US Defies Moscow, Strikes Syrian Army In Syria – OpEd

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The US military has again struck at the Syrian army in Syria. US jets attacked a group of Syrian armored vehicles. By their own claims they destroyed or damaged all of them.

This is the fourth time US forces have attacked Syrian government forces in Syria, the third time since Donald Trump became president, and the second time since the current stand off over US presence in southern Syria at al-Tanf developed.

The US claims the Syrians were within 55 kilometers of the US base at al-Tanf, Syria which made them a fair target. But the 55 kilometer exclusion zone is a unilateral American invention. It has no grounding in law or common sense.

What is worse—as the US air force was bombing the Syrian army—US-backed rebels were bragging about attacking Syrian forces sitting just outside the 55 kilometer perimeter with their artillery. For some reason the unilaterally-proclaimed “deconfliction zone” cuts only one way — the Syrian army may not drive past it, but the CIA-backed rebels may come as close to the government forces as they please.

Russia warned the first time the US struck at the Syrians in the al-Tanf region that such attacks were “absolutely unacceptable”. Apparently its warning was not taken seriously.

Bottom line is that US has de facto now carved out a piece of Syria as its occupation zone where government forces will be kept from, but which US-paid “rebels” may use as staging points for attacks against the army.

MINA

MINA is the Macedonian International News Agency

One thought on “US Defies Moscow, Strikes Syrian Army In Syria – OpEd

  • June 7, 2017 at 11:16 am
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    Unless Russia responds the Americans will take this as a green light to take everything up to (and including) Deir-ez-Zor.
    A couple of Kalibr missiles on al-Tanf and al-Zuqf should be a warning shot and show the Americans that Syria will be defended.

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