Source: SANA
Idleb – Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and the affiliated groups in Idleb continue to take civilians as human shields and prevent them from leaving towards the safe areas via Abu al-Dohour corridor for the 26th day in a row.

SANA reporter said that the terrorist organizations continue to cut off roads in order to prevent locals, who are willing to exit towards the safe areas, from leaving through Abu al-Dohour corridor, in addition to setting up barricades to prevent cars from reaching the Syrian Arab Army’s points.

The reporter added that Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists are deliberately circulating rumors and lies to distort the reality of safety and security felt by all who go out from the terror-controlled areas in Idleb.

Authorities concerned continue to take all measures and logistic procedures for receiving the citizens who get out of areas where the terrorists exist, providing them with food and medicines, and transporting them to temporary housing shelter.

Source: 21st Century Wire
As the conflict in Syria gradually draws down, more revelations are surfacing regarding the US and UK-backed pseudo NGO commonly known as the White Helmets.

The following UN presentation details many of the groups exploits, including staged rescues which were tailor-made for the group’s various propaganda films disseminated across western mainstream media. Testimonies included 21WIRE reporter Vanessa Beeley, along with witness statements taken from former White Helmet members who admit to carrying out various frauds and crimes perpetrated since the group’s inception in 2013, as well as admissions of their direct links to Jabat al-Nusra (al Qaeda in Syria) and other known terrorist groups.

Far from being the “tailors, bakers, teachers and other ordinary Syrians” which they regularly portray themselves, the White Helmets have instead been exposed as frauds, thieves, kidnappers and organ traffickers.

RT International reports…

The ‘White Helmets’ are not a rescue group but an extension of jihadist militants, and should be designated a terrorist organization, Russia’s envoy to the UN argued at the presentation of evidence into the group’s wrongdoing.

Praised in the West as humanitarian rescue volunteers, in reality the ‘White Helmets’ work with Islamist militants in Syria, harvest organs from the victims they pretend to be “rescuing,” stage false chemical weapons and other attacks for cameras, and loot the bodies and homes of Syrians killed and injured in the war, according to Maxim Grigoriev, director of the Russia-based Foundation for the Study of Democracy.

Watch the full presentation with multiple researchers sharing findings into activities of the ‘White Helmets’ in Syria at UN headquarters in New York City: Presentation at UN on WH

Grigoriev presented the results of the Foundation’s research into White Helmets at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday. Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said the evidence shows the group is dangerous.

“The White Helmets deserve to be on the United Nations’ designated terrorist list,” Nebenzia said.

Rather than volunteers, almost all the members of White Helmets were paid staff, Grigoriev explained. There is also “undeniable evidence” that the group has been taking written orders from Jaysh al‑Islam, an Islamist militant group most notorious for its occupation of Douma.

It was in this suburb of Damascus that the White Helmets staged the “chemical attack” that served as the pretext for French, UK and US missile strikes against the Syrian government in April this year.

“Falsification of chemical attacks was an essential part of the White Helmets’ activities,” Grigoriev testified, adding that the group also regularly engaged in “making fake news and organizing staged rescues.”

He cited a particular example of a place called Jisr al‑Haj in Aleppo, where the militants had set trash on fire, brought bodies from the local morgue, and had the White Helmets film a staged rescue. Grigoriev cited a testimony by a member of the White Helmets, who also said that everyone involved received an extra $50 for the effort.

Many local residents interviewed for the research spoke about people “rescued” by the White Helmets ending up dead, with their internal organs missing. One of the witnesses interviewed was a former member of Ahrar al-Sham, who testified that his commander Shadi Kadik, also known as Abu Adel Al-Halabi (of Aleppo), acknowledged the organ harvesting. The total number of cases involving organ theft is “at least several hundred” in Aleppo alone, Grigoriev testified.

Instead of rescuing civilians and children, the White Helmets looted homes damaged in the fighting and bodies of the dead, while forcing the children out of schools and kindergartens to set up offices there.

“At a rough estimate, out of 26 centers operating in Eastern Ghouta, ten were located in schools and one in a kindergarten,” Grigoriev cited from the testimony of a Syrian journalist in the area.

In Eastern Ghouta alone, between 100 and 150 members of White Helmets were also members of terrorist and militant groups. They engaged in building trenches, tunnels and fortifications for the militants, openly boasting about their membership on social media, but denying it whenever they were interviewed by Western reporters.

“Facebook accounts of members of the White Helmets are full of propagandist materials of terrorist groups, including [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda, praising Osama bin Laden and other individuals listed by the UN as terrorists,” Grigoriev said, adding that the so-called rescuers also posted “hundreds of photos with weapons in their hands.”

The Foundation is a member of the Global Counter-Terrorism Research Network established in 2013 by the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Its report is based on interviews with over 100 eyewitnesses, including 40 members of the White Helmets, 50 local residents and 15 former terrorist and militant fighters. More than 500 local residents were also surveyed in Aleppo and Deraa.

A number of Western countries, such as the UK and Canada, have proudly announced they would be accepting White Helmets as refugees, after several hundred members of the group were evacuated from a jihadist-held enclave in southern Syria ahead of the advancing government troops.

The government in Damascus considers the White Helmets to be in the same category as illegal militias and terrorists.

By Hazem Sabbagh
Source: SANA
Aleppo, SANA – Hundreds of people from Aleppo rushed to blood transfusion centers to donate blood for victims of the rocket attacks that had been carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups affiliated with it on residential areas in Aleppo city throughout the past few days.

A number of blood donors said that the tragic situation that Aleppo city has been suffering through for days prompted them to donate blood to save their brothers and sisters who are being injured by terrorist attacks, with the locals asserting their commitment to their beloved city in the face of the barbaric attacks targeting it and its people.

On Saturday, the death toll of terrorist rocket attacks on Aleppo rose to 25, with more than 80 others being injured, and on Friday the death toll was 16 and 41 were injured. This with the victims of the attacks on Thursday and Wednesday brings the total death toll of the terrorist attacks on the city during the past four days to over 80, while over 320 were injured.

On a relevant note, Tourism Minister Bishr Yazigi and Aleppo Governor Mohammad Marwan Olabi visited the families of a number of victims of the attacks and offered their condolences, in addition to visiting injured victims receiving treatment in al-Razi Hospital and Aleppo University Hospital.

They also inspected the buildings destroyed by terrorist attacks in al-Midan neighborhood in the city, where they witnessed the clearing of rubble and talked to locals and listened to their eyewitness accounts of the attacks.

Source: nsnbc
Christof Lehmann: Zahran Alloush, the commander of the Jaysh al-Islam alliance was killed in a Damascus suburb. August 21, 2013 the Saudi intelligence asset Alloush was commanding Liwa-al-Islam when he gave the order to launch the chemical weapons attack against the East Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Zahran Alloush has been on the payroll of Saudi intelligence since the 1980s.

The Central Command of the Syrian Arab Army confirmed that it successfully launched an air strike in the Damascus suburb of Otaya, targeting and killing several Jihadist commanders.

Among them the leader of Jaysh al-Islam, Zahran Alloush. Jaysh al-Islam is an alliance of several Jihadist militia, including Liwa-al-Islam. Jaysh al-Islam is allied with the Syrian Al-Qaeda Franchise Jabhat Al-Nusrah.

An in-depth investigation by nsnbc international, in 2013, concluded that Zahran Alloush was the commander who gave the direct order to launch the chemical weapons attack in East Ghouta on August 21, 2013.

The investigation also concluded that command responsibility for Alloush’s decision led directly to the U.S.’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House, and to the Saudi government.

Alloush would also be in control over choosing the “security guards” UN inspectors had to submit to while gathering evidence after the chemical weapons attack in East Ghouta. (see details and names in the report).

Zahran Alloush, Liwa-al-Islam and Saudi intelligence also played central roles in the attempt to obstruct Syria’s decommissioning of chemical weapons by launching attacks against chemical weapons transports. The information about these transports was highly classified, leading the Syrian government to the conclusion that Saudi intelligence provided information to Liwa-al-Islam.

Zahran Alloush was since the 1990s involved in the Salafist – Wahabbist terrorist networks in Syria which led to his arrest by Syrian intelligence. He was released in early of 2011, when the Assad administration granted a general amnesty. Immediately after his March 2011 release from prison, Zahran Alloush began receiving substantial funds and weapons from Saudi intelligence, which enabled him to establish Liwa-al-Islam as a de facto Saudi Arabia sponsored mercenary brigade under the auspices of the Saudi Interior Ministry.

The Saudi intelligence assets Alloush and Liwa-al-Islam also played crucial roles in the demise of the predominantly Qatari and Turkish backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other, predominantly Qatari-backed insurgencies. In June 2013 in the Jobar district of Damascus, for example, Alloush withdrew his Liwa-al-Islam troops during a major battle with the Syrian Arab Army without announcing the sudden withdrawal to the Qatar-sponsored First Brigade and the Liwa Jaish al-Muslimeen. Both brigades were literally wiped out by the Syrian Army.

The air strike that exterminated Zahran Alloush also exterminated one of the primary field commanders who were responsible for the transition from the primacy of Muslim Brotherhood linked insurgencies to Al-Qaeda-linked insurgencies in the Syrian theater. That includes the primacy of Jabhat al-Nusrah, Jaysh al-Islam, Liwa-al-Islam, and ultimately also the self-proclaimed Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIL, ISIS or Daesh.

CH/L – nsnbc 26.12.2015

Source: SANA

Syrian Provinces – Army units are killing increasing numbers of terrorists and destroying many of their equipment and vehicles as they have stepped up operations in various areas across the country.

Aleppo

A military source told SANA that more than 100 terrorists were killed and 14 vehicles were destroyed during intensive army operations in the areas of Hleiseh, al-Jabboul, Deir Hafer, Tal Alam and Tal al-Treks in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo province.

Many more terrorists were killed as the army targeted their dens and gatherings in Ein al-Hanash, Maskaneh and al-Kastello in the southeastern countryside.

An ammunition depot for terrorists was destroyed in al-Breij in the countryside.

The Army launched intensive strikes against dens of “Jabhat al-Nusra” and “al-Jabha al-Shamia” in Kafar Hamra village northwest of Aleppo city, killing and injuring a number of their members and destroying their vehicles.

Army units launched intensive strikes against terrorists’ gatherings in the area surrounding the Scientific Research complex and the Lounges area, killing a number of terrorists and injuring several others.

Army units also destroyed terrorists’ gatherings, hideouts and vehicles in Salah Eddin, al-Sukkari, al-Salihin, Bab al-Hadid, Bab al-Nirab neighborhoods, al-Na’na’I Square, and al-Jaboul, Jub Ghabsha, Jibrin, Aziza villages and the area surrounding the Air Force Academy in Aleppo countryside.

Idleb

In the neighboring province of Idleb, the army air force killed dozens of terrorists and destroys many of their vehicles in air strikes on their gatherings and hideouts in Abu al-Duhour, al-Hamidiyeh, al-Mjas and Ihsem.

Daraa

In Daraa province, an army unit targeted gatherings of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Qteifan square in Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in Daraa city, killing a number of them and destroying their arms and weapons.

Army operations continued against terrorists’ hideouts in Ataman town and to the northwest of Tafas police station near Daraa city, resulting in the death of a number of terrorists.

Another army unit killed 7 terrorists and destroyed a mortar launcher near al-Bittar farm in the province’s northwestern countryside.

Sweida

In the neighboring Sweida province, the army foiled an attempt by terrorists to infiltrate the western foot of Bouthaina hill in the northeastern countryside of the province, leaving numbers of them killed and their weapons destroyed.

Following terrorist attacks employing an explosive device and mortar rounds east of Shaqa town in the northeastern countryside of the province, army units carried out concentrated strikes aimed at the source of the mortar rounds, destroying several mortar launchers and killing a number of terrorists, while another army unit canvassed the area and dismantled a number of explosive devices planted by terrorists on a side road.

Another army unit targeted hideouts of ISIS terrorists in al-Qaser village with concentrated strikes, killing many terrorists and destroying their weapons and ammo.

Quneitra

In Quneitra province, a number of terrorists were killed and many others were injured during Army intensive operations against their gatherings southeast of Tal Mashara in the province’s countryside.

Terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages the death of an explosives expert in Jabhat al-Nusra known as Abu Abboud.

Hama

In central Syria, army units killed large numbers of terrorists and destroyed several of their vehicles in al-Dallak, al-Lahaya, Kafr Zaita, Khneifis, Eidoun, al-Tuloul al-Homr and Izz-Eddin in Hama province.

Homs

In central Syria, Army units destroyed gatherings of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in al-Misherfa al-Kiblia, al-Misherfa al-Shamalia and Habra al-Gharbia villages in eastern Homs.

In Palmyra city, the Army carried out accurate operations against ISIS gatherings, killing dozens of terrorists and injuring many others in several areas in the city.

The Army also launched strikes against ISIS gatherings in the area surrounding al-Shaer oil field and al-Busairi area in the countryside of Palmyra, inflicting heavy losses in the ranks of terrorists.

An Army unit foiled terrorists’ attempt to infiltrate from Unk al-Hawa village towards Maksar al-Hissan village in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing and injuring several terrorists.

In the northern countryside of Homs, Army units continued operations against Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations in al-Rastan city and Deir Foul and Umj al-Rish villages.

The operations resulted in the death of many terrorists and the injury of many others.

An Army unit destroyed hideouts of “Jabhat al-Nusra” in al-Latamina town northwest of Hama city.

A number of terrorists were killed, most of them members in “Al-Fatah Army” in Kabar Fida and Kaston villages in the far northwest of Hama province.

Lattakia

Army units in cooperation with popular defense groups carried out accurate operations against gatherings of “Jabhat al-Nusra” in Salma town and al-Mrij, Kafrota, Buz al-Khirba, Doirka and al-Najia villages in northern countryside of Lattakia.

The operations resulted in the destruction of vehicles and ammunition and the death of a number of terrorists.

A military source told SANA that an army unit destroyed a terrorist hideout in Kanasba in Lattakia countryside, killing a number of terrorists including an Afghan nicknamed Abu Mu’tassem who was one of the leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra in the area.

Damascus Countryside

The army air force killed dozens of terrorists and destroyed two ammunition depots, a facility for making rocket shells, a 23 mm caliber cannon and four cars equipped with heavy machineguns in the surroundings of al-Zabadani in Damascus countryside.

Army units continued operations against terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra and eliminated all members of a terrorist group on the road of Khan al-Sheih town in Damascus countryside.

The army launched intensive strikes against terrorists’ gatherings in the farms between Hammouria and Beit Sawa villages to the west of Douma city, inflicting heavy losses on them.

In Jobar neighborhood, an Army unit targeted terrorists’ dens, leaving numbers of them dead.

Hasaka

An army unit killed a number of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their dens and vehicles in al-Lailiyeh in the northeastern Hasaka province.