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-led coalition’s main proxy group in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf is planning to recruit around 2,000 new militants, the Al Akhbar newspaper reported on October 26.
Current, the group has around 300 militants, all of them are deployed at the coalition’s garrison in al-Tanf or in nearby positions. The decision to increase the group’s forces is the most recent in a series of steps meant to strengthen the U.S. occupation of the key area that lays along Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq.
In September, the U.S.-led coalition sacked the leader of the group, Muhanad Tala, replacing him with Muhammad Farid Qassem, who is known to be a radical. This month, the coalition rebranded the infamous group by changing its name from Maghaweir al-Thowra [the Army of the Commandos of the Revolution] to the more inclusive Army of Free Syria (AFS).
Al Akhbar reported that the decision to increase the forces of the AFS was taking during a recent meeting between the group’s leader, Qassem, and Major General Matthew W. McFarlane, commander of the U.S.-led commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve.
According to the Beirut-based newspaper, the coalition will train the AFS’s new recruits on defensive measures against rocket and drone attacks as well as on protecting and guarding oil and gas facilities.
Some 200 U.S. troops are usually present at al-Tanf. The coalition maintains a 55-kilometer no-fly zone around the garrison. Despite of this, several drone attacks, which were attributed to Iranian-backed forces, and Russian airstrikes targeted the area this year.
With no sign of a near U.S. withdrawal from Syria, the coalition is apparently working to strengthen its grip on al-Tanf. The coalition may be also planning to push its proxies to launch a new insurgency against Syrian government forces from the area.
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Why there is nobody in Syria to bomb that al tanf trash out of existence ????
lol 2000 is nothing imao Assad have 150.000 soldiers
Blow tanf off the map,problem solved,Syria would be a good place to hit the Americans see how they like body bags going home to small town America.
This time I would volunteer to help.
This time I would promote FSA against dickless saa filthy commie jew phaggots.
And I will see you dickless phaggots on twitter again.
The slaves of the psionists are having a nervous breakdown and shitting so hard they have rectal prolapse. They fought all these wars, wasted trillions and lost tens of thousands of cannon fodders for the welfare funded banana republic and its orthodox settler parasites and still Assad won.
The problem with this war is that Zelensky takes cocaine and Putin takes prozac, so the little one moves like a squirrel and the big one like a sleeping turtle.
If something is surprising about Putin, it is that he gives all the time in the world to the enemy to organize and fight back, for example, the United States is already bringing tactical nuclear weapons to Europe.
Another thing about “slow and wavering” Putin is that he continually threatens but never delivers, so the enemies no longer believe or fear the braggart, this is seen not only in Ukraine but also in Syria and elsewhere.
Another terrible thing about Putin is that he always scrimps on his forces, he is incapable of being decisive, he mobilizes 300,000 troops late and badly, when to have superiority and confidence in victory any true leader would put 1,000,000.
I am pro-Russian but for me Putin is a disappointment, we are already in a war of positions with no end in sight, with heavy losses for both Slavic sides, which makes the Anglo-Saxons and NATO enormously happy.