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rangerrebew:
How the US mission in Syria evolved into a proxy war with Iran
Iran sees Syria as vital to its mission of driving the United States out of the Middle East.

BY JEFF SCHOGOL | PUBLISHED MAR 27, 2023 2:47 PM EDT

   
The United States has roughly 900 troops in Syria to fight the Islamic State group, but they also currently face a familiar adversary: Iran.

Most recently, the U.S. government has blamed Iranian-backed groups for several attacks against American service members deployed to Syria, including a March 23 suicide drone attack on a coalition base in Hasakah that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members.


U.S. intelligence officials quickly determined that the drone was “of Iranian origin,” the Defense Department announced that day.

In response to the attack, the U.S. military launched airstrikes on March 23 against facilities in eastern Syria that were used by “groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/syria-proxy-war-iran/

DefiantMassRINO:
Why does US need to remain in Syria?

Let the Turks, Iranians, Kurds, Syrians, Russians, the Wagner Group, and Saudis fight it out or fix it themselves.  It's their neighborhood, and we are not their colonial nor imperian masters.

As long as US troops are in Syria, they will be targets for anti-American interests.  Bring the boys home.  They did their job - they prevailed over ISIL.

American troops cannot solve the conflicts of Sunni Islam vs Shi'ite Islam; Saudi Arabia vs Iran; Kurds vs Turkey, Syria, and Iraq; Iran vs Israel; America vs Russia's Syrian interests; Europe vs growing Indian and Chinese influence, etc.

We don't need their oil, anymore.  Let's get the hell out of there.

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