from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 8, 2024 US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria have accused Damascus’ General Intelligence Service of being behind the large-scale tribal assault launched against them on Wednesday Syrian army troops shelled positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 8 August, responding …
Read More »SDF Fights Rival Arab Tribes for Control of Deir Ezzor
by Vladimir Van Wilgenburg, published on Middle East Eye, September 5, 2023 This article from a couple of weeks ago is the most informative I have seen regarding the stakes of the various players involved. Be careful to note who is speaking when you read the various testimonies. [jb] Days …
Read More »SDF Announced Military Operation to Confront Arab Tribes in Deir Ezzor
News from Al Mayadeen, September 1, 2o23 Al Mayadeen‘s correspondent to Syria reported that SDF armed groups announced that they are launching a military operation to confront Arab tribes East of the Euphrates River. Our correspondent added that SDF armed groups used Artillery and grad MLRS to bomb the town …
Read More »At Least 25 Dead in Heavy Clashes Between US Proxy Militia, Arab tribes in Eastern Syria
from The News Desk at the Cradle, August 30, 2023 Clashes between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Arab tribesmen in Deir Ezzor governorate left at least 25 dead and more than a dozen wounded as of 30 August, raising tensions between the Kurdish proxy militia and Syrian locals …
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