The US continues to support the armed Syrian opposition, and intends to train and equip tens of thousands of fighters with the country’s president Bashar Assad.
The Americans plan becomes clear in the light of the new statements of the coalition against the Islamic State group. The coalition and opposition create the so-called Syrian border security forces.
Now several hundred people pass training, in the future their number can reach 30 thousand.
The “security forces” are to be deployed along the Euphrates River valley. Now the outskirts of the territory of Syria is controlled by the opposition together with the Americans.
In 2015, the US supported the organization of the “Syrian Democratic Forces” of the Syrian Kurds, as well as some Arab tribes. They really repulsed the Islamists from several areas in Syria.
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly indicated that the American contingent is in Syria illegally.
This week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to launch an operation in the regions of Manbij and Afrin, controlled by the armed groups of Syrian Kurds, within the next week.
