{"id":77834,"date":"2018-02-20T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77834"},"modified":"2018-02-20T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:23:30","slug":"russian-contractors-test-us-forces-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77834","title":{"rendered":"Russian contractors test US forces in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-mercenaries-testing-us-lost-300-troops-reports-2018-2\">Business Insider<\/a>, Russian contractors tried to recon by fire a Syrian Democratic Forces base where Americans were operating near a &#8220;neutral zone&#8221; agreed upon by Russians and US officials. <\/p>\n<p>The Russians came with about 500 troops, T-55 and T-72 tanks, some 122mm howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems &#8211; but they came to the fight without air cover. Witnesses claim that the Russians came to within 500 feet of US forces in an unprovoked attack firing tank rounds. The US troops responded;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The US-led coalition responded with &#8220;AC-130 gunships, F-15s, F-22s, Army Apache helicopter gunships, and Marine Corps artillery,&#8221; according to Lucas Tomlinson, a Fox News reporter. CNN also reported that Himars and MQ-9 drones were used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, the bombers attacked, and then they cleaned up using Apaches,&#8221; attack helicopters, Yevgeny Shabayev, a Cossack paramilitary leader with ties to Russia&#8217;s military contractors, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters report cites an unnamed source as describing Bloomberg&#8217;s report that 300 Russians died as &#8220;broadly correct.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One soldier on the SDF side was injured according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Business Insider, Russian contractors tried to recon by fire a Syrian Democratic Forces base &hellip; <a title=\"Russian contractors test US forces in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77834\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian contractors test US forces 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-77834","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\/77834","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=77834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}