US Forces Block Syrian Army
Advance in Preparation For Syria
Partition
A U.S.-backed operation near Raqqa
aims to "block any advance by Syrian
government forces from the west".
The Balkanization of Syria begins
By RI
March 27, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- "RI"
- The road to Raqqa is now
blocked by U.S. forces and their
allies. The chances that Raqqa (and
the surrounding region) will be
returned to Syria are now slim to
none. Foreign armies and their
proxies are sharpening their carving
knives.
U.S. Special Forces and Syrian
Kurdish and Arab fighters have
just captured a "strategic air base"
from Islamic State in northern
Syria; in doing so,
they have also "blocked" the advance
of the Syrian Army as it approaches
Raqqa from the west:
The Kurdish-led
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
announced on Sunday that they
captured the Tabqa air base,
45km west of Raqqa, the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) group's de facto capital
in Syria.
Earlier this week, US
forces airlifted SDF fighters
behind ISIL lines to allow them
to launch the Tabqa assault, and
on Friday the alliance reached
one of the dam's entrances.
SDF forces were
within 10km of Raqqa from the
north, and aimed to effectively
surround the city before
launching an assault.
But as RFE/RL quietly notes:
Besides recapturing
the dam, SDF said the
U.S.-backed operation also aimed
to block any advance by Syrian
government forces from the west.
The landing forces airdropped
into Syria seized four small
villages in the area west of
Tabqa and cut a main highway
that links the provinces of
Raqqa, Deir al-Zor, and Aleppo,
Scrocca said.
The SDF cut the last main
road out of Raqqa earlier this
month, narrowing in on the city
from the north, east, and west.
The only way in or
out of Raqqa now is over the
Euphrates River that borders the
city to the south.
Incredible, isn't it? A foreign army
that is illegally operating in a
sovereign nation can just march in
and cut off the legitimate army of
said sovereign nation from
liberating its own city from
terrorists.
What a world — and so much for
international law.
It will be interesting to see
Moscow's reaction. Was this always
part of the "deal" in Syria? Or is
Washington hoping that Syria, Iran
and Russia will accept Raqqa's U.S.-ordained
fate?
Stay tuned.
