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Al Masdar News: Details of US attack on Syrian military in southern Syria

By Leith Fadel – 18/05/2017

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 P.M.) – The U.S. Coalition attacked a Syrian military convoy traveling through the southeastern countryside of the Homs Governorate, today, the Pentagon reported.

The Pentagon claimed a Syrian military convoy was heading towards their positions, when they decided to issue a warning; this was ignored, so the Coalition attacked the convoy.

Al-Masdar reached out to the Syrian military for details regarding today’s attack by the U.S. Coalition; so far, this is what’s known:

The U.S. Coalition warplane entered Syrian airspace from the Jordanian border

A convoy of five T-62 tanks were hit by the U.S. Coalition

Two tanks were destroyed

A Shilka was damaged

Six military personnel were killed and another three were wounded

Convoy consisted of soldiers from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), National Defense Forces (NDF), Hezbollah, and Imam Al-‘Ali Battalions

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/details-us-attack-syrian-military-southern-syria/

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Syrian Arab Army (unofficial Facebook)

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Admittedly, the Syrian Desert does not have any medium-range and/or low altitude air defenses, and the only low altitude air defenses were deployed with SAA forces and it is very short range that it did not cover the para-military advancing.

However, when the US-Led Coalition jets attacked, they were forced to increase their altitude by ground AA fire, which then got them painted by Syrian long-range air defenses, before they instantly changed route and left the Syrian airspace.

The Defensive deployment and measures taken by the forces on the ground prevented a massacre; and if it was not for the chain of events that happened the attacking jets would have continued their aggression but they were forced out, and SyAAD is in no position to shoot down any jet outside of Syrian Airspace at the time being.

There is much to what happened than what they shared, and until the Syrian command shares an official statement we are in no position to share anything beyond this post.
https://www.facebook.com/syrianmilitary/

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One of the top priorities of the US-NATO-GCC coalition proxy headchoppers throughout the war, especially the early stages, was to degrade and destroy as much of the mobile Syrian Arab Army Air Defenses as possible, particularly in the southern Syrian desert where their main strategic importance was originally against Israeli aggression.

Israel and Syria are still in a technical state of war, and Syria has scrupulously adhered to the decades old ceasefire while Israel has not.

The unprovoked US airstrike on al Shayrat military airbase was not only an illegal act of aggressive war, it officially marks the start of an US-Syria undeclared war.

If this latest unprovoked action indeed happened in a designated cease-fire zone, then it is the US that is the violator, and not the Syrians.

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CNN gleefully crows:

With Latest Airstrikes, US Signals to Iran: Containment is Back

The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS waged a series of airstrikes against a military convoy of loyalists to the Syrian regime, CNN has confirmed.

This marks only the second time in the history of the 6-year conflict that American warplanes have intentionally targeted Iranian proxies in Syria [or so they publicly admitted].

The convoy appears to have consisted not of regular Syrian army soldiers but of international Shia militiamen [CNN omits a little detail that these “international Shia militia men” are lawful and invited Syrian ally volunteer paramilitary forces officially under the authority of Damascus, and are therefore “government forces”, more broadly, Syrian armed forces.]

According to a U.S. defense official, a convoy of 20 pro-regime vehicles was headed toward al-Tanf, a military base on the Syrian-Jordanian border, on Wednesday night.

Al-Tanf [which is in sovereign territorial Syria], which [Damascus allied] Russian warplanes bombed a year ago in two successive airstrikes, is occupied by [illegal invaders and squatters] U.S. and British Special Forces that are advising an anti-ISIS Syrian rebel group known as Maghawir al-Thawra, or the Commandos of the Revolution [now under the umbrella of the US-owned Syrian Defense Forces].

Thirteen of the vehicles apparently breached the “de-confliction zone” around the base, an area that the coalition has communicated to Moscow to stay well clear of.

[Seems to me, the “deconfliction zone” has to do with aerial operations. When did it start meaning the Syrian Arab Armed Forces were prohibited from deploying ground troops on their own territory? And the question is still up in the air as to whether any of the US-back militias have signed on to the cease-fire, and whether or not some of these US coalition backed groups aren’t just the ever shapeshifting Al Qaeda/Nusra/Daesh?]

U.S. warplanes were first scrambled in a “show of force” against the oncoming convoy. But then five vehicles kept approaching, coming within 29 kilometers of the base when they were finally hit by U.S. aircraft.

The coalition confirmed that the convoy posed a direct threat to “U.S. partner forces” — “despite Russian attempts to dissuade pro-regime movement” toward the base.

The strike marks the first time that the Pentagon has offered aerial protection to its Arab proxies under assault from pro-Syrian militias.

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Containing Iran

Iran is thought to have expansionist ambitions, and these ambitions have begun to chafe under a slowly increasing U.S. hard power deployment in the region, opposition sources have told CNN.

Tlass Salameh, the commander of the Lions of the East Brigade, said that his men are located 20 kilometers from al-Tanf. The Lions of the East receive support from a covert CIA program designed to train and arm vetted Syrian rebel groups, according to Salameh.

Recruits of that program are allowed to fight the Syrian regime and its allied militias, including those imported from Lebanon and Iraq and beholden to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force.

On Monday, Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency claimed that Lebanese Hezbollah, a prominent IRGC-QC proxy, had deployed “12 regiments with 1,000 fighters” to southern Syria “to face the US-backed militants in al-Tanf border crossing.”

“The regime is bombing us in 25 to 30 raids on a daily basis. Russia hit us once or twice,” Salameh told CNN. “We have a post in Mafraq Kabid on the Damascus-Baghdad highway, which is now controlled by the Iranian and [Lebanese] Hezbollah militias.”

That transnational highway is crucial to Iranian plans to construct a ground corridor, or land bridge, from Tehran all the way to Mediterranean coast.

Rebel sources confirm a report published this week by Britain’s Guardian newspaper to that effect, noting that the original route for this corridor has recently shifted from northern Syria, running through the heartland of Syrian Kurdish territory, to Sunni Arab tribal south of the country.

The outlet suggested that the change of latitude owed to a growing presence of U.S. troops and U.S.-run military installations the north, used by various anti-ISIS forces.

Partition of Syria

Concerns over the long-term implications of the U.S. presence, for example, led the regime to oppose an expanded role for the Syrian opposition in the fight against ISIS, especially in Raqqa, the terror group’s de facto capital.

Now, sources say, Damascus and Tehran are keen to preempt any such American deterrent in the south, along the new route for a land bridge — even if doing so slows or retards the coalition’s war against ISIS.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/world/us-syria-airstrikes/index.html

There you have it.

Nothing says “containment of Iran” like attacking Syrian government and paramilitary forces inside the territorial boundaries of their own sovereign country.

All for the glitter of the tyrannical headchopping Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to Make Israel Greater Again — the Saudis old new best friend.