BREAKING: US Working
With Russia to Handover
Patrols Between Turkish and
Syrian
Armies in Manbij
IMAGE: Russian military police patrolling area around Manbij (AFP Photo/Delil SOULEIMAN – 2019)
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
21st Century Wire
This morning, Russian military officials announced they are now patrolling the region surrounding Syria’s northern town of Manbij, specifically in the areas which separate Turkish troops and the Syrian Arab Army soldiers.
According to a Russian Defense Ministry statement issued Tuesday, Russian military police are being positioned as a ‘buffer’ around the area northwest of Manbij, “along the line of contact between the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey.” Officials also indicated that they are in communication with the Turkish military leadership to ensure that patrols are observing necessary deconfliction protocols.
More interestingly, US reports suggest that the Pentagon has been working together with Moscow in order engineer a seamless handover to Russian military police of positions previously held by US forces.
According to one senior Pentagon official who spoke to Newsweek, some US personnel have stayed to behind to assist Russian forces, noting that US special forces “having been in the area for longer, has been assisting the Russian forces to navigate through previously unsafe areas quickly.”
“It is essentially a handover,” said the official. “However, it’s a quick out, not something that will include walk-throughs, etc., everything is about making out with as much as possible of our things while destroying any sensitive equipment that cannot be moved.”
This latest move by Moscow to install a security buffer should allay any international concerns that Trump’s sudden withdrawal of US forces would create a power vacuum that might lead to some sort of Turkish ‘massacre’ of ethnic Kurds in northern Syria. The sheer volume of alarmist western propaganda promoting that scenario has been incessant over the last week. The UK’s Guardian newspaper even went so far as to promote the idea that a US withdrawal would result in “genocide” of Syrian Kurds.
Also helping to promulgate the idea of an impending Turkish-led massacre was America’s ABC News, who used old footage from a Kentucky gun range – claiming it was Turkey firing on the Kurdish population in Syria. Watch:
ABC News broadcasts fake Syria bombing video that's actually from a Kentucky military show in 2017 gizmo.do/O8Xd96O
Today’s news comes immediately on the heels of a new deal struck yesterday between Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria and the government in Damascus allowing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to takeover key strategic positions along Syria’s northern border with Turkey. The new security agreement also includes disbanding and abolishing the previously US-backed SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), and with remaining militias to be incorporated into the Syrian Republic’s Armed Forces including “all the current Kurdish forces and military groups joining the 5th Corps (Assault Legion) under Russian control.”
1/ The abolishment of the #SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), with all the current Kurdish forces and military groups joining the 5th Corps (Assault Legion) under Russian control
As a newly unified SAA and Russian military police establish positions around Manbij, the threat still remains of advancing platoons of Turkish-backed former FSA (Free Syrian Army) ‘opposition’ fighters who are now rebranded as ‘Syrian National Army.’ These opposition militants could still cause problems in maintaining peace and stability along proscribed battle lines.
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Author Patrick Henningsen is an American writer and global affairs analyst and founder of independent news and analysis site 21st Century Wire, and is host of the SUNDAY WIRE weekly radio show broadcast globally over the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR). He has written for a number of international publications and has done extensive on-the-ground reporting in the Middle East including work in Syria and Iraq.
RUSSIA
DEPLOYS
SOLDIERS **BETWEEN**
SYRIAN AND TURKISH
ARMIES!
15
October, 2019
Declaring
"there is to be no direct conflict between Syrian and Turkish
troops" Russia has deployed hundreds of its Soldiers BETWEEN the
two armies inside Syria!
Turkish
troops and tanks entered northeastern Syria days ago, with orders to
establish a "safe zone" about 30km deep and 300km wide, to
allow Turkey to repatriate some 3 Million Syrians who fled into
Turkey to avoid the Syrian "civil war."
Syria
refused to stand-by and do nothing as the Turks entered, and
dispatched its army toward the northeast to engage the Turks.
Russia,
allied with BOTH Syria and Turkey, first pleaded with both sides not
to engage each other, and now has deployed Russian troops to make
certain the two sides do not fight.
The
Syrian Arab Army (the one and only legitimate "army" inside
Syria) has engaged Turkish PROXIES over the past 48 hours, with quite
a number of such proxies killed. Some small number of Syrian troops
have also been killed.
Rather
than stand-by and watch things escalate, Russia coordinated with all
sides and deployed its troops.
On
its face, this seems like a magnificent use of Russian troops -
literally to keep the peace - and hopefully, it will work.
So
far, so good.
Perhaps
the world may yet escape World War 3.
UPDATE
12:54 PM EDT --
Russia's
Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev:
''Syria
and Turkey are constantly and directly talking to each other through
their foreign ministries, defense ministries and intelligence
agencies.''
MORE:
According
to an ex-pilot of 181 Filo, F-16C/Ds of Turkish Air Force's 8th MJBC
at Diyarbakir has been unable to carry-out a single strike mission
against SDF & SAA since 20 hours ago because the airspace over NE
Syria has been blocked on them by Russia Air Force!
Hal
Turner Remark: This is a very good development. Almost unimaginable
just a few days ago. There really IS hope!
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