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Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya, Free Syrian Army groups operating in eastern Syria, have rejected a US offer to support an advance of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Deir Ezzor province, the Turkish state-run media outlet Anadolu Agency reported on Thursday.
According to the report, the Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra’s spokesperson Muhammad Jarrah said that Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra has rejected a US offer to participate in the operation because it sees the Kurdish-dominated SDF as a separatist movement and that the both SDF and ISIS boosted the strenght of the Syrian government.
Jarrah claimed that they will participate in the opeartion only if the group ‘s members able to take “independent steps” because they “do not want to share the burden of crimes committed against Syrian civilians.”
Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya’s spokesman, Saed el-Hajj, also said that his group has rejected the US offer and claimed that “the SDF and the regime are from the same group” and such offers are aimed to boost tensions within the so-called moderate opposition.
