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The United States-led coalition and its proxies had amassed a large force on the contact line with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies in the northeastern governorate of Deir Ezzor, Sputnik reported on July 8.
Citing local sources, the Russian news agency said that U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had deployed hundreds of troops and vehicles along the contact line on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
“The SDF forces brought in large military reinforcements consisting of more than 500 armored vehicles, including American-made vehicles, from al-Qamishli town in the countryside of al-Hasakah governorate, to the towns of Jadeed Akidat, al-Busira, al-Shuhail, al-Izba as well as al-Mammal area and al-Omar oil fields, in which the illegal American base is located, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,” the source said.
The SDF’s military buildup came amid an increase in U.S. flights over the eastern Euphrates bank and after the coalition deployed a surveillance blimp over its base in the Conoco gas facility, which is also located in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside.
Earlier this month, the coalition deployed additional reinforcements in its bases in al-Omar and Conoco and held a series of military exercises with its proxies there.
According to Sputnik, a number of SDF fighters talked about a U.S. plan to launch an attack against seven key towns on the eastern Euphrates bank, Hatla, Al-Jeneina, Murat, Mazloum, al-Hussainia, Al-Tabia, and Khasham, which are held by the SAA and its allies.
However, local sources denied these claims and told the news agency that the SDF deployed a large force from al-Hasakah to the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside because it wants to replace local Arab fighters after an increase in ISIS attacks there.
While an attack by the U.S.-led coalition and its proxies seems unlikely, the SAA and its allies are taking precautions. Large reinforcements were reportedly deployed over the last few days along the western Euphrates bank as well as in the seven government-held towns on the eastern bank.
It’s worth noting that tensions between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria have been mounting for a while now, with both sides accusing the other of violating flight safety protocols over the war-torn country.
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kill all the nazi usa forces and those drones and blimps shoot them out of the sky as nazi usa cannot do anything, and if any nazi usa fighters appear in the sky shoot those fuckers down too. =z=
the mighty u.s. military should do well against a small almost defenseless country after being defeated in vietnam after using chemical weapons and napalm on children they need something in the win column.
good, let them “concentrate”, then let iran fire a few shahabs, no need to waste better missiles at those clowns.
syria, iran, russia. there will come a time when you need to make your move.
russia made huge mistakes allowing us forces enter syria and allowed us and its allies to bomb syria at will. furthermore, russia invite turkey, which has shown is not good friend of russia. put simply russia betrayed syria and now can’t help syria because has another conflict in ua, which can be link to incompetence’s russian leadership in syria, by trying please the west at the expense of syria
the us is occupying the eastern part of syria illegally. why isn’t the eu and the rest of the hypocrites in the western world imposing sanctions on the us? where is the un? are the ziomafia parasites controlling all of them?
yes they are.
pkk is pro-assad and pro-russia though, this is probably a different group.
i don’t here the americans bragging; as of late about their f22s sent next door to syria.
russia are flying their su35s and 37s for over priced f22s that cost hundreds of thousands to fly per hour. the russians triumph 400 or even the new 350 missile complexes will knock us fighters out of the skies when the us is ready for more action in syria. oh, that’s right assad must go again. us and natostan happen to say so.
line up some russian artillery, ka52 choppers, su35s screamers for air cover and about a dozen 500lb glider bombs.
hypersonic to take out command and control.