US troops and fighters from the rebel Maghawir al-Thawra ambushed an ISIS convoy in the northern portion of the westernmost Syrian safe zone, near the al-Tanf border crossing. Officials claim at least 21 ISIS were killed and captured 17 others.
The rebels were operating out of the al-Tanf base, which also has a US presence, when they got reports of a convoy in the safe zone and intecepted it. It turns out the convoy included ISIS members, and they attacked, leading to a protracted firefight.
Despite it supposedly being a long fight, the US insisted that there were no casualties among their forces or their allies. This is the first reported fighting in the Tanf safe zone in several weeks.
Though fighting isn’t supposed to happen inside safe zones, ISIS isn’t a party to the ceasefire that allowed the zones’ creation, and in general factions have acted as though the safe zones don’t apply to them.
What qualifies the group US is working with as “rebels”. More refurbished, repurposed and rebranded terrorists, taking advsntage of safe zones, to justify US presence on the border. And while Kurds control another end of borde, while Syria-Iraq control the miiddle — the inertia us keeping US forces in Syria, again based on vsgaries of US foreign policy functioning in a fog, but dragged by neicon love of all wars into pointless policy. US has interests, like all countries. The only problem us, it keeps pursuing ibjectives that are of no interest to US cirizens, whi cannot continue backung all kinds of adventures in the name of fighting anti-democratic dragons.
I wonder how the families of the US military who are killed in combat by ISIS feel about their sons/daughters/brothers/sisters/husbands/wives/relatives/friends being killed by weapons the American CIA willfully supplied to their killers.
It must be hard comprehending that their loved ones are just collateral damage to the furthering of the Empire. Of course, they don’t comprehend it because that would rip the cellophane off the truth that the military are just pawns and are expendable.
But, that’s just this old Curmudgeon’s opinion…
US “officials” have to fabricate skirmishes with “ISIS convoys” to justify the continued US armed presence in another country where it wasn’t invited. Take it with a grain of salt. If it really was an ISIS convoy and not a US “safe zone” then Russian air would’ve taken it out.
And I thought the US abandoned al-tanf?
In other news, the US and Saudi have armed ISIS . ..here