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US, Kurdish Forces Foil Drone Attack on Base in Syria Since President Biden recently bombed targets militia targets in Iraq and Syria, attacks on US forces in both countries have increased
The US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the group and the US foiled a drone attack on a base in eastern Syria on Wednesday. The incident marked the second recent attack on US troops in Syria since President Biden bombed militia targets near the Iraq-Syria border last week.
“Our frontline forces against IS and coalition forces in the area of al-Omar oil field dealt with drone attacks,” the SDF said. The SDF said that “two unidentified rocket-propelled grenades landed on the western side of the al-Omar oil field” on Sunday.
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Cross-border access into Syria has become a stress test for Putin and Biden’s nascent relationship, so what exactly will it take for their governments to reach a durable agreement?
Each year, the U.N. Security Council resumes negotiations to renew its resolution to allow cross-border assistance into Syria via Turkey and Iraq. U.N. agencies count on this mandate to work in Syria without being constrained by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which rarely allows aid to reach opposition areas. These negotiations have become a recurring flash point of the Syrian war drama: While the council’s members generally support the mandate, Russia has regularly used its veto power to decrease the number of border crossings U.N. agencies can use, to the point where only one, Bab al-Hawa, remains open today.
JEDDAH: Fears are growing of a resurgence of Daesh after a spate of killings at a camp in northeast Syria that houses extremist fighters’ families.
At least eight people were shot dead last month in the sprawling tent city of Al-Hol in Hasakeh province. They included a 16-year-old Iraqi refugee and two Syrian sisters aged 17 and 23.
Daesh cells inside Al-Hol were carrying out “killings of residents who distance themselves from the extremist ideas of the group,” the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said.
The SDF said in April there had been 47 killings in Al-Hol in the first three months of the year, and they had captured 125 Daesh members in a security sweep in the camp.
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