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[Magda Hassan]

BREAKING: 14 US-Led Coalition Military Advisers Captured by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo

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At least 14 US-led coalition military advisers have been captured by the Syrian Special Forces in a bunker in the city of Aleppo, according to media reports.
The event allegedly took place in the morning on December 16, 2016 (Voltaire.net):

"The Security Council is sitting in private on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 17:00 GMT, while NATO officers were arrested this morning by the Syrian Special Forces in a bunker in East Aleppo."

21stcenturywire.com also provided a list of names of the coalition's military advisers captured in Aleppo, citing a Syrian member of Parliament:

Fares Shehabi, a prominent Syrian Parliamentarian and head of Aleppo's Chamber of Commerce published the names of the Coalition officers on his Facebook page on the 15th December (emphasis added):
Mutaz KanoÄŸlu Turkey
David Scott Winer USA
David Shlomo Aram Israel
Muhamad Tamimi Qatar
Muhamad Ahmad Assabian Saudi
Abd-el-Menham Fahd al Harij Saudi
Islam Salam Ezzahran Al Hajlan Saudi
Ahmed Ben Naoufel Al Darij Saudi
Muhamad Hassan Al Sabihi Saudi
Hamad Fahad Al Dousri Saudi
Amjad Qassem Al Tiraoui Jordan
Qassem Saad Al Shamry Saudi
Ayman Qassem Al Thahalbi Saudi
Mohamed Ech-Chafihi El Idrissi Moroccan

Damascus-based Syrian journalist Said Hilal Alcharifi also reported on the issue in his Facebook account:

Very urgent
The Syrian authorities were able, thanks to information thorough, arrive at the headquarters of senior officers and western regional in the basement of a district of Aleppo-is, and capture them all alive.
A few names have already been ex filtered to Syrian journalists including me.
Seen the nationalities (us, French, British, German, Israelis, Turks, Saudis, Moroccans, Qatari, etc.. etc) of these scumbags and their military ranks, I assure you
Syria holds in this moment a big treasures to carry out the negotiations with the countries that have destroyed.

Earlier in December, SF already noted that the US despearate attempts to push a "diplomatic solution" in Aleppo could indicate that the Obama administration stalling for time to extricate US mercenaries and special service members from the Aleppo pocket:
Considering that US-led coalition military advisers have been widely operating across Syria, training and assisting to the so-called "moderate opposition" openly linked with al-Qaeda, the recently appeared reports are likely true.
For isntance, British military advisers have officially arrived to Syria to restore combat capability of the moderate' opposition, retreated from Aleppo:

British military advisers have arrived to Syria in order to restore combat capability of units of the moderate' opposition, retreated from Aleppo, the Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing a statement of UK Defense Minister Michael Fallon. According to Fallon, 20 British military instructors, who will train the opposition forces, involved in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, have already arrived at the destination.
The dispatch of British advisers was announced in October, long before the recapture of Aleppo by the Syrian government forces. Initially, they had a task to train recruits to conduct combined arms combat, as well as to teach them the basics of tactical medicine and combat engineering. However, the situation changed and the task was changed too.

https://southfront.org/breaking-14-us-le...in-aleppo/