{"id":203661,"date":"2020-03-09T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203661"},"modified":"2020-03-11T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:41:46","slug":"mounting-concern-over-sas-operations-in-southern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203661","title":{"rendered":"Mounting concern over SAS operations in southern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 March 8, 2020<\/h1>\n

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There is mounting concern in the region about the nature and scale of British Special Forces deployment to southern Syria.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The concern comes in the wake of an exclusive report by the Daily Mirror<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>(March 05) that two RAF Chinook helicopters \u201cpacked with special forces\u201d troops and medics had \u201cswooped\u201d into southern Syria to rescue a wounded Special Air Service (SAS) operative.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Mirror, the casualty was airlifted from \u201cdeep inside the warzone\u201d to a medical facility in Erbil, northern Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst the Mirror doesn\u2019t say exactly where in southern Syria the SAS soldier was operating, the reference to \u201cwarzone\u201d would suggest Deraa province, in the southwest of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been clashes in recent days between Syrian government forces and terrorist groups controlling parts of the town of Al-Sanamayn, situated 50 kilometers south of the capital, Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the realities on the ground, there is mounting speculation that Britain\u2019s elite SAS could be lending a helping hand to anti-government forces in and around Al-Sanamayn.<\/span><\/p>\n

British Special Forces, both in the form of the SAS and its allied unit, the Special Boat Service (SBS), have been operating in Syria for seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Mirror, more than 30 British special operatives have been injured in Syria. There has been at least one combat fatality, that of Sergeant Matt Tonroe, who was killed in a joint US\/UK operation in March 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Late last year it was reported that British Special Forces in Syria were beating a hasty retreat following US President, Donald Trump\u2019s decision to pull out of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest incident appears to indicate that the SAS and SBS continue to operate in Syria based on the needs of allied Syrian rebel and terrorist groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exfiltration of the injured SAS soldier will cause huge concern as the rescue operation involved RAF choppers taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus before flying through Israeli airspace to northern Jordan and onto southwestern Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

This brazen violation of Syrian sovereignty is likely to aggravate Britain\u2019s outlaw status in Damascus, where both the Syrian government and people take a dim view of Britain\u2019s hostile interference in their internal affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why are the SAS in Deraa province, southwest Syria? The area has seen clashes between the Syrian Arab Army and terrorists, are the SAS assisting the militants? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203665,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203661\/revisions\/203665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}