Green Berets and their partner force, the Maghaweir al-Thowra (MaT), during a joint patrol mission near At-Tanf Garrison, Syria, April 29, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Howard)
The United States is training ISIS terrorists in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf on sabotage, Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, revealed on May 24.
“According to our information, the U.S. al-Tanf military base located on the border of Syria, Jordan and Iraq is used to train ISIS militants for carrying out subversive acts; moreover, not only on Syrian territory but also in Russian regions,” the intelligence chief said at an international meeting of high-level security representatives, according to TASS.
Naryshkin went on to note that the U.S. als continues to maintain a military presence in Syria’s oil-rich northeastern region without authorization of the legitimate government in Damascus.
“They keep exerting sanctions pressure on Damascus, preventing the country’s recovery,” he added.
Around 200 U.S. troops are usually deployed at al-Tanf garrison, along with hundreds of militants from a proxy group known as the Syrian Free Army.
The garrison was established in 2016 under the pretext of fighting ISIS. However, its real purpose is to block a strategic highway that links Damascus with the Iraqi capital, Bahgadad, thus preventing the establishment of a direct land route from Iran to Syria.
The U.S.-led coalition maintains a 55-kilometer no-fly zone around al-Tanf. Still, Russian fighter jets conducted dozens of armed patrols over the garrison in the last few months, likely to monitor suspicious activities there.
Coalition proxies and ISIS terrorists were accused of launching several attacks from al-Tanf against government forces, civilians and vital infrastructure facilities in southern, central and eastern Syria over the last few years. The most recent attack, which took place on May 18, was reportedly repelled by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
This was not the first time Naryshkin has warned that the U.S. is using al-Tanf as a forward sabotage base. Last year, the foreign intelligence chief said that NATO is preparing to send “terrorists” trained in the garrison to fight Russian forces in Ukraine.
Russia’s concerns about U.S. activities in al-Tanf reflect those of Syria. During a recent visit to Moscow, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that the coalition has turned the garrison into what he called “a bastion for terrorists.”
Despite facing pressure from Damascus and its allies, the U.S. will not likely withdraw from al-Tanf or its other bases in northeastern Syria in the near future.
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that picture tells you all you need to know about how usa supports its allies. any country or group that sides with usa is an idiot.
serving the u.$. mic and central bank(s) interests since 9/11/2001!…
to fbi agent john o’neil rip.
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isis doesn’t attack israel or key western interests in the m.e. cia; ‘we train you now and fight you later’
ussa is degenerate and evil. the flush of the ex saudimercan toilet paper dollah spells the end of anglozionazi perversion and with it the cancer in occupied palestine. it’s all over bar the long overdue civil war reloaded in slumville. z karma always catches up with demon$!
mbs supports assad now.
russia, iran, syria are you all listening???? just take the damn base out…and it’s finito!!!!!
and then hand the country to the savages so they can kill and cleanse the ethnic and religious minorities? you call that finito?
“hand the country to the savages” : is that how you call ending the violation of a country’s sovereignty by foreign occupying forces?
us blowback. usa air force bombing and missile retaliation. gives an excuse, to its own people, for usa to do a full airborne attack on syria, eves damascus. usa still has powerful air forces in the region.
your observation is well founded.
however, the usa is not the only one with forces in the region.
perhaps they should be careful of giving everyone else an excuse to wipe out all of their easily identified and easily targeted illegitimate military bases.
that prospect is no longer as unlikely as it used to be.
however, it happened in iraq because shia, sunni and wahhabi (especially wahhabi) militias were oppressing the assyrians and other christians, except those of the babylon brigade who allied with pmf and iran.
a-hole, they are the savages…as if you didn’t know.
thats whats happening now you retarded clown, thats why the americans are there to support head hacking terror.
you really don’t seem too bright – and have everything upside down and back to front.
the savages are the ones inside the al tanf garrison.
why can’t the syrian government send a few battalions, if not to oust them, at least to surround them and pressure them to leave?
just blow the oil fields, the parasites will leave
no they won’t.
that would not be sufficient.
it will be necessary to wipe out every one of their illegitimate military bases across the entire region to force an american withdrawal, because they never back down, they only double down.
that may seem unlikely, but so did the vietnam and afghanistan defeats.
better if there was another way – so many lives wasted for no good reason, but it is what it is.
i’ve said it before and i say it again. erect a berm around the entire facility and kill anything that comes over it. at the very least surround the damn place.
that free syrian army groups are so weak and unimportant. but the us will use them because sdf is too russia-friendly and sna is too turkish-friendly. so again, the us supports terrorists, terrorists that were either supported by nazis (hts/isis) or those by commies (pkk/pjak).
bomb the place,thats one area the russians can dish out some payback for ukraine.
my advice…flatten al tanf and destroy everybody there
if you give them the idea that they are untouchable than they are going to think they are, surround and target them whey they realise they are mortal and the chance of dying is substantial they will give one(s) head!
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usa soldiers will escape from syria.. as vietnam as afganistan. very soon. dead or alive.