[Spiridon]

A US strike against the Syrian government side in the civil war. The Israelis do this once and a while, too.

A Syrian military research facility in Damascus hit the other day with Israel blamed again. They seem to hit Assad once a month at least nowadays.

Undermining any understandings between Putin and Trump over Syria?

[Rashputin]

"Undermining any understandings between Putin and Trump over Syria?"

That and trying to placate Turkey in order to keep them in NATO, something Israel couldn't care less about.

[JudgemAll]

The only understanding is leveraging. Putin is in Syria to leverage over Ukraine, and now we leverage back over SDF. The rest is bull sht blabla

[Truth29]

What we need to do is bloody Erdogan’s nose to such an extent that he stops his adventurism against the Kurds and hides under his desk.

[silverleaf]

The Syrians are trying to take back their country
The audacity

[McGruff]

[BeadCounter]

This is a shocking story, the US strike killed up to 100 pro-regime forces. I mean, that’s a lot, the pro-regime could mean anything from Syrian footsoldiers to Russian advisors, Iranians, Hezbollah and so on. This is really something to watch and I already watch the situation like a hawk. Who knows where this could lead. OTOH, it does seem the troops were provoking something.

[PIF]

Additional info:
On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Jan. 7-8, members of the US 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit fired M777 Howitzer guns, backed by air strikes, against Hizballah and pro-Iranian Shiite militia forces operating in the Deir ez-Zour region east of the Euphrates River ... The objects of this lesson were the Assad regime, Turkey, Iran and Hizballah ... On Tuesday, Russian forces took over the Syrian Abu Dhuhour Airport east of Idlib and moved in Russian planes and helicopters. Elsewhere in Syria, they deployed their air defense weapons systems to new positions in the Aleppo and Idlib regions. A Syrian military spokesman announced that all parts of northern Syria were now covered by a comprehensive anti-missile shield. Afrin air space had suddenly become an effective no-fly zone for Turkish air force operations

https://www.debka.com/us-air-artillery-strike-hizballah-iranian-forces-e-syria/

[PIF]

Another update:
US F-15 fighters, Apache helicopters, heavy artillery and special ops forces took part Thursday, Feb. 8 in the early morning attack against pro-Assad, Hizballah and Shiite forces who were crossing the Euphrates to eastern Syria. DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources report that the US special operations forces posted on the river’s east bank saw a Russian team of military engineers laying a floating bridge across the river 8km north of Deir ez-Zour. Around 500 Syrian commandos, Hizballah and Shiite militiamen, under Iranian command, were sighted about to make the crossing. US jets and helicopters went into action when the crossing began, destroying the bridge. US special operations waiting on the eastern bank wiped out the Syrian allied force as it landed, as well the the bridgehead they had started setting up. US-led coalition spokesmen estimated that up to 100 Syrian and Hizballah fighters lost their lives in the engagement, possibly including some Russians. There were no American casualties. https://www.debka.com/us-strike-russians-laid-euphrates-bridge-among-targets/