The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces has taken full control of the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, according to Reuters.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed military coalitionn dominated by Kurdish groups, has seized the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, according to Reuters.
Two security sources based in eastern Syria have reportedly told the outlet that the SDF had taken full control of the city by Friday afternoon.
SDF forces also reportedly control several neighborhoods in Aleppo that are encircled by islamist insurgents.
Activists from a local media outlet with contacts in the city told Reuters that Syrian government forces and Iraqi fighters backed by Iran had withdrawn from Deir ez-Zor before the SDF stormed in.
The SDF was reportedly also advancing towards the Syrian town of Albukamal, an Iraqi security source claimed, noting that the border-city could be seized within the next 24 hours.
The SDF advance follows last week’s surprise assault by militant forces in Syria, which was led by the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra. The insurgents have driven back government forces and captured significant chunks of territory in Aleppo and Idlib and surrounded the key city of Hama on Thursday. They are advancing towards Syria’s third-largest city, Homs, according to media reports on Friday.
The general commander of SDF, Mazloum Abdi, reportedly said on Friday they have been in touch with the HTS.
“We have contact with Tahrir al-Sham through many channels, typically regarding the protection of our people in Aleppo. Apparently, we have never clashed with them,” Abdi told journalists during a press conference on Friday, as quoted by Rudaw Media Network.
A broad coalition of Kurdish and Arab militia forces, formed in 2015, SDF has battled Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists, capturing land held by the latter in eastern Syria.
SDF is opposed by Türkiye, which considers the group to have direct links to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Ankara regards as a terrorist group.
At the end of 2019, groups affiliated with SDF reportedly boasted to have around 40,000 fighters in their ranks.
The US reportedly has around 900 troops advising the Syrian Kurdish forces.
This week, a US official told The War Zone website that the US military has backed an SDF offensive operation around Deir el-Zor. “They requested support and we supported them,” the unnamed official stated, declining to provide any further detail.
Thanks for the reporting DT. So now the US has funded ghe wrecking of Ukraine, they are now trying to ruin Syria.
Get these warmongers permanently OUT of power in the US. The world is SICK of it.
Let these countries live in peace, how many millions have died needlessly just so a few billionaires can get rich? It disgusts me.
Kurdistan with their own unique culture and language was an ancient and separate province of the previous Ottoman empire which disappeared after the culprits (USSR, USA, UK, France) carved up Kurdistan into portions of the following 5 separate countries after WW1 – Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and USSR thus forcing the local Kurdish population to assimilate into each of these 5 countries.
When the USSR later split up in the 1990s, the Kurdish part of the USSR was further split up into Armenia and Azerbaijan – so the original Kurdistan is today divided up into 6 countries. The Kurdish heritage in several of these places has become extinct thanks to the interference from all of the culprits.
If Kurdish people want their independence they would of course be regarded as terrorists by the surrounding countries including Turkiye as listed above in news item.
There are several Kurdish military groups – the Peshmerga is the oldest surviving group.
Thanks for that. I thought the Kurdish people had a separate history with dissapearing borders. I was afraid they were Islamic. But thought maybe they’re not as they like drinking and smoking cigarettes I heard. I used to get my hair cut at a barber shop and they were Kurdish. Seemed very nice to me. Shame about Islam though they tend to annihilate where ever they go.
Wherever the Yanks are there is trouble
Who took over from the POMS
He who has the gold rules
Imperialist hegemonic expansionism
The people are sick of and have rejected
Why is NZ licking AUKUS butt?
Because it has been told to
Just like with the covid dementia debacle
Kurds are long time allies of Israel.
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hellary Clinton abandoned the Americans at the Embassy in Tripoli?
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hellary Clinton secretly formed ISIS at the behest of Israel and the Mossad?
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hellary Clinton sanction the murder of Moammar Qaddafi on live TV?
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hellary Clinton watched the SUPPOSED raid and killing of Osama Bin Laden on a live stream?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muammar_Gaddafi
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500480069/the-story-behind-a-campaign-line-did-clinton-laugh-at-a-rape-victim
In the Moslem World, money and the deals with Israel shows that the absolute corruption (as seen with the Moslem Nations NOT helping the Palestinians) of betraying their own knows no boundaries, and the J3w$ exploit and manage this to the maximus extend possible!
Trying to goad Russia/Iran.
And there it is. Not even hiding that it’s a US operation.