The unprecedented strikes prompted the USA -led coalition to scramble aircraft to protect its special operations forces helping the Kurdish fighters, warning the regime not to put the advisers on the ground at risk.
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On Thursday, Syrian government aircraft bombed Kurdish positions in the divided northeastern city of Hasakah, the first such strikes against a Kurdish-held area of Syria.
In response to the strikes, USA military officials contacted their Russian counterparts also operating in Syria, who offered their assurances that their planes weren’t operating in the area. Sending more u-s aircraft into the area to patrol the skies.
“It troubles us when we see regime airstrikes in Hasakah in an area where it’s well known by everybody, to include the [Assad] regime, that the coalition is actively engaged in operations against Isis”, the Department of Defence spokesperson said.
Washington regards them as the most effective fighting force on the ground against the jihadists in Syria and has provided them with air cover and military advisers.
The US Defense Department said in a statement that coalition forces had been put at risk.
Davis also criticized the Assad government for suddenly attacking the YPG, which until recently served as its de facto ally against CIA-backed Islamist militias.
A wounded child lies in a hospital bed in this northeastern city yesterday, a day after he was wounded in an airstrike by Syrian government forces against Kurdish positions over the flashpoint northeastern city of Hasakeh.
Russian Federation and the Assad regime also say they are targeting Isis but class all opposition groups as “terrorists” and legitimate targets for their bombing raids. The imperialist powers’ goal was and remains regime change.
Davis said a small number of US commandos were in the area Thursday training and advising Syrian Democratic Forces.
Mansour told The Associated Press on Friday that the YPG fighters captured several areas, including the wheat silos and the economics college, and that the Kurdish troops were advancing in the central neighbourhoods of Ghweiran and Nashwa.
U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of up to 300 U.S. special operations forces to Syria to work with the Syrian Democratic Forces. To protect them, the tough United States line will continue. Instead, Russia and China are escalating their involvement in Syria.
Previous tension occurred between the Syrian forces and the Kurds, but both parties contained the situation to avoid further confrontations.
Fighting has intensified in the northeast of Syria between government forces and Kurdish militia.
At the time, reports emerged about a tacit agreement between the Kurds and the Syrian government. The bombing is very strong.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. put fighter jets in the airspace above Hasakah after the airstrikes. “We can not step outside”.
Also Friday, the Russian military said two of its ships launched cruise missiles at militant targets in Syria from the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
“This step by the regime is like committing suicide”, the statement added. The Syrian Arab Army is the land element of Assad’s forces.
Citing Middle East Studies Professor Zhao Weiming of Shanghai International Studies University, the site also stated that Beijing’s new Syria policy was retaliation for the U.S. “pivot to Asia” aiming to isolate China.
The Kurds, the individuals said, think the government-backed moves are linked to a secret agreement between Assad and Turkey – which publicly backs US insistence that a peace agreement in Syria is not possible until Assad leaves office.
Gulf-based Middle East analyst Theodore Karasik told VOA that the “attack on Kurdish militia targets in Hasaka is directly connected to Russia’s (new and stronger ties) with Iran”.
Jwan Mohammed, a former Kurdish official, said there was intense fighting overnight.
The PYD and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have rejected the entry of rival military forces, suggesting it could lead to “a civil war” among Syrian Kurds. Until now, the Syrian regime had steered clear of where the Americans operate.
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“Turkey we will be more active in the Syria issue in the coming six months as a regional player”.
