US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday that its forces launched airstrikes in Syria, claiming the attacks targeted ISIS camps and killed 12 ISIS fighters.
CENTCOM said in a press release that the strikes “were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, preventing the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek opportunities to reconstitute in central Syria.”
It said the airstrikes were launched against targets in areas previously controlled by Russia and the previous government of Bashar al-Assad, who fled the country following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
Since Assad’s downfall, the US, Turkey, and Israel have all been bombing Syria. On December 8, the day Assad fled, the US launched heavy airstrikes in Syria, saying it hit 75 ISIS-related targets.
US officials justify the strikes by saying they don’t want ISIS to reconstitute itself following the regime change. But on the other hand, the US has supported the HTS takeover even though the group is designated by the US as a terrorist organization and has a similar ideology to ISIS.
The US has also made clear it has no intention of withdrawing the approximately 900 troops that it has occupying eastern Syria. The US uses ISIS as its excuse to stay in Syria, but the presence is more about keeping Iran out of the area.
During his speech on the regime change in Syria, Biden listed the US occupation in eastern Syria as one of the ways the US put pressure on the Assad government. Recent media reports said the US offered to withdraw its troops from Syria and lift sanctions in exchange for Assad cutting ties with Iran and Hezbollah.
“Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer!”
”Make Love, Not War!”… … … … … … … … … … … … …. … … … … … …,,!!!
The US and Israel will ultimately be trapped in a hornet's nest of their own making. I just hope that those 900 troops would quietly be moved out of harm's way. This last stand brutality of Israeli and Euro-American intervention/domination will earn massive blowback.
It just depends when and how many more thousands or millions have to die first.
Putin also mentioned the other day that the bullish reign of the Collective West with Israel cannot be sustained in the long run. but cornered animals get desperate and now Trump wants to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran so that they do not get a nuke. While I am against nukes everywhere, at this point Iran having a nuke would be a better idea than they not having one.
yes it's a terrible thing to the extent these sickos in washington and tel aviv are willing to go to establish some twisted notion of superiority.
The greatest joke? Preventing ISIS from reforming. How many times has ISIS already reformed and why? The answers to these questions are easy: "get lost foreigners".
They've changed names more times than P. Diddy has.
( Too soon ? )
Wow our USA spent millions to supposedly kill 12 ISIS, an org we created with Israel. CENTCOM is our imaginary heroes.
I think the game here is to create a terror group, use it as cause to seize land and kill the population, all for Israel.
Later, of course they reform the group for more conquests.
Bombing unarmed civilians is all they know and call it war. All that is left of the ME is scorched earth. That is what freedom and democracy really looks like.
But on the other hand, the US has supported the HTS takeover even though the group is designated by the US as a terrorist organization and has a similar ideology to ISIS.
I see a merger on the horizon.
Merger is inevitable…! US bombing was done to delay this merger as long as possible…! The combined HTS and ISIS would be a threat to Israel, Turkey, Kurds and US…!
Potentially, sure – but the descendants of Al Qaeda (HTS), and whatever era that Syrian ISIS (ISIL up to Daesh) is in, will need to resolve that "order of operations" schism first. Destroy West then Caliphate OR Caliphate THEN destroy West ?
A vexing philosophical issue
False statement as usual…! All done to benefit Israel…!
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/12/16/new-geo-political-map-unfolding-the-end-syria-and-palestine-for-now/
Alastair Crooke
Goes to show the evildoers are just warming up in Syria. They have not killed enough women and children yet.
Syria is like Czechoslavakia in 1938 except instead of Germany, Russia, Poland, and Hungary dismembering their defenseless Czechoslovak neighbor, this time it's Turkey, Israel, and the US feeding on the cadaver of the former Arab Syrian Republic.
Russia was not trying to dismember Čekoslovakia.
They had good relations.
That didn't stop Russia from taking a part of Czechoslovakia.
Russia didn’t exist as an independent political entity or enjoy relations with other independent political entities at that time.
I think you knew that by Russia I meant USSR
Making jokes?
That means we’re bonding!
That's like saying by Idaho you meant USA, or by Sicily you meant Italy, or by Kherson you meant Ukraine.
Most people referred to the USSR as Russia i had thought