Islam Times - US Deploys Forces at the Syrian-Jordanian Border

Islam Times - The US is concentrating troops and equipment at the Syrian-Jordanian border. About 20 US Army armored vehicles (including battle tanks and artillery pieces) were seen in Al-Mafraq and US troops are accompanied by the Jordanian Army’s 3rd Division.

US and UK Special Operation Forces and units from other countries have been conducting operations across the Syrian-Jordanian border for some time and have a secret military facility inside Syria where the so-called New Syrian Army terrorists are deployed.

The military equipment was off-loaded at Jordan’s Al-Aqapa port earlier after a meeting between the President of the US and the King of Jordan.

Hence, the US-led coalition may be preparing a major military operation in southern Syria to get control over the Syrian-Iraqi border and to reach Deir Ezzor currently besieged by Daesh.

Meanwhile, intense fighting continues in the Maardes, Helfaya, Mahardeh and Qamhana Qamhana areas of the Hama countryside where the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) coalition opposes the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) alliance.

Meanwhile, reinforcements of the Syrian Army’s Tiger Forces and the Republican Guard arrived in northern Hama ahead of a major operation to liberate this area from militants.

Elsewhere, the security institutions controlled by Turkey in Jarablus issued an order to close all roads between the Turkish-controlled parts of northern Syria and the Manbij and surrounding areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Manbij Military Council.

The instruction is aimed at preventing any economic cooperation with the SDF-controlled territory and also to cut smuggling routes between the two areas.