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 US-led coalition and its proxies have held a joint live-fire exercise in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf, where it maintains a large garrison.
On April 17, the coalition’s main proxy in al-Tanf garrison, the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), released footage from the joint exercise. During the exercise, US troops launched rockets from M142 HIMARS systems. US F-16 fighter jets also struck several targets.
In a statement, the MaT said that the joint live-fire exercise was held to protect the region from “any threats”. The group didn’t elaborate.
“Air and ground units were used in these exercises to show strength in response to these threats,” the statement reads.
Some 200 US troops and around 300 MaT fighters are usually deployed at al-Tanf garrison, which was established in 2016. The US maintains a 55 kilometers no-fly, no-drive zone around the garrison.
Recently, several suspicious movements were reported at al-Tanf. In February, a report by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service warned that the US is preparing to send “terrorists” trained in al-Tanf garrison to fight against Russian forces military in Ukraine. Later in March, the Syrian Arab Army clashed with an unidentified force that sneaked out from al-Tanf on a reconnaissance mission.
The US-led coalition and its proxies in al-Tanf are apparently preparing for a possible military escalation with Damascus and its allies, Russia and Iran.
Those invaders must be punished! Illegal occupation par excellence.
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It would be nice if the SAA had the ability to just drive out all the foreign invaders. Alas, they do not, and so Syria continues to suffer.
Syria tell them to LEAVE and they have three days OR ELSE. Then shoot em with some BIG MISSILES on the second day because they did not even start packing up.