President Biden may not want large numbers of American troops doing combat in the Middel East…
(The US has about 900 combat troops in Northenr Syria right now)
But?
Since the time as Vice President …
He has supported Special Operations against Middle East terrorist targets…
The US IS supporting Syrian Kurds in their fight gainst ISIS and Iran……
U.S. Special Operations forces carried out two major strikes against the Islamic State in northern Syria on Thursday, killing three senior figures responsible for arming and recruiting fighters and plotting attacks, according to American and Syrian Kurdish officials.
Taken together, the nighttime assaults dealt the Islamic State its most punishing blow since a risky predawn raid in northwest Syria in early February by American commandos resulted in the death of the terrorist group’s overall leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
The twin attacks started early Thursday when Special Operations forces dropped from helicopters in northeastern Syria and killed Rakkan Wahid al-Shammari, who facilitated the smuggling of weapons and fighters to support ISIS operations, the Pentagon’s Central Command said in a statement.
The raid was a rare operation inside Syrian government territory and just a few miles from a Syrian airfield where Russian troops are based….
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In Syria earlier this year, the jihadists attacked a prison in an attempt to free thousands of their former comrades and occupied the compound for more than a week before a Kurdish-led military force supported by the United States drove them out.
The American attacks on Thursday came three weeks after the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Pentagon’s Kurdish-led allies in the region, completed a weekslong security operation through the sprawling Al Hol detention camp in northeastern Syria….
Note….
President Trump had walked away from supporting the Kurds, probably as a favor to Russian President Putin who has backed the Syria, which the Kurds have broken away from…
The US had been supporting the Kurds , who had been fighting ISIS…The effort helped defeat ISIS forces in the region…But Turkey has not been happy with the Kurds. who are right on their border…President Biden has pledged to reverse Trump’s policies to the Kurds….