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The United States-led coalition has reportedly reinforced its bases in Syria’s northeastern region with additional heavy weapons.
On October 27, a convoy of around 60 vehicle entered northeastern Syria coming from the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Syrian news sources said that the convoy included armored vehicles, rocket launchers and air-defense systems. However, this is yet to be verified.
The reinforcements were deployed in several bases of the U.S.-led coalition within key oil and gas fields in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor.
Just a day earlier, a convoy made up of more than 80 trucks carrying logistic supplies for the coalition entered the northeastern region.
The U.S.-led coalition already maintains a number of heavy weapons in its bases in northeastern Syria, including M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, M777 155 mm towed howitzers and allegedly AN/TWQ-1 Avenger short-range air-defense systems.
Earlier this month, U.S.-led coalition forces conducted an operational rehearsal with M142 HIMARS systems at the Green Village base within al-Omar oil fields in the southeastern Deir Ezzor countryside.
The U.S.-led coalition has been reinforcing its bases in northeastern Syria since the beginning of the year. The coalition has now begun to take similar measures in the key southeastern area of al-Tanf, which lays along Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq.
Attacks on U.S. bases in al-Hasakah, Deir Ezzor and al-Tanf increased in the last few months. Most of the recent attacks were blamed on Iranian-backed forces. They were reportedly carried out in response to Israel’s repeated attacks on the war-torn country.
The U.S. is clearly not planning to withdraw its forces from Syria any time soon. Washington claims that the coalition is still operating in the country to insure a lasting defeat of ISIS.
They can be expelled from syria … like the taleban did in Afghanistan…