{"id":77596,"date":"2018-02-08T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77596"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:06:02","slug":"us-airstrike-on-assad-troops-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77596","title":{"rendered":"US airstrike on Assad troops in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-launches-rare-strike-on-syrian-government-backed-troops-1.510613\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the United States conducted an airstrike on Syrian government troops in eastern Syria killing about a hundred of Assad&#8217;s supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The U.S. official said the U.S. launched the airstrikes after as many as 500 attackers began what appeared to be a coordinated assault on U.S.-backed forces known as the Syrian Democratic Forces who were accompanied by U.S. advisers in Deir el-Zour province.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the strikes were in self-defense after the pro-government forces began firing artillery and tank rounds at the SDF. About 100 of the attackers were killed, the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Syrian government claimed that the targeted fighters were actually &#8220;tribal fighters&#8221; who were engaged with ISIS militants.<\/p>\n<p>The air strike comes after the Syrian government was accused by Amnesty International of using chlorine gas on the town of Saraqib last Sunday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2018\/02\/06\/syria-used-banned-chemical-weapons-in-sunday-gas-attack-officials-say.html\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amnesty International, in a press release issued earlier Tuesday, said that testimony gathered from the scene showed evidence that the Syrian government internationally used banned chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, Syria\u2019s government has shown its utter contempt for international law by deploying illegal chemical weapons,\u201d Lynn Malouf said in the press release. Malouf is the Director of Research for the Middle East at Amnesty International.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2018\/02\/08\/syria-chemical-attack-rockets-made-in-germany-report-says.html\">Fox News<\/a> also reports that the rockets used in the attack were made in Germany;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rockets used in the recent chemical attacks in Syria that poisoned dozens of civilians, including children, were \u201cMade in Germany,\u201d Bild reports.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attacks in East Ghouta, a suburb outside Damascus with a population of 400,000, the remains of Iranian 107-millimeter rockets with the company logo of Krempel and the product signature \u201cMade in Germany\u201d were found at the sites, Bild reported Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Syrian civil war hasn&#8217;t become any easier to manage with the end of ISIS, the US should focus on a diplomatic exit strategy for Assad and his supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that the United States conducted an airstrike on Syrian government troops in eastern &hellip; <a title=\"US airstrike on Assad troops in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77596\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US airstrike on Assad troops in Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}