According to Kurdish activists in northern Syria, U.S. special operations forces were recently dispatched to the Kurdish-controlled city of Tal Abyad, near the Syria-Turkey border, as tensions flare in the fight against ISIS.
Officials in Baghdad would not confirm or deny the reports, citing operational security.
Photos of Russian and American specialists in Syria.
There are reports that Russian special forces are deployed to the south of Syria to the Jordanian border, where not so long ago the struggle between the US and Iran for the control over the border areas intensified.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed on Monday that the Russian special forces were ready to be deployed in the areas where Syrian troops were engaged in serious battles against the terrorist groups.
They further noted that the technical aspects of the plan had already been drawn up, and that it would be implemented once the Damascus government puts in an official request and Russian President Vladimir Putin issues the order.
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The United States also is not interested in Erdogan taking Manbij, so a few SOF units crossed the Euphrates and moved to the North from Manija to indicate where borders that Erdogan should not go.
Erdogan, however, has not left hopes to take Manbij, but the current situation puts him in a difficult position, as the active actions against Manbij can lead to clashes with SAA and Russian and American military. Certainly, the theme Manbij will be one of the most important in the discussion of the Syrian issue between Putin and Erdogan on March 9-10. Russia will certainly try to convince Erdogan that Manbij he does not need. Erdogan will listen to reason? We will see in a week.
The maps clearly demonstrate that the issue of the expulsion of the Caliphate from Northern Syria was dependent on the good will of Turkey, which after they stop their dalliances with the Caliphate and ran across to the camp of the Russian-Iranian coalition, helped to push the “black” from the Syrian-Turkish border. Of course, this was not done out of altruistic reasons, and in the framework of countering the threat of establishing an independent Kurdistan.
Al-Masdar News has obtained several pictures showing what appears to be US and British special forces training Syrian opposition fighters at an undiclosed site in Jordan.
Although Washington denies it officially, the newly leaked photos seem to prove what many western outlets have speculated since 2013.
A source from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaking on condition of anonymity, told BasNews on Saturday that a large group of well-equipped US Special Forces have recently arrived at the Tel Bidr base, northwest of Hasakah.
In a network there was video where fighters among Lebanese “Hezbollah” examining the battlefield in Aleppo, lit up our men fighting with the Lebanese. Write that it is possible the men of the Special Operations Forces operating in combat formations “Hezbollah” the same way as in the combat formations of the Kurds working with American commandos. It is not excluded that the required videos were “PMCs”.
Over the past 48-hours, six hundred Russian special forces have landed at the Hmaymeem Airbase on the Syrian coast and been transferred to Al Safira, a city in the Aleppo governorate strategically located on the Damascus-Aleppo Highway. From there they will be placed along the Castello Road, formerly the main lifeline for the Syrian Opposition from Turkey, helping channel arms, money, and food to Turkish-backed militants in eastern Aleppo.
At the end of June with Jordan in Syria came the CIA trained a group of militants more than 100 people (most of them studied in Turkey in 2015). Teaming up with local “green” and with the support of American specialists, this group (pathetically called the “New Syrian Army”) launched an attack on Abu Kamal an important town (from a logistical point of view) at the Syrian-Iraqi border (to the South is occupied not so long ago Ar-rutbah clipping of supply channels of militants in Anbar province). At the same time, the Americans planned to capture the airfield Hamdan to the North of the city, which can be used to supply the advancing troops and subsequent operations aimed at establishing control over the Syrian-Iraqi border. In the preparation of the offensive involved the US, Britain and Jordan.
Amid raging battles in Syria and Iraq, things are going beautifully and other theater. Libya recently began an assault on the capital of the local region, which is located in the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi – Sirte.
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