On January 21, a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded at a checkpoint of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, when a column of the US-led coalition was passing it.
According to initial reports, 2 US service members were wounded and 5 SDF members were killed in the attack. Later, the US-led coalition commented on this issue by confirming the SVBIED attack but denying casualties among US service members.
This was the second attack, which targeted US personnel in Syria within a week. On January 16, a suicide bombing attack hit a coalition patrol in the center of Manbij. 2 US service members, a US Defense Department civilian employee and a contractor supporting the department were killed in the attack.
ISIS claimed responsibility for both attacks via its news agency Amaq.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the village of Moazah and advanced on ISIS positions in the village of Safaqinah in the Euphrates Valley. The SDF is currently developing its advance in an attempt to fully eliminate the remaining ISIS-held pocket in the area. Despite thousands of SDF-reported ISIS casualties in the area, this has not been done yet.
Speaking at the inauguration of a new international airport in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s air force had “delivered powerful blows to Iranian targets in Syria, after Iran fired a rocket from that area toward” the Golan Heights, which he described as Israeli territory.
Regional political experts, including Israeli ones, point out that Netanyahu is attempting to exploit the “Iranian threat” to gain an upper hand in the upcoming elections to the Israeli Parliament, which are set to take place in April 2019.
Despite this, the increasingly aggressive Israeli rhetoric triggered a reaction in Iran. The country’s air force chief Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh said that the army is ready “to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth” if it is needed.
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As shown in this article, Israel has one key regional goal in Syria that will protect its own interests
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/01/israels-agenda-in-post-war-syria.html
This is not terribly surprising given Israel’s expansionist agenda and the fact that Washington completely ignores Israel’s ever-expanding territory.
Things that do not make sense (as least not if you believe the official bedtime stories)
— That ISIS is desperately attacking US forces in an apparent bid to prevent their withdrawal from Syria.
Of course, in a world that makes sense, ISIS would be delighted to see what is supposed to be one of their major foes withdrawing from the battlefield. Instead, we see ISIS attacking US forces that they apparently had attacked rarely, if at all, in the past, which combines very nicely with the war creatures in the swamp campaigning to say that ISIS is not defeated and thus the USA can not possibly withdraw its forces.
That’s military logic right up there with Assad launching chemical weapons attacks everytime he’s on the verge of winning in order to make sure that the world superpower immediately attacks him.
Yes.
America’s hated enemy of ISIS conveniently bombs the USA just as it supposedly wants to withdraw from Syria … thereby giving more credence to the argument that the USA should not leave.
Also, 19 Arab hijackers armed with nothing but box cutters and limited flight training were able to hijack several airliners and crash them not only into the World Trade Center but also the Pentagon, which has one of the tightly guarded air spaces on the planet–without any inside help.
Santa Claus is REAL!
ROFLOL.
I’ve written for the last six months, the future of Syria is Syrian War 2.0, an insurgency by leftover ISIS, AQ and rebels (and Kurds against Turks), via IEDs and suicide bombers. It’s on!
CIA, Mossad, IDF, SOF (CENTCOM), French and British will be orchestrating the war’s insurgents to upset Syrian national reunification and securing borders, as well as upsetting reconstruction.
So, too, the insurgents will try to bleed Russian forces where possible.
Bolton and Bibi are shaping the war as if it was to control Iran and diminish Hezbollah.
It is to stop Russia’s power rise to regional hegemony and to continue chaos as the actual reality on the ground.
Bibi is terrified he will get a war over Golan, so he punches with air strikes.
Sooner or later, the price for Syria 2.0 will be paid by US and Israel.
Just as in ‘Nam and Lebanon ’06, the big and mighty will be dealt their defeat, again.
Larch is correct. I would describe the demented US and its proxies as dead-enders sowing chaos as a geopolitical strategy and not shedding a tear for the immense suffering, death, and destruction in its wake.
What is moving blood in the veins of the demented US? They have no heart. It is one sign among many that the West has entered its post-civilization phase.
L445
“Bibi is terrified he will get a war over Golan, so he punches with air strikes.”
I think the opposite, the boi-sod is literally gaging for an excuse for “hot” war against Syria, and these cowardly zionazi-gay attacks on Syria are mainly provocations the zioscum want to escalate into full scale war which they can bring their colonial quisling trump, may, macron, trudeau, etc. scum to go to bat for them. The israeli aggression has been planned from the beginning to get “justification” for their quislings to ramp things up there.
https://ejmagnier.com/2019/01/21/lebanon-needs-air-defence-system-multiple-attacks-on-syria-during-the-arab-summit-in-beirut/
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The Lebanon government need only collect its courage and request Russia to cover their airspace.
Russia would be favorable to that request.
Perhaps, it will come before an airliner to or from Beirut gets hit and hundreds die in the air and maybe many more on the ground.
Usually, massive tragedy has to strike in the Levant before wise decisions are made.
US spent five years ‘fighting’ IGIL and stirring up dust in the desert with bombs and destroying towns, villages and cities in their quest for the cross Syria pipelines to scotch Russian gas sales to EU. Russia arrived in late summer of ’15, by invitation of the Government of Syria. In three months Russia stopped the takfiri cold and in six months reduced the terrorists to not much more than a nuisance in the real world, using minimal forces and minimal, by today’s standards, violence.
President Trump’s orders to evacuate all US soldiers in Syria caught his ‘handlers’ and opposition off guard. What did you think these war mongering neocons would do besides kill a few of their own, not enough to have a Viet Nam style popular revolt but just enough to anger the US citizens. That is what you are seeing and it will not stop if and until President Trump puts a stop to it, either by rescinding his ‘stand down’ order or by taking the reigns firmly in hand and ordering the US troops out. When the over 5,000 US troops in Syria leave, most will go back to Irak, the Brits and French will be forced to leave also and that’s an additional 1500 illegal foreign troops in Syria gone.
Auslander
Putin won’t allow anything of that kind. Besides being maybe the greatest statesman of our times, he is also full of respect and understanding for the jewish views. Iran and Syria already tried to establish air defence in lebanon, which was completely destroyed by the israelis.
Everything Putin does which might involve Israel is agreed upon in advance by Bibi and him. He would never do anything that endangers the existence of Israel. Hence his reluctance towards Iran.
And maybe that’s what he has to do as a real statesman, considering the significant share of jews in Russia and russian Jews in Israel…?
The Specific above is similar to Gladio. For example Kissinger was convicted of the Aldo Moro affair, and Red Brigades was curated by his “club” >https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1982/eirv09n36-19820921/eirv09n36-19820921_022-the_case_against_kissinger_for_t.pdf
Geo-politically the “Atlantic Alliance/5eyes/Angloamerican Imperium” Policy set that curates and organizes the various insurgency-proxy wars is the source essential in, driving, what can only be W3. It is not only the source essential, but the essential opponent of all sovereign states. Effecting a material change of that policy set is pretty much the only way the worldwar can stop. There may be several pathways whereby this may occur. Anybody can make a list…
Dead, liquidation of humanity, changes the policy. This ought to be at the top of a list.
But there are numerous other ways…
I note from History that Empires rot from within as well as from without. Very strong indications are obvious and self-evident that civil order in the several Imperial Provinces or Satraps, France, UK, Germany, Poland, Mexico, and even the Southern Hemisphere in in rapid decline. The Sans Culottes everywhere… driven by encroaching poverty…this is an accelerating trend and a fundamental aspect of the Imperium, ie not materially alterable. Consider this in light of:
Never an advocate, but it’s not difficult to read Machiavelli, or any of the classics…these abound with ideas. Christianity, not so much the Church, but the revolutionary Christianity of Jesus-the man, is an example. So is the methods of Rome v Carthage… It’s all public secrets. The Sans Culottes of the world constitute an “agar” filled with potential cells that might infect their surroundings. Indeed it’s not easy to imagine how that can’t happen.
The Policy Essential may also change if the Imperium conquers the remaining sovereign states. This, naturally, is obvious, and provides a powerful incentive for those States, which protect within themselves many small nations, to resist, and also to counter – hence Machiavelli etc. Sun Tsu tells us that any army will fight if maneuvered into position with back to the sea. The sovereign unconquered know that their backs are to the sea.
Ethics, they tell us (Marx and Einstein and many other giants) is circumstantial. A product of character and perception of reality. Just now, for example, Iran has no atomic bomb program. This is an ethical decision. It is true, however, that Iranian perceptions of reality may change, and with that, they may change their ethical decision to favor some production. The technical difficulties are nearly trivial, and emergency gadgets shouldn’t take more than a few hundred hours…once you have the nuclear establishment for the power cycle and your own chemists and so on…and they do have this. The HEU that some submarine reactors use is quite suitable for a “crude” example. This might take less than 24 hours…for one specimen. Iran plans nuclear submarines. They must also plan >93% HEU.
Given this, the odious Mr “N”, who, yes, has serious domestic problems and needs the tensions of war, also must recognize that he’s creating for Israel a zuswang…he keeps this up and Iran may well change their policy, change their ethical decision…
As he’s essentially cunning but incompetent due to situational constraints or perhaps also limited capability and as he generally resorts to force (the famous last resort)…he’s probably looking to get his hot direct war with Iran up and going. What a guy! Another fat old schmuck that’s going to get a lot of innocent people hurt or killed.
His Time is ticking away, like MacBeth’s