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CrowBat
BTW... since we (well, at least you Outlaw and me) are wondering where is the JAN going...
After asking around a lil bit, it turns out there is quite a big concentration of JAN - or allied - units in southern Aleppo. That is: west of Khan Nassir, where the Daesh recently cut off the regime's supply links (according to regime-fans, these were re-established this morning, i.e. Daesh forced to withdraw; but, this remains unconfirmed).
Namely, west of Khan Nassir there should be the following JAN, JAN-allied, or defected-from-JAN Jihadist gangs:
- Jund al-Aqsa (well-known Chechen group)
- Harakat Fajr ash-Sham al-Islamiya (Salafists-cum-Wahhabists from Aleppo; together with Moroccans from Harakat Sham al-Islam, this gang is part of the Jabhat Ansar ad-Din, which is allied with the JAN)
- Quwwat al-Qawqaz (Chechens, Daghestanis etc., part of the JAN)
- Hizbi al-Islami at-Turkistani (Turkistan Islamic Party; something like 'al-Qaida from China', and allied with the JAN).
So, no 'insurgents/rebels' but only 'Jihadists' there, and then quite a concentration of them.
Of course, none were bombed by Russians so far: there are no civilians left in this area to bomb. There are only few plantages and scattered villages...
Anyway, this means two things:
- Jund missed an opportunity to link-up with Daesh. Reason: unknown.
- There's a significant concentration of some of most hard-core JAN groups there... should that be an indication the JAN is withdrawing into this part of Syria?
If so, why there?
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