A Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 flies past the audience during the 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, England, July 20, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Zima)
The United States-led coalition is still creating “dangerous situations” in Syria’s airspace, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, Deputy Chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, warned during a briefing on September 27.
The commander revealed that coalition fighter jets and drones violated the airspace over the southeastern area of al-Tanf ten times over the past day.
The coalition maintains a garrison on a strategic international highway in al-Tanf with a 55-kilometer no-fly zone under the pretext of fighting ISIS.
“Ten violations were recorded in the Al-Tanf area in the past 24 hours by three pairs of F-16 fighter jets, a pair of Typhoon fighters and two MQ-1C multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicles of the coalition,” Kulit said.
The coalition’s violations are creating dangerous conditions for air incidents, raising tensions in Syrian airspace, the commander warned.
In addition to the garrison in al-Tanf, the coalition keeps a network of bases at key oil and gas fields in the northeastern governorates of Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah. It also operates drones over Turkish-occupied areas in the northern governorate of Aleppo as well as the northwestern region of Greater Idlib, which is controlled by an al-Qaeda offshoot.
The U.S.-led coalition operations in Syria are not sanctioned by the country’s government, who consider it to be an occupation force.
The coalition’s attempts to expand its aerial operations in the country, which began around two months ago, led to unprecedented tensions with the Russian military group there.
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anyone knows what russia’s syria strategy is? because it seems putin has no clue what next to do in syria. turkey has refused to throw syrian sunnis under the bus. new sunni cities are being built along the turkish borders. these will be protected parmanently by the turkish military. is russia still trying to recapture syria for assad?