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Feb 3 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
BREAKING: Pentagon confirms major US counter-terror op

“US Special Operations forces under the control of US Central Command conducted a counterterrorism mission this evening in northwest #Syria. The mission was successful" per @PentagonPresSec
MORE: "There were no US casualties" per @PentagonPresSec "More information will be provided as it becomes available”
Worth noting: @CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Kenneth McKenzie had been scheduled to speak Thursday morning US ET at @MiddleEastInst BUT the event was canceled late Thursday
MORE: @syriahr is reporting at least 9 people, including 2 children, were killed during an hours-long @CJTFOIR operation in the #Idlib countryside
syriahr.com/%d8%a8%d9%8a%d…
Per @syriahr, the US/coalition forces met fierce resistance from gunmen at the scene, with the firefight lasting about 1.5 hours
Much earlier, @Charles_Lister w/@MiddleEastInst, reported US SOF helicopters descended on #DayrBalut in NW #Syria w/forces trying to get non-combatants out of the way before the fighting ensued
US has previously targeted high-ranking #alQaida leaders in NW #Syria
NW #Syria, while more commonly used by #alQaida, has also been used by #ISIS
Back in 2020, @CENTCOM's Gen. McKenzie noted there were "remnants of #alQaida & remnants of #ISIS" in #Idlib #Syria "that do entertain attack plans against us"
And in October 2019, US forces went to #Idlib province in NW #Syria in the operation that killed former #ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Some eery parallels between the ops to Kill Baghadadi in 2019 and this latest US CT op...from @syriahr reporting then
UPDATE: @syriahr says its sources on the ground confirm at least 13 people - including 4 children & 3 women - were killed in the US operation in NW #Syria

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NEW: Latest @SIGARHQ report finds overall violence in #Afghanistan is down since US forces left BUT...

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BREAKING: @NATO SecGen welcomes US decision to send more troops to the alliance's Eastern Flank - #Poland #Romania #Germany

"This is a powerful signal of US commitment" per @jensstoltenberg
MORE: "Other Allies are also contributing addt'l forces to @NATO on land, in the air, & at sea" per @jensstoltenberg "We have increased the readiness of the NATO Response Force & we are considering the deployment of addt'l battlegroups to the south-eastern part of the Alliance"
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Feb 2
Breakdown on US troops being sent to bolster @NATO's Eastern Flank:

- 1,000 troops being repositioned from #Germany to #Romania

- 2,000 troops from US deploying to #Poland #Germany

- 8,500 troops in US on heightened alert

per @DeptofDefense
More on US troops heading from #Germany to #Romania

@DeptofDefense moving a a Stryker squadron, says 2nd Cavalry Regiment in #Vilseck will send a combined arms force equipped w/wheeled armored fighting vehicles

Change will bring total # of US troops in Romania to 1,900
More on US forces head to #Poland, #Germany

- 1,700 from the 82nd Airborne Division, key enablers -inclu components of an Infantry Brigade Combat Team- from Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Poland

- 300 from the 18th Airborne Corps will move from Fort Bragg to Germany
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