Syrian forces secure villages to keep Turkish invasion from going deeper
The Syrian Arab Army has been dispatched around the northeast Syrian province of Hasakeh, aiming to shore up defenses in villages around the area to try to prevent invading Turkey from pushing deeper into Syria beyond the already-claimed safe zone.
While this is unsurprising given Syria’s priorities in security this area, it potentially complicates America’s new war for Syria’s oil, with Syrian troops now in Mulla Abbas, putting them near one of the oil fields claimed by President Trump as an American-held field.
On Tuesday, this was uneventful, with US and Kurdish YPG forces at the site not opening fire on the Syrian military. At the same time, no one from any side is trying to extract oil yet, so as yet any contesting is purely theoretical.
While Syrian forces are reveling in the process of recovering territory that has been under Kurdish YPG control throughout much of the war, with an eye toward helping the Kurds defend the area from Turkey, that process is going to put more and more Syrian forces in the area around the oilfields.
That Syria wants a presence in the area is unsurprising, as it is both where the Turkish threat is, and along the border area with Iraq. At the same time, President Trump has claimed the fields, and has designs on taking the oil from them, which means any Syrian presence is going to potentially be seen as a threat to US ambitions.
#1: IRTorqued To: Ada (#0)
seems the trump whitehouse mantra is seize the fill in the blank due process be damned.
IRTorqued posted on 2019-11-06 12:02:57 Reply Private Reply
#2: titorite To: Ada (#0)
titorite posted on 2019-11-06 12:23:40 Reply Private Reply
#3: Cynicom To: titorite, Ada (#2)
"""President Obama has authorized a small number of U.S. special operations forces to deploy to northern Syria, according to a senior administration official.
The group of fewer than 50 troops will “help coordinate local ground forces and coalition efforts” to fight Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces, the official said.
The move would put U.S. boots on the ground in Syria for the first time since that country’s civil war began. It is expected to be formally announced later on Friday.
The U.S. is also deploying A-10s and F-15s to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, and is working with Iraq to create a special forces task force to “enhance our ability to target ISIL leaders and networks,” the official said, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
The decision comes as the administration ramps up its military campaign against ISIS, which controls large parts of both countries. It also comes the same day Secretary of State John Kerry is in Vienna for multilateral talks on Syria's future, which prior to leaving he said would be like charting "a course of out hell.""""
Cynicom posted on 2019-11-06 14:18:37 Reply Private Reply
#4: Ada To: titorite, cynicom (#2)
Ada posted on 2019-11-06 14:43:50 Reply Private Reply
#5: Cynicom To: Ada (#4)
Good heavens.
Illegal? Assad is a brutal dictator, kills his own people on a whim.
Obama took us there, half assed job as usual. He should have taken Assad out.
Now Trump has to clean up the mess.
Cynicom posted on 2019-11-06 16:56:16 Reply Private Reply
#6: Ada To: Cynicom (#5)
Nonsense. Why would he do that?
But even if it were so, its still Syria's oil and not ours.
gaping holes in the OPCW ...ged Syrian chemical attac
Ada posted on 2019-11-06 19:40:30 Reply Private Reply
#7: Horse To: Ada, titorite, cynicom (#4)
It was Obama and Kerry who in 2014 gave 400 trucks to Al Nusra, which was Al Qaeda in Syria. They gave the trucks to ISIS which began as Al Qaeda in Iraq. ISIS invaded Iraq and took Anbar province and Mosul committing many atrocities. Iraq could have stopped that convoy of Isis fighters but Obama refused to deliver the planes Iraq had paid for. And Obama refused to let the USAF and Navy attack that stream of trucks headed to Mosul.
Horse posted on 2019-11-06 21:31:38 Reply Private Reply
#8: Ada To: Horse (#7)
Ada posted on 2019-11-07 10:33:21 Reply Private Reply