INTL Rocket Attack by Iranian-Backed Militias reported against the U.S. Bases at the Conoco Gas Fields and Al-Omar Oil Fields in Eastern Syria.

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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has announced that it will be Resuming and Escalating its Campaign against U.S. and Coalition Military Forces in Syria and Iraq, following the Retaliation Airstrikes last Friday by the U.S. Air Force and a Drone Strike on Wednesday in the Iraqi Capital of Baghdad which resulted in the Death of Abu Baqir al-Saadi and Arkan Al Alaywi, both High-Ranking Field Commanders in the Iranian-Backed Militia Group, Kata'ib Hezbollah.
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WAR - Biden Administration discussing a possible Withdrawal of U.S. and Coalition Forces from Eastern Syria due to ongoing Attacks

OSINTdefender @sentdefender Members of the Biden Administration alongside Allied Defense Officials are reportedly now discussing a possible Withdrawal of U.S. and Coalition Forces from Eastern Syria due to ongoing Attacks by Iranian-Backed Forces, alongside a Reconsideration of Military...
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2 Attacks by Iranian-Backed Groups have occurred on U.S. Bases in Eastern Syria within the last hour, with a One-Way “Suicide” Drone Attack having Targeted the Patrol Base in the Conoco Gas Fields and a Rocket Attack having then Targeted the Coalition Base within the Al-Omar Oil Fields.

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According to several U.S. Defense Officials, preparations are now underway for a Total or Partial Withdrawal of U.S. and Coalition Forces from Eastern Syria and Iraq due to continued Pressure and Escalations by Iranian-Backed Groups including Kata'ib Hezbollah, while also making it a Priority of getting American Servicemembers to “Safety” prior to any kind a Regional War; the Full Withdrawal could take up to 90 Days but that depends on its Size, Scope, and Urgency.
 
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U.S. Officials state that at least 6 One-Way “Suicide” Drones launched by Iranian-Backed Forces were Shot Down earlier this morning by Short-Range Air Defenses while attempting to Target the U.S-Led Coalition Patrol Base within the Conoco Gas Field in Eastern Syria; Casualties and Damage to the Base are Unknown, but this appears to be the Largest Drone Attack so far against U.S. Forces in Iraq and Syria.

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Initial Reports that at least 3 High-Ranking Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were Killed earlier in an Israeli Airstrike on a Farm in the Damascus Countryside, which was being used as a Meeting Location by the Leadership of several Iranian-Backed Groups including Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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2 Attacks by Iranian-Backed Groups have occurred on U.S. Bases in Eastern Syria within the last hour, with a One-Way “Suicide” Drone Attack having Targeted the Patrol Base in the Conoco Gas Fields and a Rocket Attack having then Targeted the Coalition Base within the Al-Omar Oil Fields.

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Besides a few One-Way “Suicide” Drone Attacks on Bases in Eastern Syria, U.S. Defense Officials say they are still expecting a Large-Scale Response at some point from Kata'ib Hezbollah and other Iranian-Backed Groups as Retaliation for the Airstrikes by the U.S. Air Force on their Facilities in Syria and Iraq on February 3rd as well as the Assassination Strike on Kata'ib Hezbollah Field Commander, Baqir al-Saadi in Baghdad last week.
 
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Omar Abu Layla
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As i am from northeastern Syria, I can tell you:


If you are wondering why Iran-backed militias have reduced their military attacks against US forces in Syria, be aware that it's not due to airstrikes deterring them.

What's happening now is a shift in the policy of these militias at this stage through intensifying their targeting of the SDF, the primary military partner of US troops on the ground, leaving Hezbollah militias to remain the main focus.

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Serious development:

Some sources just informed me about the occurrence of more than 5 casualties within the ranks of the SDF after an attack by cells affiliated with Iranian-backed militias and #IRGC militias on a military point in the western countryside of #DeirEzzor.

I published about this attack one hour ago.

This is exactly what I talked about regarding the strategy of these militias to pressure US troops with new methods and intensively target the SDF directly.
 
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BREAKING:

Cells affiliated with the #IRGC militia and Iranian-backed militias have attacked military positions belonging to the SDF in the town of Al-Shaafa in the countryside of Al-Bukamal and the Al-Shanan area in the countryside of #DeirEzzor, eastern Syria.

This attack demonstrates the level of activity of these cells, which are fueled by Iranian-backed militias, in a clear phase of pressure on US troops east of the Euphrates River.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1759002597396992494
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BREAKING NEWS :

Militia cells backed by the #IRGC launch a new attack against SDF forces in the Shu'aytat area (Sanour checkpoint), in the eastern countryside of #DeirEzzor.

As Iranian-backed militias cease targeting American bases, cells become the new phase in striking SDF forces, the US forces' partner in Syria.

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A huge military convoy belonging to the global @Coalition
forces entered military bases in northeastern Syria, consisting of more than 30 trucks including military, technical, and logistical support.

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BREAKING :
NEW - 20 minutes ago:

Cells affiliated with the #IRGC militias attacked positions belonging to the SDF in the town of #Diban, east of #DeirEzzor.

When you wonder why Iran-backed militias have reduced their attacks against US military bases, they have other alternatives on the ground, such as these cells carrying out continuous attacks against the US forces' partner (SDF).
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Syria- DeirEzzor:

A convoy consisting of more than 20 vehicles and trucks of military and logistical reinforcements belonging to the global coalition forces has entered DeirEzzor and been distributed to military bases.

11:14 AM · Feb 29, 2024
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Syria- DeirEzzor:

A convoy consisting of more than 20 vehicles and trucks of military and logistical reinforcements belonging to the global coalition forces has entered DeirEzzor and been distributed to military bases.

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Reports of some kind of U.S. Military Operation in Eastern Syria as well as an Escalation of Hostilities in Lebanon by Israel, with Flights between the Iranian Capital of Tehran and Damascus being Halted until further notice due to what is being described by the Iranian Government as “Special Circumstances”.

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INTERESTING:

The US forces are conducting intensive military exercises in collaboration with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at the Rmeilan Air Base in the northeastern countryside of Al-Hasakah.

These exercises include airborne operations, countering drones, and training on heavy artillery.

Simultaneously, other military exercises are taking place at military bases inside #DeirEzzor.

#Kotlet

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INTERESTING:

The US forces have launched a surveillance and reconnaissance balloon into the airspace above their military base in the workers' housing of Al-Shaddadi city, south of Al-Hasakah.

Comprehensive reconnaissance is being conducted in other areas as well.

#Kotlet

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#BREAKING The Hezbollah-affiliated @AlMayadeenNews has reported rocket and drone attacks against the US base at Syria's Kharab al-Jir airport. Three rockets have landed inside and around the base, and a drone attack has also targeted the base, with no further info about damages.

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#BREAKING The Hezbollah-affiliated @AlMayadeenNews has reported rocket and drone attacks against the US base at Syria's Kharab al-Jir airport. Three rockets have landed inside and around the base, and a drone attack has also targeted the base, with no further info about damages.

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BREAKING- Exclusive:

Exclusive: A trusted source has just confirmed to me that the commander of the #IRGC militias in Al-Bukamal, Hajj Asker, was killed after the recent airstrikes on the city of Al-Bukamal in eastern Syria.

The airstrikes targeted an important security meeting for the IRGC militias. Additionally, several other members and leaders were killed.
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@OALD24



The #IRGC militias and other militias supported by the Khamenei regime are literally in complete chaos after the severe airstrikes on all their headquarters in Al-Bukamal, Al-Mayadeen, DeirEzzor, and the border area with Iraq!

What will happen?

Escalation is inevitable in the region, but likewise, the response will likely be with even more intense airstrikes.
#Kotlet

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Joe Truzman
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Interesting news of a possible U.S. strike in eastern Syria targeting an IRGC commander identified as Hajj 'Askar. It's too early to tell if the reports are true.
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“A top Iranian commander, Abdul Reza Shahlai, directed the first Houthi attacks from inside Yemen in October, according to several people with direct intelligence from the ground.“

Houthi Red Sea Attacks Continue Despite US and Allies' Best Efforts
Peter Martin, Alex Longley, Patrick Sykes, Mohammed Hatem
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The gray F/A-18 fighter jets hurtled one by one from the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the heat of the Red Sea morning, scrambling to counter the latest attack drone launched by the Houthis. The $56 million aircraft were part of a coalition operation that nullified the attack, returning hours later as they have almost daily for the last several months.

Yet for all the costly hardware the US and its allies have thrown at the Islamist group from northwest Yemen, they haven’t been able to stop the attacks on civilian freighters and warships. As a result, the world’s biggest shipping companies are still largely avoiding a route that once carried 15% of global commerce.

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The ‘No-Fail’ Mission to Protect the Red Sea Isn’t Working

The US and its allies have been trying to stop the Houthis but their attacks on ships continue.
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INTERESTING:

Two military cargo planes landed at the American base in the Al-Omar oil field in the eastern countryside of #DeirEzzor, accompanied by helicopters for protection, loaded with weapons, ammunition, and logistical materials, coming from southern #Hasakah.

#Kotlet

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Tom Friedman’s strange case for a US military presence in Syria​

The NYT columnist is still peddling the old 'we're fighting them there so we don't have to here' chestnut​

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Mar 19, 2024

An iconic New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, has just been squired around the Middle East by the commander of Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters for operations in the Middle East, Persian Gulf and North Africa.
Now, don’t get me wrong, the military and American journalists have cultivated symbiotic relations since the Civil War. It’s in the nature of things. The press needs access, and the military needs public and congressional support. Quality time shared by the top U.S.military officer for this volatile region and the top foreign affairs columnist for the nation’s top broadsheet makes sense.

Among their whistlestops were U.S. installations in Syria. About 900 American troops are there, distributed in penny packets among seven bases. Some of these protect oil fields that supply U.S.-backed Kurdish authorities; others are in the far northeast, where they assist Kurdish units, help secure and supply the cluster of camps that house ISIS prisoners and their families and continue to hunt ISIS fighters; and still others in the southeast, at a road junction where the Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian borders meet. This base was set up to interdict Iranian-backed forces attempting to entrench themselves in Syria and transport supplies to Lebanon.

In Friedman’s recap of this visit, he explained that the importance of these U.S. deployments lay in the need to fight the terrorists over there so we would not have to fight them over here.
Let’s say, for the moment, that there are several other rationales for maintaining troops in Syria. Iran, for example, does seek to use Syria as a land corridor to Lebanon and the Israeli-Syrian border, from which it can carry the fight to its enemy. Iran is 1,200 kilometers from Israel, so if it wants to reach out and touch someone without using ballistic missiles, it needs to be on Israel’s borders. Rendering this a bit more difficult than it might otherwise be makes a regional blow-up marginally less likely.

Maintaining a garrison at the oil fields is meant to secure them from capture by either ISIS or the Assad regime, against which the U.S. maintains heavy sanctions. Reserving the oil for use by Kurds, both for sale and consumption, reflects a longstanding policy that favors Kurdish autonomy in Syria. This policy preference, which owes in part to a romanticized image of Kurds as daring fighters fending off terrorist hordes to spare the U.S. an onerous burden, also dictates the use of U.S. forces in northeast Syria as a tripwire deterrent against Turkish attempts to suppress Syrian Kurds.
For many members of Congress, they seem to be something like T.E. Lawrence’s Bedouin insurgents in World War I, or U.S.-backed Montagnard guerillas in the Vietnam War. For them, abandoning the Kurds to the tender mercies of Turkey, or compelling them to seek protection from the Assad government, would be immoral and shred America’s reputation as a reliable ally. (See under: Munich.) Trump, marching to the beat of a different drum, pointed out that the Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example… .”

The U.S. role in helping local forces and NGOs manage the ISIS detention centers and refugee camps as well as the slow process of the repatriation of Iraqi detainees, is meant to contribute to Iraqi stability, in which the U.S. has a stake. The fact that these bases are magnets for attack by Iran-backed militias is arguably a factor that outweighs any of these other considerations.
One can have this or that view on the validity of these rationales or the salience of these objectives for core U.S. strategic interests. If the Turks and their radical Arab militias rip into the Kurds to get at the PKK, as they have done twice already, U.S. strategic interest is unlikely to suffer very much. If ISIS fighters escape the camps in Syria, Iraqi forces with U.S. help could probably limit the threat to Iraqi stability. The U.S. installation at al-Tanf in the southeast can be bypassed by Iran-backed militias via an Assad-controlled base at al bu-Kamal, a bit northeast of al-Tanf, so the U.S. base there might have outlived its usefulness.

Of course, on any given day there are about 30,000 U.S. military personnel in the region, as there have been for decades, so 900 isn’t a particularly impressive number. It’s a good example of limited interests served by a commensurately limited commitment. Whether to stay or go comes down to a narrow judgment call.
But of all the factors to consider there is one that does not merit concern: the idea of fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. It’s a vacuous meme trotted out to defend the controversial commitment and use of forward deployed forces and creation of distant security perimeters.

If you were a Briton in September 1939 facing the German juggernaut, Friedman’s old chestnut would have been pretty compelling. But since World War II, its specific gravity has dissipated. During the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson defended the U.S. commitment by asserting that the countries of southeast Asia were like a row of dominos; if south Vietnam were to fall, it would tip over all its neighbors until all of Asia was communist. The problem, he explained, was that “Everything that happens in this world affects us because pretty soon it gets on our doorstep.”

Anyone who was politically sentient at the time was bombarded by Friedman’s repurposed, shopworn epigram. Yet, the dominos never fell following the U.S. pullout and the collapse of South Vietnam; in the fullness of time, we never had to fight them over here and the only stuff on our doorstep are Amazon boxes.
President George W. Bush, in a major speech at the 89th Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in 2007, declared “Our strategy is this: we will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.” But the insurgency in Iraq was created by the 2003 U.S. invasion, which decapitated the regime and destroyed the capacity of the state to manage the country’s affairs, while unleashing Shi’a power and Iranian influence. This ignited a brutal Sunni insurgency carried out, in part, by tens of thousands of soldiers the U.S. threw out of their barracks and left to fend for themselves in an anarchic and violent environment.

The ideology and strategy of both Shi’a and Sunni insurgents had nothing to do with al-Qaida, let alone engaging SWAT teams in Dallas, or stealing our lawn furniture, as one of my former counterterrorism colleagues put it. Their concerns were local. Al-Qaida sought to attack the great power, the “far enemy,” that underpinned the “near enemy,” namely the conservative monarchy ruling Arabia. Al-Qaida in Iraq, ISIS, the Mahdi Army and Iran-backed militias fought a battle for power on their turf and against an occupying army, not an expeditionary war against the U.S. homeland.
The mayhem, moreover, had nothing to do with 9/11. The fact that there was never another al-Qaida attack was not because the U.S. invaded Iraq; it was because of al-Qaida’s inability to follow up on its spectacular success. And that was a function of the loss of its support network in the U.S., the decimation of its top tier, and the swift tightening of security at U.S. borders.

Now we are told once again that U.S. troops have to be somewhere else to prevent fighters operating in that space from coming to the United States and waging war here. The designated enemy in this case is the Islamic State, an organization that has inspired or arranged successful attacks in Europe but not in the U.S. It would be foolish to assume that no one in the organization dreams of murdering Americans in their beds. But they lack the capacity to do so and, more importantly, have urgent local goals that soak up resources, planning and organizational capacity, and face serious local constraints.

There is a legitimate debate about the presence of U.S. forces in Syria. But it should be premised on the value of the real things at stake and the cost of protecting those stakes. It should not be distorted by old canards intended to inflate threats to the American homeland.

Steven Simon
Steven Simon is the visiting professor of practice in Middle Eastern studies at the Jackson School of International Relations, University of Washington, and Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Previously, he was the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow in International Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as the National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism in the Clinton White House and for the Middle East and North Africa in the Obama White House. He is the author of "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (2023).
The views expressed by authors on Responsible Statecraft do not necessarily reflect those of the Quincy Institute or its associates.

Journalist Thomas Friedman moderates a plenary session on strengthening market-based solutions during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Tom Friedman’s strange case for a US military presence in Syria

The NYT columnist is still peddling the old 'we're fighting them there so we don't have to here' chestnut
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BREAKING: U.S FORCES ATTACKED IN SYRIA

Initial reports are coming in of a potential one-way “suicide” drone strike targeting U.S. forces at the Al-Tanf Garrison in southern Syria.

This is 12 miles from where U.S. soldiers were killed by a drone strike earlier this year at Tower 22 in Jordan.

Source: @sentdefender
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In the last hour:

- #Iran militia drone attack on #Eilat from #Iraq;
- #Iran militia attack on U.S. troops at Al-Tanf in SE #Syria;
- #Israel airstrikes on #Hezbollah in #Baalbek, #Lebanon.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Right has reported an Attack by One-Way “Suicide” Drones on U.S. Troops which are Stationed at the Conoco Gas Fields in the Eastern Syria and the Al-Tanf Garrison in Southern Syria near the Border with Jordan; Neither of the these Attacks have been Confirmed by U.S. Officials, but it would make sense due to the Escalating Tensions over the past Week.

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In the last hour:

- #Iran militia drone attack on #Eilat from #Iraq;
- #Iran militia attack on U.S. troops at Al-Tanf in SE #Syria;
- #Israel airstrikes on #Hezbollah in #Baalbek, #Lebanon.

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⚡️BREAKING

The specialized urban warfare brigades of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces have reportedly received instructions to prepare to storm the US bases in Syria and Iraq if the US makes a mistake

These brigades have experience in the fight against ISIS
 
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A military cargo plane belonging to the US forces landed in northeastern Syria, carrying weapons, logistical supplies, and other equipment, coming from northern Iraq.
 
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