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US Special Operations soldier killed in Syria

A US service member was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement. They released the name of the casualty on Thanksgiving Day.

Published: November 25, 2016, 10:26 am

    The service member was killed near Ayn Issa, a town to the northwest of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. The death marks the first time a US service member has been killed in the country since Special Operations forces were deployed there in October 2015.

    There are roughly 500 US troops in Syria, mostly operating in support role to a coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters.

    Earlier this month an RT crew on the ground managed to capture footage of US soldiers in the vicinity of Raqqa. They are believed to be part of a special forces contingent that US President Barack Obama authorized for deployment in Syria in April.

    The US State Department’s spokesman Mark Toner meanwhile urged other countries not to provide support for Russian tankers shipping fuel to the Russian aviation group in Syria.

    The Russian Defense Ministry commented on the US State Department’s calls not to help tankers shipping fuel to the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria. If Washington cannot or does not want to fight terrorists, it should not get in the way, the ministry’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Thursday.

    Konashenkov told Sputnik News that the US-led coalition can only dream of a success comparable to the one Russia has achieved for a year: over 2 000 settlements have joined ceasefire, 86 armed groups have stopped fighting and hundreds of thousands of Syrians have returned to peaceful life to rebuild the country.

    “So if you cannot or do not want to fight Daesh and al-Nusra Front — do not get in the way, at least. Our air group is Syria is sufficiently equipped to fight international terrorism in this region,” he said.

    It seems the puzzle of eastern Aleppo’s hospitals has been solved: the number of destroyed hospitals in eastern Aleppo is about to set a Guinness record. According to the US State Department and to the mainstream media, over 90 hospitals were totally destroyed in eastern Aleppo in the last months at the rate of almost one destroyed hospital per day.

    The only problem with this figure is the statistic released by the Syrian Ministry of Health stating that “on the entire Syrian territory, there are only 88 hospitals”.

    karin@praag.org

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