Wonder how long it will be before the locals get tired of the Americans, like they did in Afghanistan and Iraq. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Following the December 8 overthrow of Bashar al-Assad amid the rapid takeover of Syria by al-Qaeda splinter group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the big question for the incoming Trump administration in the US will be whether to finally pull American forces from Syria, after they’ve been there for a half-decade.
For now it seems US troops are not only maintaining their bases in the northeast, where Syria’s oil and gas fields are located, but are actually expanding the Pentagon presence, and very close to the border with Turkey.
On Thursday the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has long been known as an anti-Assad opposition outlet in exile, said that US forces are making preparations to establish a new military base in the northern city of Ain Al-Arab, or Kobani.
The outlet cited its observers on the ground who say US forces brought in a convoy of 50 trucks carrying cement blocks to areas of northeast Syria controlled by the US proxy Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, a group largely dominated by Syrian Kurds).
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