The Pentagon has confirmed today that it is calling off its 10-day surveillance of a convoy of ISIS buses stranded in the Syrian desert. The end of the surveillance reportedly came at the behest of Russia.
Pentagon officials say they intend to demand that the buses don’t reach the Syria-Iraq border. They added that they consider the Syrian government responsible for ensuring that the buses don’t get there, and that the government is solely responsible for them.
The US has carried out a large number of strikes against people around the convoy, mostly centering around “suspects” who got out of the buses to go pee. The buses originally contained around 300 ISIS, and 350 civilians. The Pentagon estimated 85 killed.
A number of ISIS fighters were reported to have reached ISIS territory already. Exactly how many are left in the buses in unknown, but the US has long ruled out letting the buses continue on under the ceasefire deal, insisting the civilians can go, but all ISIS must be killed.
The US had previously been said to be trying to negotiate a deal with Russia that would end with that happening, though Russia reportedly spurned the idea. It’s unclear what was offered to get the US to back away from the plan.
This site should have a banner that reads “all the news the Deep State sees fit to print”
This site pretends to be anti-war, but is really just an echo chamber for CIA controlled publications like WaPo. I wouldn’t read WaPo if you strapped me down like the guy Clockwork Orange. And I have no interest at all in a site like this one that just echos WaPo and its views.
I see you are have been running one of your regular fund drives. I hope you charge Jeff Bezos for echoing his deep state propaganda.
You are either cluelessly new to this site or a malevolent troll. This site is an aggregator from many sources, including at times the Washington Post. Most regular essayists here are quite skeptical of WaPo and other MSM outlets, Nonetheless, they do sometimes report important news.
Before you sound off, spend some time and a few weeks to look at AWC and it’s writers. If not, good-bye and good riddance.
“I have no interest at all in a site like this one”
If you had no interest in a site like this one, you’d feel no need to rant at length about how you have no interest in a site like this one.
Don’t like the site? Don’t read the site. Problem solved.
I can understand that the US forces would prefer that the Russians/Syria forces not simply run their ISIS opposition out of Syria and straight into Iraq, where the US will have to deal with them. But the larger question is the US has such an interest in what goes on in Syria when they have such a full plate in Iraq? Is this becoming a competition, in which the US is worried that Russia is doing a better job at ridding Syria of ISIS than US is doing in Iraq? If so, some of our leaders and certainly most of our MSM, are quite sick – the illness being untreated Russia-phobia.
or is it that there are those on that bus that can name names as to who helped them in the beginning of ISIS shortly after the split with Americas so called Moderate Muslim Insurgents the Al Nusra Front! Why is it that we still do not know where the mystery Toyotas come from even though there are VIN Numbers on them and Japan can trace where every vehicle was delivered to!