Southern front achievements in 2015:
* Complete liberation of Sheikh Maskin and takeover of 82th base.
* Complete takeover of Bosra al Harir town.
* Takeover of Nassib border crossing and all border fortifications up to Suwieda.
* Takeover of 52th base and villages around it.
Thats under massive attacks of SAA, NDF, Hezbollah and swarms of Afghan mercenaries + ISIS.
First: There are no active Hezbollah troops participating in Deraa battles.
Second, your post had nothing to do with mine, I was talking about the current ongoing battle and not previous battles.
Actually they are deep incide city from two directions. If not the CC help all loyalists in Hasaka and Deir ez Zor would be beheaded by IS long time ago.
In Deir al-Zoor, it wasn't the coalition that stopped IS, but the Republican guards in there who have made those areas, specially around Deir al-Zoor a slaughterhouse for Daesh, despite being under siege, having no land route to outside for months.
In Hasakah, the results of the battle are yet to be seen, Daesh may capture the entire city or it will retreat. Also, the YPG doesn't want to fight in Hasakah now, they think they are too smart, leaving the fight for SAA in the city, but this will bite them in the arse in future if they refuse to fight Daesh in Hasakah.
Seems like Daraa offensive isn't living up to expectations it had. They should'n't have announced the campaign two days before hand. Some reports suggest FSA factions leaked the offensive. Southern Front are taking heavy casualties but made some slow gains but not any new ones I'm aware of. There are reports that Syrian army personnel are not the ones doing the fighting on the ground. This is because rebels are facing unusual resistance which points to likelyhood that Hezbollah is deployed there or Iran deployed it's paramilitary(IRGC or Basij) forces there. So Daraa is seen as a very strategic city. The rebels need to regroup and replan, they're taking hard hits from the air as well.
I however personally blame the horrible command in Jordan which has stalled this offensive for so long and want to take it slow. I know this sounds harsh but the rebels deserve this failure for allowing liberal Arabs/Westerners to command their moves. They already know these liberal Arab trash don't want Assad to fall unless Kurds take over half of Syria and Islamist factions are reduced to minimum. So why allow them to command you in first place? The FSA or whoever is responsible for this corruption/wicked command need to swapt out completely and replaced with Islamists.
What makes you think that wherever there is good resistance, it must be Hezbollah or Iran? Look at SAA soldiers besieged in Deir al-Zoor, they have been killing hundreds of Daesh terrorists for months, despite being besieged by land, and Daesh have launched too many heavy attacks to capture city and airport, but failed badly. Don't look at battles of Idlib and Tadmur only, there are some points in this war that SAA has shown great performance compared to their standards, Aleppo prison siege is another case.
