The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that the American special troops being sent to Syria will only fight militants of the Islamic State (ISIS).According to Kerry The US special forces “won’t become involved in the long-running civil war” in Syria, .Considering ISIS a “threat to every nation”, Kerry stressed that the USA policy is clear; “the group must be defeated”.
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President Barack Obama’s decision to send a small team of U.S. commandos into Syria as part of the broader war against the Islamic State has raised new questions about his military strategy, its legal foundation and the way it has been sold to the American public.
“I don’t have a problem with the tactics of it”, Florida senator Marco Rubio, who is seen by many as a strong voice on foreign policy, said of the Obama administration’s disclosure on Friday of the deployment of fewer than 50 special operations troops on the ground in northern Syria in the coming weeks.
And the U.S.is also eying the establishment of a Special Forces task force in Iraq to boost USA efforts to target ISIS and its leaders, the administration official said.
The deployment marks the first time that US military forces will operate openly on the ground in Syria, though Earnest stressed that the action was not a combat mission.
Previously, the United States strategy towards Syria focused on finding moderate, vetted rebels who were committed to fighting ISIL forces in the north-western province of Aleppo.
“It’s a risky place and they are at risk; there is no denying that”, Earnest said of the USA troops’ mission in Syria.
He was also careful to insist: “These forces do not have a combat mission”.
The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina said she also was glad Obama was sending special forces.
The planned deployment adds to an increasingly volatile conflict in Syria, where Russian Federation and Iran have increased their military support for President Bashar Assad’s fight against rebels in the 4½-year civil war.
“With these coordinated steps, we’re seeing a political-military strategy take shape”, Chollet, now a senior adviser at the German Marshall Fund, said.
Bolstering support for Kurdish forces could further irk Turkey, a long-standing ally and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member that has allowed the U.S. to use Incirlik Airbase as a launching point for strikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Experts said the USA announcement could foreshadow an assault on the Islamic State group’s bases in Raqa in Syria and Ramadi in Iraq.
White said the reason IS has not been impacted by USA and coalition airstrikes has little to do with the air campaign.
Russian Federation entered the military fray earlier this month by deploying forces to Syria and launching a bombing campaign that it claims has been targeting ISIS.
“We are going to continue to innovate, to build up what works”, Carter said, according to Stars and Stripes. So, the introduction of U.S. combat troops into Syria smells of desperation by the president who sees the United States getting kicked out of the Middle East and Russian Federation vastly increasing its influence in the region.
Neither the Syrian government nor the opposition were invited, which clearly indicates that progress towards a solution will depend very much on their regional backers: In the case of Assad, this is Iran and Russian Federation, and in the case of the opposition, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the West.
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“Clearly, our Syria strategy has been failing for four years”, he said.
