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A large surveillance aerostat of the United States military crashed on August near al-Omar oil fields in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor.
The aerostat, which was deployed from the U.S. Green Village base in al-Omar oil field, was shot down by Iran-backed armed factions, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, and a number of pro-government news sources.
Video footage posted to social networks showed the large aerostat slowly falling from the sky near al-Omar oil fields. U.S. fighter jets were reportedly spotted flying over the area after the incident.
The base in al-Omar oil fields is one of several military installations the U.S. maintains in Syria, mainly in Deir Ezzor and the neighboring governorate of al-Hasakah as well as in the southeastern area of al-Tanf, under the pretext of fighting ISIS remnants. At least 900 troops are deployed there.
The U.S. first deployed aerostats in its bases in Syria years ago. The large size of the aerostat that crashed near al-Omar oil fields suggests that it was equipped with advanced surveillance systems, very possibly an aerial radar. Last May, a very similar aerostat was reportedly shot down near a U.S. base in al-Hasakah.
U.S. forces in Syria and neighboring Iraq were attacked more than 180 times after the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian Gaza Strip last October, with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions in Iraq, claiming responsibility for most of the attacks.
The IRI suspended attacks against U.S. forces last February after the death of three American troops in a drone strike on a base in Jordan, reportedly upon a request from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. However, several attacks hit U.S. bases in both counties in recent days.
The aerostat crash came as Iran and its allies, including those in Syria and Iraq, are reportedly preparing to launch a joint strike against Israel in response to the recent assassinations of Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
It is very possible that the aerostat was shot down by Iran-backed armed factions in order to weaken the U.S. early warning network in the region before the strike.
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having spent almost no time around serious liars, it was easy as hell to spot the iraq war lie when i was 15. what is wrong with the brains of people who are there?
this deflated ballon tumbling down like a used condom is a very accurate depiction of the us empire
not without assads permission!
everywhere you like the anglozionazi empire of shit is leaking noxious gas. ain’t karma lovely!