Breaking: US Coalition bombs Syrian Army in southeast Homs

[charrob]

Breaking: US Coalition bombs Syrian Army in southeast Homs:

The U.S. Coalition has once again bombed the Syrian Armed Forces in southeastern countryside of the Homs Governorate, destroying a number of armored vehicles that advanced towards the Al-Tanf Crossing.

“The Coalition destroyed additional pro-regime forces that advanced inside the well-established de-conflication zone in southern Syria on June 6,” a statement released by the Pentagon read today.

The Coalition allegedly sent several warnings to the advancing Syrian Army troops, but they refused to halt their push towards the Al-Tanf Crossing on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Previously, the U.S. Coalition carried out a similar attack on May 18th that killed several Syrian military personnel that were advancing against the Free Syrian Army (FSA) units in southeast Homs.

The Syrian military command has not issued a response to the U.S.’ aggression.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-us-coalition-bombs-syrian-army-southeast-homs/

[CPUd]

872158398447579136
https://twitter.com/airwars/status/872158398447579136

[enhanced_deficit]

Is there any strategy (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?466176-France-to-deploy-aircraft-carrier-to-fight-ISIS%97report&p=6479374#post6479374) behind all this?

After terror attack in Paris, France had bombed ISIS in Syria as a retaliation.

France Strikes ISIS Targets in Syria in Retaliation for Paris Terror Attack
https://nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/europe/paris-terror-



In contrast, after recent days terror attacks in UK, US has now bombed Syrian government forces that are fighting ISIS ?

Breaking: US Coalition bombs Syrian Army in southeast Homs (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?511357-Breaking-US-Coalition-bombs-Syrian-Army-in-southeast-Homs&)

[CPUd]

Hopefully this will bring freedom to the people of Syria and also world peace.

[TheCount]

It's simple. We don't want to become involved in a Neocon boondoggle in Syria by fighting the ISIS forces in Syria, so we're bombing pro-government forces instead.

[Origanalist]

Trump is going to help save Syria, with Russia's help.

[goldenequity]

need more info... if this is just UNSC then meh...

NDF
Russian senator: Moscow will call an emergency meeting of the Security Council because of the US strike on Syrian forces

[charrob]

Is there any strategy (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?466176-France-to-deploy-aircraft-carrier-to-fight-ISIS%97report&p=6479374#post6479374) behind all this?



The U.S. is building a buffer zone along the entire border between Iraq and Syria to prevent "the Shiite Crescent" between Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon and to isolate Syria. Just a couple days ago the U.S. military created it's second illegal base in southern Syria (in addition to the illegal base at the al tanf border crossing). Syrian troops actually would like to work with the U.S. to get rid of ISIS and al qaeda: Syrian troops are no threat and have no desire to be a threat to the US. Iraq's shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' and the Syrian government want to re-open the Damascus-Baghdad highway for trade and commerce between their countries. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces fought long and hard to liberate Mosul and now that that fight is winding down they want this linkage with Syria and vice versa. The U.S. is forbidding this and apparently have ordered the Kurds to also forbid this as the Kurd's are also forbidding the two country's governments from being able to link up in the north.

The U.S. military has no legal right to do this. This is:



illegal under U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution
illegal under international law


The U.S. military has no right to murder the armed forces of a sovereign nation that is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. citizenry; the U.S. military has no right to establish military bases in a sovereign country that is no threat to the U.S. citizenry without that sovereign country's permission.

[afwjam]

Neocons make me sick to my stomach. Watched the hateful eight with someone the other day who said it was to violent, guess who is also a trump supporting neocon?

[AuH20]

Smells like McMaster.

[TheCount]

Smells like McMaster. The legendary werewolf of the white house, upon whom all things can be blamed.

[AuH20]

The legendary werewolf of the white house, upon whom all things can be blamed.

Do you really think Trump wants to gamble with WW3 breaking out? Highly doubtful, unless he's a figurehead at this point.

[afwjam]

Do you really think Trump wants to gamble with WW3 breaking out? Highly doubtful, unless he's a figurehead at this point.

I don't believe anyone knows what Trump is thinking, not even Trump himself.

[CPUd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1ozrTEG6M

[TheCount]

Do you really think Trump wants to gamble with WW3 breaking out? Highly doubtful, unless he's a figurehead at this point.This is the third attack on Syrian forces, so yes, he's now repeatedly gambled with that. Plus the American ground forces there...

But by all means please just continue with the Trump will prevent WW III meme train.

[nikcers]

I don't believe anyone knows what Trump is thinking, not even Trump himself.
Let us dispel this myth once and for all that Trump doesn't know what he's doing, he knows exactly what he's doing.

[charrob]

This is the third attack on Syrian forces, so yes, he's now repeatedly gambled with that. Plus the American ground forces there...

But by all means please just continue with the Trump will prevent WW III meme train.


Actually if you include the U.S. Military bombing and murdering of 82 Syrian soldiers in Deir Ezzor near the end of Obama's reign, it's a fourth attack not a third attack. The U.S. Military said it was a "mistake". I say bullshit. That was no mistake. It was almost like the U.S. coordinated with ISIS who attacked and took over large and strategic parts of Deir Ezzor during the U.S. bombing of Syrian soldiers who were located at Deir Ezzor's Syrian military base. Right before that Obama acquiesced and said he would work with Syria and Russia against ISIS. Dennis Kucinich and others believe the military purposely overrode Obama's orders to them. Here's a link to Kucinich discussing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_ZfKmcnSk&t=3m1s. It's sad really; the Syrian soldiers said that a U.S. drone was watching them in Deir Ezzor all the previous day: since they were aware of Obama's orders, they assumed U.S. forces were friendly and ignored the drone. However it appears that the U.S. Military wanted ISIS to take over Deir Ezzor.

Similarly, the Kurds are now attacking Raqqa but they are leaving open an area to the south where ISIS can, and currently are, leaving Raqqa. So large numbers of ISIS are currently leaving Raqqa and going to Deir Ezzor where the Syrian government is again under siege. The Kurds did the same thing in al Tabqah when they were trying to control it, and where they left an area to the south of al Tabqah open where ISIS fighters could leave. In fact i read that the Kurds had an arrangement with ISIS telling them if they left al Tabqah that they would not attack them. Which is what happened.

My gut is the U.S. Military's goal is to steal/keep a large "buffer" zone of sovereign Syrian territory along the entire Iraqi/Syrian border in order to isolate Syria. The U.S. Military's goal is also to steal all sovereign Syrian territory east of the Euphrates which is why they are doing their best to take Deir Ezzor (which is the only area in Syria east of the Euphrates that Assad's forces currently control). The Deir Ezzor region also has the greatest amount of oil and gas resources in Syria. And if the heathens in the U.S. Military get their way and steal all sovereign Syrian land east of the Euphrates, the long-discussed pipeline through Syria (which Assad refused to allow) from the Gulf States to Europe will also be a bonus for the hegemons in the U.S. government that want to destroy the Russian economy which depends on selling gas to Europe.

[Occam's Banana]

Hopefully this will oust Paul Ryan and bring freedom to the people of Syria and also world peace.

Fixed.

[TheCount]

Fixed.The Neocon warmongers have been successfully removed from the halls of power by appointing them all to White House positions. We really dodged a bullet there.

[Swordsmyth]

Assad Military Alliance Threatens To Strike U.S. Forces In Syriahttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/assad-military-alliance-threatens-strike-us-forces-syria

[CPUd]

Meanwhile:

872470077492297730
https://twitter.com/airwars/status/872470077492297730

[goldenequity]

Lavrov: Deconfliction zones in Syria announced without Damascus’ consent illegitimate (https://www.rt.com/news/391216-lavrov-syria-us-strike/)


Russia considers the US-led coalition airstrike against pro-Damascus fighters in Syria an act of aggression
and rejects the justification for the attack issued by the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Tuesday airstrike near the town of At Tanf in eastern Syria “was an aggressive act,
that violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic
and – deliberately or not – targeted the forces which are most effective in fighting terrorists on the ground,”
the minister said on Wednesday.

The Pentagon justified the attack
by saying that the pro-government forces “advanced inside the well-established deconfliction [sic] zone in southern Syria.”

“I don’t know anything about such zones."
This must be some territory, which the coalition unilaterally declared [deconfliction zones]
and where it probably believes to have a sole right to take action.
We cannot recognize such zones,”

[CaptUSA]

I can't believe anyone expected anything to be any better with this administration.

[Brian4Liberty]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?511398-Russia-US-Declared-De-Confliction-Zone-In-Syria-Illegitimate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkMgTfjQ3Dc

[devil21]

Do you really think Trump wants to gamble with WW3 breaking out? Highly doubtful, unless he's a figurehead at this point.

Of course he's a figurehead. He's surrounded by bankers. All of which who amazingly manage to never even get a mention among all of the administration scandals/investigations. It's just the banker CFR doing what they always do regarding wars coinciding with major economic changes. Wars and rumors of wars make for great excuses to change things that otherwise wouldn't be tolerated or would be noticed too easily without war news filling the news cycle. History repeats but mostly because it's the same people repeating the same playbook. I don't think the usual war catalyst FF is far off now. Trump's FBI nominee, Wray, was involved in both 9/11 and Enron...

[enhanced_deficit]

The U.S. is building a buffer zone along the entire border between Iraq and Syria to prevent "the Shiite Crescent" between Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon and to isolate Syria. Just a couple days ago the U.S. military created it's second illegal base in southern Syria (in addition to the illegal base at the al tanf border crossing). Syrian troops actually would like to work with the U.S. to get rid of ISIS and al qaeda: Syrian troops are no threat and have no desire to be a threat to the US. Iraq's shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' and the Syrian government want to re-open the Damascus-Baghdad highway for trade and commerce between their countries. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces fought long and hard to liberate Mosul and now that that fight is winding down they want this linkage with Syria and vice versa. The U.S. is forbidding this and apparently have ordered the Kurds to also forbid this as the Kurd's are also forbidding the two country's governments from being able to link up in the north.

The U.S. military has no legal right to do this. This is:


illegal under U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution
illegal under international law


The U.S. military has no right to murder the armed forces of a sovereign nation that is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. citizenry; the U.S. military has no right to establish military bases in a sovereign country that is no threat to the U.S. citizenry without that sovereign country's permission.

Informative analysis.

[Origanalist]

Informative analysis.

I agree, well worth a rep.

[charrob]

Informative analysis.


I agree, well worth a rep.

Thanks! :)

[goldenequity]

US-led coalition conducted a 3rd strike against #Syrian Army and allied forces in vicinity of At Tanf, #Syria - CNN reports.

[CPUd]

inb4 WWIII

872850211646865408
https://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/872850211646865408


872853085739208704
https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/872853085739208704

[CPUd]

http://i.imgur.com/SeXAXve.jpg

[charrob]

US-led coalition conducted a 3rd strike against #Syrian Army and allied forces in vicinity of At Tanf, #Syria - CNN reports.


Thanks, just got home and saw this. 'You must spread some reputation around before giving it to goldenequity again..

This is so so dangerous and so stupid. Do the guys in the U.S. Air Force who keep attacking Assad's forces really want a war with Russia? Do they not realize that they have no right to even be in that country let alone attack that sovereign country's military? Where is their backbone to say 'no'?

[charrob]

http://i.imgur.com/SeXAXve.jpg


Thanks for sharing.

[charrob]

Breaking: US Coalition attacks Syrian Army near Iraqi border: (https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-us-coalition-attacks-syrian-army-near-iraqi-border/)



The U.S. Coalition has once again attacked the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the Al-Tanf Border-Crossing in the southeastern countryside of Homs, CNN claimed this afternoon, citing a report from the International Coalition for Inherent Resolve.

The Syrian Arab Army was targeted by the U.S. Coalition after they allegedly ignored the latter’s warnings about advancing towards the Tanf Crossing.

This latest attack by the U.S. Coalition marks the second time this week and the third time in three weeks that the USAF has targeted the Syrian Arab Army and their allies near the Iraqi border-crossing.




U.S. downs pro-Syrian drone that fired at coalition forces: spokesman: (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-syria-idUSKBN18Z2CP?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BReuters%2FworldNews%2B%28Re uters%2BWorld%2BNews%29)



The United States shot down a pro-Syrian government drone that fired toward U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. military spokesman said, in a major escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus.

The armed drone "hit dirt" and there were no injuries or damage done to the coalition patrol in southern Syria. But U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State, told reporters the drone meant to attack them and dismissed the possibility it had fired a warning shot.

"This clearly showed a threat even if it were a warning shot; it was something that showed a hostile intent, a hostile action and posed a threat to our forces because this drone still had munitions that were still on it," Dillon said.

He added that it was the first known time that pro-Syrian government forces had fired at coalition forces in the area.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the munition landed a few hundred yards from coalition forces and failed to explode. The official added that a U.S. F-15 fighter jet was used to strike the drone, which was likely Iranian-made but that further analysis was being carried out.

Dillon said the United States had earlier in the day carried out a strike against two pro-Syrian government pick-up trucks with weapons that had moved against U.S.-backed fighters near the southern town of At Tanf.

It was the third such strike, and the second this week, by the Pentagon, which has sought to stay out of Syria's civil war to focus firepower instead on Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The concern is that such strikes could take away attention from the fight against Islamic State militants.

"Unfortunately, there have been (these) incidents that have taken our focus away from fighting ISIS," Dillon said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched their assault to capture Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital.

For months, air strikes and special forces from the U.S.-led coalition have helped them encircle Raqqa, which Islamic State seized in 2014 and has used as a base to plan attacks abroad.

On Tuesday, the United States launched an air strike against Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in southern Syria.

A military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad threatened on Wednesday to hit U.S. positions in Syria, warning its "self-restraint" over U.S. air strikes would end if Washington crossed "red lines".

In recent days, the U.S. military has repeatedly warned massing forces to stay away from a 'deconfliction zone' near a garrison used by American special forces and U.S.-backed fighters around At Tanf.

Tanf is part of a region known as the Badia, a vast, sparsely populated desert territory that stretches to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and was declared a military priority by Syria's foreign minister in May.

[CPUd]

873046476355649536
https://twitter.com/FazelHawramy/status/873046476355649536

[timosman]

Kabuki theatre.

[charrob]

Syrian Army, Hezbollah cutoff US-backed rebels from Deir Ezzor: (https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-hezbollah-cutoff-us-backed-rebels-deir-ezzor/)



The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), alongside Hezbollah and their Iraqi allies, reached the Iraqi border region that is located northeast of the US-held Tanf Crossing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported this evening.

As a result of this advance, today, the Syrian Armed Forces have effectively cutoff the US-backed rebels from the Deir Ezzor Governorate.

According to some reports, the Syrian Armed Forces and Iraqi Army met at the border; however, this still remains unconfirmed.

This advance by the Syrian Armed Forces and their allies, northeast of Al-Tanf, was likely secured by the Russian military, as cutting off the US-backed rebels would have required some-kind of deal between the governments in Moscow and Washington.

[charrob]

BREAKING: Syrian Army, Hezbollah reaches border with Iraq for the first time in years: (https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-hezbollah-reaches-border-iraq-first-time-years/)




Late on Friday afternoon, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Hezbollah and allied Iraqi paramilitary contingents dashed through southeastern Homs and reached an Iraqi border point, thus slicing adrift the frontline between rebel forces based in the Al-Tanf region and ISIS militants in the neighboring Deir Ezzor governorate.

Unopposed by the US Airforce and its vetted Syrian proxies, the SAA and its allies drove through over 40 kilometers of abandoned desert territory and managed to link up with an Iraqi garrison across the border.

The advance was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense and an Hezbollah-linked outlet moments ago.

Effectively, the SAA is now able to reopen trade between Damascus and Baghdad. Government forces have not controlled any parts of the largely ISIS-controlled border with Iraq since 2014.

[Occam's Banana]

http://i.imgur.com/UZrnlEC.png (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509465-Brian-Williams-quot-I-m-guided-by-the-Beauty-of-our-Weapons-quot)

873046476355649536
https://twitter.com/FazelHawramy/status/873046476355649536

[CPUd]

873364900613165059
https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/873364900613165059

[goldenequity]

The U.S. is building a buffer zone along the entire border between Iraq and Syria to prevent "the Shiite Crescent" between Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon and to isolate Syria. Just a couple days ago the U.S. military created it's second illegal base in southern Syria (in addition to the illegal base at the al tanf border crossing). Syrian troops actually would like to work with the U.S. to get rid of ISIS and al qaeda: Syrian troops are no threat and have no desire to be a threat to the US. Iraq's shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' and the Syrian government want to re-open the Damascus-Baghdad highway for trade and commerce between their countries. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces fought long and hard to liberate Mosul and now that that fight is winding down they want this linkage with Syria and vice versa. The U.S. is forbidding this and apparently have ordered the Kurds to also forbid this as the Kurd's are also forbidding the two country's governments from being able to link up in the north.

The U.S. military has no legal right to do this. This is:



illegal under U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution
illegal under international law


The U.S. military has no right to murder the armed forces of a sovereign nation that is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. citizenry; the U.S. military has no right to establish military bases in a sovereign country that is no threat to the U.S. citizenry without that sovereign country's permission.



Aldin Abazovic
Russia Lavrov in a phone conversation with #US Tillerson warned him not to strike #Syria pro-government forces again.

TASS
Russian FM Lavrov calls for 'specific measures' to prevent further US airstrikes against pro-Assad forces (http://tass.com/world/950890)
(Mad Dog and Tillerson better have a pow-wow... Trump's busy.)

[AZJoe]

Christmas in Homs 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_IHx8-dMk


Reopened Cathedral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMRMf0sl8Q

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d50_1512693054

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2017/12/21/01/wire-1945962-1513821354-472_634x422.jpg

[Raginfridus]

Merry Christmas

[AZJoe]

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