US Expanding Military Build-up in Northeastern, Eastern Syria

Rasa - The US Army has set up 18 military and air bases on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Northeastern and Eastern Syria, a Syrian media outlet disclosed on Sunday.

News ID: 439366

Date: 02 September 2018 - 22:49

RNA - The Arabic-language al-Watan daily quoted opposition sources as reporting 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.

The London-based pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Friday that the US-led coalition dispatched a large military convoy to the SDF-occupied regions in Hasaka province.

It added that the convoy which included over 150 vehicles, carrying military and logistic equipment, moved towards the town of al-Shadadi and its military airport which has been set up by the Americans in Southern Hasaka.

According to Fars News Agancy, the report also said that over 1,450 vehicles carrying US-made military equipment were sent to the SDF-occupied regions in Syria in August.

A leading Russian newspaper had reported earlier this week that the US military forces are likely to launch missile attacks on Syrian army positions from an occupied airbase in Hasaka in a last ditch effort to delay the Damascus government's conquer over terrorist groups in Idlib in its impending operation.

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