Us Soldiers Providing What Services In Syria?

(CNN)United States special operations forces in northeastern Syrian arab republic take been quietly visiting local villages to help provide medical care to communities which accept seen little health care in the wake of years of state of war.

The visits are done in partnership with the Syrian Defense Forces, (SDF) which operate in the region alongside the US in a years-long attempt to root out any ISIS fighters.

The medical visits are seen past the US equally part of the effort to work with SDF to bring stability to the surface area, and then ISIS cannot take agree, a defense official directly familiar with the plan told CNN. Overall, in that location are about 900 The states troops in Syrian arab republic.

United states of america officials insist the humanitarian effort is not "mission creep," because the focus is to provide another means to counter ISIS. But it is a step beyond the initial troop deployment past former US President Donald Trump, aimed at his goal of seizing oil field revenue in the region.

US officials are emphasizing the medical piece of work is led past SDF, and United states forces piece of work under them. Notwithstanding, security remains a sensitive question given ISIS, Russian and government forces operate at times in the region. All US troops provide their own security.

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The US special operations personnel participated in two medical visits in Deir Ezzor in northeast Syria in November, according to Major Charles An, a spokesperson for the Special Operations Joint Task Strength-Levant which provides the United states of america troops.

The area has seen extensive fighting in recent years. The troops examined and treated almost 200 patients at infirmary locations and helped distribute medical supplies, according to An.

Local residents had been traveling several hours to the nearest health intendance providers because Deir Ezzor largely just had first aid services after years of conflict.

So far there have been vii medical visits in the last year including the ii from last month, according to An.

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While US special operations forces have long done humanitarian relief missions in disharmonize zones and underserved communities, the efforts in Syria come equally the Pentagon has been rethinking the apply of forces in the wake of the withdrawal from Transitional islamic state of afghanistan.

This summer all special operations activities in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt were consolidated under a renamed headquarters at present called Special Operations Articulation Chore Forcefulness-Levant. The renaming is an attempt to recognize terrorist and trigger-happy extremist organizations are operating beyond broad areas which require a more regional approach co-ordinate to Lt. Col. Tony Hoefler, spokesperson for US Special Operations Command Central.

Just what remains unresolved and so far is a comprehensive way ahead on how and when The states troops might comport counterterrorism drone strikes from so-chosen "over the horizon" bases far from where targets are located in the wake of a strike in Kabul that inadvertently killed several civilians only as the US was withdrawing from the country. Several defense officials say the issue of a long term fashion ahead on those types of missions in still ongoing.