I don't blame you lefties for not really understanding this deep state hatred of Trump and Russia. you have to go outside our typical media to find useful critiques of how fucked up Clinton and Obama and our CIA were over there. I am not saying I know what was 100 percent actually going on. But, I am saying much of this country has had the wool pulled over their eyes if they think this is all trumps fault. and by the way I am not happy with Trump at all right now. He is currently performing worse than Jeb Bush would have.
Assads opposition was at times Isis and al queda type terrorists... Russia was fighting them... but ... there are articles about Isis fighers being bussed into Syria to fight.
but this one also explains a bit of what was going on.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...te-syria-assad-forces-recapture-town-okeirbat
With Assad's fate secure, Russia sets its sights on Isis fighters in Syria
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Russia entered the conflict on the side of Assad’s government in September 2015 at a time when the regime looked close to falling. Although Moscow’s stated goal has always been to defeat Isis, during the first year of engagement the majority of Russian airstrikes targeted other opposition groups, including those supported by western countries.
Russia’s long-standing policy in the Middle East has been that retaining the status quo, however unpleasant the regime may be, is always better than revolution, and the Russian intervention appeared designed to shore up the Assad regime at any cost.
With Assad now looking more secure, Russia has indeed begun battling Isis. On Thursday, Moscow launched seven cruise missiles at Isis targets south-east of Deir ez-Zor, and said the militants would soon be pushed to the other side of the Euphrates river.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...three-day-deir-ez-zor-offensive-a7035611.html
The Syrian army claims to have killed more than 200 Isis militants in a three-day assault on the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor.
A spokesperson for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) said Isis is thought to have suffered the heavy casualties as it struggled to maintain control over the western district of the provincial capital.
The number was reported by the Al-Masdar news agency, though it cannot be independently verified and Isis releases no information on casualties.