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Syrian Civil War

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:37 pm
by Yuli Ban
Rockets fired at American base by pro-Iranian militias in response to US airstrikes
In the late afternoon, around dusk, reports emerged that pro-Iranian groups had shelled areas in eastern Syria across from Deir Ezzor, ostensibly targeting US forces near the Omar oil fields. This is an important and strategic area and US forces who support the Syrian Democratic Forces, have been reported to have a facility or base in this area. The attack was linked to airstrikes the US had carried out in Syria targeting pro-Iranian groups on Monday.
"US Forces in Syria, while under multiple rocket attack, acted in self- defense and conducted counter-battery artillery fire at rocket launching positions," wrote Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesperson for the US-led Coalition to defeat ISIS.

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:19 am
by Ozzie guy
I genuinely predicted that as soon as the US started pulling out of Afghanistan they would start or heat up a conflict somewhere else.

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:41 pm
by wjfox
ISIS leader killed in US-led Syria raid, Biden says

Updated 1424 GMT (2224 HKT) February 3, 2022

Washington (CNN) - US Special Forces killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counterterrorism mission in northwest Syria Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning.

It was the the biggest US raid in the country since the 2019 operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Sources on the ground reported multiple fatalities. At least 13 people were killed in clashes that took place during and after the raid -- including six children and four women -- according to the Syrian civil defense group, the White Helmets. There were no US casualties, according to the Pentagon.

"Last night at my direction, US military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our Allies, and make the world a safer place," Biden said in a statement. "Thanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi -- the leader of ISIS. All Americans have returned safely from the operation."

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement late Wednesday night that the mission was conducted by US Central Command, which controls military operations and activities in the Middle East.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/worl ... index.html

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 3:58 pm
by raklian
wjfox wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:41 pm ISIS leader killed in US-led Syria raid, Biden says
But....


Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:34 pm
by caltrek
The U.S. Has Further Admitted to Additional Killing of Civilians in Iraq and Syria
by Sanjana Varghese
March 31, 2022

https://airwars.org/news-and-investigat ... and-syria/

Introduction:
(Airwars) The US has quietly restarted admitting killing civilians in Iraq and Syria.

US-led coalition against Islamic State had not admitted harming civilians in eight months

The US-led International Coalition has quietly admitted to killing 18 more civilians in Iraq and Syria and injuring a further 11, its first such public concession in eight months.

On March 10th, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) – the US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State – quietly released on its website its first public civilian harm assessment since July 2021. It assessed a total of 63 incidents dating back to 2015, of which 10 were assessed to be ‘credible’ – meaning the Coalition accepted causing civilian harm.

The statement conceded that 18 civilians were killed and 11 were injured cumulatively in these ten events. Matching the incidents to its own archive, Airwars put the likely casualty numbers far higher for these events, with between 45 and 166 civilians reportedly killed. The remaining 53 incidents were deemed ‘non-credible.’

Patterns of Civilian Harm from Russia's Military Actions in Syria (2015-2022)
March 24, 2022

https://airwars.org/news-and-investigat ... 2015-2022/
(Airwars) A review of 61,000 unique sources reveals the intensity and scale of civilian harm resulting from alleged Russian actions
Since the beginning of Russia’s military intervention in Syria in 2015, Airwars has tracked, documented and preserved every local allegation of civilian harm resulting from Russian actions – over 4,000 individual incidents from 61,915 unique sources.

We have collected 11,181 names of civilians reported killed, and identified 1,383 family members killed in the same incidents. In total, our archive indicates that by March 2022, as many as 24,743 civilians had been locally-alleged killed by Russian actions in Syria, and another 43,124 injured. To date Russia has yet to publicly accept responsibility for the death of a single civilian during the campaign.

Russian and Syrian regime pilots often fly the same Russian airframes, use the same munitions and tactics, and also fly joint patrols. For this reason, local communities can find it extremely challenging to attribute civilian harm directly to one party or another.

In those events where only Russia is implicated Airwars believes the likely civilian fatality toll to be between 4,300 and 6,400. Between 10,000 and 17,100 further deaths are alleged from contested events – where Russia is only one of the belligerents blamed for an attack, primarily alongside the regime.

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 7:48 am
by Time_Traveller
Russia ‘sends a message’ with first missile attack on Israeli jets in Syrian war, expert says
May 20, 2022

A Russian counter-attack on Israeli forces in Syria has raised fears of a potential escalation to the conflict, with experts fearing a similar provocation “within days”.

This week, Russia launched missiles on Israeli jets that had flown over Syria and struck targets north of Damascus. Several casualties were reported and the Syrian army returned fire from anti-aircraft systems.

Israel has launched hundreds of similar missions since the beginning of Syria’s civil war in 2011, often targeting adversaries Iran and Hezbollah which have established a presence in the country and facing down Syrian air defences.

However on this occasion, the retreating Israeli pilots were targeted by missiles from a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft system under the operational control of Russian officers, Israel’s Channel 13 reported. None of the missiles hit their targets.
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russia-m ... ar-1641374

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:55 pm
by caltrek
Nighttime U.S. Helicopter Raid Captures ‘Senior Daesh Leader’ In Syria
by Howard Altman
June 15, 2022

Introduction:
(The War Zone) Forces from the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State jihadi group detained what officials say is a “senior Daesh leader" in an operation in Syria today that had no civilian casualties.

Daesh is an Arabic pejorative for ISIS, widely used by the coalition.

“The detained individual was assessed to be an experienced bomb maker and facilitator who became one of the group’s top leaders in Syria,” officials from Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a media release Wednesday evening.

Earlier this evening, video began emerging on social media showing helicopters, likely those from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), better known as the Night Stalkers, flying blacked-out at high speed and very low altitude over northwest Syria. (See linked article for several Twitter posts that include video of helicopters flying blacked-out).

It was not immediately clear what role U.S. forces played in the mission beyond airborne transportation and support. The coalition consists of dozens of nations. We've reached out to CJTF-OIR for answers and will update this story.
Read more here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ ... -in-syria

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:41 pm
by caltrek
The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine
by Patrick Cockburn
July 4, 2022

Introduction:
(Counterpunch) Kurds are suffering the greatest collateral damage form the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees attract global attention, but the Ukraine war has opened the door wide to the mass expulsion of two million Syrian Kurds, which is likely to take place in the coming months. Turkey is threatening to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from northern Syria which it began five years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have already been forced by Turkish-led forces to flee from their enclaves on the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border. “There is no place for the [Kurdish fighters] in Syria‘s future,” said Erdogan. “We hope that… we will rid the region of separatist terror.” In practice, the Turkish policy during previous incursions into Syria has been to drive out all Syrian Kurds, civilians as well as fighters, separatists and terrorists.

After Turkey lifted its veto on Sweden and Finland joining Nato, the Nato powers are less likely than before to deter Erdogan from a fresh invasion of Northern Syria. In the longer term, they want to recruit Turkey as an ally against Russia.

The US has already largely abandoned the Syrian Kurds to Turkey, though it was they who provided the ground forces that, in alliance with the US, defeated the so-called Islamic State in Syria and lost 11,000 Kurdish soldiers in the fighting.

The Syrian Kurds themselves have no doubt about their likely fate and many are already seeking to escape. Their ethnic cleansing is the most important and tragic piece of collateral damage stemming from the Ukraine war – and one which is being largely ignored by the outside world.
Read more here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/0 ... -ukraine/

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 8:36 pm
by caltrek

Re: Syrian Civil War

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:26 am
by weatheriscool
Pentagon: US kills IS group leader in Syria in drone strike
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike.

U.S. Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the Islamic State group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were no civilian casualties, though it wasn’t possible to immediately confirm that information.

The U.S. carried out the strike outside Jindaris, a town in northwest Syria close to the Turkish border.

The attack “takes a key terrorist off the field and significantly degrades the ability of (IS) to plan, resource, and conduct their operations in the region,” said President Joe Biden in a statement. “And, like the U.S. operation in February that eliminated (IS’s) overall leader, it sends a powerful message to all terrorists who threaten our homeland and our interests around the world.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/islamic-stat ... 3c72cce216