https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-april-4-2018-fresh-u-s-casualties-in-syria/
On April 3, another convoy of militants and their families departed the district of Douma in Eastern Ghouta under the agreement with the government. According to the Syrian state-run news agency SANA, the convoy consisted of 24 buses, included 1198 militants and their families, and was set to move to the northern part of Aleppo province, which is controlled by Turkish forces. On April 4, another batch of militants reportedly started preparing to leave Douma.
If the situation continues to develop in this direction, the Syrian Army will soon re-establish control of the district without fighting.
On April 3, government forces secured the area of Faydat Aḩmad al-Hayfan in the province of Deir Ezzor. The advance was made in the framework of the ongoing security operation against ISIS cells operating in the Homs desert.
Despite President Donald Trump’s statement last week that the US will withdraw forces from Syria “very soon”, his country is expanding its military presence in the war-torn country. On April 3, the Turkish state-run media reported that the US is setting up two bases in the area of Manbij, which is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The US is reportedly extending an observation post in the village of Dadat and has started construction of another facility south of Dadat.
Earlier, about 300 additional US soldiers accompanied by armoured vehicles and construction equipment were deployed to the Manbij area strengthening the US garrison there.
On April 2, CNN reported citing several US defense and administration officials, that the US military has been working on a plan to deploy dozens of additional troops to northern Syria.
On April 3, Trump softened his position on the troops withdrawal saying that the US still has to contribute some efforts prior to making the decision, which will be taken in coordination with their allies.
On April 2 and April 3, rumors actively circulated online alleging that the US-led coalition has suffered notable casualties in Syria. According to these reports:
- A pro-government group “National Resistance Forces”, which allegedly supports the Assad government, has shelled a US military base in the area of Raqqah with Grad rockets.
- On March 30, a US military column was allegedly targeted by an IED blast on the road between al-Hasakah and Tell Abyad. Reports claim that two cars were destroyed, 6 US service members killed and 8 others wounded in the incident. Local “self-defense” groups acting against the US occupation had allegedly planted the IED.
- Another US military column was reportedly shelled with heavy machine guns on the road between Manbij and Raqqa, also on March 30. The attack allegedly resulted in the killing of 2 US servicemen and the wounding of 8 others.
- On April 1, 7 US mercenaries were killed and 10 others wounded in an attack by 4 gunmen in Al-Shaddadah.
Initially these reports appeared in a few Russian Telegram channels referring to some local sources and then were repeated by a number of blogs and media outlets aiming to gain additional views and attention. However, all these reports lacked photo or video evidence to confirm the alleged casualties among the US servicemen.
According to Syrian experts, these rumors are most likely a soft version of the “Russian mercenaries” story when the mainstream media claimed that over 100 “Russian fighters” had been killed in the US-led coalition strikes in the province of Deir Ezzor.
The key difference is that the “Russian fighters” story was a coordinated media campaign while the “US casualties story” looks like an attempt of some media activists and outlets to expand their viewership.
Discussion of CIA plans from 1983 to destabilize Syria – just took a few years to implement:
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/03/1983-cia-document-reveals-plan-to-destroy-syria.html
UK plans date from 1957
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1
All for Israel. As the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Smotrich, observed on Israeli TV, a year or two ago, ‘Damascus belongs to the Jews’.
This is excellent news.
America’s colonial occupation of Syria will face the same fate that the Americans met in Iraq: guerrilla resistance that slowly bleeds the American Empire and its war machine.
Perhaps, America’s stormtroopers will soon experience its own “Fallujahgrad” in Syria like those Blackwater mercenaries received in Iraq.
This business of loading militants on buses and carting them around to different areas seems very strange to me.
I don’t recall any war movies out of WWII where there were a bunch of German soldiers in a hopeless pocket in one village, getting on a (non-German) bus to a village down the road to continue fighting.
Of course, WWII did not drag on this long, either. It was decided in just 3 or 4 years…
These are tribal groups not armies with central command structures. This is why Westerners are in such a mess in tribal conflicts and simply do not understand family ties as transcendent.
syrianperspective tells us Israeli, British and French or US spec ops teams captured in tunnels in East Ghouta with IED factory and assorted items
Yes, the capture of the Chemical Warfare lab in Ghouta together with documents and possibly: laptops, satellite phones, munitions and high value operatives seems to be the reason that Teresa Mayhem and Boris concocted their half baked Russophobia false flag attack. It was geared to blackmail Russians into some concessions regarding the chemical warfare operatives from UK & France? George Clouney’s White Helmets come to mind. Maybe there are fewer Israelis as though Israel may have participated in Ghouta ‘s operation they opted out of the Skripal Novichuk poisoning farce and didn’t expel any Russian. Veterans today has a video up showing the Salisbury markings and Israeli markings on the truck license plate.
Continued Reconciliation Deals.
“Yesterday, 6 villages in southern Hama basically kicked the terrorists out and welcomed the SAA, by the Orontes river. The Southern Hama/Northern Homs pocket is ripe for reconciliation, big issue is the amount of wahhabeast-al Qaeda presence in many places.
Today it was Eastern Qalamoun turn, Dumayr city started talks and it is well advanced, Jairoud is next. This is a 4 villages pocket, the rest is desert, won’t take long, locals want to stay and reconcile, either the terrorists surrender themselves or they will have to leave to Idlib.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.737474&lon=36.704636&z=11&m=b&gz=0;366946792;336394900;0;0;102996;1045501;425720;1673332;1270294;2386217
All eyes on Daraa, there are a lot of backstage talks for a major reconciliation, but again al Qaeda/ISIS presence is strong and may derail deals with assassinations and false flags.” (Canthama)
Amerikanski wrote:
“I don’t recall any war movies out of WWII where there were a bunch of German soldiers in a hopeless pocket in one village, getting on a (non-German) bus to a village down the road to continue fighting”
Hmmm, American movies as source of honest portrayal of war? OK.
The behaviour in Syria which you characterize as “strange” is local and Arab, not anglo saxon. The Syrian approach is very interesting, and avoids some destruction of cities and civilian population. It’s just a different culture.
One of the biggest danger signs in an American movie is the phrase: “Based on a true story”………!
OK, so tell me the true story from the 1940s.
When was a German unit transported from one area in which they were losing, to another area, where they could continue to fight?
This article is not about the current zionazi war against Syria, but their predecessors’ warring on the new Soviet Russia. It is about the legality of that intervention. Reading it I was taken by the simularities of the capitalist oligarch attack on Soviet Russia, both the illegality and the terrorist tactics used, and what israel and its colonial’s are doing to Syria right now.
Newly Revealed Docs Shed Light on UK’s Intervention in Russia During WWI
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201804041063216326-uk-russia-intervention-1918/
“The legality of their action under international law was not considered until 1972 when the British government, locked in a dispute with Moscow over mutual debts, sought advice from a Foreign Office legal counselor, Eileen Denza. The advice was damning of London’s actions and was kept under wraps for a long time.
“In my own view there is no legal justification for any of the major incidents of intervention by British forces,” Ms. Denza wrote in her paper. “Nor have I formed an impression from … research from such original sources as Foreign Office archives and Cabinet documents that any consideration whatsoever was given at the time to the legal aspects of the matter by those in London, or by the army commanders while they were actually in Russia.”
PHOTOS Show New US Military Base in Syria While Trump Demands Troop Withdrawal
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804051063229655-syria-new-us-military-base/
“US-led coalition forces operating in Syria have established another military installation in the province of Aleppo, Al Masdar News reports.
The base is located to the northwest of the city of Manbij currently held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
According to the media outlet, the US presence in the area was recently bolstered by the arrival of 200 servicemen accompanied by armored vehicles and construction machinery.
Earlier US President Donald Trump promised to withdraw US troops from Syria, claiming that their primary mission in Syria is nearly complete.
However, he later declared that US will remain in the country “a little longer”, apparently after his top advisors insisted that a complete withdrawal of US troops now would risk all the gains already made.”
The israeli quisling trump simply lied, like he did all through his prez campaign. With regard to war making, trump is there to play the “good cop” role, pence, the psychos in the cabinet, aipac’s buggered toys in the congress and the zionazi-gay media, play the “bad cop” role. It is this “bad cop” aspect which represents the actual policies israel’s american colonial’s are pursuing. Any conciliatory statements from trump about foreign “adventurism” should be ignored. Same about relations with Russia.
Syrian Army Reportedly Finds NATO, Israeli-Made Weapons in Daesh Arsenal (VIDEO)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201804051063241037-syrian-army-finds-weapons-stockpile-in-deir-ez-zor/
“A Syrian army mop up operation in the villages of al-Salehiyeh, al-Dowayer, al-Kashmeh and Sabikhan in eastern Deir ez-Zor governate has discovered several major Daesh (ISIS) weapons and ammunition depots containing Israeli and NATO weapons, the Syrian Arab News Agency reports, providing video evidence of the find.
The stocks of weapons shown in the video include rocket-propelled grenade shells and mortars, large caliber ammunition, heavy rockets, as well as improvised explosive devices, suicide belts, and chemical warfare kits. Some of the arms have clear Israeli and US markings.
An officer speaking to SANA said that many of the rocket-propelled grenades were discovered in a secret Daesh arms cache in al-Salehiyeh, with the al-Dowayer depot containing rocket launchers and several types of mortar shells. Anti-tank missiles were found in al-Kashmeh. Finally, Sabikhan was the home to roughly 60,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as barrels of chemicals used for the makeshift creation of explosives.”
Trump obviously does not have control of the American military.
To even begin to understand US actions one has to realize that there are seperate factions in the US that follow their own policies. The military and the CIA are two obvious power bases that follow their own policies. The NSA spies on Americans, and thus has sufficient blackmail material to stop any challenges. That is probably not a complete list of factions that are not under the control of the person the voters elected President.
Its been rather obvious that there has not been civilian control over the military in the US for the last 30 years or more. What we’ve just seen is the most recent example of the Commander-in-Chief of the US military thinking that he can give the military an order, and the military saying No. Its not the first time.
What seems to be happening is that US -NATO- FRANCE is getting ready for “the day after” when Turkey will get the S-400 and find the cojones to close Incirlick.
I expect that there will be another coup attempt in Turkey. But like in the last one, Russia’s intelligence has its eye on the ball. They learned their hard lesson with the coup in Ukraine.
This is why there is building of military bases in Eastern Euphrates. Turkey is preparing to exit NATO and NATO knows it. Also, the bases in NE Syria are launch pads to threaten Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Qatar and Syria.
NATO’s jihadis lost against the Russia plus Iran, Syria, Hez, Iraq, China. Turkey saw the writing on the wall. Qatar also saw the writing. But the Syrian NATO adventure didn’t end with the jihadis proxies being decimated or relocated. Now there are no more proxies left but Nuclear powers facing each other. This is a gunfighter duel at high noon involving
The Salisbury and UNSC is the continuation of the Syrian drama by other means.
The relocation of terrorists from one place to another is similar to kids’ play, ciuci-babka. It is obvious it become the favorite with adults in Syria too. They must have a lot of fun as kids do. Looks as it’ll continue in Aleppo now.
Time to declare victory,go home and have some Stolichnaya. Za Stalnu, za riding, na boj, an boj,naboj. Molodcy.
No any scribe analyst write about occupation of Syria by Gringo terrorists. It is only Stephen Goavens on I formation clearinghouse.info who do so. Just on with some brain and courage.
Glad that you mentioned Stephen Gowans.
Very few media or individuals–including so-called alternative media or dissidents–have the balls to fully call out the American Empire and its criminal occupation of yet another strategically important nation. This is the million pound gorilla in the living room that the Politically Correct would rather not mention.
“The United States has invaded Syria with a significant military force, is occupying nearly one-third of its territory, has announced plans for an indefinite occupation, and is plundering the country’s petroleum resources. Washington has no authorization under international or even US law to invade and occupy Syria, much less attack Syrian forces, which it has done repeatedly. Nor has it a legal warrant to create new administrative and governance structures in the country to replace the Syrian government, a project it is undertaking through a parallel invasion of US diplomatic personnel. These actions—criminal, plunderous, and an assault on democracy at an international level—amount to a retrograde project of recolonization by an empire bent on extending its supremacy to all the Arab and Muslim worlds, including the few remaining outposts of resistance to foreign tyranny. Moreover, US actions represent an escalation of Washington’s long war on Syria, previously carried out through proxies, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, into a full-scale conventional war with direct US military involvement. Yet, despite the enormity of the project, and the escalation of the war, the US occupation of Syria has largely flown under the radar of public awareness.”
The (Largely Unrecognized) US Occupation of Syria
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/the-largely-unrecognized-us-occupation-of-syria/
11 British Officers Arrested Two Weeks Ago In East Ghouta.
“Folks, the reason for all this anti-Putin nonsense is the one fact that the Syrian government now holds over 11 British officers who were liaised with the terrorists in the Ghouta.
They were captured 2 weeks ago by Syrian Army commandos and are being held in separate jails around the Damascus area inside heavily guarded military bases. The Brits want them badly before they are used to implicate England in the mess it helped to create in Syria. Damascus won’t budge on this issue and, evidently, the English are assuming Moscow is not putting pressure on Dr. Assad to release them to Old Blighty. Too bad.
And they were caught out of uniform, such that they could be executed as spies under international law. ”
(Ziad of Syrper)
Put those British state terrorists on trial! And broadcast evidence of British backing, arming, and sponsoring of jihadists forces in Syria (and beyond) far and wide.
What all these terrorist “democracies” like America, Britain, or France fear is to be exposed for all the world to see as state sponsors of terrorism.
These countries are able to get away with their crimes again and again because they have been allowed to escape exposure and punishment.
Not this time. Put an end to that sh!t.
Rip off their goddamned masks of “democracy and freedom”
Britain, France, and especially America must face their day of reckoning.
“Absolutely do not include israel among the guilty. Never include israel.”
;)
Then execute them as spies.
And invite the west’s media to the execution.
It will help in-your-face wake up the general pop’s of those countries to what their countries are doing.
Then they might just shift their butts off their couches and demand an end to illegal wars invasions and “foreign adventures.’ No mistake now. Now getting away from it or looking the other way. Their beloved boys and girls in uniform are dying – for warcrimes.
Rats Eating Rats & Reconciliations For Weeks To Come.
” Indeed Douma has seen its share of rats eating rats lately, a fight erupted today among few factions trying to leave the pocket vs the ones controlling who leaves or stays. The situation will soon erupt to a civil war among the terrorists.
I mentioned yesterday that villages in Eastern Qalamoun pocket was advancing in deals with Syria/Russia envoys, only to be faced with another intra terrorists war, many trying to settle their case with the Gov’t got killed forcing all negotiations to a halt. As an immediate effect of that situation was the positioning of some Tiger Forces and SAA near the 4 towns to pressure for an immediate surrendering/negotiations.
As in many cases before (Darayya, Beit Jin, East Ghouta, Aleppo etc…) the terrorists accept the deals, then fight erupt between them, then the deal is broken, the SAA comes in, then the terrorists accept another deal, and sometimes the deal goes thru or the cycle repeats until the deal is done and executed. This pocket will rapidly fall in line with the Syrian Gov’t demands.
Southern Hama/North Homs pocket is also dwindling, new towns are reconciling with the Syrian Government while either forcing its terrorists to lay down their weapons or leave the villages, we will most likely hear of weekly/daily deals with villages, today was reported two more villages reconcile with the SAA after the 6 previous villages in Southern Hama (by the Orontes river).
As Ziad has shown above, all the UK CW false flag was and is related to NATO’s operatives in East Ghouta, we have shared this countless of times, beyond UK operatives, US, KSA, Israeli and Jordanian were also caught. There are more in Douma, maybe dozens more.” (Canthama)
PHOTOS Allegedly Show US Special Forces Deployed in Northern Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804061063281283-us-troops-new-photographic-evidence/
“In spite of the Trump administration’s recent comments that it was “very seriously” considering the withdrawal of US forces from Syria, the US military continues to expand its presence in the areas of northern and eastern Syria controlled by the majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces.
The images, which have yet to be independently verified, were published by the Telegram channel Directorate 4, a group which monitors the situation in Syria and Iraq.
They show what appears to be US troops speaking to militia and walking through populated areas in the Syrian region of Manbij.
The photos may be a signal to Turkish forces and pro-Turkish militants threatening Manbij amid Ankara’s ongoing operation in northern Syria against Kurdish militias.
Earlier this week, Turkish media reported that the US was beefing up its military presence in the Manbij region, establishing two new bases and deploying about 300 troops, armored vehicles and construction units. Kurdish commanders speaking to Sputnik confirmed Friday that the US, France and the UK were beefing up their presence in Manbij, adding that this seemed to indicate that Washington and Ankara had not reached an agreement on each country’s ongoing operations in the region.”