DONALD Trump’s pledge to withdraw his troops has sparked a new wave of ISIS bloodshed, it is claimed after 32 people were killed in the most recent Syria massacre.
The US President’s shock announcement to withdraw 2,000 armed forces from northern Syria last month with claims “IS had been defeated” left western leaders reeling.
But a number of military sources are now claiming that Isis are taking advantage of the uncertainty around Trump’s pledge to stage their attacks.
Twenty-three US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters and nine IS jihadists died in fighting that lasted all night and into Monday morning after extremists used the cover of bad weather to launch a counterattack at the Kurdish-led force.
Two British special forces soldiers were also seriously injured in the attack.
A senior British official told the Independent: “The attack which injured the two soldiers show that the fight against Daesh [Isis] is by no means over.
“What happened shows Daesh still have access to potent weaponry,” stressed the British official.
“There is now a real question over whether Daesh are ramping up their operations ahead of the US troop withdrawal to ‘prove’ that they drove American forces out. It could be similar to what the Taliban tried to do in Helmand in Afghanistan.”
The number of US troops had slowly been increasing in Syria since 2015 and the pledge to remove while the threat remains high left many bewildered.
Senior sources have now attributed the move to the resignations of defence secretary James Mattis and Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweeney, along with as Brett McGurk, Washington’s envoy to the international coalition fighting Isis.
US allies have reacted to Trump’s decision with grave concern, with national security advisory John Bolton visiting Israel to stress that it would not put America’s allies at risk.
A senior American security official also told the Independent: “We have got Daesh demoralised, pushed right back, but the mission isn’t over and the message must be that we keep hammering them to the end.
“Instead we get a thing [Trump’s statement] like this, saying we are pulling out. “It encourages Daesh to stay in the fight and demoralises our allies.”
In Britain, defence secretary Gavin Williamson has stated that the UK will continue its presence in Syria.
“We cannot be complacent about the threat of Daesh,” he said. “We recognise that we have got to continue to keep a foot on the throat of Daesh.”
The YPG is the main component of the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) who were predominantly killed in the attack, a group credited with playing a major role in the fight against IS.
The US potential withdrawal has raised fears that a gulf would be created in war zone that the Kurds, Russia, Iran, Israel and Turkey have played a part in for the last nearly eight years of war.
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In response to concerns, Washington sent national security adviser John Bolton to Israel on Sunday, vowing that US troops would not leave northeastern Syria until IS militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected.
But today Turkey rubbished the idea, with Erdogan describing Bolton as “seriously mistaken” on the advisers demands for Turkey to look after the Kurdish militia.
“We cannot accept the message Bolton gave from Israel, we cannot be deceived by it,” Erdogan said in a speech to his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies.
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