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A fourth convoy carrying opposition fighters and civilians from Syria’s southwestern Daraa province arrived in opposition-held parts of Idlib in the country’s north on Saturday.
The 10-bus convoy is reportedly carrying some 450 passengers, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent based in the region.
With the new arrivals, at least 2,850 people have been evacuated from Daraa to Idlib and Aleppo’s western countryside in recent days.
Last month, the Syrian regime -- with Russian air support -- launched a major military operation in Daraa, allowing it and its allies to establish control over most of Syria’s border with Jordan.
The fighting led to a major displacement crisis, with an estimated 350,000 civilians fleeing Daraa towards areas near the border.
As the terrorist PKK/PYD-YPG group has to entirely withdrawn from Syria's northern city of Manbij and west of Euphrates in the scope of Turkey-U.S. deal, the terrorist group is selling its weapons in the blackmarket as financial source.The U.S. continues to deploy fresh weapons to terrorists especially the PKK/PYD-YPG, despite its pledge to retrieve the weapons it gave to terrorist groups in northern Syria, according to Anadolu Agency's local sources in Syria.Turkey, US complete 20th round of patrols in Manbij Assad regime deploys troops, tanks to wage war against Syria’s IdlibA 200-truck U.S. convoy including armored vehicles, heavy weapons and ammunition entered into Syria by using the Semelka Border Gate which is under the control of northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).Separately, in the northern parts of Syria the terrorist PKK/PYD-YPG are selling the weapons they received from the U.S. at blackmarket. Thus, supplying the terror group with financial support and also keeping the circulation of weapons in the region this way.Two PKK terrorists neutralized in SE TurkeyAccording to the Manbij deal between Turkey and the U.S, the PKK-affiliated YPG terror group has to withdraw from the city by the end of 2018 in order to stabilize the region while also returning its weapons back to U.S.The terrorist group rather than returning the weapons taken from U.S., are displacing them and keeping them in the region that it would be used against Turkey in a possible future operation.However, the U.S. continues to provide arms support to terror groups in Syria under the disguise of so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -- a regional proxy for the PKK terrorist group.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK has taken some 40,000 lives, including many women and children. The YPG/PKK is its Syrian branch.
Terrorist PKK/YPG sell US weapons at blackmarket
The Assad regime has speeded up its military deployments to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, the largest remaining Syrian opposition-held enclave, dispatching dozens of troops, tanks, armored vehicles, missile-launching platforms and Iran-backed Shia militias along the Turkmen Mountain.The regime has already started to bomb positions belonging to the Syrian opposition along the Jisr ash-Shugur- Turkmen Mountain line, where 3 million people currently reside, according to reports. Qaramanli, Qatana, Obin are reportedly amongst the towns that were harassed by Iran-backed Shia militias.The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in response have started to reinforce its observation points by building concrete walls in the Turkmen Mountain area in Latakia and has been dispatching more than 300 concrete walls from Reyhanlı located at the Turkish border.Under the Astana agreement, Turkish forces are present at 12 points from Idlib's north to south.Idlib, located in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, has faced intense attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime after a vicious civil war broke out in 2011.Since March 2015, Idlib is no longer under the control of the Assad regime and has been overrun by opposition groups.The Astana peace talks were launched on Jan. 23-24, 2017, with the aim of putting an end to violence and improving the humanitarian situation in war-torn Syria.PKK awaits for an attackA so-called senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Aldar Khalil said that if the war starts in Idlib, they would collaborate with the Damascus regime to attack Turkish forces.Khalil stated that the PKK terror organization’s primary aim is to attack Afrin after Idlib, and for this purpose they will deliver thousands of terrorists to Syria’s Idlib province from the Aleppo-Hama route in cooperation with the Assad regime.On Jan. 20 Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch to remove YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin. On March 18, Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army members liberated its city center, on the 58th day of the operation.The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorist group had reached an agreement on delivering the control of Syria’s two major dams, Tabqa and Tishrin, to the Assad regime in exchange for a supply of electricity and water needs in areas occupied by the terror group in early July.
Assad regime deploys troops, tanks to wage war against Syria’s Idlib
Following peace talks last year in Kazakh capital Astana, Daraa was designated a “de-escalation zone” in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.