A US soldier told Rudaw they will not allow Russians near the area, which marks the border between northeast Syria and the Kurdistan Region .
"If they do come here, we are going to stop them and try to ask for help," a US soldier told Rudaw while waiting on the Qamishli-Malikiya road to block Russian patrols.
Russian forces were deployed to northeast Syria to patrol the
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
-Syria border following an invasion of the region by
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) later reported that a Russian patrol was stopped by US forces on the al-Malakiya (Derik) - Maabadah highway north of Rmelan, Hasaka province, before it could reach the border.
"The Russian patrol returned to [Qamishli] airbase after being prevented by the Americans from reaching the SDF-controlled crossing of Smelka on the border with Iraq," said the UK-based monitor group.
North Press Agency (NPA), a local news outlet with close ties to the SDF, reported Monday’s prevention of the Russian patrol, saying that both forces had previously agreed Russia must only stay on the Syria-Turkey border without approaching Qamishli or Hasaka.
The crossing border is a strategic, used by US forces to deliver military and logistical aid to the SDF - the main ally of the US-led Global Coalition against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) on the ground in Syria.
The US has said that they will only keep about a thousand soldiers in SDF-controlled oil-rich areas in order to protect the oil and prevent it from being controlled by Iran, Damascus and ISIS remnants.