US Occupation forces open fire on civilians in north-east Syria

At least one civilian killed by US hostility during an illegal airdrop

Archive photo of US airdrop in north-east Syria

Sunday 11th June - Hasaka, north-east Syria - US kills and injures civilians while carrying out an airdrop in the surrounding countryside of Hasaka in US-occupied north-east Syria.

Local sources have reported that US occupation warplanes carried out a ‘massive airdrop’ operation in collaboration with their Kurdish Contra proxies who have ethnically cleansed much of the north-east on behalf of the US alliance of regime change merchants.

The airdrop was in the village of Salham, south-east of Al Shadadi, to the south of Hasaka town and close to the Syria-Iraqi border. The operation was accompanied by US aggression against civilians - heavy and indiscriminate shooting of local homes and lands to deter civilian presence.

The US occupation ground forces and SDF militants cordoned off the village and opened fire on the people who attempted to escape. At least one civilian was killed in the hail of bullets and many others injured.

This is not the first attack of its kind against the local Syrian population. In October 2022 one civilian was killed during a similar exercise. In December 2021 dozens of civilians were kidnapped during such an airdrop and local sources informed Syrian media outlets that these operations were cover for the transfer of ISIS terrorists to US bases in Iraq and Syria - there they receive training and weapons to facilitate attacks on Syrian military positions and civilian infrastructure.

Since the earthquake tragedy on 6th February, ISIS has carried out two major attacks on civilians harvesting truffles to the east of Homs in central Syria. Many civilians were killed in these attacks but many were also kidnapped. It is believed that the US and its proxy forces are kidnapping these civilians in order to force them to work for the US cartel in Syria.

When I visited a deserted US base close to Manbij in central Syria in 2018 we found makeshift schoolrooms and piles of abandoned children’s books and teaching material in English. No children were ever located that would have been held in the base so the question remains - where are they? Where are the civilians that have been routinely kidnapped during the US and US proxy occupation of the area? Why is nobody asking this question in the UN? (rhetorical question)

Many of these US occupation crimes go unacknowledged in Western media because the information release is tightly controlled by the US and Kurdish separatist militias.

There have been many protests locally about Kurdish separatist policies towards the local population that include murder, kidnap, mass displacement and theft of resources, property or belongings in collaboration with the US allied troops unlawfully on the ground.

The Cradle - Earlier this week, the SDF imposed a siege on the government-controlled areas near the northeastern city of Qamishli, detaining 150 Syrian officers and soldiers, according to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.

Some reports suggest the SDF siege near Qamishli is related to the ongoing operation by the Syrian army on two Aleppo neighborhoods, Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh. These neighborhoods have been under the control of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), an ally of the SDF, since 2012.

The SDF is also constantly vacillating between negotiations with Damascus to re-unify the north-east with the rest of Syria under the control of the Syrian forces and government or flipping back to being a US lackey when the ‘men in black’ arrive from Washington bearing gifts and promises of an ‘autonomous region’.

With the prospect of normalisation between Turkiye and Syria looming large on the horizon, the Kurds have a choice to make - to isolate themselves alongside an estimated 2000 US troops on the ground in the north-east as the Russian and Syrian forces gather in and around Deir Ezzor or to genuinely come to an agreement with Damascus that may include their militias incorporation into the Syrian Arab Army ranks.

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