US airstrike on Assad troops in Syria
Associated Press reports that the United States conducted an airstrike on Syrian government troops in eastern Syria killing about a hundred of Assad’s supporters.
The U.S. official said the U.S. launched the airstrikes after as many as 500 attackers began what appeared to be a coordinated assault on U.S.-backed forces known as the Syrian Democratic Forces who were accompanied by U.S. advisers in Deir el-Zour province.
The official said the strikes were in self-defense after the pro-government forces began firing artillery and tank rounds at the SDF. About 100 of the attackers were killed, the official said.
The Syrian government claimed that the targeted fighters were actually “tribal fighters” who were engaged with ISIS militants.
The air strike comes after the Syrian government was accused by Amnesty International of using chlorine gas on the town of Saraqib last Sunday, according to Fox News.
Amnesty International, in a press release issued earlier Tuesday, said that testimony gathered from the scene showed evidence that the Syrian government internationally used banned chemical weapons.
“Once again, Syria’s government has shown its utter contempt for international law by deploying illegal chemical weapons,” Lynn Malouf said in the press release. Malouf is the Director of Research for the Middle East at Amnesty International.
Fox News also reports that the rockets used in the attack were made in Germany;
The rockets used in the recent chemical attacks in Syria that poisoned dozens of civilians, including children, were “Made in Germany,” Bild reports.
Following the attacks in East Ghouta, a suburb outside Damascus with a population of 400,000, the remains of Iranian 107-millimeter rockets with the company logo of Krempel and the product signature “Made in Germany” were found at the sites, Bild reported Monday.
The Syrian civil war hasn’t become any easier to manage with the end of ISIS, the US should focus on a diplomatic exit strategy for Assad and his supporters.
Category: Terror War
100 Assad supporters, 100 tribal fighters for ISIS. Same-same.
With apologies to George Lucas: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this . . . . “
‘…a diplomatic exit strategy for Assad and his supporters…’
How about a copycat of the ending of ‘Thelma and Louise’?
Hey Hillary/Obama your whole Arab Spring thing still sucks.
Barry sure did a bang-up job with those Red Lines in Syria.
/sarc
The JEF was such a strategic and tactical genius…NOT!
How about Trump enforce the red lines, while quoting Obama. THAT would get some heads exploding….
Seriously… 😉
Pay-Per-View!
Nice to see we still intend to take out Assad. I’m sick and tired of dealing with Russian trolls online telling me how great a guy Assad is and how he never did anything bad to us. Fuck him; I hope they execute him live on TV like they did with Gaddafi.
Yeah, Libya worked out real well.
Yeah… the legacy of one Cankles McPantsuit.
Libya is working out fine. If they elect another dictator then we’ll just blow his ass up as well. We bring justice to those who deserve it.
Love Zone called, your bag of dicks is ready for pick up.
Qaddafi was our bitch snitch in the middle east after President Reagan sent him a message.
Good, then he got snitches like he deserved.
You are a sanctimonious self-righteous bastard, aren’t you James May?
BOY, ain’t you just the attention-seeking pissy little troll? Tellya what, be a good quiet little boy and not only will you get a lollipop, your Mommy will give you a nice warm enema before bedtime as well!
Stiches, maybe?
James May must just love the chaos, suffering, and death that Libyans and the surrounding areas now get to deal with.
Qaddafi Duck was no saint, but Libya was stable and, after getting slapped around by the big boys, quit being such a bully.
El JEFfy and Cankles, in the arrogance of their ignorance, threw a monkey wrench into the entire Middle East stability because they were so sure they knew best about everything.
Newsflash, James May, they done Blue Falconed folks over there. It will take years and the suffering of many more innocents before your heroes’ actions are rectified.
Quadafi was going a little too nuts until Ronald Reagan gave him a wake up call via some F-111’s but after that he tamed down and was the lesser of many other evils until the arrogance and incompetence of the previous administration let him get overthrown as well as sat back and allowed four American Citizens to be murdered by a mob.
Don’t forget the F/A-18’s, A-6’s and A-7’s of the USN, courtesy of the USS Saratoga, USS America, and USS Coral Sea.
Yep. Then he settled down and behaved right nicely.
Well, until his agents blew up Pan Am 103 in 1988 that is.
Hillary the contemptible on Qaddafi, giggling like a schoolgirl with a crush.
“We came, we saw, he died”. Disgusting T-wat.
A lot of those Russian troll loving assholes aren’t even human. The bots today have become almost undetectable. You can detect them in some forums but it takes effort. I agree with you because I’m sick of them too.
I don’t know who the good guys are in Syria. I do know that Trump’s immediate predecessor in office–what’s his name, the guy who drew imaginary red lines and fomented revolution in the ME and No Africa–wanted Assad gone. That fact alone has always made me wonder whether Assad should just be left the hell alone to deal with his civil war.
Looks like the Russia propaganda has been working on you, amigo.
Assad has dropped barrel bombs on his own people, including women and children. Fuck that guy. His country will remain at civil war indefinitely whether he stays in power or not.
You see Russians under every rock?
People can have opinions without it being some sort of conspiracy. I know that might be a difficult concept, but it happens.
Russian propaganda? We don’t need no stinkin’ Russian propaganda. We got the Dems in Congress, the education industry, and the US media, doing better commie propaganda than Russian and the USSR ever thought about doing.
No conspiracy was mentioned. This is a blog. All people are entitled to their beliefs. There is no need to attack someone because of something they stated. You can just acknowledge their statement. Can we behave like civilized human beings here? I’m neither republican nor democrat, but we’re humans, people. Stop shitting on someone just because there views might differ from yours.
Yeah, that’s what I was doing…smh.
You attend UC Berzerkely, don’t you?
Okay, James May. I guess you got here while I was absent a few months. How about a little how-d-you-do? Are you a Vet? If so, which branch? Are you in your 30s, 40s, or what? Were you ever here by another tag?
Don’t rush. Take your time.
Time is up. That’s a fail. Best of luck under your next tag, bub.
If the only qualification for us to go to war is that they massacre their own citizens we’d be at war with every country except maybe Canada right now.
Explain to me why it’s worth expending US blood and treasure to remove a sadistic dictator from power just because he’s an asshole to his own people.
Last time we did that the world screamed bloody murder and howled about how the US shouldn’t be the world’s policeman, so I figure if “the world” is outraged about Assad THEY can take him out themselves, without our help.
Or, how about the Arab League?
I’m not sure there are any good guys in Syria, just multiple levels of bad guys.
Yeah, SFC D the difference between one level and another appears to be their flag and whether they will behead their captives or not.
Not just Syria.
Assad does need to go but we need a plan to keep the Iranians from getting power in Syria. Sadly, that probably means Assad should stay.
It’s not a civil war. It’s a proxy war between Sunnis and Shiites. The cause was during the failed Arab spring in Bahrain in which Iranian backed Shiites couldn’t succeed like they did in Egypt to overthrow the government causing Sunni’s to manufacture an uprising in an attempt to overthrow pro Iran Assad to get a foothold right next to Iran. The US heavily involved as well due to alliance with Saudi and Bahrain being our big base in the Middle East. The result was the Sunni fanatics(ISIS) they sent turning their bloodlust towards Iraq and even on their financial supports in Saudi. It’s how ISIS magically appeared out of blue with all sorts of equipment and training without our supposed intelligence agencies knowing a thing….
The whole thing was a disasterous Obama blunder from emboldening Iran and supporting terror groups like the Muslim brotherhood openly. It backfired in Bahrain and the response was even more of a disaster resulting in the creation of ISIS and even after that clusterfuck we are still dealing with the consequences. Let them kill each other. The more we get involved the more we keep losing.
James May?
The 2018 version of He Who Shall Not Be Named?
May be.
James May does not know me.
He’s formerly Mark L. and he thinks I don’t know.
Roger.
((Over))
That implies that John May aka Mark L can and does think, Jonn.
Shot. Score!
Doesn’t mean he’s good at it, GB
I’m kind of torn…. between wanting to just bomb the living cesspit into oblivion until nothing remains, or letting them all just kill each other off, which is what they were going to do in the first place.
Things just ain’t the way they were before Rockefeller started pumping oil, before the Brits and Frogs went in. I used to have a friend who left Algeria for France when she was a teenager. She said that France should have stayed in Algeria and French Morocco and the British should never have given the Middle East away. That was some 25 years ago when she told me that.
It’s assad day when he bombs his own peeps.
>groan<
And the obvious issues with invading a country you didn’t didn’t declare war on to fight another enemy rears it’s head. The longer we stay there the more issues were going to have with why are we there and why does it benefit the United States to play Islam police supporting Islamists/communists against other Islamists.
This perpetual warfare trying to side with “moderate Islam” via SF/SoF is getting tiresome to say the least. Either declare war, fight to win it, and set missions goals or fuck off an let Islamists murder each other. I can’t be the only American getting tired of this shit by now because whichever side we side with at the moment really won’t be an ally later. That includes the Kurds.
So yeah.
By all means if idiots attack our troops let’s kill them, but fighting in countries in which we weren’t invited and haven’t declared war on is going to cause issues and it should.
I hope I’m not a Russian bot now. 🤣
I agree with fat circles
The Kurds, both Syrian and Iraqi are the most sympathetic group in the area
While they are Sunni, they reject terrorism and believe in women’s rights
The Syrian Kurds even have all female units including tank units that are in combat and take casualties
But the Syrian Kurds have a communist/socialist ideology
The U.S. should just get out