Showing posts with label Manbij. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manbij. Show all posts

Monday, March 27, 2017

U.S. Increasing Involvement In Syria Yet Again As Regional, World Tensions Flare - Are We Edging Toward Federalization, World War Three In Syria?

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
March 24, 2017

Are We Edging Toward Federalization, World War Three In Syria?

As tensions continue to rise between Syria, Israel, Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, the United States is also upping the ante in Syria. After mobilizing troops to Manbij and engaging in a series of airstrikes including a questionable report of the U.S. bombing a Mosque in Jineh and a more substantiated report of an American bombing of a school in al-Manswra, the U.S. also announced a major intensification of direct military participation in Syria by virtue of its airlift of American service personnel, Kurdish fighters, and moderate cannibals to an area very near Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital.

On March 22, the Pentagon announced that members of the SDF were airdropped behind enemy lines in an area close to the Tabqa dam, west of Raqqa. The dam is thought to be populated by hundreds of “foreign fighters” and reports are suggesting that a battle is currently raging near the dam.

The announcement was made as the 68-member U.S.-led coalition met in Washington. U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson stated that it is only a matter of time before ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed. As BBC reported,
The Pentagon declined to say how many US aircraft had been used to airlift Arab members of the Kurdish-led SDF close to the Tabqa dam, on the River Euphrates some 45km (28 miles) west of Raqqa, a key stronghold of IS. 

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

U.S. Mobilizes Troops To Block Syria Military’s Progress, Halt Conflict Between Turks And Kurds

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
March 15, 2017

On March 2, U.S. troops were spotted moving in a convoy toward the Syrian city of Manbij in Northern Syria.

This new mobilization caught many Syrian researchers by surprise and has caused utter befuddlement on the part of the hapless mainstream average viewer. Why would the U.S., who has already invaded Syria, make another push inside Syria in such a limited way? And why Manbij? This is, of course, the confused response of the minority who actually know that there is even a conflict in Syria.

The mobilization and deployment comes as Turk Euphrates Shield troops exchanged fire with Kurdish forces (Manbij Military Council) in areas West of Manbij.

Spokesman for the Combined Joint Task Force for Operation Inherent Resolve, Col. John Dorrian, said that the deployment was a “deliberate action” taken in order to make sure that the forces of the US-led coalition were able to “deter aggression” and “keep the focus on defeating ISIS” elsewhere in Syria.

Dorrian’s statements were a response to Kurdish news agency Rudlaw’s tweet announcing the sighting of the American troops.

U.S. military officials have said that this deployment does not necessarily mean that there has been an increase in the number of American soldiers deployed to Syria as a whole, only that these specific soldiers have been mobilized. That, however, remains to be seen.


Saturday, March 11, 2017

Turkish Military, FSA, Terrorists Capture, Mistreat Syrian Soldiers – Signs Of Coming Turkey-Syria Confrontation?

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
March 10, 2017

As Turkey marches forward in its plan to establish “Buffer zones” in Syria, the nature of the Turkish-backed forces and the real purpose of the Turkish invasion are becoming more and more clear for all to see.

As many in the alternative media have realized for quite some time, Turkey’s military incursion into Syria is an attempt to establish the solidification of ISIS/terrorist staging grounds inside Syria as well as to prevent the solidification of Kurdish forces in both Syria and Turkey. While the mainstream media tends to present Turkish-backed forces as moderates fighting against ISIS, the truth is that the Turk-backed fighters are barely distinguishable from ISIS. In fact, in many cases, the groups are one in the same.

They do, however, provide a good pretext for claiming victories over ISIS, justifying, and maintaining a hold on territory seized by these terrorists after they have “driven out ISIS.”

Interestingly enough, Turkish-backed forces are reported as having doubled their ranks by conquering ISIS territory in Syria by the western mainstream corporate press. Yet, in what other war does an army double its ranks simply by capturing territory? How would Turk-backed forces do so? That is, how would they do so unless ISIS fighters were joining their ranks as territory was “captured?”

Regardless, the nature of the Turkish-backed forces was recently put on display after the Turk-backed “Free Syrian Army,” along with a number of actual Turkish military forces, managed to capture a number of Syrian military soldiers after killing eight and wounding “tens” of soldiers. After capturing them, the coalition members then surrounded the Syrian soldiers, berating and slapping them throughout the course of the video along to the chant of “Allahu Akbar” so familiar to Neanderthal barbarians fighting against the Syrian government all across the country.