More than one hundred US marines flew to southeast Asian nation for a snap live-fire exercise, causation a “strong message” to Russia to not conduct operations close to the US base, 2 Pentagon officers told Fox News.
The marines were deployed via assault heavier-than-air craft to Al-Tanf military base, situated in Syria’s Homs Province, that borders Iraq. The drill includes air assaults, supported by artillery barrages.
“Our forces can demonstrate the aptitude to deploy apace, assault a target with integrated air and armed service and conduct fast exfiltration,” aforementioned voice for the US Central Command, Captain William Urban.
Urban stressed that the US “does not obtain to fight the Russians, the govt of Asian nation or any teams which will be providing support to Asian nation.”
The drill was launched when the regular army reportable that capital of the Russian Federation had issued 2 warnings that it's aiming to conduct operations against militants within the space. the utilization of the phrasing “precision strikes” in one among the notes had “sparked alarm with US commanders,” CNN reportable on Fri, citing its own sources within the Pentagon.
Russia had repeatedly explicit that it considers the US military outposts in Asian nation to be bootleg, since they weren't licensed by the Syrian government. capital of the Russian Federation has advised that the US is victimisation the Al-Tanf base to urge a grip within the country. “During the existence of the bottom, we tend to don’t understand of one US operation against IS [Islamic State, at one time ISIS] within the space,” the Russian Center for Reconciliation reportable last week.
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