Description: On January 14, the US-led coalition announced that it is working with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to form...
Date: 2018-01-14T21:08:46+00:00

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# US-led Coalition Forming 30,000-Strong Force To Control Syrian Border

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On January 14, the US-led coalition announced that it is working with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to form a Border Security Force (BSF) that will control the Syrian border with Turkey and Iraq. The BSF will be directly commanded by the SDF and will have over 30,000 fighters, according to the US-led coalition.

The Public Affairs Office of the US-led coalition confirmed to Reuters that a half of BSF fighters will be veterans of the Kurdish-dominated SDF. The US-led coalition is currently recruiting and training new fighters to form the other half of the force.

> “They [the BSF] will be providing border security through professionally securing checkpoints and conducting counter-IED operations,” the US-led coalition said according to Reuters.

Moreover, the US-led coalition Public Affairs Office revealed that most of the BSF Arab fighters will serve on the border with Iraq and in the Euphrates valley. The Kurdish fighters will mainly serve on the Syrian-Turkish border.

> “Efforts are taken to ensure individuals serve in areas close to their homes. Therefore, the ethnic composition of the force will be relative to the areas in which they serve … More Kurds will serve in the areas in northern Syria. More Arabs will serve in areas along the Euphrates River Valley and along the border with Iraq to the south,” the US-led coalition said.

Some experts believe that the BSF is yet another step by the US to establish a semi-independennt Kurdish state in eastern Syria. On the other hand, Turkish officials and activists see the new force as a direct threat to Turkey as the US-led coalition openly said that it will deploy Kurdish fighters right on the Turkish border.

Ibrahim Kalin spokesman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned the US decision to establish the BSF and warned that the US is working to strengthen the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the main part of the SDF, instead of weakening it.

> “The USA is taking worrying steps to legitimize this organization and make it lasting in the region. It is absolutely not possible for this to be accepted,” Kalin said according to Reuters.

US President Donald Trump promised Turkey on November 24, 2017 that the US will end its military support for the YPG. However, since then the US has actually increased its support to the YPG and the SDF.

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- PZIVJ

  This will make Erdogan even more upset.
  He is probably working on a new speech right now to keep us all amused.

  - Solomon Krupacek

    he is angry. and immediately starts with operation in afrin.

  - Solomon Krupacek

    i told you:

    https://southfront.org/hayat-tahrir-al-sham-develops-counter-attack-against-syrian-army-in-southern-idlib-map-videos/

    and much worse:

    https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-al-qaeda-led-offensive-sees-militants-regain-17-towns-syrian-army-southeast-idlib/

- Michał Hunicz

  Erdogan, send against these, as we see on the photo, Wahhabi Communists, 100.000 troops with full rocket vessels and air support and simply roll them out!

  - John Whitehot

    yeah! I heard there are several battalions of volunteers of North Korean monarchists and Cuban neonazis willing to join that force, that would probably bring the number to 200’000.

    - Michał Hunicz

      PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party

    - FlorianGeyer

      I would think that many re-badged ISIS from the Arab tribes along the East bank of the Euphrates will be part of the US plan.

      It does drive a bigger wedge between the US and Turkey which will likely erupt into more pain for Syrian civilians.

      If there is any justice in the world the US and Turkish forces will suffer greatly. It is only to be regretted that the warmongers in both those governments are not forced to fight and die personally.

      - dutchnational

        As there are only some 2k US forces in Rojava, many likely not even combat personnel, I do not foresee many lossess for US in Northern Syria. Nor for that matter for Turkey, as long as they stay in their own country.

- John Whitehot

  30k? who do they intend to recruit, all males and females from 7 to 70 years who are still able to stay on their feet?

  - 888mladen .

    Could be 3000 the most.

  - dutchnational

    Well, as there are some 4.5 to 5.5 million people there, incl a million or so refugees – kurds from Aleppo city, Damascus and arabs from Idlib, Raqqah and DeZ, they will find enough volonteers.

    As they found 7k volonteers for Raqqah security, they will manage.

    I wonder if they will be deployed in Afrin.

    - FlorianGeyer

      The US have all her ISIS friends as well who are being re-skilled to cut off heads more humanely.

    - Joe

      Let them form whatever as many needs jobs . Time comes most will disappear when they face ASSAD’s allies all combined as happened in Iraq.

      How the hack anyone allows lost of territory when he is on the winning side just because Uncle Sam with 2000 miserable soldiers say so??

      Imagine it is your country . Do you allow it? Let alone Assad had Turkey, Iran , Russia, and famous Hezbollah not to say the entire Syrian people

      Only nuts think this is possible

      - MichaH

        I think that it is quite possible, if not for a long time, but for now. It remains to be seen how long the complete reconquest of the northwest will take, in what condition the Syrian army will then be, how the cooperation of the local Arab groups with the Kurds will unfold. The Syrian government will not risk everything because of the eastern part.

  - FlorianGeyer

    The military roster will be 30,000 on the payroll but with 25,000 ghosts :) I would think that a US private military crew will administrating this gang.

    Loads of money.

    - so

      Another Profit Opportunity. KA-CHING !!!

  - BL

    They’ve imported tens of thousands of PKK fighters from Turkey.

    - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

      You also forgot PJAK terrorists from Iran being added in.

- 888mladen .

  Turkey must stop supporting HTS and other terrorist groups in Northern Syria and with SAA jointly deal with YPG and US occupation of Eastern Syria.

- 888mladen .

  Egdogan is wasting his precious time with his inaction and animosity towards SY government . One day it will be too late.

  - Luigi

    I think that was the idea since the beginning. The US was always clear that they will support the creation of a Kurdistan with access to sea. Turkey will have to be partioned too.

  - Joe

    Just wait after Sochi, it would be clear if the Kurds want to be Syrians or independent . The latter will be war on a large scale for sure

- atminds

  Anti-globalization demonstrators took to the streets of the Swiss capital on Saturday to protest against a planned visit by US President Donald Trump to the World Economic Forum this month.

  Trump announced last week that he would attend the WEF in Davos, an annual meeting of global business and political leaders.

  - 888mladen .

    What a joke. World Economic Forum is the very heart od Glottalization kabalah

  - FlorianGeyer

    Trump just wants a free holiday. :)

    - RichardD

      Probably fewer protesters than in the UK, which he (or they?) cancelled.

- atminds

  make love not wars

  - so

    If only you could convince the 1% and their followers. The planet earth is a non stop Circle Jerk.

- 888mladen .

  It looks like YPG has become US modern days ME type of Khmer Rouge.

- 888mladen .

  Erdogan has been gambling with the future of Turkey.

- Langaniso Mhlobo

  Who give USA legitimate sovereign right in Syria to train terrorist infiltrating terrorist in Syria.

  - Redadmiral

    USA have legitimised themselves by being the greatest Military power on the planet. So, it is their belief that Might is Right. If on the other hand, all of Europe including Britain, Russia, China and South America were opposed to them, they might have to pack up their terror campaign in Syria. Unfortunately, that ain’t the way life on this planet is. Take a look at the Presidential Election in Honduras, with almost 60% of the ballots counted Hernandes was trailing Nasralla by 5%, then we have almost a 2 week delay and hey presto Hernandes wins by 1.5%. Which, meant that Hernandes won 26% to Nasralla’s 17% of the remaining vote; And of course Uncle Sam claims it is a triumph for Democracy. Yet Nicholas Maduro’s victory in Venezuela was decried as a sham even though UN observers claimed it was one of the best, open and transparent democratic election procedures in the western world…..

    - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

      Hernandes is a narco dictator imposed by the corruption by the US of paying many bribes in that Fraudulent election. Venezuela had a clean election in comparison to the US fraud, Crimea was clean but the Kiev only election was rife from fraud as soon as it was announced US interfered in every aspect along with France, UK and Germany , the western world like this interfering in elections is bad.

      - Redadmiral

        Beginning with the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected president, sponsored by Yankee NGOs, Soros, Buffet et al.

        - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

          The west has always been full of fascist leaders we just don’t like to acknowledge it. Problem with any NGO is for the most part they are just propaganda wings of the Govt spewing their nonsense. Soros interferes in just as many nations politics as the US does his are more about profit for himself and less bout social problems , more to social engineering. Buffet likes to use his money to manipulate like Soros does anything that hurts their bottom line is bad for his business. Just gave you names of Fascist corporatists as they are the same thing line the pockets of the oligarches , think I am wrong do some research.

          People like that are generally greedy and have few or no morales, just Good sense knowledge. You can have your fantasies about me being a leftist which is far from the truth just realist.

        - John Mason

          Those people do what they do because they feel safe, take that safe feeling element away then they all retreat into their holes. Only way to stop them.

- Pave Way IV

  Spineless CENTCOM traitors now starting to hide behind the skirts of their imaginary ‘US-led coalition’, as if this isn’t a totally US-initiated, US-funded and US-run scheme. There *IS* no US-led coalition except in the fantasy cobbled together by CENTCOM’s amateurish PsyOps directed at the American people.

  Calling ex-jihadis along the Euphrates ‘border guards’ isn’t going to stop SAA tanks from rolling over their dead terrorist asses on the future SAA campaign to retake Syria’s stolen Omar Oilfields. All in good time. Until then, we just have to suffer with endless fake CENTCOM reports of ISIS attacking SDF along the Euphrates.

  - Joe

    The Kurds recruits just needed a job.
    When time to face ASSAD’s forces with his allies they will fd up and go home.

    There is just no way Assad and allies allow it as it would be worse that the creation of Israel for all parties.

    Iran and Turkey especially will never allow it .

- Langaniso Mhlobo

  Today’s USA train traitors tomorrow’s defectors that’s the game plan.

- Langaniso Mhlobo

  We need arm’s embargo against USA,Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

- Josh

  Miraculous conversion of evacuated commanders plus working out a deal with their remaining assets along the Turkish border to keep a foothold in both Syria and Iraq. Use of smuggling routes/networks for overland supply lines perhaps. Hoping to support a guerilla war in contested territory from what they hope will be accepted and uncotested region. If I were the bad guy, that’s what I would be aiming for with moves such as these.

  - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

    This is the actual game they are playing and one thing is Turkey is on the chopping block and they are too stupid to realize it and Turks already call Erdogan for losing territory. What will happen when the US starts aiding in creating this Kurdistan as this is their full intention. Iraq wants the US to leave so that is why many are up in arms there, they know the US is planning the long term partitioning of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. They will use this as rearguard base to their Forward AO in Iraq and attack Iran on a false flag op declaring that Iran is sending Terrorists into their area and attacking the bases. Then at the same time initiate terrorist attacks on Russia to keep them distracted. So they can’t bring to bear enough forces in the theater, while using their rebranded terrorist forces again to disrupt the region.

    Just my guess that’s all.

    - Redadmiral

      Not to far off the mark TCW. Erdogan is playing a very dangerous role at the moment, trying to keep all options open. Yanks realise Gullen can give them everything, should they wash their hands like PP, Erdogan will have his head on a spike before his feet touch Turkish soil. However, should they take Erdogan out by whatever means Gullen will give them everything including Turkish Kurdistan.

      - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

        Well could have added more to that but it would have been obvious that Gulen was part of it. There is more going on in little subplots but need to stay with partition side. Legally Erdogan/Gulen can’t give the partition in the region nor can France so those are both moot, and neither can they use an old claim by a former governor as all those things created were ceded all control to Damascus.

        The thing is Iran will hand the names of those involved again saving Turkey’s bacon from an almost civil war again. This will be another round robin of the same old same old, this time a US ambassador will be killed in a false flag event is the only difference.

        - Redadmiral

          Just talking about Turkish Kurdistan, Erdogan will keep it at all costs and might even be inclined to help smash up YPG forces, nka “SDF”. Yanks I am inclined to believe would prefer to carve out the New Kurdish State, which will lead directly to war with Iran, which we are all aware is a high priority on their must do list. An agreement made almost 100 years ago is worthless when compared to Yankee Might today. Propaganda will sell the unification of Kurdistan and vilify those opposed to it. If Erdogan fails to smarten up very soon he will be buried and the largest part of Kurdistan will cede from a Turkey ruled by Gullen, and combine with the YPG annexed Syria. Iraqi Kurdistan will also cede from Iraq, now all of a sudden there is a new country armed to the teeth with Yankee support and equipment galore. Israel will of course be supplying tech support. It may not be the chosen path, but it is a highway to keep Hell well fuelled for the foreseeable future…..

        - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

          Well Kurdistan won’t exist , many within Turkey can’t Stand PKK/YPG /PJAK/Peshmerge terrorists and the enforcement of an agreement would be still excepted today. Why would anyone refuse it since none of the parties broke the agreement , we are not talking any ABM treaty which the US walked away from. That has been the new nightmare the failure of that treaty, Peace treaties are carved in stone and Gulen has no chance as many Turks see him more as a catalyst for more problems than Erdogan.

          Iraqi Kurds never ever had any region historically and that is just fact and forcing all these culturally different people together will erode each separate identity. No country in the world would want to force out any people from their ancestral homes, we have enough guilt over that already.

          You can stop the with the idea of annexation as i would be surrounded and without any means of support. Iraq will ask the US and many others to leave soon so it is looking as a no go there. Syria and Russia are asking the US to leave and continued actions look like that the US is pushing for a real World War and that is a no go for the rest of the west as we know it’s unwinnable.

          The path is easy and the US has already known it bit off more than it can chew public opinion is steadily growing against it. Western Nations are backing away, the US is no longer a super power of import anymore. The other super powers are surpassing it in political and economic control.The US can come crashing down and no real way to continue a war. The end game has arrived just the US hasn’t learned it yet.

        - Redadmiral

          Yanks like to smoke Cuban cigars although they are illegal to buy or import into the USA. However, all those Zionist cocksuckers in AIPAC love to blow the exhaust smoke from these Cigars up the Arseholes of the MIC who believe their own lies along with those of aipac. That is, that a nuclear war is winnable because at this moment in time Yankee military superiority gives them “full spectrum dominance”. So, the situation as far as I can understand it is you have arrogant, ignorant morons; telling other arrogant, ignorant morons, that they are the smartest people on the planet and the all believe it. What happens next; is in the lap of the……….

        - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

          They forget there are variables within their plans which is never accounted for except with the old + or – which at times will be nowhere they expected it to be. This just an excuse to cover getting it wrong like here in Syria, truth is they knew it was going to be a long drawn out situation. This benefits the bankers and the arms industries to pay the bankers as they all need to make huge mounts of money to smoke their cigars. Schmedley Butler said all wars are bankers wars and this is definitely benefiting them. The moron will always think what they are is doing it the best interest of themselves and no one else.

- EL ZORRO

  “US-LED COALITION FORMING 30,000-STRONG FORCE TO CONTROL SYRIAN BORDER”…TRANSLATION…UNITED STATED DEEP STATE, FORMING A BRIGADE OF 30,000 STRONG FORCE OF INTERNATIONAL MERCENARY TERRORISTS TO CONTINUE THEIR CRIMINAL ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE SOVEREIGN NATION OF SYRIA.

- alejoeisabel

  Does anyone have any doubts that 911 was a deep state false flag operation.

  - Terra Cotta Woolpuller

    Many people think it was the MOSSAD who did it since many of their signature actions were involved.

  - BL

    (((Deep state))) operation:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFa9_JjlYc

  - MichaH

    I doubt it heavily, but let us agree about that we do not need to make up now this discussion.

- EL ZORRO

  “The US-led coalition is currently recruiting and training new fighters to form the other half of the force”…TRANSLATION…The UNITED STATES DEEP STATE INTERNATIONAL MERCENARY TERRORISTS, is currently recruiting and re-training disbanded I.S.I.S MERCENARY TERRORISTS, to form a new BRIGADE TO CONTINUE THE ILEGAL INVASION OF THE SOVEREIGN NATION OF SYRIA AND CONTINUE THE SLAUGHTERED AND GENOCIDE OF SYRIAN PEOPLE.

- RichardD

  Hopefully this is in the works to protect Syrian government coalition forces restoring government administration east of the river from air strikes:

  http://www.ausairpower.net/PVO-S/Panorama-TsM-SADCP-1S.jpg

  - RichardD

    – Russia to start 5th-generation fighter jet production in Far East in 2018 –

    http://tass.com/defense/980675

    SU-57s:

    https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/russian-pak-fa-tandem-flight-wikimedia-commons-e1502633882107.jpg

    - RichardD

      – Russia’s S-500 Missile System Second to None –

      https://sputniknews.com/military/201704091052466018-russia-prometey-missile-system-air-defense/

      S-500:

      https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K6wSml33Qgc/maxresdefault.jpg

      - John Whitehot

        this is a s-300v, stop spamming

        - RichardD

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wSml33Qgc

        - John Whitehot

          it’s a darned s-300v with the two different missile types and who made the vid doesn’t even know what she’s talking about

        - RichardD

          Yes, it looks like a variant of the S-300 system:

          – S-300VM –

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300VM

        - RichardD

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7c662b8ff8f616240d1f82603a2bae223d960d1b2f1270447a5b20c5e5f85965.png

        - RichardD

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCEf5E9TDc

        - RichardD

          What is this? It looks like a tracked S-500:
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18236d59092a84ce4b0a194f11dc5252b2a8e0dafd277428172d678bcf0f0e50.png

      - wwinsti

        Now, you know good and well that there are no publicity available pics of the s500 prototype.

        - RichardD

          – The First Image of New Russian Air Defense Systems S-500 –

          http://defence-blog.com/news/the-first-image-of-new-russian-air-defense-systems-s-500.html

        - wwinsti

          Paintings!? Well, I get to link to s500 models then.
          This is NOT an s300vm:

          http://defence-blog.com/news/large-scale-model-of-new-russian-s-500-prometheus-missile-system-go-on-display.html

        - RichardD

          https://www.google.com/search?q=Russian+S-500+pictures&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS704US704&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie0L6RhtnYAhUS_mMKHU-_DcYQ_AUICygC&biw=853&bih=446

  - Mountains

    Overrated and they barely work.

    - BlueInGreen

      You need to go away.

      - Mountains

        It’s outdated systems and has failure in it’s system regarding it’s defense capability have been reported

    - RichardD

      That’s not true, 99.9% of Syrian government coalition operations have been air strike free because of Russian air cover, which includes IAD.

- Solomon Krupacek

  Thanks, Putin!

  - Astar Roth

    You just keep your cowardly uncanny dirty fuccked up mouth shut, okay?
    Good!

- You can call me Al

  hahahah – you are going to have our bollocks blown off – you sad traitorous whores.

- Daniel

  That will be a new loan at the federal reserve for the American taxpayers to pay for this.

- VGA

  You know, with all these money that they are paying in salaries in the Middle East and for all the equipment the islamists are using, USA could have public healthcare for its citizens lmao