DW: Russian airstrikes in southwest Syria signal escalation of regime offensive
Russia has carried out its first airstrikes in southwest Syria in support of an Assad regime offensive. The battlefield space is one of the most geopolitically complex and explosive in the seven-year war.
Russian warplanes pounded opposition areas in southwest Syria early Sunday, monitors said, providing air support for the first time to an offensive by President Bashar Assad's regime to retake one of the rebel's last strongholds in the south of Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes carried out at least 25 sorties northeast of the city of Deraa.
Bordering on Jordan and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, the southwest Syria battlefront is one of the seven-year war's most complicated.
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WNU Editor: The focus is on the fighting in southwest Syria, but the ultimate prize .... and the one that will create the most bloodshed to end the war, will be this one .... Assad pledges to regain control of northern Syria by force if needed (Reuters).
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