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    U.S. forces conduct live-fire exercise in southern Syria in a warning to Russia

    U.S. Marines conducted a live-fire aerial assault exercise in southern Syria on Friday designed to warn Russian and other military forces to stay away from an American base there.

    The exercise, involving a company-size unit, came amid rising U.S.-Russia tensions across the Syrian battlespace. The Trump administration has warned both Russia and the Syrian government against a planned offensive in Idlib province in northwest Syria, the largest remaining pocket of rebel fighters who have tried, and failed, over the past seven years to oust President Bashar al-Assad.


    In support of the Idlib operation, Russia has deployed a significant naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean, with weaponry capable of reaching across Syria.
    The Marine exercise took place near the U.S. garrison at Tanf, along the Syrian-Iraqi border near Jordan, around which the Americans have long declared a 35-mile deconfliction zone off-limits to others. It followed a Russian notification, and U.S. rejection, of a plan to enter the zone to pursue “terrorists.”


    “The United States does not seek to fight the Russians, the government of Syria or any groups that may be providing support to Syria in the Syrian civil war,” Lt. Col. Earl Brown, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. “However, the United States will not hesitate to use necessary and proportionate force to defend U.S., coalition or partner forces.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
    And yet. Syria did become our business. Is that not true?
    Yes, because Obama made it that way. It is not necessary for us to do anything except remove our troops and take out whatever refugees who want to go. I don't think for a second that Russia I only say that because we stuck our nose in. Trump can end this and blame Obama for getting us in.

    I don't think for a seconds that Russia or Assad will interfere if we do that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Neocons have given us failure since they came into power around the late 1990s. Your embrace of that failure is troublesome.
    1990's? What was Vietnam then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    1990's? What was Vietnam then?
    Neocons did not exist then. They actually broke from the democratic party at the time because the dems were anti-war.
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    Neocons and their ideology did exist then, this has been exampled time and again and provided for the forum. Peter is wrong yet again.

    Moving on.

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    Somebody wants either the glory or for the fighting to last longer, or both. Shocker.

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    US-led Coalition To Launch Final Operation Against ISIS In Syria Within Hours – Report.....

    The US-led coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will launch a military operation to clear the ISIS-held pocket on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in the upcoming hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on September 9.

    The UK-based observation group said that the SDF deployed more than 180 vehicles and hundreds of fighters in several positions around the terrorist group’s pocket during the last few hours. Furthermore, three convoys of the coalition, carrying engineering vehicles and artillery pieces, arrived in a nearby field base.

    In the last few days, US-led coalition warplanes and artillery struck most of the remaining positions of ISIS on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River. Local sources said that at least 14 women and children were killed in these strikes.....snip~


    https://southfront.org/us-led-coali...on-against-isis-in-syria-within-hours-report/
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    After warnings of mass murder and catastrophe in Idlib, I prowled the front lines for two days. I didn't find what I'd expected

    The only massed forces I came across were vast herds of sheep and, close to Aleppo, a string of camels. War might be coming, but not yet



    UK failure to act in Syria 'had unacceptably high price'
    Thus Trumpian-UN-Merkel-Erdogan warnings of humanitarian catastrophe, mass murder, chemical attack and Armageddon had me prowling along Syrian front line roads for all of two days; yet the huge Syrian invading force remained oddly elusive. I travelled from the Turkish frontier at Kassab, through Rabia and Kansabba and behind Jourine and then up the Syrian military supply route from Hama to Abu Adh Duhour and through villages unheard of outside Syria – Omalhouteh, Tel Maseh, Ewanat Skieh, Bardah, Kafr Abeed, Blass, Alhadein – and the massed Syrian army was nowhere to be seen.

    Was this really the start of the last battle, I kept asking myself? Amid a sylvan grove east of Kassab, I suddenly came across 200 Syrian troops, steel helmets, arms at attention, on parade – their commander sent a motorcycled soldier after us to ask why we were taking photographs – for this was, to be sure, a good Boys’ Own Paper picture for The Independent. Readers, please note my colleague’s snatched snapshot with this dispatch. But there were no armoured vehicles, no Iranians, no Hezbollah, no Russians, no convoys of field artillery – though I had seen the photos of the Syrian convoys a couple of weeks ago – and the only massed forces I came across were vast herds of sheep and, close to Aleppo, a string of camels. Not a single soldier was carrying a gas mask. Which would surely be a sure sign of an imminent chemical attack anywhere on the front, whoever was dropping the stuff.

    Now this doesn’t mean the invading army wasn’t there. Perhaps far behind the front lines or far above Aleppo, waiting in faraway fields for zero hour, they may be passing their time. The Syrians have loudly announced their intention of crushing the last Islamist bastion in Idlib – and I can confirm that Syrian jets took off from the Hama air base on Saturday morning at around 8.30 because I could hear their roar a mile away over breakfast – but I saw no smoke clouds drifting down from Jisr al-Chougour or east of Idlib a couple of hours later as I watched from that all-too-smashed security-supply route up to Aleppo. A lone, low-flying Russian-made Syrian helicopter came thudding over the desert near Abu Adh Dahour, whose own air base was recaptured by Syrian troops last year. Just one.

    So here’s what I did find on my 300-mile tour around the frontier of Idlib. At the old Kassab border crossing, the Turks are still building a massive concrete wall along the Syrian frontier, topped with barbed wire and arc lights below a cloud-shrouded mountain on which stood, just visible, a range of reconnaissance aerials. From there, a Syrian captain told me, Nato watched Syria and could probably listen to Syrian communications – although the Syrians could apparently not listen to Nato. I climbed the staircase of a broken house, its former Nusrah Islamist forces’ graffiti painted out on the internal walls – and stared across the Turkish border. There was even a bust of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on the Turkish side of the frontier station.

    The Independent’s Robert Fisk looks towards Nusrah positions from a Syrian army post on the edge of Idlib province (Nelofer Pazira)
    Then a sense of déjà vu. A group of Syrian security agents walked sullenly towards us to ask the Syrian army what we were doing. There was an altercation – an instructive moment – between the two Syrian forces before we moved away. Interesting. But exactly two years ago, the same Syrian army had been confronted by the same security men at the same spot asking the same question about my presence. Not a bad repeat performance. And when I drove further east, those guns began firing across the forest, yet – again, exactly two years ago, at this very spot – the Syrian artillery – quite probably the very same guns – had lobbed off shells over our heads at the same distant Nusrah-held hillsides. Plus ça change, I suppose.

    --snip--



    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a8530796.html
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