another’s offensives in order to advance against rebel forces in the northern Aleppo countryside. Both ISIS and the regime will likely capitalize on the effects of Russian airstrikes on rebels. Russian airstrikes have thus far failed to deter ISIS from launching new offensives and rather have facilitated ISIS’s seizure of new terrain.

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