With the highway in front of them destroyed by US warplanes, a convoy of buses provided to take some 300 ISIS fighters and some 300 family members and other civilians away from the Syria-Lebanon border to Deir Ezzor Province remain stuck, perhaps irreversibly so.
The US attacked the highway specifically to prevent the convoy from getting through, and has demanded that all ISIS fighters aboard be killed. US Special Envoy Brett McGurk insists that busing ISIS is inappropriate, and they must all die on the battlefield.
The buses didn’t just stay in the middle of the desert, however, and started moving back the other direction, with some suggestions they might try an alternate route through a still existing highway. US spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon insisted the US would attack if they did so, to make sure they don’t reach the destination.
The offensive against ISIS forces in the border region is over, with everyone having left, though Lebanon reported they’d arrested a suspected ISIS commander who stayed behind. A ceasefire and evacuation deal, while common with other rebels, is unprecedented with ISIS.
No one, however, appeared to anticipate that the US would object so violently to such a deal to end fighting on the Lebanon border, as while US offiicals have long insisted their ISIS policy is one of extermination, this is the first time they’ve gone out of their way to militarily undermine deals negotiated by other groups simply because extermination didn’t happen in a timely fashion.
Back door deal between the Syrians, Lebanon, Russia, Hezbollah and the US. Syria-Lebanon crush ISIS on the border and cut a deal to let them go to Der Ezor. The US tells Syria-Lebanon before hand that they will then come in and wipe out the convoy. Syria-Lebanon says be my guest.
Has the USA not got enough trouble in its Homeland? Go Home Yanks-who invited you into Syria? Why pretend you are against ISIS anyway? Get out.
Lol maybe you need to hop on that bus too 😉
I’m guessing that all ISIS maneuvers are financed by the jewi$h controlled american ‘government'(?).
What? Seriously! ISIS evacuations unprecedented? US has done it already at least half
a dozen times. And very inexpensevely. ISIS is just allowed to leave, take their arms, heavy weapons and families, to go to another destination. US has allowed ISIS — thousands of people to go to Raqqa, in order to deliver city of Manbij to Kurds. The extensive bombing there targeted civilians, as refugees poured out of the city into Syrian government controlled areas. The key in Manbij — like now in Raqqa — is to produce humanitarian crisis and take over the city, minus population that fears Kurds more then ISIS. So, they went to Raqqa unmolested, in open desert, visible. Another GLARING example is Raqqa. Out of Raqqa, large columns of fighters and heavy weapons were permitted to exit to move into area around Deir Azzor. Totally transparent. As most bridges OVER Euphrates were bombed by US, Syrian army progress towards Iraqi border is made difficult. But in areas farther out from Kurdish enclaves, Syria is successful. US has stopped them at Al-Tanf under a laughable excuse of protecting allies? What allies? There are no Kurds nor any other groups that US would dare to own — so what was that all about? It was to block Syrian Army and DEFEND ISIS, as Syria would have pushed them easily all the way to Iraqi border along a major highway — a main ISIS land connection to Saudi Arabia. Iraq is still occupied with ISIS rear guard in Mosul and elsewhere.
Many ISIS columns, freely roaming the deserts — going to new assignments in Deir Azzor — were not noticed by our generals. Really? But when Syrian plane hit ISIS convoy, it was struck down for being “too close” to whatever. Lies flow feeely. Russia did take on ISIS convoys, in open defiance to US unwritten rules that it controlls Euphrates.
So, what is going on in Raqqa? Why so much bombing now when all ISIS is gone? Why viciously bomb civilians, in pursuit of some dead-enders? There is an answer — it is another Manbij. This is now slaughter of civilians in order to crush local resistance to Kurds. There is so much cheap and laughable propaganda — to make us believe that Kurds are fighting ISIS . ISIS office praised the resistance of some Asian ISIS fighters, hinting they are the Chinese variety. The propaganda coordination is not just visible, but in Israeli style, an overkill. The information is supposed to insure that Kurds are fighting ISIS, not Raqqa resistance. Thus — the emphasis on the “foreignness ” of those fighting Kurds. Since people in US are not having a clue that we are fighting lical resistance, the meaning of the clue is lost on us. And in the region — all is known. Propaganda is useless. Kurds do not have a good reputation in Syria. Going back to Ottoman times, when Kurds were favored as non -Arab population in managing vast Arab lands. In the post WWI chaos, Kurds were collaborating with Turkey in expulsion of Armenians and other Christians. They were given land and property of Christians in Turkey and Syria. French rule over Syria continued the pattern — in a cheap pattern of divide and rule, Kurds were given prominent positions in Damascus, and on urging of France, startrd organizing for their regional independence. The end of French rule brought a backlash against Kurds. Western powers continued to push for Kurdish independence, but it only brought on oppression of Kurds in post-colonial Syria. As West was adept at organizing protests, it also rejoyced in government overreaction, keeping the issue simmer. Over time, all the leadership in Syrian Kurd enclaves are from Turkish PKK.
Today, we have a continuation of Western empowerment of Kurds, continuation of erasing what wal left of ethnic and religious diversity of the region.
As the resistance is now cleverly redefined as “fighting ISIS”, while teal ISIS has received all the convenience of traversing from Mosul to Raqqa, from Manbij and Jarabulus to Raqqa, from Al -Bab to Raqqa — and now from Raqqa to points west — to slow down Syrian Army, and to allow US to think of some excuse to stay there. As there are no Kurds there, it will be interesting to see the acrobatics of getting planted in the area. For us, the stupid population — a trial baloon has been released. The ling dead Al-Baghdadi is alive and hiding somewhere in Euphrates valley!!! Indeed — we must therefore stay there, until he is found.
Neocons are in charge — it is amply clear. Trump has obviously zero say in all if ghis, and given that he is not a scholar and has no in depth independent knowledge — he has been told only what ge is allowed to know.
Nation building for Kurds? Occupying Euphrates valley for no known reason. Letting ISIS reposition itself to rear guard.
Western attempts at recolonizing some strategic crossroads in the Middle East. Long term entanglement . Spending more and more of our money on war profiteering industries, and Israel firsters. Not good at all. While the perfumed princes plot to stay forever and a day in the Middle East, one gets a growing sense of unhappiness in the rank and file. They voted for change, but instead they will be shipped mire and more frequently to ever expanding imperial projects.