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The United States has deployed air defenses at its largest base in Syria, amid growing signs that Damascus could soon join the ongoing American-Israeli war on Iran by attacking the Islamic Republic’s ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
RT released video footage showing the reinforcements, which included two Centurion C-RAM systems and an AN/TPQ-53 radar, heading towards Qasrak base, located between the towns of Tell Tamr and Tell Baidar in the northeastern governorate of al-Hasakah.
Qasrak is the U.S. largest base in Syria, used to support forward operations and as a logistics hub. The base includes a runway capable of supporting large American military cargo planes.
The Centurion, built around the M61A1 30 mm gun, is a counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar air defense system that is also used against drones, with a range of around two kilometers. Meanwhile, the AN/TPQ-53 is an active electronically scanned array radar with a range up to 60 kilometers.
The deployment of these systems at Qasrak came as a surprise as just a few weeks earlier it was reported by The Wall Street Journal and other outlets that the U.S. is working to withdraw its remaining troops from Syria — numbered around 1,000 — within two months.
U.S. troops did leave al-Tanf garrison, a key outpost near the borders of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, as well as a base near the town of al-Shadadi in al-Hasakah. This limited withdrawal was likely, however, related to the preparations for the war on Iran, which broke out on February 28.
Iran has launched hundreds of retaliatory strikes with missiles and drones since the start of the war, targeting Israel, as well as bases housing or supporting the U.S. military across the region.
The Islamic Republic’s allies also joined in after the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq began carrying out similar strikes, and Hezbollah resumed operations against Israel, ending a ceasefire in Lebanon that was brokered by the U.S. more than 15 months ago.
Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman were all hit. There were even reports of Iranian attacks on Turkey and Azerbaijan. Still, not a single strike from Iran or its allies targeted Syria, or U.S. forces deployed there.
U.S. attempts to reinforce its largest base in Syria may be linked to growing signs that Damascus could join the war on Iran by attacking Hezbollah.
The Syrian government began deploying reinforcements along the border with Lebanon weeks before the start of the war, and last month Lebanese Al Akhbar reported that high-ranking officials in Lebanon received information indicating that the country’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said during a closed meeting with his senior officials: “Now it is Hezbollah’s turn, and we will not forget our revenge.”
Hezbollah, a Shia group, was a close ally to Syria’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown more than a year ago by a coalition of Sunni Islamist rebels led by Sharaa.
While Syria remained silent when the war first broke out, it began escalating against Hezbollah earlier this week, accusing the group of shelling the town of Serghaya, west of Damascus, over the night of March 9 and 10. On that day, the group said that its fighters clashed with an Israeli commando unit that landed from helicopters close to Serghaya.
“The Syrian Arab Army will not tolerate any aggression targeting Syria,” the Syrian military said in a statement to SANA.
Following this threat, Sharaa declared his support to efforts to disarm Hezbollah during a phone call with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. He affirmed that this step is “essential for solidifying Lebanese state sovereignty and shielding the region from the repercussions of ongoing regional armed conflicts,” according to a readout of the call published by SANA.
Hezbollah, which is currently facing an intense aerial campaign and a ground operation by Israel, will be easily overwhelmed by a Syrian invasion. Nevertheless, such a move would likely be met with a fierce response from Iran and the other allies of the group.
Syria’s infrastructure, or rather what’s left of it after 14 years of civil war, would be completely exposed to retaliatory strikes from Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. U.S. bases in the country will also be targeted, which explains why air defenses are now being deployed at Qasrak despite the reported withdrawal plans.
Sharaa is likely aware of the heavy price Syria will pay for joining the war on Iran and its allies. That’s being said, he is not in a position to refuse if the U.S. or Israel asked him to jump in.
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oh, wow, nobody saw that coming. lol.
some of us did because the us had been supporting those head choppers for years, they handed syria to israel, they must be some of the dumbest muslims on earth.
almost as dumb as russians believing in “un” and “international law”. then they should maybe do something about hospital murderers ?
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where exactly are the root cause located ? it is not in ukraine. again, dumb as cattle. ruled by a pascifist with “nuclear weapon” 😂 its as stupid as the european propaganda, that history started 2022. no evil empire exists for both types of idiots. “un” are a bunch of parasites, that have done nothing about genocide for soon 80 years, and thought it was better to mass murder in the hospitals.
dead man walking, but not for long!
wtf? two 30mm anti aircraft guns and a radar? what kind of jokers are you?
i wonder if iran will strike the jordan king’s palaces. jordan is a majority palestinian country.
i wonder if the king of jordan is hiding like shitanyahu.
if they hit, they will hit jordan’s water desalination plants first.
you must tell something about that water can flow upwards also ! else, you have miss half his training of you 😂 like sweet water will flow from the sea, in upstream rivers 😂 halleluja
the people of jordan would love to be relieved of the installed zionist worshiping king
they have all hide behind “us”. forced people to use dollars for oil, as thanks to the british cannibals, that invented their “countries”, and placed them on peoples necks.
al cia da visits peace prez in out house but both work for a little country
armchair idiots, who are too “smart” for own their good. the five posts above me.
“and hezbollah resumed operations against israel, ending a ceasefire in lebanon that was brokered by the u.s. more than 15 months ago.”
like i said before i got deleted. when has israel even tried to keep a ceasefire?
southfront is western propaganda.
southfront are cannibalistic propaganda, working in the same way tried against copernicus, galileo and assange. they worship the state, nazis, and the zero.
southfront desperately wants to support the claim that the west was won. it was lost. you cant both support genocide, and condemn it. you cant have it both ways. any ceasefire with the cannibals are worth nothing, because their bottom line are that they are better than others, and can lie as much they want to those. and on top of it, adolf trump have declare he owns the world.
another target that will be destroyed
did anybody see that china and russia abstained on the unsc vote the u.s. directed that iran must cease their attacks on the gulf states but not reciprocally that the u.s. should cease attacking iran?… is this why they both did the same at the well of the unsc 24 years ago while they were cutting deals in the back room with pox americana all along???… say it ain’t so!… and so much for the briics!…
they are a joke, joking by a multipolar world, ruled by greedy, jewish nazis. hundreds of years of attacks on small countrys. they had probably not noticed that, or is it ok, as son its a smaller country attacked by a bigger ?
russia is a zionist supporting nation. china is a lap dog.
their part is to give the illusion of resistance, to pacify everyone who seeks resistance against the zionist agenda. they are allies to no one except the beast and the antichrist that rides it.
i made a comment about the kingdom(s) attempting to move their assets to russian and chinese banks in exchange for their neutral position in a recent unsc vote in order to allow the u.$. to continue their assault which they started on iran and demanding iran stop their attacks on the kingdom($) and of course s-f never fails in censoring the most logical reason for it.
of course ! think about if the most logical reason to the failure of newtons laws should be widely accepted ! that politicians are parasites, living on hoax their host.
two terrorists that shook hands with drumpf in the white house.
ooh… the head “former” terrorist who is now the leader of syria is now overtly doing terrorism again at the direction (again) of cia and mossad. who saw this coming?
it makes sense for us/nato/isreali terrorists now in damascus to go and fight for isreal whilst it still exists, after all isis and al queerda owe them so much. the medical treatment for the terrorists fighting the saa came in very handy as did all the weapons and training. me thinks that the syria people will have something to say about that. defeating a army is one thing, defeating a people is another.
iran will catch this and play whack a mole. they have no reservations in continuous destruction of us military assets when opportunity. this move seems another act of zio cult desperation
if this sharaa terrorist thugs start helping israel and us against hezbollah. iran should flatten damascus in response and even killed this zionists puppet that’s the only option
“iran just named google, microsoft and nvidia as its next targets” wipe the hospital murderers of the surface. then maybe newtons laws will be acknowledge in north america. these organizations, and “us” as a whole, are as the pleasure killing christian church against galileo.
about the “un” debate; any reaction against christian nazis are of course always “unprovoked”. this is their inner nature, pleasure killers. they must be allowed to murder, because they have exactly the same point of view as nazi germany. that was how “the west was won”.
blow the “key base” to hell. then they can transport more harmless nazis back to the island of death and destruction. make a bunch of nazis harmless.
“a captain on a ship in the persian golf, are staring on his gps, which tells him he is inside a nuclear power plant” 😂 best laugh of the day, thanks to chinese guy on youtube. i have actually be inside the containment for a nuclear reactor. but before it was loaded…
more funny things from the persian golf; the forcefull weapon of ships anchor have be activated. i told you so. now continue with the atlantic, so we get rid of the non-newtonian entitys.
there will be no room on this earth for traitors.
traitors against what ? egypts walking cadavers ? how many millions of “americans” was fouled by a trick movie ? technically, they are not any more what means by homo sapiens, only a form of murderous cattle.