SOUTHWEST ASIA – U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Crisis Response-Central Command, engage targets during a live-fire demonstration near At-Tanf Garrison, Syria, Sept, 7, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Carlos Lopez)
The US-led coalition continues to train its proxies in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf where it maintains a large garrison.
On December 28, the coalition’s main proxy group in al-Tanf garrison, the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), shared several photos showing a recent joint weapons training. During the training, MaT militants fired SPG-9 73 mm recoilless guns and other heavy weapons with coalition troops.
Teamwork is essential to mission readiness. Soldiers from @MaghaweirThowra & #US_Forces during a weapons training. #Defeat_Daesh #StrongerTogether #altanf #Al_Tanf #Syria @OIRSpox @SOJTF_LEVANT @CJTFOIR pic.twitter.com/tyOireKzMa
— مغاوير الثورة (@MaghaweirThowra) December 27, 2021
Around 200 US troops are usually deployed at al-Tanf garrison, which was established in 2016. The US-led coalition maintains a 55 kilometers no-fly, no-drive zone around the garrison.
On October 20, al-Tanf came under attack. The garrison was targeted with five suicide drones and indirect fire. The attack resulted in some serious material damage. However, there were no casualties. In response, the US-led coalition and the MaT held two live-fire exercises in al-Tanf in November.
The exercises were likely an attempt to deter Iran and its allies in Syria and Iraq, who were reportedly behind the attack. The attempt failed, however.
On December 14, a warplane of the Royal Air Force shot down one of two small drones that breached al-Tanf’s no-fly zone. US officials believe that Iran or Iranian-backed forces were behind the incident.
While the US claims that its forces are present in al-Tanf to counter ISIS, the real purpose of the garrison is to block a highway that links the Syrian capital, Damascus, with Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Washington wants to keep Iran’s allies in the two countries away from the strategic highway.
Being an illegal base in a country that has no oversight it is able to do anything it pleases there. They also have another base to the east of them which no one talks of. Is that the CIA base for ISIS rest and recuperation while waiting for re deployment while the al-Tanf one is regular army training locals cajoled from the refugee camp just down the road to be proxies in the fight against Isis , oops I mean Assad . That’s right , they are pretending to be combatting ISIS but really pitted against the SAA. It also forces SAA / Iran to use the longer road via Deir Azoir – Al Bukamal
It could all be ended in hours with ballistic missiles and airstrikes,why is it not happening?
Typical ballistic comment. Its even a copy paste from Yourself.
You keep Your knowledge level low and remain illiterate stupid by Yourself. As long as You cant even find the reasons for fx this, You will remain illiterate even the reasons for why they are there and they are not bombarded as You think is a good idea, all are well descriebed as well as analysed.
There we go again. The illiterate not even try to improve themself being 3 times minus showing themself well.
People like You ghardly ever give any information not even among each other. Thats a characteristis for no learners kept in the dark by their masters and themself.
The great oilproducer Syria was not even able to produce plastic of any kind. Thats where the problems are. The oil sold for fuel is not the real money for oil. its 10, 100, 1000 times more in benenfit even producing the low plastic products.
But none are educated for it in Syria. That goes for several oil producers. The buyers get the profit. Same thing for Russia. Most Russians are only for Daccas with hens, potatoes and carrots.
The three lines still remain as propaganda blindfolding.
The blocking from day one has had the purpose to block ISIS transports, Saudi contacts to ISIS AND Iran-Syria blocade.
Today its true its almost only as Syria-Iran blocker, which is doing pretty well.
US has many enemies there now. Russia, Iran, Turkey, SAA, FSA, Kataib Hezbollah/Asaib ahl al Haq. Too difficult. Their only allies are SDF and Iraqi army.
“Their only allies are SDF and Iraqi army.”
“allies” What happened to yanquis allies in Afghanistan? Was “Russia, Iran, Turkey, SAA, FSA, Kataib Hezbollah/Asaib ahl al Haq” were in Afghanistan? to make things too “difficult” for yanquis as well? NO, huh. Do you think SDF is any different? NO. Matter of fact they are in the worse case. You forgot what Trump did? It took Turkey a few weeks to take most of N-Syria from SDF. Just like how Afghanistan fell so fast under the Taliban’s hands.
The US is there to help themself, they don’t care if they are working with terrorists…it is also funny how Kurdish people are more racist to Arabs in N-Syria as well. Like how in Afghanistan the US put up a pedo ring of people, that looted the country and run away as fast as they could.
Read these headlines: SDF Chief: Islamic State ‘Not Finished Yet’ – “Kurds making ISIS attacks, with the ynauqis.” SDF leader: Washington will not abandon us | Arab News – “that’s what the pedo Afghan government said”
This one was funny: Al Mayadeen Sources: SDF Leadership to Change, Ushering in New Phase “Al Mayadeen’s sources report that SDF’s Leader, Mazloum Abdi, will be replaced by someone from without the spectrum of known PKK leaders.” The funny part is so many “Western” Kurds believed SDF is not linked to PKK, and it’s a lie that Turkey made up.
-Iraqi army???????????? do you mean Iraq? How? How is the US is an “allie” of the Iraqi army/Iraq? (Remember Iran help Iraq 1st when ISIL was powerful in Syria and Iraq – the US moved in because of Iran) Also, you do know what yanquis did to the Iraqi people and the Iraqi army? Right? Because Iraqi people remember it. (They supported Saddam to invade Iran – Iraq somehow got fuked by Iranians, the yanquis invaded Iraq and kill Iraqis and destroyed Iraq.) If you were Iraqi would you welcome back these Zion child killers? No The Iraqi want the US and Iran out…those are the young Iraqis…
“America first” – a superpower doesn’t have “allies” – it is the same for the US. NATO is there to stop Russia. In Asia US aid and support S-Korea/JP/TW/OCE countries against China. In M.E the US-supported ISIS, Kurds, Al-Qaeda, any Wahhabi based group to start wars in M.E to make sure Israel doesn’t get focused on.
Afghanistan is not in the Middle East. If we say this then US has also enemies in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Algeria, Libya, Sudan and also Egypt is too close to Russia.
US supports both Syrian Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan. US also supports Iraqi army, the post-Saddam army. Iran mostly supports PMU.
FOAB time…