Forces loyal to the regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad launched a long-anticipated offensive in northern Homs Province Thursday, accompanied by large numbers of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commandos as well as terrorists from Hezbollah and under air support from Russian warplanes. Opposition groups report that Iranian troops have also been deployed to other regime strongholds in Syria, mostly for defensive and training operations. Meanwhile, both the Islamic State (IS) terror militia and Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, issued statements this week calling on their supporters to carry out terrorist attacks inside Russia in response to the deployment of Russian forces in Syria. Read More
