A U.S.-backed operation near Raqqa aims to "block any advance by Syrian government forces from the west". The Balkanization of Syria begins
Not even supposed to be in Syria. Go figure.
The road to Raqqa is now blocked by U.S. forces and their allies. The chances that Raqqa (and the surrounding region) will be returned to Syria are now slim to none. Foreign armies and their proxies are sharpening their carving knives.
U.S. Special Forces and Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters have just captured a "strategic air base" from Islamic State in northern Syria; in doing so, they have also "blocked" the advance of the Syrian Army as it approaches Raqqa from the west:
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Sunday that they captured the Tabqa air base, 45km west of Raqqa, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group's de facto capital in Syria.
Earlier this week, US forces airlifted SDF fighters behind ISIL lines to allow them to launch the Tabqa assault, and on Friday the alliance reached one of the dam's entrances.
SDF forces were within 10km of Raqqa from the north, and aimed to effectively surround the city before launching an assault.
But as RFE/RL quietly notes:
Besides recapturing the dam, SDF said the U.S.-backed operation also aimed to block any advance by Syrian government forces from the west.
The landing forces airdropped into Syria seized four small villages in the area west of Tabqa and cut a main highway that links the provinces of Raqqa, Deir al-Zor, and Aleppo, Scrocca said.
The SDF cut the last main road out of Raqqa earlier this month, narrowing in on the city from the north, east, and west.
The only way in or out of Raqqa now is over the Euphrates River that borders the city to the south.
Incredible, isn't it? A foreign army that is illegally operating in a sovereign nation can just march in and cut off the legitimate army of said sovereign nation from liberating its own city from terrorists.
What a world — and so much for international law.
It will be interesting to see Moscow's reaction. Was this always part of the "deal" in Syria? Or is Washington hoping that Syria, Iran and Russia will accept Raqqa's U.S.-ordained fate?
Stay tuned.
#US say they are trying to Block the Syrian army from defeating #ISIS in #Tabaqa and #Raqqa as part of plans to balkanisation #Syria. http://pic.twitter.com/xBC1FfkIEO — Partisangirl (@Partisangirl)
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(From 200+ comments) my2Cents Russ Russell • The establishment of the Zionist State called Israel was illegal and the ethnic cleansing/genocide of the native Palestinians are war crimes which are to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. According to International Law every Illegal occupation allows for a resistance....International Law DOES NOT allow for a defense against that resistance. If the Zionists don't like this resistance they should go home, wherever they came from.
These Zionists hail from Europe and have NO ties whatsoever to the Holy Land. Yet they call every criticism "antisemitism" The Only Semites in the Holy land are the Palestinians they slaughter. So THEY are the anti-semites.
Are you still there. See how utterly absurd you sound with your comparison of Israeli war crimes with what is happening in Syria with war crimes being committed by the U.S? Huh.
History teaches us that every regime that maintains itself with violence last ONE lifetime.....And so it is with Israel....No one needs to do anything....It is self destructing....Young Israelis do not share the ideology of their parents. They have their own. Israel has at most 10 years left.
The Syrian issue is a proxy war in which foreign mercenaries are funded/trained and armed by the U.S/UK, to create havoc, bomb cities, bomb hospitals/schools indiscriminately under the guise that this is a civil war in order to remove Assad and break up Syria. Problem is Assad is immensely popular, so all the drivel about him using chemicals against his own people is BS. And has long ago been exposed to be the work of ISIS.
At Syrian request, Russia came to help....It seems to be your premise that Syria is not allowed to defend itself against war crimes committed by the U,S. and NATO states, but that it should roll over and let it's civilians be slaughtered by head choppers. In the meantime refugees are overrunning Europe as a result of American violence in the M.E. And people are getting fed up with all this violence in which NATO member states are required to participate ALL for the benefit of Corporate America. So yeah, the world stands with Syria and its people and their President and we applaud Russia for standing up to the U.S and say "Enough is enough...YOU are finished"
Anything else you want to barf up? +3
Tatarewicz/ my2Cents • " foreign mercenaries are funded/trained and armed by the U.S/UK" on behalf of Israel in return for vital election campaign support politicians from those two countries get from local Jews.