The US is ensuring there is proxy force that would keep the situation under control while the US went with limiting their footprint in the Middle East. Israel in Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Saudis in Yemen against the Houthis, Barzani in Iraq (not secure anymore), SDF in Syria.
The problem...
Tribal forces launched an operation against the checkpoints of PKK terrorists in the town of Shehil in the east of Deir ez-Zor, and 6 terrorists were captured alive.
Qamishli is one of the first places where PKK established offices under Assad's protection. Due to the repression of the Assad regime the locals saw an opportunity for opposition and taking in account the fact that Assad even declined giving IDs to Kurdish citizens PKK came as a savior there...
While I don't want to derail the thread I want to say that it is wrong assumption to think that we don't create "tussle" as you call it in YPG controlled areas. In the last tribal rebellion we provided passive support. Tribal fighters were crossing trough our controlled territory to fight in the...
Unfortunately yesterday we received bad news from Matin Mountain. Infantry NCO Necdet CALIS, Infantry Enlisted Private Emrah GUNDUZ and Infantry Enlisted Private Fevzi KIZILTAS were martyred in result of a PKK attack. May Allah accept their martyrdom!
While we expected even more casualties...
I will try my best to post first about a Javelin launcher for sale in the black market in Baghdad. 😅
Iraqi black market in a nutshell:
A WW1-vintage British Pattern 14 (or possibly US M1917) rifle with a PU scope (possibly from an anti-air gun e.g. ZSU-23-2) which was converted to shoot...
Turkiye has been the main enabler together with Saudi Arabia for the US policies regarding the Middle East from the beginning of this century. If you think that the US will engage in military confrontation against one of its most important allies in the region, the ally that will eventually work...
It is wrong to interpret the US military infrastructure in the region as a move against Turkiye. There are also facilities in Turkiye that are used by the US including the Incirlik airbase. If anybody is being encircled it is Iran and not Turkiye. US military presence in some points where...
Neutralizing manpower is also important but what we did with the last air operation was even more important. Both important infrastructure was hit and also terrorists that were responsible for the contacts with their western "partners". Contrary to the belief YPG has extremely fragile structure...