How That Massive Battle Between US Troops And Russian Mercenaries In Syria Went Down
By Jared Keller
on May 25, 2018
The Department of Defense has remained relatively tight-lipped on the February 7 firefight that saw U.S. military personnel deliver a kinetic spanking to hundreds of Russian mercenaries and Syrian pro-regime fighters in eastern Syria.
But a new report from the New York Times provides a riveting tick-tock filled with new details about how the four-hour battle played out, based on Pentagon “interviews and documents†that, taken together, comprise “the Pentagon’s first public on-the-ground accounting of one of the single bloodiest battles the American military has faced in Syria†since the start of the anti-ISIS campaign there in 2014, as the article put it.
Here are the juiciest bits.
https://taskandpurpose.com/russian-mercenaries-syria-firefight/
