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Last night, Jaish al-Fatah militants launched a major offensive against government forces in Hikmah from the direction of Rashiddeen 4 in the southwestern Aleppo countryside.
After a series of firefights, the Syrian Army and Hezbollah forced Jaish al-Fatah units to retreat.
As result a group of militants, that sabotaged evacuation from Aleppo on December 14, agreed to all terms and conditions of the Syrian government.
Militants remaining inside Aleppo will have an opportunity to withdraw to Idlib on December 15. If they deny, the Syrian army will continue a counter-terrorism operation to clear the building blocks controlled by gunmen opposing the evacuation.
10:38 CET 15.12.2016 – The withdrawal of militants from Aleppo is now ongoing.
Hoisting a white flag and then continuing to fight is exactly what one should
expect from the moderate terrorists. However, it does I think
contravene all the rules of war ( as if they mattered). My reaction
would be to give no quarter.
The militants who were so mercifully allowed to leave won’t be so merciful to the trapped people and Kefraya. Expect them to proceed like butchers and kill civilians in “revenge” for their humiliation in Aleppo. It would have been better to kill every militant in the pocket, taking advantage of their defeat to cripple their manpower by inflicting 5000 losses.