{"id":301112,"date":"2024-12-29T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301112"},"modified":"2024-12-30T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T09:13:11","slug":"moscow-warns-us-uk-preparing-isis-attacks-on-airbases-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301112","title":{"rendered":"Moscow warns US, UK preparing ‘ISIS attacks’ on airbases in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cradle \u2013 Dec 28, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) warned<\/a> on 28 December that the US and UK are planning to use ISIS to attack Russian military bases in Syria to further destabilize the country after the fall of the Syrian government.<\/p>\n

Russian intelligence confirmed that ISIS field commanders had obtained attack drones to carry out these attacks.<\/p>\n

The FIS stressed that President Joe Biden’s outgoing government aims to sew chaos in West Asia “to ensure their long-term dominance in the region.”<\/p>\n

But this is “impeded by the Russian military presence on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, which remains an important factor in regional stability, which necessitated assigning ISIS to carry out the mission,” the FIS said.<\/p>\n

Russia maintains an air base near the coastal city of Latakia and a naval base near the coastal city of Tartus. The presence of Russian forces in Syria is now in question after the fall of the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally, on 8 December.<\/p>\n

Damascus is now ruled by Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda commander and current leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Sharaa, formerly Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is a long-time asset<\/a> of the US, Israel, and Turkiye.<\/p>\n

Al-Mayadeen’s<\/em> correspondent in Russia stated<\/a> that Washington and London want to expel Russian forces from Syria while continuing to occupy the oil-rich areas in the northeast of the country. Since 2016, US forces have occupied Syrian territory east of the Euphrates River in partnership with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).<\/p>\n

Washington maintains its occupation of Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS, despite previously supporting<\/a> the terror group in its conquest of large swathes of eastern Syria and Western Iraq in 2014, including the city of Mosul.<\/p>\n

Washington later partnered with the SDF to occupy the territory previously controlled by ISIS in Syria to prevent its return to Syrian government sovereignty.<\/p>\n

The US-backed SDF holds large numbers of ISIS militants in its prisons in the city of Hasakah in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n

The SDF released<\/a> thousands of ISIS members this summer as part of an amnesty, raising fears that the US may again use the group to achieve its foreign policy goals in the region.<\/p>\n

The SDF is currently fighting the pro-Turkish Syrian National Army (SNA) near the city of Manbij and the Tishreen Dam in northern Syria. The SDF leadership has warned that ISIS members may break out of their prisons if the SDF comes under sustained attack by the SNA and Turkish military.<\/p>\n

“With the increasing threats that faced the city of Manbij, we relocated ISIS detainees from the prisons there to other, more secure detention facilities,” SDF leader General Mazloum Abdi told<\/a> CNN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“As Turkey-backed factions advanced toward the city center, cells launched attacks on detention centers holding both civilians and terrorists,” he added. “Currently, detention centers in both Raqqa and Hasakah are facing similar threats, necessitating enhanced cooperation and additional security measures to protect these sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington has used ISIS in the past and still uses the group’s existence today as a pretext to occupy northeast Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":301114,"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":[91,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301112","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=301112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301113,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301112\/revisions\/301113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}