Posted on 03/24/2017 2:03:06 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
If there were lingering questions whether U.S. ground troops would play a frontline role in the assault to retake Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria, they can be laid to rest now.
A fleet of U.S. helicopters carrying about 500 Syrian fighters and their U.S. advisors flew into ISIS-held territory March 22 to begin the first major phase of the Raqqa offensive. The move marks the first time American soldiers have conducted an air assault with local forces in Syria, CNN reports.
Backed by Apache helicopters and Marines firing M777 howitzers, the U.S. advisors and their Syrian allies were tasked with securing a dam 25 miles west of Raqqa, which has been under ISIS control since 2013, as well a nearby village and airfield. Army Col. Joseph Scrocca, a coalition public affairs officer, called it a “daring assault behind enemy lines.”
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This is why the establishment hate Trump. Their wars are not taking place as planed.
Raqqa had a population of 1 million people!
This article from last year gives an idea of life in ISIS controlled Raqqa with only a dozen Christian families remaining (from May 2016).
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/15/life-is-horrible-syrias-christians-fear-total-genocide.html
Sounds like the good guys (well - at least the “okay” guys with the help of our good guys) have them on the run.
Ping
See it.
McCain to the mic to poopoo the mission in 3...2....1....
You’re right.
Still waiting for that “declaration of war”. I guess stuff like that is passé in the post Obama age, just like the constitution.
The SDF is anti-Assad.
A fleet of U.S. helicopters carrying about 500 Syrian fighters and their U.S. advisors flew into ISIS-held territory March 22 to begin the first major phase of the Raqqa offensive. The move marks the first time American soldiers have conducted an air assault with local forces in Syria, CNN reports.
FAKE NEWS CNN reports
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