In an apparent attempt to remove all pretense that the United States is nothing more than al-Qaeda's Air Force in Syria, the American government is warning its Syrian counterpart that, if the SAA moves ahead with its upcoming southern offensive to remove ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists from its southern borders, the U.S. will take "firm and appropriate measures."

In other words, the United States is telling Syria that it had better not attack ISIS forces or else. Indeed, American "Firm and appropriate measures" seems like a very thinly veiled threat of military action particularly since the United States seems incapable of taking any "measures" that aren't "kinetic" in nature outside of its borders.

After liberating the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus and quickly liberating a stretch of territory between Homs and Aleppo, the Syrian military is building up forces in the south of the country in a much anticipated move to liberate Daraa and the surrounding areas bordering with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan.