According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), the US and its partner forces in Iraq and Syria conducted 94 operations against ISIS in the first three months of this year.
CENTCOM said it was involved in 66 operations with Iraqi government forces in Iraq and 28 operations with the Kurdish-led SDF in Syria. The missions resulted in the killing of 18 alleged ISIS operatives and the detainment of 63.
ISIS holds no significant territory in either Iraq or Syria, and remnants of the group operate in rural areas. The fight against ISIS is what the US uses as its excuse to stay in both countries, but the presence is more about countering Iran and its allies.
According to the latest numbers, the US has about 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria.
The update on US operations against ISIS comes after Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani called for the US to leave his country and said Iraqi security forces can handle ISIS remnants on their own. The US entered talks with al-Sudani’s government about a potential withdrawal but appears determined to stay in the country.
In Syria, the government is opposed to the US presence, making it an illegal military occupation. By backing the SDF, the US is able to control about one-third of Syria’s territory, an area where most of the country’s vital oil and gas fields are located. The US also maintains crippling economic sanctions on Syria specifically designed to prevent reconstruction.
Syria and Iraq want us out, which is better for them and better for our Soldiers. The USA can NOT say in good faith that they are doing what is best for the Syrians or Iraqis, they only threaten, create divisions and do the bidding of Israel. Americans should vote OUT anyone, who wants our Military to be in the Mercenary Business.
BFD.
‘Sovereigns who make the laws will not be bound by the laws they make’ – Jean Bodin.
And that’s why the US won’t leave Iraq, why it left the fleet in Pearl Harbor, why it lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, deposed & replaced Iran’s beloved PM Mosaddegh with the brutal Shah Reza Pahlavi, lied us into the Iraq War, assassinated Congo PM Patrice Lumumba, and why investigative reporter Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA addicting South Central blacks to fund Nicaraguan rebels, managed to commit suicide with two gunshot wounds to the head.
Why the US, having sold our once constitutional republic to the profit-takers, is indistinguishable from genocidal Israel. And why the elite progeny of The Age of Reason have exchanged it for a new age, The Age of Delusion.
Because the are and they could.
CENTCOM meant to say they stole 94% of Syrian oil and transported it to Iraqi Kurdistan…!
Whew, I feel safe now.
I wonder how many operations they conducted to support ISIS?