By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The recent liberation of Khan Sheikhun by the Syrian army from years of terrorists’ control is indeed a grand victory for the government of President Bashar al-Assad which is determined to regain every inch of occupied territory.
The retreating terrorists, who could have well saved their worthless lives by surrendering, are instead concentrating in Idlib city of the province of the same name on the assumption that either the Americans or the Turks would come to their help.
Neither Washington nor Ankara, or for that matter the Zionist regime, would bail them out, because these dastardly elements which for the past eight years have been terrorizing the people of people and are responsible for the death of at least half-a-million people, are no longer of any use.
They are likely to be exterminated since they have no chance to stand up against the government forces, even if on US directions they resort to the cowardly use of toxic weapons in a desperate bid to lay the blame on the government.
What a miserable end for those deceived by the Americans and blindly funded by the terrorist-nurturing Wahabi regime of Riyadh that has spent billions of dollars in vain in a bid to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.
So, forget the propaganda of the western media of the so-called breach of accord by Damascus, and the supposed human rights catastrophe.
The three million odd people of Idlib are not in any danger from their own legitimate government, and are eager to return to the national fold from years of being held hostage by the terrorists.
As specified by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, the military operation of Syrian troops in the town of Khan Sheikhoun does not violate any accord, including agreements between Russia and Turkey on the formation of the de-escalation zone in Idlib,
He made it clear that the ceasefire regime did not apply to terrorists from the very beginning.
This means that the next step for the Syrian army, after mopping up operations in the surrounding areas of Khan Sheikhoun, is the liberation of Idlib city and the whole of Idlib province itself, before moving on to Raqqa and the Euphrates valley to end the illegal presence of the uninvited American troops which continue to linger as part of their policy to stir up sedition on supporting the Syrian Kurds.
The Syrian Kurds are after all Syrian citizens, and with Damascus ready to meet their just demands for autonomy, there is no question of any protectionism from the US, or fears for Turkey that such an autonomy will inspire its own long suppressed Kurdish population to make fresh demands for their deprived rights.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, for its part, remains firmly behind the people and government of Syria, whether the Americans, the Saudis, and the Zionists like it or not.
The Resistance Front is too formidable to be cowed down by the enemies of humanity and that includes the murderously insane violations of Syrian airspace by the tottering Zionist regime, which sooner than expected will no longer be on the map of West Asia.