BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:35 P.M.) – According to Kurdish sources close to Al-Masdar News,
the US military is to establish a presence at the Tabqa Airbase in Raqqa Governonate
as part of an agreement reached with the leadership of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The extent to which American forces will develop their stationing at Tabqa Airbase remains open to speculation.
Some sources claim that the US will carry out this deployment
in order to deter pro-government forces from challenging the YPG’s occupation of the Tabqa region,
whilst other sources claim that the US will even operate military aircraft from the base in the fight against ISIS.
On June 29, photos (see below) emerged of Brett McGurk,
the US envoy to the Coalition against ISIS, visiting Kurdish authorities in Tabqa city.
This visit is believed to be tied to the agreement which will allow US forces to station themselves at Tabqa Airbase.
Tabqa Airbase is the sight of a massacre carried out by ISIS in 2014 against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
In this massacre, more that 100 surrendered SAA soldiers were executed by the terrorist group.
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