Grey smoke billowed hundreds of feet out of the carcasses of factories as jets repeatedly bombed at low level. ![]() Up close to the old international highway to Homs and the north of Syria, there are now spanking new Russian main battle tanks reversing in clouds of black dust, anti-aircraft guns to fire over open sights and a batch of mortars that sent shells quivering over our heads today into the great, smashed industrial estate of Jobar, a wasteland of vast concrete and iron factories into which the Nusra men – one junior Syrian officer said they numbered in all a staggering 4,000 – emerged on Monday. By evening that day, the gunfire was scarcely half a mile from the gates of the ancient Roman city. He pointed upwards with his finger, the traditional way of telling you that it was God’s work. ![]() Isis' losses in Syria and Iraq will make it harder for it to recruitįor this man, the battle started at 5am on Monday and finished three hours later when a bullet smashed into his arm.
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