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A Mayer area storehouse was targeted. Insurgents used it to hold weapons. It was completely destroyed "along with seven trucks full of weapons and ammo which militants were unloading." Many were killed during the operation.
SANA also said security forces and border guards "repelled two terrorist groups" trying to enter Syria from Lebanon. Many were killed or injured. Others fled back cross-border.
Other parts of Syria are being liberated. Insurgents keep coming back. Confrontations continue. No end of struggle looks imminent.
On August 9, US Col. Doug Macgregor told Russia Today that Aleppo insurgents "are in serious trouble." They're no match for Syria's military capability and tactics.
He called it the Arab world's most competent and disciplined army. "That suggests that they probably moved to seal off the rebels in the enclaves in the areas that they currently hold.""To do that, they had concentrated armor and artillery for direct fire, not for indirect fire."
"As long as the Syrians avoid any sort of future difficulties with the Turks along their borders, I suspect that (Prime Minister) Erdogan - however sympathetic he is to Sunni Islamist rebels....he will try to stay out of it."
He faces considerable internal opposition. It's not a majority to stop him. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu heads Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP).
He strongly opposes intervention. "Why should Muslim nations" fight each other, he asks? Why is Turkey involved when Western interests harms their own? Kilicdaroglu also opposes Ankara forces in Afghanistan.
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