US tells rebels not to count on its help as Syrian army advances into country’s southwest – report.
The US military has reportedly warned the rebels it backs in Syria that it will not help them thwart a large-scale offensive of the Syrian Army, which is rapidly gaining ground in the southwest of the country. In a letter to the commanders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a loose umbrella group of armed rebels, Washington wrote that they should not base their decisions "on the assumption or expectation of a military intervention by us.”
The message, which was reported by Reuters on Sunday, calls on the group to decide for themselves on their response to the rapidly-advancing Syrian forces that continue their assault eyeing to reclaim the swathes of land along the border with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Burgers gonna burger. > destabilize country > pull out before fixing things The only thing they really want is chaos.
Camden Green
Lets get our people out of there, and let the Syrians figure things out for themselves. Assad was a secular leader before we fucked up his country for an oil pipeline. I hope McCain lives long enough to see Assad victorious.
t. jealous darkskins >inb4 you show me a picture of your daddy
Chase Bell
hey stupid burger your post shows how deeply stupid you and most so called Real americans are. I guess you have no clue that there is approximate 10% population of Christians in SYRIA. NO YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THAT FACT.
Christianity in Syria. Christians in Syria make up approximately 10% of the population. The country's largest Christian denomination is the Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch (known as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East), closely followed by the Melkite Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which has a common root with the Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch, and then by an Oriental Orthodoxy churches like Syriac Orthodox Church and Armenian Apostolic Church. There are also a minority of Protestants and members of the Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church. The city of Aleppo is believed to have the largest number of Christians in Syria. In the late Ottoman rule, a large percentage of Syrian Christians emigrated from Syria, especially after the bloody chain of events that targeted Christians in particular in 1840, the 1860 massacre, and the Assyrian genocide. According to historian Philip Hitti, approximately 900,000 Syrians arrived in the United States between 1899 and 1919 (more than 90% of them were Christians). The Syrians referred include historical Syria or the Levant encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
who gives a fuck about christcucks, you dumb fucking kike
Jonathan James
I hope this is true, and I hope there's not another obvious false flag. Israel won't be happy about this.
John Hill
This guy gets it.
Most skYanks have the attention span of a cat when if comes to geopolitics. What is "happening" in the world, is enough to make Ron Paul turn in his grave, and he is still alive.
Putin, Xi, even the Euro leadership are demonstrating in their moves, countermoves, and policies, that it is preferable to have nations headed by stable leadership, a constancy one can reasonably depend on.
The US and lib democracies demonstrate that they are schizophrenic, and can change course every 4 year election cycle.
The west derides Putin and Xi for being autocrats and 'kings for life.' But it's this kind of model that will garner trust in the 21st century.
Awful. It is necessary for the US to keep occupying this sovereign state. Why can't you regressive idiots see that bipartisan imperialism is on the right side of history?
Matthew Perez
Democracy was a mistake. Yup.
Carter Hughes
Do you not realize that all of Washington is trying to remove him from office by any means necessary?
Trump is the only thing that can redeem the US right now.
Brody Reed
>memeflag
Okay compadre.
Asher King
Do you have brain cells left inside of your thick skull to post something of value?
Is that your only argument Mohammed? A fucking embassy?
Christian Thompson
"We in the United States government understand the difficult conditions you are facing and still advise the Russians and the Syrian regime not to undertake a military measure that violates the zone," the message states. There have been mounting concerns that the new push by the Syrian army might drag the US troops, especially those deployed in Al-Tanf military base along the Jordanian border, into the showdown with the Syrian forces.
Tensions have flared up amid reports by Syrian state media about the spike in the US-led coalition attacks on its military. At least eight people were killed in the alleged strike by the coalition in Deir ez-Zor on Thursday, the same day the US military claimed that its Al-Tanf base was targeted by unknown hostile forces. The message comes after Washington accused Damascus of “unambiguously violating” the ceasefire agreed between Russia, the US and Jordan last July.
Ah, Trump finally stopped to help the (((rebels))) Good news.
Ian Martinez
No, you die you stuppid Isreal Cocksucker
Julian Sanchez
Let's watch, they might as very often in the past play very dirty evil games. Turnip is known to lie a lot. They are nation of greedy evils.
Joseph Evans
kek fuck you kike your times running out
Landon Lewis
>you kike ??? are you fucking completely paranoid, fuck some of you people are so dumb. LMAO DUMB DUMB AMERICANS.
Logan Rogers
Based. Good luck Assad.
Luis Collins
xDDDDDDDDDDD
Jeremiah Edwards
The deal paved the way for the establishment of a de-escalation zone in Syria’s southwest, where rebels and the Syrian government forces are barred from fighting each other. The truce was ultimately aimed at separating ‘moderate’ opposition from terrorists, as terrorist groups were excluded from the agreement.
“The Syrian regime’s violations of the ceasefire in southwest Syria need to stop,” Ambassador Nikki Haley said at a UN meeting on Friday. On Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert warned the Syrian government of “serious repercussions,” without elaborating.
Some 2,000 US troops have been stationed in Syria, some of them are embedded with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the others are in Al-Tanf. While US President Donald Trump floated the idea of a withdrawal earlier this year, now the Pentagon says that its troops are to stay in Syria for as long as needed, meaning it can be indefinitely. While Washington does not seem eager to engage in a direct confrontation with the Syrian troops now, the US has a long history of using Syrian rebels as proxies, supplying them with weapons that occasionally fall in the wrong hands.
After what happened last year to those Russian Mercenaries (300 dead 200+ wounded, only 1 of 20 armor vehicle survived, total decimation), I can guarantee you that Syria is going to tread very carefully.
US Military has fighters, B-52 bombers, attack helicopters, artillery, and AC-130 gun ship with in range if need be.
Plan may be to suck Syrian Forces in and eliminate them when you get too close to US position.
Remember Gen. Mattis is Sec.Def. if you fuck with him you DIE!
>After what happened last year to those Russian Mercenaries (300 dead 200+ wounded, only 1 of 20 armor vehicle survived, total decimation)
what utter nonsense. at most 5 were killed. they were Orthodox Christians fighting with a Christian Syrian militia.
Logan Parker
>Remember Gen. Mattis is Sec.Def. if you fuck with him you DIE! Mattis is a pedo and he is under gag order or the pictures will be released to the media. Mattis is a paper tiger and a massive pussy. Just big mouth with very small dried out balls.
Plan from the other side is to successfully enter the compound first, because that would make heavy machinery unusable being in close by standoffs. So since Syrian/Russian side had only machine guns, their main objective is only to enter the place, being outnumbered/overrun with enemies behind the cover US forces would have to retreat while giving Syrian side enough time to reinforce their numbers and weapons.
