[ALMASDARNEWS] Confirmed reports state that a considerable number of US military forces and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reinforcements have arrived in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province.The reinforcement package includes dozens of heavy vehicles, hundreds of SDF fighters and an unspecified number of US-led coalition troops ‐ all have arrived in the area of the Omar oil field southeast of the Khabur river.
The sudden influx of such offensive forces is being done in preparation for a major operation against 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....
murderous Moslems either along the eastern Euphrates shore or eastern Hasakah province or both.
To this end sources are saying that Iraqi forces will also be involved in the offensive, attacking ISIS from Iraq’s western border at the same time and advancing into eastern Syria ‐ these reports, however, remain unconfirmed.