The Pentagon has warned Syria and Russia that the US is ready to shoot down their planes, which Washington claims threaten American advisers in northern Syria.
The warning came after US fighter jets tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis claimed on Friday the US fighters attempted to intercept the Syrian planes to protect American advisers – a term the US military often uses for its Special Operations Forces – working with Kurdish forces after the Syrian government jets bombed the area.
On Monday, another Pentagon spokesman, Peter Cook, said, “We would continue to advise the Syrian regime to steer clear of those areas.”
“We are going to defend our people on the ground, and do what we need to defend them,” Cook told reporters.
“It’s not a no-fly zone,” he said, adding that “the Syrian regime would be wise to avoid areas where coalition forces have been operating.”
When asked about Russia, Cook said the US would also do the same with Russian jets, which have been striking Daesh targets in Syria at the country’s request since last year.
“If they threaten US forces, we always have the right to defend our forces,” Cook said.
Russia launched its air offensive in Syria in September 2015. According to analysts, the campaign has so far broken the backbone of Daesh and other militants there, and has provided the Syrian government with an opportunity to defeat the foreign-sponsored terrorist onslaught.
The US and some of its Arab allies began their campaign in Syria in September 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
Since then, they have been carrying out airstrikes in the war-torn country, but their air raids have done little to stop the Takfiri group’s advances there.
Davis said Friday that two Syrian SU-24 attack planes attacked Kurdish forces undergoing training with US Special Operations troops around the northeastern city of Hasakah, but they had left by the time the American jets arrived.
In response, the General Command of the Syrian Arab Army said later in the day that Kurdish forces were “attacking state institutions, stealing oil and cotton, obstructing exams, kidnapping unarmed civilians and spreading chaos and instability.”
Since March 2011, Syria has been gripped by a foreign-backed militancy. Daesh terrorists still control parts of Syria and Iraq.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/23/481261/US-Russia-Syria-Daesh
GET THE HELL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST YOU JUDEO FAGGOT WAR MONGERING RETARDIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GET THE HELL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST YOU JUDEO FAGGOT WAR MONGERING RETARDIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The warning came after US fighter jets tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived. ”
lol. What a brilliant strategy. Wait until the so called “enemy” leaves before you get there. I guess the “advisers” won’t be counting on any air support then. All that war waging over the years and they still can’t get it right.
Oh, yeah. If the Syrians are attacking the rebels, then what are the “advisers” doing hanging out with rebels? Oopsie.
Dumbasses. You can’t justify shooting down planes of a state when you are illegally waging war within their borders against their government. Either stop being butches and declare war or get the f#@k out of their country. If the US chooses war, I wish Nazi soldiers a swift and staggering death.
We’re all set up for WW3 to begin in several different locations, and as soon as they can no longer keep the illusion of an economy afloat, it will begin, and the poverty will be blamed on the war rather than the bankers who orchestrated our hunger.
Exactly
OMG I hadn’t thought of that…..life as we know it comes to a screeching halt ……..not because “they” sold us down the river….. But because of WWIII!!!
I cannot believe the audacity and stupid belligerence displayed by our so-called “leaders”! Can one imagine illegally occupying and attacking a sovereign foreign country, and then getting incensed because they want to defend themselves? Unbelievable, even for our psychopaths in Washington!
When are the war crimes perpetrated by our government going to stop? when we’re all dead from a WW3 scenario?
“Can one imagine illegally occupying and attacking a sovereign foreign country, and then getting incensed because they want to defend themselves? ”
You mean a country in what will be Eretz israel?
The demand of the only (Self Claimed!) humans to the animals (The rest of us) is there, no imagination need.
“When are the war crimes perpetrated by our government going to stop?”
Our? What do “we” benefit?
So let’s see if I got this right. The US government is threatening to shoot down the planes of a sovereign nation and its ally, Russia, who was invited to be there to help Syria eliminate ISIS, ISIL whatever those loons are calling themselves. All this while the US has NOT been invited and is an invasion force to topple Assad and force “regime change”, against the will of the Syrian people. What a genius Oblah blah and his lackeys are!