NATOs Terror Convoys Halted at Syrian BorderBy Tony Cartalucci Instead, much of the world has heard little at all about a supposed aid convoy destroyed near Azaz, Syria, at the very edge of the Afrin-Jarabulus corridor through which the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaedas remaining supply lines pass, and in which NATO has long-sought to create a buffer zone more accurately described as a Syrian-based, NATO-occupied springboard from which to launch terrorism deeper into Syrian territory. The Turkish-based newspaper Daily Sabah reported in its article, Russian airstrikes target aid convoy in northwestern Syrian town of Azaz, 7 killed, claims: At least seven people died, 10 got injured after an apparent airstrike, reportedly by Russian jets, targeted an aid convoy in northwestern Syrian town of Azaz near a border crossing with Turkey on Wednesday. Daily Sabah also reported: Speaking to Daily Sabah, Serkan Nergis from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said that the targeted area is located some 5 kilometers southwest of the ncpnar Border Crossing. Nergis said that IHH has a civil defense unit in Azaz and they helped locals to extinguish the trucks. Trucks were probably carrying aid supplies or commercial materials, Nergis added. Daily Sabahs report also reveals that the Turkish-Syrian border crossing of Oncupinar is held by what it calls rebels. The border crossing of Oncupinar should be familiar to many as it was the scene of Germanys international broadcaster Deutsche Welles (DW) investigative report where DW camera crews videotaped hundreds of trucks waiting at the border, bound for ISIS territory, apparently with full approval of Ankara. The report was published in November of 2014, a full year ago, and revealed precisely how ISIS has been able to maintain its otherwise inexplicable and seemingly inexhaustible fighting capacity. The report titled, IS supply channels through Turkey, included a video and a description which read: Every day, trucks laden with food, clothing, and other supplies cross the border from Turkey to Syria. It is unclear who is picking up the goods. The haulers believe most of the cargo is going to the Islamic State militia. Oil, weapons, and soldiers are also being smuggled over the border, and Kurdish volunteers are now patrolling the area in a bid to stem the supplies. The report, and many others like it, left many around the world wondering why, if the US is willing to carry out risky military operations deep within Syrian territory to allegedly fight ISIS, the US and its allies dont commit to a much less riskier strategy of securing the Turkish-Syrian border within Turkeys territory itself especially considering that the United States maintains an airbase, training camps, and intelligence outposts within Turkish territory and along the very border ISIS supply convoys are crossing over. Ideally, NATO should have interdicted these supply convoys before they even crossed over into Syria arresting the drivers and tracking those who filled the trucks back to their source and arresting them as well. Alternatively, the trucks should have been destroyed either at the border or at the very least, once they had entered into Syria and were clearly headed toward ISIS-occupied territory. That none of this took place left many to draw conclusions that the impunity granted to this overt logistical network was intentional and implicated NATO directly in the feeding of the very ISIS terrorists it claimed to be fighting. Obviously, any nation truly interested in defeating ISIS would attack it at its very source its supply lines. Military weaponry may have changed over the centuries, but military strategy, particularly identifying and severing an enemys supply lines is a tried and true method of achieving victory in any conflict. Russia, therefore, would find these convoys a natural target and would attempt to hit them as close to the Syrian-Turkish border as possible, to negate any chance the supplies would successfully reach ISIS hands. Russian President Vladmir Putin noted, regarding the Azaz convoy in particular, that if the convoy was legitimately carrying aid, it would have been declared, and its activities made known to all nations operating military aircraft in the region. The trucks hit in the recent airstrikes, just as they were during the DW investigation, were carrying concrete and steel, not milk and diapers as the West would lead audiences to believe. That the supplies were passing through a rebel controlled crossing means that the supplies were surely headed to rebel controlled territory either Al Qaedas Al Nusra Front in the west, or ISIS in the east. Russian airstrikes insured that the supplies reached neither. Russias increased activity along the Syrian-Turkish border signifies the closing phases of the Syrian conflict. With Syrian and Kurdish forces holding the border east of the Euphrates, the Afrin-Jarabulus corridor is the only remaining conduit for supplies bound for terrorists in Syria to pass. Syrian forces have begun pushing east toward the Euphrates from Aleppo, and then will move north to the Syrian-Turkish border near Jarabulus. Approximately 90-100 km west near Afrin, Ad Dana, and Azaz, it appears Russia has begun cutting off terrorist supply lines right at the border. It is likely Syrian forces will arrive and secure this region as well. For those that have criticized Russias air campaign claiming conflicts cant be won from the air without a ground component, it should be clear by now that the Syrian Arab Army is that ground component, and has dealt ISIS and Al Qaeda its most spectacular defeats in the conflict. When this corridor is closed and supplies cut off, ISIS, Nusra, and all associated NATO-backed factions will atrophy and die as the Syrian military restores order across the country. This may be why there has been a sudden rush by the West to move assets into the region, the impetus driving the United States to place special forces into Syrian territory itself, and for Turkeys ambush of a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian-Turkish border. What all of this adds up to is a clear illustration of precisely why the Syrian conflict was never truly a civil war. The summation of support for militants fighting against the Syrian government and people, has come from beyond Syrias borders. With that support being cut off and the prospect of these militants being eradicated, the true sponsors behind this conflict are moving more directly and overtly to salvage their failed conspiracy against the Syrian state. What we see emerging is what was suspected and even obvious all along a proxy war started by, and fought for Western hegemonic ambitions in the region, intentionally feeding the forces of extremism, not fighting them. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook. is Putin pushing back against the NWO one could only hope. People needs to understand better the issue of the New World Order: a single government for the planet with a decimated population and the survival of the very rich with servants in South America and slaves in Africa, and nuclear bunkers in Europe, US, Australia, and Canada. This sick idea being promoted by Wall Street is based on Malthusianism or population control of the more evil fashion via a nuclear war. Russia does not need the nuclear war because it has the EMP weapon which fries circuits, not human beings; and is against a nuclear war because it is not in ts interest its destruction and the destruction of Asia, with China and India, including the Koreas and the Philippines, Japan Indonesia and other US allies (allies for the time being). The imperialistic Britain has been promoting world wars of human destruction and US is its puppet. The first and second world wars were incited by Britain, first experimenting with the US Civil War. In our time Turkey is the bully trying to provoke Putin but Putin is organizing a 200 M troops world army with all those to be affected by the nuclear war sought by Wall Street and launch a EMP attack. Population control can be achieved by science not by the destruction of lives and a real federation of countries can be created for all the humanity, not for the super rich in Wall Street.. Another brilliant analysis in the tradition of Orwell! Hey, give your brain a pat on the back. You just read some Tony Cartalucci, instead of doing something silly and unconstructive like watching the NFL. PAIDtriots the NFL had to be PAID MILLIONS of YOUR tax dollars to put on those tributes to the Troops. The NFL is PAIDtriots. Good! President Putin is doing whats necessary to keep the NATO supplies out of the hands of the terrorist ISIS, and Al Nusra, Al Qaeda who needs it to continue fighting. Its shows where NATOs allegiance is and I think its misplaced. It is not a secret that NATO has been supporting the moderate/freedom fighters in their fight against the Syria president. Obama admitted it at least twice on TV! Saudi Arabia wants to build an oil pipe line thru Syria to Europe, so Europe wouldnt have to buy gas from Russia, it is to undermine Russian economy. The Syria president is against the pipe line and thats why NATO wants to topple him. Russia is part of BRICS. I can see a war conflict in Syria expanding to involve Iran, and China who is also part of BRICS. It is a war between the US dollar used as an international trading currency and the BRICS countries using a different currency, its about money and world power. Russia being involved in Syria is changing the game. Now the French step up the action so it will look like NATO is fighting IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, which is their official claim, while in the back ground they are sending supplies to Daesh thru Turkey. Putin sure serves the truth on a platter! *L* They didnt think Putin was smart, but look at him now! Excellent news, brilliant article. Thanks Tony, and selfnews News! The sooner our Warlords and their proxies are kicked out of Syria, the sooner they can start paying and working to put right the terrible damage they have done to Syria and her people. Turkey is the state sponsor of the terrorists ISIS and Al Nusra, created by NATO/USA. No war can be won without cutting the supply lines of the enemy.Turkey and NATO have been providing food and water, construction materials and weapons and ammunition to ISIS and AL Nursa. The only humanitarian sent to the terrorists controlled territories should be empty and uncovered trucks to pick up and evacuate every human being willing to leave and not be servant of the terrorists. If this is achieved, there will be no collateral damages. 