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2018-09-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US marines conduct big drills with rebels in southern Syria

[Ynet] A Syrian rebel commander said on Thursday rare military exercises with US marines in southern Syria sent a strong message to Russia and Iran that the Americans and the rebels intend to stay and confront any threats to their presence.

Colonel Muhanad al Talaa, commander of the Pentagon-backed Maghawir al Thawra group, told Rooters the eight days of drills that ended this week at the US military outpost in Tanf were the first such exercises with live-fire air and ground assault, involving hundreds of US troops and rebel fighters.

"These exercises have a big importance and have beefed up the defences of the area and raised the combat capabilities and morale and that of civilians in the area," Talaa told Rooters by phone from Tanf, near Syria's borders with Jordan and Iraq.

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#1 Commandos of the Revolution or some such. Presumably non-jihadist, although names have been deceptive. Still, anything with al Shams is probably jihadist, since it's a name for the medieval-era region that incorporates a huge chunk of land, viz:

Scholars today largely agree on the bounds of the Levant, extending from the Antakya region of Turkey, through Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan and round to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Some include Cyprus, as well. This coincides exactly with the classical Arab region of Sham.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-09-14 16:16|| 2018-09-14 16:16|| Front Page Top

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