调查记者Andre Vltchek参观伊德利卜，叙利亚和周围乡村的废墟，观察伊斯兰国造成的破坏，并向居民讲述未来的情况。
For a while, all the guns have fallen silent. I am near Idlib, the last stronghold of the terrorists in Syria. The area where the deadliest anti-government fighters, most of them injected into Syria from Turkey, with Saudi, Qatari and Western ‘help’, are literally holed up, ready for the final showdown. Just yesterday, mortars were falling on
当地观察家认为，土耳其试图通过提供可能威胁政府控制地区平民的武器来阻止SAA及其盟友。
On September 12, a senior Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander told the Reuters news agency that Turkey has stepped up weapon supplies to militants in northern Syria to help them to fend off an expected attack by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies. They pledged complete Turkish military support for a long, protracted battle … These arms
上周，在类似的搜索行动中，SAA在al-Quneitra的Jubata al-Khashab镇发现了一个大型弹药库Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham（HTS）。
On September 5, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered several weapons caches, which had been left behind by militants, during a search operation in the southern al-Quneitra countryside, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The weapons caches included several rounds of the US-made SMAW shoulder-launched rocket weapon, one US-supplies
YPG参与叙利亚政府即将进行的Idlib攻势，基本上会巩固其在叙利亚冲突中的调整，大大削弱了美国在叙利亚继续军事存在的理由，同时也可能引发越来越难以预测的土耳其。
ALEPPO, SYRIA -- With military forces from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russia gathering around Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, the last major military offensive of Syria’s seven-year-long war may only be weeks away. As the noose tightens around Idlib, the last hold-out for majority of terrorist fighters still active in Syria, the Syrian army
当地观察人士认为，新招募的人数最终将超过50,000人。
More than 3,800 civilians and former fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) from the southern governorates of Daraa and al-Quneitra have joined the ranks of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) so far, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on August 10. Daraa and al-Quneitra joined the reconciliation process last month and the radical
以色列国防部长阿维格多·利伯曼在访问叙利亚边境时，吹捧以色列准备与被占领的戈兰高地进行军事对决。
Syria is building up its ground forces to pre-war size according to Israel. On August 7th, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke in front of reporters during a tour of the Golan Heights. “Across the way we see the Syrian military, which is not satisfied with just taking over all of Syrian territory but is expressly building a
