Indeed. The US-led coalition flew some 48 air strikes over Syria yesterday early in the morning, primarily targeting the JAN in Der'a, Hama, Hasakah and Idlib. While supposedly hitting the Khorasan (AQ's 'A-team' sent to Syria), at least according to this report, hits on various JAN bases provoked fierce protests and even threats from that group, the leader of which responded with threats against other insurgent groups and declaration that this is a 'war on Islam'.
From what I get to hear from them, many of insurgents say that Khorasan never existed and that targets hit yesterday were almost exclusively different JAN HQs. There is plenty of anger between them because of such attacks. They have weakened the JAN so much that this enabled the regime to advance in several places: no surprise here, then JAN and insurgent units are intermixed in plenty of frontlines. Weakening the JAN is creating holes in these.
Furthermore, the Daesh was left entirely unmolested while assaulting and capturing FSyA-held Bir Sana and Mahmudli, north of Tabqa: with this, it is now in control of entire Raqqa Province...
More by accident than by design I guess, some air strikes have hit (Daesh-held) Tel Abyad yesterday, targeting 'warehouses' - and makeshift refineries again. About a dozen of civilians were reportedly killed: I am yet to find anything about any Daesh idiot getting killed (too).
Now, there are Twitter reports that air strikes have forced the Daesh to withdraw from the outskirts of Kobane (they were that close to the town, meanwhile), but also: YPG and FSyA defenders keep on demanding attacks on Daesh tanks and artillery, which means these were not hit.
The 'strategy' here is outright amazing: if the US air continues in this fashion, in few weeks there will be no insurgents left to join its 'anti-Daesh' army because they'll be either overrun by the regime or the Daesh - or undergoing training in Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
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