As the United States works to establish a strategic alliance with Syria’s new Islamist-led government, the threats facing its forces in the war-torn country appear to be growing.
The threats became clear on December 13 when U.S. troops came under attack in the central city of Palmyra. A gunman opened fire at the troops as they were meeting with representatives of Syrian security forces, killing two soldiers and a translator. Later, it emerged that the gunman was a security personnel who served as the guard of a senior officer.
This was the first attack to target U.S. troops in Syria since the country joined the anti-ISIS coalition led by Washington last month.
The attack in Palmyra came a day after coalition aircraft had begun to operate all over Syria. A British MQ-9B Protector combat drone was spotted over the governorate of Homs in central Syria and a U.S. Beech King Air 350i spy plane was spotted over the northern city of Aleppo on December 12.
The attack was not surprising, however. Signs of a near insurgency against the Syrian government and U.S. forces have been around for a while.
Earlier in the month, specifically on December 9, a salvo of three rockets targeted Mezzeh Air Base right next to the Syrian capital, Damascus. The U.S. is reported to be planning to deploy troops there.
The latest attacks were clearly a setback for the emerging alliance between the U.S. and Syria. The biggest beneficiary was, of course, Israel.
On December 15, U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem. Several understandings on Syria were reportedly reached.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Barrack and Netanyahu agreed during the meeting on Israel’s “freedom of operation” in Syria. Israeli officials also told their U.S. counterparts that Syrian security forces “cannot be relied upon,” citing the deadly attack in Palmyra.
Another beneficiary from the recent attacks was the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). On December 17, the U.S.-led coalition held what appears to be one of its largest joint exercises with the group in the eastern governorate of Deir Ezzor.
The exercise was seen as a sign that the U.S. was not ready to abandon the SDF, already a trusted ally, in favor of the emerging alliance with the Syrian government.
Despite growing threats to its forces, the U.S. will not likely leave Syria anytime soon. This does not mean, however, that Washington will base its presence in the country on its relations with Damascus. Despite all recent progress, Israel and the SDF remain the key partners of the U.S. when it comes to Syria.
As the United States works to establish a strategic alliance with Syria’s new Islamist-led government, the threats facing its forces in the war-torn country appear to be growing.
The threats became clear on December 13 when U.S. troops came under attack in the central city of Palmyra. A gunman opened fire at the troops as they were meeting with representatives of Syrian security forces, killing two soldiers and a translator. Later, it emerged that the gunman was a security personnel who served as the guard of a senior officer.
This was the first attack to target U.S. troops in Syria since the country joined the anti-ISIS coalition led by Washington last month.
The attack in Palmyra came a day after coalition aircraft had begun to operate all over Syria. A British MQ-9B Protector combat drone was spotted over the governorate of Homs in central Syria and a U.S. Beech King Air 350i spy plane was spotted over the northern city of Aleppo on December 12.
The attack was not surprising, however. Signs of a near insurgency against the Syrian government and U.S. forces have been around for a while.
Earlier in the month, specifically on December 9, a salvo of three rockets targeted Mezzeh Air Base right next to the Syrian capital, Damascus. The U.S. is reported to be planning to deploy troops there.
The latest attacks were clearly a setback for the emerging alliance between the U.S. and Syria. The biggest beneficiary was, of course, Israel.
On December 15, U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem. Several understandings on Syria were reportedly reached.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Barrack and Netanyahu agreed during the meeting on Israel’s “freedom of operation” in Syria. Israeli officials also told their U.S. counterparts that Syrian security forces “cannot be relied upon,” citing the deadly attack in Palmyra.
Another beneficiary from the recent attacks was the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). On December 17, the U.S.-led coalition held what appears to be one of its largest joint exercises with the group in the eastern governorate of Deir Ezzor.
The exercise was seen as a sign that the U.S. was not ready to abandon the SDF, already a trusted ally, in favor of the emerging alliance with the Syrian government.
Despite growing threats to its forces, the U.S. will not likely leave Syria anytime soon. This does not mean, however, that Washington will base its presence in the country on its relations with Damascus. Despite all recent progress, Israel and the SDF remain the key partners of the U.S. when it comes to Syria.
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“as forças de segurança sírias “não são confiáveis”. que ótimo para nós todos israel, você não pode trabalhar tranquilo e livremente na síria. ela não é tua, seu animal da torah.
give it a rest pablo you’re really obviously english speaking
fuk off ugly americunt
‘really’ ‘obviously’ is unnecessary repetitiveness.
your command of english is quite basic there, einstein.
the “us” forever war around the world. sf have so strange rubrics.
your lack of education is only outweighed by your brazen display of the fact. go and do your history lessons. first spains columbus colonised north and south america they invaded as catholics both countries although they just plundered murdered and looted to begin with
get that straight to start with.
allegedly
then prior actually the pope by papal bull gave the whole world to two catholic kingdoms spain and portugal get that straight because that’s underpinning everything as they try to manipulate the globe back into their control. and wake up.. the pope sitting in rome got a map of the world and with a compass drew a circle dividing the world into two and gave portugal the inner circle spain the outer by law
and nothing over rules a papal bull. hence the following wars by alleged “non humans” to assert their rights to live on this earth too. allegedly.
nothing over rules a papal bull except another so unless pope leo has forgotten his primary school history lessons then he knows who owns what really.
so cut the crap. pal.
are you a idiot ? have you time machine ? then go to 1492, and kill columbus, but get the hell of the site, with your word diarea.
and do not forget to kill the pope also, theoretically, it will hinder you to get born 😂 are you a albino ? you remember of that one in “the da vinci code”.
typical stupid americunt
winning statement of the week ! !
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si el cortacabezas jolani es caput, se rompe toda syria. solo un pelo de caballo esta sosteniendo la espada de damocles
in your head might be appropriate.
when the war is over i would like to invite you to my castello and let you try some of my premio italian kosher spicy sausage.
the regions hydrocarbon and shipping routes are to important to rule and control for the greedy pirate central bank oligarchic class. the base to rule it all is israel, conveniently filled with programmed zealots that think they have the right to rule all living things in the world. yes it is ww3.
rubbish rhetorical repetitive utter rubbish.all of it every word just ignorant or deceitful.
and catholic means universal.
catholicism 101 for dummies.
only catholics are real humans
only the pope and priests communicate with god
the pope owns the world and everything in it.
everyone everything.
the jews own nothing.
that’s their law.
a perfect description of the “american” nazis. you are exactly the same thing as the jew nazis, and worship the same devil.
thank you for noticing the post
very true and they want to build the greater israel project to achieve this. their goal is the total erasure of all countries in that area and the destruction and expulsion of the people living there.
the more people know the more can be done to stop their genocide of the middle east.
you don’t even know anything about israel you think neo nazi propgandas are the truth they aren’t. you think you can discover the truth easily, that they will give it to you on a plate. you’re stupid they do not. they guard it ruthlessly.
what are you talking about? you defending israel makes you the u educated lost moron! by default. we know everything about israel soon watch
its a zio, nazi, out for to sabotage.
inferior americunts only exist to scrub jew toilets
only the rule of law is gaining traction. obviously.
syria is just another iraq, libya, and so on, by the wishes of mister chimpanzee baboonyahoo. if we destroy isirael world will be in peace against that satanistic pest. hopefully they’ll run from there like they run from afganistan. death to israel! death to enemy of humankind and god lord!
no worrys, mr putin will save the nazis, so they start to go in sunday school ! if adolf trump do not get religious enough, he will kill more slavs !
the missiles should rain down on “us”, but russias “religiosity” are the same as judas.
forever war in americunt anuz–filled with taliban jizz
“by continuing to treat the clown 🤡 with respect, putin is empowering trump” sonar21. exactly as he do with the mass murdering nazis, fake jews. i suppose they can start wars, and mass murder as they want, only they read the bible. the whole world can see the untermenschen, but not they self, because they went to sunday school, and get brainwashed. the time between wars, depends on sunday school. when it have produce enough not grown up, it explods.
americans waste billions as a zionist puppet state on protection of the fake chosen people who enslave americans to do their work. they must also endure 9/11 and uss liberty type events for political manipulation and now zionist media propaganda without a convenient place to puke.