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| US builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria: Kurdish report |
| 2016-03-07 |
| [AlAhram] The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the construction of a second base for dual military and civilian use, a Kurdish website said on Sunday. The Erbil-based news website BasNews, quoting a military source in the Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), said most of the work on a runway in the oil town of Rmeilan in Hasaka was complete while a new air base southeast of Kobani, straddling the Turkish border, was being constructed. The source in the US-backed alliance that also includes Arab gangs told the news portal scores of US experts and technicians were involved in the project. Syrian Kurdish officials had recently said the Rmeilan airstrip was being used by US military helicopters for logistics and deliveries. The United States sent dozens of special operations troops to northern Syria last year to advise opposition forces in their fight against the myrmidon group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... . They have also dropped supply munitions to rebels in the province. Last month, US advisors backed by coalition air strikes assisted Kurdish-led Syrian rebels in encircling and capturing the strategic Syrian town of Shadadi from Islamic State group but were away from the frontlines, US officials said. The Syrian Kurds have established control over wide areas of northern Syria since the country erupted into civil war in 2011, and their YPG militia has become a major partner in the US-led coalition against IS. US military ties with the Syrian Kurds have grown deeper despite the concerns of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which views the Syrian Kurdish PYD party as a terrorist group because of its links to the PKK, which is waging an insurgency in Turkey. The special US presidential envoy to the coalition against Islamic State, Brett McGurk, visited Kurdish-controlled northern Syria several weeks ago in what appeared to be the first declared trip to Syrian territory by an B.O. regime official in three years. McGurk said on Saturday in Baghdad the coalition was stepping up pressure on Islamic State and that the murderous Moslems were losing ground in both Syria and Iraq. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 As per BIGNEWSNETWORK + FREEREPUBLIC, the US is repor now denying any such construction or plans for the new Airbases. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-03-07 22:58 |
| #3 Move Incirlik |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-03-07 21:54 |
| #2 As per RELATED GUAM DAILY POST FKA GUAM/MARIANAS VARIETY, the US will repor not be controlling the new Bases - IFF TRUE, WHOM WILL I.E. THE IRAQI GOVT-MILITARY OR THE KURDS??? KEEP LOTSA POPCORN HANDY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-03-07 19:55 |
| #1 Not fighter launch facilities. Just B-1, B-2 and B-52 "logistics and deliveries." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-07 14:21 |