What is behind the timing of the attack on the military institution? Pressure to impose facts on the ground in the south… What about Paris’s role!

Ad-Diyar: Army Commander General Rodolphe Haikal chose to go on the offensive as the best means of defending against the campaign of slander targeting the military institution, and sent a message to all concerned at home and abroad that increasing the pressure would not lead to a retreat from the national principles governing the army command’s positions…