Syrian militants ‘educated at US base for sabotage & terrorism’ attempt to give up & get ambushed by OTHER US-backed extremists

A US-backed militant group has intercepted a convoy of ‘defectors’ looking for to put down their arms and give up to Damascus. The survivors advised the Syrian Military that American instructors educated them for sabotage and terrorism.

After giving themselves as much as the Syrian military, the 27 militants mentioned they’d been educated and offered weapons at an American facility, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, the top of the Russian Protection Ministry’s Middle for Syrian Reconciliation, mentioned at a briefing on Wednesday.

American instructors educated them to hold out sabotage at oil and transport infrastructure, in addition to for terrorist acts within the Syrian government-controlled territories.

The fighters mentioned they selected to give up themselves earlier this week in an effort to return to peaceable life, however as they traveled close to the southern border space close to al-Tanf – the place the US army retains a garrison – they had been attacked by one other US-backed militant group, the self-styled “Revolutionary Commando Military,” or Jaish Maghawir al-Thawra. The group has labored underneath American forces for years to take care of an unlawful army presence in southern Syria, at instances stopping the Syrian military and allied militias from advancing on Islamic State positions, even whereas vowing to struggle the notorious terror group itself.

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The 27 militants had been the only survivors of the assault, shedding three autos and various males earlier than escaping, Zhuravlev mentioned, noting that they’re now underneath the safety of the Syrian army in Palmyra. They handed over dozens of weapons, together with Western-made heavy machine weapons and grenade launchers.

Video footage was shared on-line by native media purporting to indicate the second the fighters surrendered, through which an eight-vehicle convoy is seen arriving at a Syrian military submit close to Palmyra. Whereas particulars of the give up settlement weren’t made public, native pro-government media deemed the transfer a “main blow to the USA.”

"The give up of a bunch of Revolutionary Commando [Maghawir al-Thawrah] terrorists who had been straight underneath US command. This was a significant blow to the USA." – @syriantopersian
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Not lengthy after the Syrian battle erupted in 2011, the Pentagon and US intelligence businesses started overtly supporting an array of armed factions – together with radical Islamist militias – handing out billions of in weapons and kit to all takers in hopes of toppling Syrian President Bashar Assad. Although US backing for so-called “reasonable rebels” has waned underneath the presidency of Donald Trump, a whole lot of US troops stay deployed in Syria in violation of worldwide legislation, a few of them – equivalent to in al-Tanf – nonetheless embedded alongside anti-Assad fighters.

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