Breaking: US Coalition bombs Syrian Army in southeast Homs

[CPUd]

Meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/airwars/status/872470077492297730

 

[goldenequity]

Lavrov: Deconfliction zones in Syria announced without Damascus’ consent illegitimate


Russia considers the US-led coalition airstrike against pro-Damascus fighters in Syria an act of aggression
and rejects the justification for the attack issued by the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Tuesday airstrike near the town of At Tanf in eastern Syria “was an aggressive act,
that violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic
and – deliberately or not – targeted the forces which are most effective in fighting terrorists on the ground,”
the minister said on Wednesday.

The Pentagon justified the attack
by saying that the pro-government forces “advanced inside the well-established deconfliction [sic] zone in southern Syria.”

“I don’t know anything about such zones."
This must be some territory, which the coalition unilaterally declared [deconfliction zones]
and where it probably believes to have a sole right to take action.
We cannot recognize such zones,”

 

[CaptUSA]

I can't believe anyone expected anything to be any better with this administration.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...red-De-Confliction-Zone-In-Syria-Illegitimate

 

[devil21]

Do you really think Trump wants to gamble with WW3 breaking out? Highly doubtful, unless he's a figurehead at this point.

Of course he's a figurehead. He's surrounded by bankers. All of which who amazingly manage to never even get a mention among all of the administration scandals/investigations. It's just the banker CFR doing what they always do regarding wars coinciding with major economic changes. Wars and rumors of wars make for great excuses to change things that otherwise wouldn't be tolerated or would be noticed too easily without war news filling the news cycle. History repeats but mostly because it's the same people repeating the same playbook. I don't think the usual war catalyst FF is far off now. Trump's FBI nominee, Wray, was involved in both 9/11 and Enron...

 

[enhanced_deficit]

The U.S. is building a buffer zone along the entire border between Iraq and Syria to prevent "the Shiite Crescent" between Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon and to isolate Syria. Just a couple days ago the U.S. military created it's second illegal base in southern Syria (in addition to the illegal base at the al tanf border crossing). Syrian troops actually would like to work with the U.S. to get rid of ISIS and al qaeda: Syrian troops are no threat and have no desire to be a threat to the US. Iraq's shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' and the Syrian government want to re-open the Damascus-Baghdad highway for trade and commerce between their countries. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces fought long and hard to liberate Mosul and now that that fight is winding down they want this linkage with Syria and vice versa. The U.S. is forbidding this and apparently have ordered the Kurds to also forbid this as the Kurd's are also forbidding the two country's governments from being able to link up in the north.

The U.S. military has no legal right to do this. This is:

• illegal under U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution
• illegal under international law

The U.S. military has no right to murder the armed forces of a sovereign nation that is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. citizenry; the U.S. military has no right to establish military bases in a sovereign country that is no threat to the U.S. citizenry without that sovereign country's permission.

Informative analysis.

 

[Origanalist]

Informative analysis.

I agree, well worth a rep.

 

[charrob]

Informative analysis.

I agree, well worth a rep.

Thanks!

 

[goldenequity]

US-led coalition conducted a 3rd strike against #Syrian Army and allied forces in vicinity of At Tanf, #Syria - CNN reports.

 

[CPUd]

inb4 WWIII

https://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/872850211646865408

https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/872853085739208704

 

[CPUd]

 

[charrob]

US-led coalition conducted a 3rd strike against #Syrian Army and allied forces in vicinity of At Tanf, #Syria - CNN reports.

Thanks, just got home and saw this. 'You must spread some reputation around before giving it to goldenequity again..

This is so so dangerous and so stupid. Do the guys in the U.S. Air Force who keep attacking Assad's forces really want a war with Russia? Do they not realize that they have no right to even be in that country let alone attack that sovereign country's military? Where is their backbone to say 'no'?

 

[charrob]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[charrob]

Breaking: US Coalition attacks Syrian Army near Iraqi border



Breaking: US Coalition attacks Syrian Army near Iraqi border:

The U.S. Coalition has once again attacked the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the Al-Tanf Border-Crossing in the southeastern countryside of Homs, CNN claimed this afternoon, citing a report from the International Coalition for Inherent Resolve.

The Syrian Arab Army was targeted by the U.S. Coalition after they allegedly ignored the latter’s warnings about advancing towards the Tanf Crossing.

This latest attack by the U.S. Coalition marks the second time this week and the third time in three weeks that the USAF has targeted the Syrian Arab Army and their allies near the Iraqi border-crossing.

U.S. downs pro-Syrian drone that fired at coalition forces: spokesman:

The United States shot down a pro-Syrian government drone that fired toward U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. military spokesman said, in a major escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus.

The armed drone "hit dirt" and there were no injuries or damage done to the coalition patrol in southern Syria. But U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State, told reporters the drone meant to attack them and dismissed the possibility it had fired a warning shot.

"This clearly showed a threat even if it were a warning shot; it was something that showed a hostile intent, a hostile action and posed a threat to our forces because this drone still had munitions that were still on it," Dillon said.

He added that it was the first known time that pro-Syrian government forces had fired at coalition forces in the area.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the munition landed a few hundred yards from coalition forces and failed to explode. The official added that a U.S. F-15 fighter jet was used to strike the drone, which was likely Iranian-made but that further analysis was being carried out.

Dillon said the United States had earlier in the day carried out a strike against two pro-Syrian government pick-up trucks with weapons that had moved against U.S.-backed fighters near the southern town of At Tanf.

It was the third such strike, and the second this week, by the Pentagon, which has sought to stay out of Syria's civil war to focus firepower instead on Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The concern is that such strikes could take away attention from the fight against Islamic State militants.

"Unfortunately, there have been (these) incidents that have taken our focus away from fighting ISIS," Dillon said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched their assault to capture Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital.

For months, air strikes and special forces from the U.S.-led coalition have helped them encircle Raqqa, which Islamic State seized in 2014 and has used as a base to plan attacks abroad.

On Tuesday, the United States launched an air strike against Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in southern Syria.

A military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad threatened on Wednesday to hit U.S. positions in Syria, warning its "self-restraint" over U.S. air strikes would end if Washington crossed "red lines".

In recent days, the U.S. military has repeatedly warned massing forces to stay away from a 'deconfliction zone' near a garrison used by American special forces and U.S.-backed fighters around At Tanf.

Tanf is part of a region known as the Badia, a vast, sparsely populated desert territory that stretches to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and was declared a military priority by Syria's foreign minister in May.

 

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/FazelHawramy/status/873046476355649536

 

[timosman]

Kabuki theatre.

 

[charrob]

Syrian Army, Hezbollah cutoff US-backed rebels from Deir Ezzor



Syrian Army, Hezbollah cutoff US-backed rebels from Deir Ezzor:

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), alongside Hezbollah and their Iraqi allies, reached the Iraqi border region that is located northeast of the US-held Tanf Crossing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported this evening.

As a result of this advance, today, the Syrian Armed Forces have effectively cutoff the US-backed rebels from the Deir Ezzor Governorate.

According to some reports, the Syrian Armed Forces and Iraqi Army met at the border; however, this still remains unconfirmed.

This advance by the Syrian Armed Forces and their allies, northeast of Al-Tanf, was likely secured by the Russian military, as cutting off the US-backed rebels would have required some-kind of deal between the governments in Moscow and Washington.

 

[charrob]

BREAKING: Syrian Army, Hezbollah reaches border with Iraq for the first time in years



BREAKING: Syrian Army, Hezbollah reaches border with Iraq for the first time in years:

Late on Friday afternoon, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Hezbollah and allied Iraqi paramilitary contingents dashed through southeastern Homs and reached an Iraqi border point, thus slicing adrift the frontline between rebel forces based in the Al-Tanf region and ISIS militants in the neighboring Deir Ezzor governorate.

Unopposed by the US Airforce and its vetted Syrian proxies, the SAA and its allies drove through over 40 kilometers of abandoned desert territory and managed to link up with an Iraqi garrison across the border.

The advance was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense and an Hezbollah-linked outlet moments ago.

Effectively, the SAA is now able to reopen trade between Damascus and Baghdad. Government forces have not controlled any parts of the largely ISIS-controlled border with Iraq since 2014.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/FazelHawramy/status/873046476355649536

 

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/873364900613165059