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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Tue Jun 6, 2017, 03:49 PM Jun 2017

After warnings, U.S. wages new strike on pro-Syria government forces

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | 2:51pm EDT

The U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State waged a fresh strike on Tuesday against forces supporting the Syrian government that it said threatened U.S. and partnered forces based in southern Syria, in the latest sign of growing tension there.

"Despite previous warnings, pro-regime forces entered the agreed-upon de-confliction zone with a tank, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, armed technical vehicles and more than 60 soldiers," the coalition said in a statement.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Tom Brown)

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKBN18X2JP

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After warnings, U.S. wages new strike on pro-Syria government forces (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2017 OP

Good time for a distraction! ProudLib72 Jun 2017 #1

This makes sense. yallerdawg Jun 2017 #2

Pro-Assad alliance threatens to hit U.S. positions in Syria Eugene Jun 2017 #3

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

1. Good time for a distraction!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:03 PM

Jun 2017

Just acting presidential now.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. This makes sense.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:09 PM

Jun 2017

Now that we are outright supporting Sunni's, someone must have mentioned Assad and the Alawites are Shia.

ISIS and the Taliban are both Sunni-based.

This could get very weird.

Eugene

(61,900 posts)

3. Pro-Assad alliance threatens to hit U.S. positions in Syria

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Jun 7, 2017, 10:53 AM

Jun 2017

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Wed Jun 7, 2017 | 10:18am EDT

Pro-Assad alliance threatens to hit U.S. positions in Syria

A military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday it could hit U.S. positions in Syria, warning that its "self-restraint" over U.S. air strikes on government forces would end if Washington crossed "red lines".

The threat marks an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran-backed forces over control of Syria's southeastern frontier with Iraq, where the United States has been training Syrian rebels at a base inside Syrian territory.

The United States launched air strikes on Tuesday against what it said were Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in the area, the second such attack in three weeks.

The statement from the pro-Assad alliance was issued in the name of the "commander of the operations room of the forces allied to Syria", and was circulated by a military news unit run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, one of Assad's military allies.

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