A HH-60 helicopter prepares to land during a medical evacuation exercise within the 55km deconfliction zone in Syria, May 27, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Howard)
On September 13, a delegation from the United States-led coalition concluding a patrol with Syrian security forces came under fire in the central city of Palmyra, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
The state-run news agency said in separate posts to Telegram that two Syrian security personnel and “several” U.S. troops were wounded, noting that the shooter was killed. It added that “no further information is yet available regarding the motive or circumstances of the incident.”
Later, the government-affiliated Syria TV reported that one of the two Syrian security personnel had succumbed to his wounds.
A photo purported to show a U.S. military helicopter evacuating casualties from Palmyra to the al-Tanf post in southeast Syria surfaced online earlier.
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Other photos and videos posted to social networks show U.S. troops and allied Syrian forces blocking the roads leading to Palmyra, and what appears to be an American F-16 fighter jet flying at an extremely low altitude over the city possibly to cover the evacuation.
The SANA confirmed that traffic was halted along the Damascus-Deir Ezzor highway which passes by Palmyra as a result of the attack.
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Saleh al-Hamoui, a former commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – the Islamist rebel group that overthrew the Assad regime last year and established the current government, military and security forces in Syria before dissolving – provided a completely different story of what happened in Palmyra.
In a post to Telegram, al-Hamoui alleged that during the U.S. delegation visit to the city the guard of GSS chief in the region, Abu Jaber “Sufyan,” blew himself up. He attached a photo of the said commander shacking hands with a U.S. officer during a previous meeting.
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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.
Syria’s accession to the coalition came after a landmark meeting on November 10 between the U.S. President Donald Trump and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa – the former leader of HTS who until recently was sanctioned by the United Nations – at the White House.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on November 30 that its forces located and destroyed more than 15 sites containing ISIS weapons caches in southern Syria in cooperation with government forces, in the first such joint operation between the two sides.
The attack in Palmyra came just a day after air traffic data revealed that coalition drones and intelligence aircraft had begun to operate all over Syria.
CENTCOM has not yet released any statement clarifying what happened. An insider attack would be very embarrassing for Damascus, thus, SANA may have distorted the facts.
There have been multiple warnings from activists and researchers of ISIS infiltrating the new military and security institutions in Syria.
Damascus prioritized former members of HTS and its allies, including foreigners, maintained a strict Islamist ideology, and refused to allow any former officers back into service, or to include members from the country’s minorities. As a result, these institutions became completely dominated by radicals, whether members of ISIS or not, who are not happy about the decision to join the coalition.
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us military personnel conducting a patrol with terrorist scum, and the high ranking guy shaking hands 🤝 smh,🤦
usa is a terrorist organization, of course they see most other terrorists as their brethren or at least colleagues.
its more than a terrorist organization, its the source to all terrorist organizations, including nazi germany. the policy of genocide, performed by stupid serfs, nazis.
not the source of nazi germany; that’s a city-state a little south of the alps. however, prescott bush did finance nazi germany out of sheer greed – and ibm, ford, gm and standard oil made a fortune supplying the third reich. if anything the usa is more stupid than the germans – and that is saying something.
adolf hitler rothschild was financed by family bush, if you are unable to see the similarity between nazi germany, and the genocide of 200 peoples in north america. why do you write not the source to nazi germany, and then list some of the ways it was that ??? now you have get 200 reasons more it was that, should you deny them also ?
usa bred these same crows that are now attacking them
at least some of them have principles and cant be bought off.
congrats to whoever did this, hopefully american terrorists succumb to the wounds like their syrian terrorist colleagues have. :)
i understand your emotions but i disagree. these soldiers are good men, who had no idea they were fighting for al qaeda. they knew nothing of cia operation timber sycamore which armed, recruited, trained and coordinated al qaeda’s merciless war against the syrian people. the soldiers believed they were fighting for the “good guys,” all the while, serving the forces who killed more american civilians than any other force in history.
they know nothing about anything, they are simply blood thirsty, and its only one cure for that.
most of them are not good men or women, they couldn’t are less about the damage they inflict on other nations. they have a very limited world outlook, they just care about “winning”, they think the lives of other people are worthless.
a child can be excused for not knowing how the world works, but a grown-ass man has a responsibility to educate himself on how things work, ignorance is not an acceptable excuse. especially not after so many events they could have learned from (from vietnam to the invasions of iraq, libya, syria and everything in between).
they only begin to scratch their heads and think about stuff after getting maimed or having their friends killed, so that’s why they must suffer, the more they suffer the more they think, it’s sad but that’s how it is! as long as they think they’re “winning” and not getting hurt they don’t care to think!
like the ‘good men’ in abu graib?
‘good men’ – these pricks aren’t up to the status of being ‘men’ and never will be.
blow up every “us” base, and test the “nukes” on washington, in the best of worlds, they work. they are so incredibly stupid, that they still push hollywoods reichtagsfire onto humanity.
us forces are conducting operations in alliance with the new al qaeda-led government of syria. we have come full circle from 9-11, when al qaeda flew jets into the twin towers and pentagon, killing 3,000 americans. today, america’s soldiers are dying for the glory of that same al qaeda in syria.
idiot, nazi. the “us” nazis blow down their own skyscrapers, out of blood thirst, and to make their imbecille population full of hate, as the germans, and for the same reason. you should get blown from the surface instead, because you cant stop lie and murder.
what the hell are yankee soldiers doing in syria? just go back and go to war on venezuela.
anything that can get them a bloody nose, bloody torso, and bloody legs. the big riddle are why russia cover up for “us”, do not tell anybody about 9/11, “moon landings”, or mass murder in the hospitals ! i cant find out any other answer, than the last 1000 years have not be any “civilization” at all, the fundament are lies.
nietzsche concludes in ecce homo: “i am the anti-christ”. simpliest conclusion of all to draw, after the last 1000 years. it is something with christianity, that make it the perfect tool for evil. posts about adolf hitler rothschild hostile against christianity on sonar21 😂 give me a break, he was one in a endless row of crusaders. and nietzsche was their bitterest enemy, not much for hysterical crowds. thats the point about “society” !
“grok”, whatever that is 😂 screams that the charlie kirk spectacle are a theater scene, performed under the magicians shirt, what i have told for some months. this, and 9/11, are the most valuable lessons in what your beloved “society” are, a consistent use of humans lowest, and most evil feelings and instincts.
why sf report on elimination of ugly zoo animal?
hello friedrich ! the norwegian child killers wants you to feel sorry for the poor animal victim. we need to resurect wlad the impaler, he did not feel sorry for animals.