US Army Sends More Military Equipment to Bases in Syria

Rasa - The US Army dispatched a long convoy of military vehicles from its bases in Iraq to the regions controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River on Syria territory, the London-based pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Sunday.

News ID: 439357

Date: 02 September 2018 - 21:35

RNA - The SOHR said that the US-led coalition forwarded a sum of 150 vehicles carrying military-logistic equipment to the SDF-held regions on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River via Simalka passageway at Iraq-Syria border.

It further said that the convoy has been sent to the coalition bases in Raqqa, Aleppo, Hasaka and Deir Ezzur provinces, adding that more convoys will be sent to the US bases in Syria in coming days.

According to Fars News Agancy, the Arabic-language al-Watan daily quoted opposition sources as reporting earlier today that the US-led coalition has reinvigorated its military presence on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River in the second half of the current year via setting up 18 bases in the Northeastern and Eastern provinces of Syria.

The US-run bases are in Ein al-Arab (Kobani), Kharab Ashak, Manbij, Ein Issa, Raqqa and Tabaqa in Raqqa province, al-Shadadi, al-Houl, Tal Tamar, Tal Bidar and Romeilan in Hasaka province and al-Amr oilfield and al-Bahrah region in Deir Ezzur province, al-Watan went on to say, adding that some of the bases have runways for the take-off and landing of military aircraft.

It further said that the US-run bases are under tight military protection via ground and aerial patrol and are surrounded by a circle of checkpoints.

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