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2025-09-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian Army (formerly HTS) struck vehicle used by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo as tensions flare

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Posted by badanov 2025-09-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1778 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria/HTS

1 "Syrian Democratic Forces"???
Who wrote this, John McCain?
Remember how Trump was about to pull out then that fake chemical attack happened and McCain immediately flew in to meet with terrorist leaders?
I finally figured out how to post a meme here and holy crap that was unnecessarily complicated!

Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-09-12 08:32|| 2025-09-12 08:32|| Front Page Top

2 Congratulations on figuring out the meme thingy. Rantburg was built by serious programmers as a sandbox to play their programming games in, so I’m sure that was quite an accomplishment.

The SDF is the army of the Kurdish government in Syria.

Are you perhaps thinking of the Syrian National Army, also known as the Free Syrian Army? They’re paid by Turkey, mostly to attack Kurds, and were built around the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood units that originally rebelled against the Assad government back in 2011, plus recalcitrant ISIS fighters and whatever Al Qaeda in X units that did not attach to what is now the governing Al Nusra/Hayat Tahrir al Sham conquerers of Syria.

The Syrian Arab Army was — and perhaps still is, I’ve lost track — the army of the Assad government, and therefore the national army of Syria. I seem to recall the troops were given the option to pledge allegiance to the HTS government, but I don’t know what they call it now. I do know that the Kurds and the Druze both complain that HTS-linked units are still running over the conquered peoples with hobnailed boots, but which units never seems to be named.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-12 09:32|| 2025-09-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

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