Syrian Army Ambushes Make Gunmen ‘Like Straw Eaten Up’
Hussein Mortada
Albeit some states of the West are still speaking of an attack on Syria, the Syrian army is carrying on its operations which have marred countries supporting gunmen before gunmen themselves in Damascus suburbs and eastern Ghouta.
Ever since the army began imposing a security cordon off Damascus, it managed to shift its military tactics, as required by the nature of the battle military and geography-wise. Indeed, the most salient tactic the army has adopted in eastern Ghouta, was the strategy of ambushes, relying on the region's geography and the important passageways gunmen use to move from Jordanian borders into Ghouta via Daraa and the Syrian desert.
Information provided by intelligence services and the modern electronic observation devices--not to omit the determination, patience, and discipline of soldiers--were the most crucial factors in the army's new-fangled tactic.
The Syrian army took advantage of an information leakage and kicked off an early ambushes strategy. Gunmen, who got trained on the very hands of the US troops in Jordan and infiltrated into south Syria via Daraa mid-August, were target number one. So there was the first ambush.
The army learned that a group of 300 gunmen had crossed the Jordanian-Syrian border and headed to Ghouta via Daraa. Their movement was detected in parallel to the international highway linking Daraa to Damascus, of a 65-kilometer length, in an attempt to invade and take over the reins of tens of towns in Damascus countryside. They were also attempting to restitute military balance to the gunmen of "al-Nusra Front" in Damascus countryside.
The ambush was set up. The Syrian army managed to lure gunmen who had positioned in advanced locations into the ambush point. They then surrounded them and ventured into showering them with pours of fire from wide-ranging weaponry, as bombs the army had planted in the place exploded.
Just few days later, the Syrian army succeeded in detecting tens of "al-Nusra" gunmen attempting to infiltrate into the southwest of the industrial city in Adra in Damascus suburbs. Gunmen were flocking from Douma and its vicinities.
It was dawn. The sun hasn't even rose. A well tightened ambush was just pending around 60 gunmen from different nationalities who tried to reach Adra town, but was then killed by the Syrian army. Less than a month later, the army killed at least 49 gunmen in another ambush.
However, the armed groups, after they lost a key supply line from Ataibeh village, thought that was the safer track although the many ambushes it had fallen into, this time on the Dmeir-Daraa-Maidaha front, which reaches out to Douma. at midnight sharp, the ambush was awaiting for then gunmen who distributed themselves in two groups. The army managed to make them cross the ambush point after bombs they had planted there blew up. Positioned soldiers then showered them with cartridges that made them "like straw eaten up." More than 40 gunmen were killed, most of them of Arab nationalities.
It is no longer a secret that these armed groups are on a direct contact with the US and Jordanian intelligence services which facilitate their borders crossing and supply them with weapons and data, with the US seeking to take over the reins in some strategic towns and cities in Damascus suburbs, after the Syrian army managed to purge them.
The strategy of ambushes, according to a military source, is clear evidence on the US continuous bid to keep central Damascus and the areas contiguous to its countryside in a state of permanent danger. It also proves that the Syrian army is fully keeping tabs on the mobilizations and movements of the US troops in Jordan as well as of the armed groups. Undeniably, the army is to keep coming up with new tactics to trounce them.
Source: Al-Ahed news
