Zero Hedge: Watch US Armored Convoy Retreat As Syrian Army Threatens Fire In Tense Standoff
Though long off the media's radar, it remains that a thousand or more US troops are still occupying northeast Syria's oil rich region, provoking multiple recent dangerous "close call" near-clashes with Syrian and Russian troops who are also patrolling a region considered sovereign Syrian soil.
The latest tense encounter this week as a US military convoy came upon a check point manned by Syrian Army soldiers and pro-Assad militia almost resulted in a direct clash.
Video shows Syrian soldiers halting the US-flagged patrol unit, consisting of three armored vehicles, demanding that they turn back. At one point a Syrian soldier even approaches the doors of the lead American vehicle and is seen waiving his Kalashnikov point-blank at the driver side windows (at 3:40 mark below).
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Update: Syrian Army intercepts another US military convoy in northeast Syria (AMN)
WNU Editor: US involvement in Syria continues .... Intel: US CENTCOM commander meets with head of Syria’s Kurdish forces (AL-Monitor). In the meantime the misery continues .... UN Official: 700 People Died in Syrian Camps for IS Families (US News and World Report/AP). More here .... Syria faces severe bread shortages as US sanctions worsen economy (Al JAzeera
