Similar fate as in Iraq awaits US troops in Syria.
The first and most important consequence of the new trend in missile and rocket attacks on US military bases in Syria can be seen as the removal of the security fence for the Syrian military.
As the Syrian crisis draws to a close, the clock seems to be ticking faster than ever for the withdrawal of US troops. In the years after 2014, US forces took control of parts of northern Syria using militias affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and established new military bases in those areas. They provided a kind of security fence for their soldiers and other forces of the so-called “International Coalition Against ISIS”.
Although US forces have continued to provide proxy support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in recent years, new developments along the Syrian border indicate that the US military has experienced a different situation in recent months from security threats and resistance from Syrian groups. And this trend is likely to expand further in the coming months. In the past, it was thought that the US and coalition forces were safe from threats and attacks under any circumstances, but in the midst of new developments, especially after US terrorist airstrikes on resistance forces in the Abu Kamal area on the Iraqi-Syrian border, there has been a major turnaround. We are in equations.
Just one day after US troops attacked a resistance base late last month (June), a US base in the Omar oil field in eastern Syria was hit by a missile. In recent days, reports indicate that alarm bells have been sounded several times at the Al-Omar oil field east of Deir ez-Zor, where the US military base is located.
There is also evidence that US forces were attacked at the Koniko gas field in Deir ez-Zor at the same time. However, the main argument of the present article is that the current trend in changing the equation in Syria indicates that the fate of US troops in Syria is also on the way to becoming their situation in Iraq, and this trend will change in the near future will lead to the field equations of Syria
