US to Pull out of 3 key Bases amid dozens of Attacks in Iraq and Syria, due to ongoing US backing of Gaza Genocide/ +Threat to Rojava SDF /

The US is finally pulling out of 3 of its illegal Iraqi bases in a worldwide storm of horror at their support for Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

from thefreeonline on 18th Nov 2023 by SouthFront / Agencies/ thefreeonline

Fire Burns Through U.S. Military Equipment At Iraqi Air Base After 56th Drone Attack (Videos) by Islamic Resistance (IRI)On November 17 morning, a large fire broke out at hangers housing United States military aircraft and equipment in al-Harir US Air Base in the Erbil province of the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan after a drone attack.

note: All reprisals by Islamic Resistance groups (IRI) are described in Western Media as ‘IRANIAN ATTACKS’

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a coalition of armed militias, which includes fighters of Shiite armed groups that fought against terrorists of the Islamic State terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack on the air base, saying in a statement that it was carried out “in response to the crimes committed by the enemy [Israel] against people in Gaza.”

The group formed a special operations room to support Palestinian armed factions following the October 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital massacre.

The ongoing attacks obliged the U.S. to reinforce its bases in the Middle East with more than 1,200 troops and a dozen air defense systems. Nevertheless, Washington continues to provide Israel with unconditional support.

Two more attacks against U.S. forces were reported after the Pentagon’s update. A salvo of rockets hit the Conoco Mission Support Site in the eastern Syria governorate of Deir Ezzor late on November 14.

Another rocket attack targeted the Ayn al-Assad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbat on November 15 morning.

United States forces have been attacked 55 times in Iraq and Syria since October 17, the Pentagon revealed on November 14…. southfront.press/ The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has not yet commented on the recent attacks on al-Harir, Ain al-Assad and Tell Beydar base

MH-47G Chinook and MH-60M Black Hawk helicopters as well as MQ-1C Gray Eagle combat drones of the U.S. elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment are usually deployed in al-Harir Air Base, right near the hangars which were set on fire by the drone attack

Iraq military bases: US pulling out of three key sites – BBC News The US army is pulling out of al-Qaim and two other key military bases in Iraq in the coming weeks. For years Iraq and Syria have been demanding US forces leave their countries.

A few hours after the attack on al-Harir, the IRI announced that it had hit two other bases hosting U.S. troops with suicide drones, Ain al-Assad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar and Tell Beydar base

The Attacks on Syrian US bases and the danger for the Rojava Autonomous area

Realistically the US bases in Syria have little future if it finally leaves its illegal and attacked bases in Iraq. The excuse that it’s there to fight ISIS resurgence is like a self fulfilling prophecy. The US is also the hated author of the continuing Caesar Act Sanctions, a kind of ‘s0ur grapes punishment’, stupidly and cruelly condemning the population (and Lebanon) to continued blockade and penury, even as Syria is readmitted as an Arab partner State.

AANES wants to remain part of Syria which refuses any autonomous agreement, and it has been invaded and partly occupied 3 times by Turkey with ongoing daily attacks

The main Tell Beydar base in the northeastern Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah. It’s close to the ruins of the Ancient Near Eastern city of Nabada from 2,600BC, 30k north of Hasakah city which is a capital of the revolutionary Autonomous Administered area called Rojava (AANES).

The military of AANES is the Syrian_Democratic_Forces (SDF), a 100,000 strong coalition of dozens of ethnic and women’s militias which successfully defeated ISIS and seized their capital of Raqqah, with US air support, and re-socialized the former ISIS areas with all ethnic and religious groups.

Though progressive and democratic the SDF forces, now majority Arabic, are always referred to as terrorists by Turkish and Syrian State based media, because the largest Kurdish segments the YPG and women’s YPJ support Abdullah Öcalan (the Nelson Mandela of the Kurds).

Öcalan, who is credited with the blueprint of the Rojava Revolution, is still isolated without trial on a Turkish island jail. He led the PKK Kurdish anti apartheid resistance with two long successful ceasefires broken only by Turkey, yet the PKK is still classed as ‘Terrorist’ by the US, with allies and all Kurdish enemies always following suit.

The SDF is also accused of being a proxy of the US occupiers, but Trump betrayed them to Turkey and declared the US were only there for the local oil wells. It is true that the US grants the autonomous horizontally based AANES revolution some protection against their far-right Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian sworn enemies and sometimes supports their resistance to the Turkish backed resurgent ISIS cells and Islamic mercenary colonists.

US occupiers practice wounded evacuations

The whole Rojava project, the only revolutionary progressive movement in the Middle East, urgently needs a new security guarantor. Turkey is still barely holding back from new genocidal invasions and instead committing daily drone murders.

The movement does have a support base in the Sulimaniyah area of Iraq, and could conceivably be supported by the ascendant INI rebels who are also anti ISIS. However the pro Rojava Kurds in Iraq are hated by Iran who have bombed them for supporting the Iranian Women’s Uprising.

Could Russia save the Rojava Revolution?

When the US finally leaves or is kicked out of Syria realistically only Russia , as de facto peacemaker, can save Rojava from the Syrian Arab army and genocidal NATO backed Turkey .

Russia is already deployed and partly patrols the complex lines of control between the Syrian_Democratic_Forces, SDF (AANES), Syria, and Turkey with its various Islamic mercenary militias. Indeed Russia is the only player committed to multilateral future and lacking a visceral racist hatred of the anti authoritarian and feminist practise in Rojava.

However Russia can ill afford to curb Turkey’s militarist expansion, at least until the Ukraine war is won. Russia did firmly stop Turkish aggression in 2017, but by now Erdogan has weaponized control of crucial Russian imports/exports via the Black Sea straits, as well as the key gas pipelines to southern Europe and etc.

Indeed Russia cynically gifted Turkey the key airspace permission to attack, invade, ethnically cleanse and colonize the Syrian Kurdish canton of Afrin, (a still ignored Turkish war crime) and the very next day signed the agreement for the Turkstream 2 gas pipeline. (see – Erdogan gives Putin #Turkstream 2 pipeline for Russian okay to Bomb, invade and genocide Afrin – The Free )

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The US is reportedly pulling out of 3 of its main Iraqi bases as drone and missile attacks in Syria and Iraq reach over 60 (18/11)23) amid worldwide anger at their support for Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

The US has recently been reinforcing its repeatedly attacked main El Beyder base in Hasakah and flying aggressive air sorties over Syria.

The US is also being attacked in their one base in their one southern Syria, al-Tanf base, dubbed as an ‘ISIS Training Center’, and in their Deir Ezzor Bases (Omar,Green Village)..in the Arabic tribal area south of Hasakah in Syria, where they are always accused of Trump’s boast of stealing Syrian oil, and are forcing the SDF to act as their reluctant police force.

Video footage released by the IRI showed the launch of a suicide drone ‘copying the basic design of the Iranian-made Ababil-2’.

The IRI formed a special operations room to support Palestinian armed factions in Gaza and began launching attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria following the October 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital massacre.

So far, the Pentagon admitted that 58 attacks have targeted U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, ‘lightly wounding’ more than 50 troops.

The CENTCOM launched several retaliatory strikes against targets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor in an attempt to deter the IRI. However, the number of attacks on U.S. forces appears to be increasing.

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