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    Let's start with a 'reminder', that the war in Syria is - contrary to what some of the media in the West is reporting - anything else than 'over'.

    Right now, there's a big offensive against Idlib (run by Assadists, the IRGC/Hezbollah and Russians; see the map below); Russian bombs are still massacring civilians in Idlib (GRAFFIC!!!!!); there's a big offensive against the Bayt Jinn Pocket (run by Assadists and Hezbollah); and Eastern Ghouta and Ra'astan-Talbiseh Pockets remain besieged and no aid is left in since November.

    Thus, it's unsurprising if 40 different Syrian insurgent groups announced they are not going to negotiate in Astana, and not going to accept any kind of decisions taken there.

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    BTW, either Jaysh al-Idlib (FSyA), or Ahrar ash-Sham (AAS), or HTS (ex-JAN), has shot down an Assadist L-39ZA yesterday.

    The aircraft with serial number 2139, flown by Captain Bassam Hussein, was hit by what looks like an SA-7 wire-linked to some external source of power-supply.

    HTS and Assadists claim the pilot actually ejected safely, but was then 'killed while trying to flee' (some say even 'beheaded').

    Hussein was a Sunni Arab from Talkalakh. That's a town in the Homs province, dominated by Assadists and providing plenty of troops for the Quwwat Nimr and 103rd Republican Guards Brigade. Kind of 'Qamahana of Homs'.

    Video showing the MANPAD in question, and the downing of Hussein's L-39:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzjaY753v4s
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