Intensive Military Drills by US-led Coalition Forces in Eastern Syria Amid Strategic Shifts
Coalition Forces Continue Exercises in Deir ez-Zor as Syrian Democratic Forces Reposition in Northeast Syria.
Watan-The US-led international coalition forces continue their military exercises at their bases spread across the rural areas of Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria, at a time when the region is witnessing military and logistical reinforcements as well as field movements on several fronts, most notably the repositioning of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeast of the country.
Activist Wissam Al-Akidi, who is from the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, said in a statement that the coalition forces are conducting military drills and maneuvers using heavy and medium weapons at the “Omar” oil field base and the “Koniko” gas field base in eastern Deir ez-Zor, just days after new logistical reinforcements arrived at the coalition’s bases spread across Syria.
Al-Akidi confirmed that two convoys carrying logistical equipment entered from the coalition’s bases in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq over the past week, and this equipment was distributed to the coalition’s bases in the rural areas of Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor Governorates in northern and eastern Syria, coinciding with the continuous flight of coalition reconnaissance aircraft in the skies of the eastern region.
SDF Repositions Forces Along Key Frontlines in Northern Syria
These repositioning operations were accompanied by the continued digging of trenches and tunnels by the SDF along the frontlines with the Syrian National Army east of the Euphrates River and in the rural areas of Hassakeh and Raqqa, despite the cessation of direct military operations between the two sides for nearly a month.
