US Setting up New Militant Army to Confront Syrian Gov't Forces

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria reported that the US is creating a new army from the remaining pockets of the ISIL and Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) terrorists in Southern Syria to face the pro-government forces.

News ID: 67535

Date: 16 December 2017 - 12:45

The Russian center said that the US has continued cooperation with the remaining pockets of terrorists despite claims that it is committed to the annihilation of the ISIL in Syria.

The Russian center went on to say that the US military trainer, affiliated to the Elite Forces, has embarked on setting up new units known as New Syrian Army from defected members of the terrorist groups near a refugee camp near the town of Hasaka in Northeastern Syria.

In the meantime, eye-witnesses quoted the US army men as saying that units of the New Syrian Army will be deployed in Southern Syria to fight against the government forces after the newly-recruited fighters accomplish their training in Hasaka.

Relevant reports said on Friday that Syrian Foreign Ministry censured the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISIL terrorist group, saying the military alliance was indeed targeting civilian facilities and providing the terrorists with cover.

In two separate letters addressed to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating president of the UN Security Council, Koro Bessho, on Thursday, the ministry stated that the US-led coalition was pretending to fight ISIL, but it had, in fact, been transporting the terrorists from one part of Syria to another and securing them.

The letters further noted that ISIL terrorists were purged from most regions in Syria only through counter-terrorism operations conducted by government troops and allied fighters from popular defense groups.

They also criticized the so-called advocates of human rights and rule of law for turning a blind eye to the atrocities the US-led coalition is perpetrating in Raqqa and Deir Ezzur provinces.

Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported on Thursday that US-led air raids had claimed the lives of at least 23 civilians, mostly children and women, in the al-Jurze Sharqi village of Deir Ezzur province.