Simultaneously, the US State Department has issued its first warning to the Syrian Army reminding it that the south of Syria is part of the "de-escalation zone negotiated between the US, Jordan and Russia last year and agreed between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump" to keep the status-quo.
The Syrian army helicopters just threw thousands of leaflets over the city of Daraa calling on citizens to "expel the terrorists just as your brothers did in the eastern Ghouta and Qalamoun. Do not allow them to use you as human shields." This coincided with the return of the Syrian army to its initial positions in Quneitra and Daraa following the liberation of all jihadist pockets in the vicinity of Damascus (al-Gouta, Yarmouk, Hajar al-aswad, Saham and Babilla ...) and in the countryside of Homs and Hama.
The Turkish, Iranian and Russian established observers have elevated points along the new demarcation line with Idlib and its environs and have set up a cease-fire situation until the political solution and direct negotiations between Damascus and Ankara matures. The main Turkish jihadist-sponsor has accepted responsibility for the security of the motorway adjacent to the al-Qaeda and insurgent controlled areas.
Thus, the protection of al Qaeda in the south of Syria and also of ISIS (the organisation that poses the greatest threat to the Middle East and Europe) can be justified only in the context of protecting Israel, the US's favoured ally.
ISIS is still alive in the north-eastern region (and part of the Syrian steppe al-Badia) under the control of the US-French-British special forces deployed in northern Syria- without the permission of the Syrian central government.
Should we understand that the US does not care about the interests of the Middle East and the continued terrorist group's presence and activity on the Syrian-Israeli and the Syrian-Iraqi borders. It appears in the eyes of the world that the US is rather protecting terrorism when it is supposed to combat it. However, the US allows the Iraqi Air Force - not the Syrian or Russia Air Force or ground forces - to carry out occasional air strikes in coordination with Damascus against ISIS in the area controlled by the US forces in the north of Syria.
At the moment, its actions (cutting the link between Baghdad and Damascus, warning Damascus not to open the link between Damascus and Amman, occupying 23% of the northern Syrian territory rich in oil and gas) show that the US does not want to withdraw its forces from Syria and does not want to restore Syria's commercial routes east and south.
Moreover, the US apparently really does not want to eliminate organisations such as "ISIS" and al-Qaeda. It needs to maintain this actual situation on the ground because it wants to keep Syria unstable and divided. Therefore, to the Syrian government it is clear there is no choice but to rely on the organisation and principle of "the Army - the People - the Resistance" to avoid the destruction of the Syrian army by the US and Israel, which is what would happen if they tried to take back the territory for themselves - unless of course Russia didn't intervene. After all, the Syrian Army has decided to liberate Daraa in coordination with Moscow. The area is extremely sensitive to the US because it is indeed vital to Israel. Thus, it all depends on Russia's attitude.
Could the existing irregular but organised Syrian resistance forces take the situation in hand to recover the occupied territories? Not just the territory occupied by ISIS and AQ, but also the territory occupied by Israel, mirroring what Lebanon did in May 2000?
When I was a child, I did not even know what a Jew was. But for the past 50 years, I have had many, many dealings with them, and I know their character. They always focus on short-term gain and short-term advantage. Always . They will screw their customers, without caring that they have lost those customers, all in pursuit of short-term gain. They don't care. Why?? Perhaps this grew out of their history - life was always uncertain for Jews, so they had to grab what they could, while they could, and forget long-term planning, but whatever the reason, this is their character. If any Jews read this, please respond and tell me if this is a fair assessment, or if I'm being unfair.
And so now, they want to have ISIS rule Syria. Once they get their wish, they would realize that that solved today's "problem" for them, but has created a much worse problem which they did not foresee and did not care to foresee. And they would want America to fix it for them.