The Russian military has repeatedly accused the Pentagon of training ‘former' terrorist militants to continue the fight against Damascus at the at-Tanf base in southern Syria, and has cited intelligence reports on US forces' evacuation of Daesh (ISIS)* commanders from the country. Washington has strongly denied the allegations.
Terrorists operating in the vast desert area of central Syria continue to disrupt the region's reconstruction, and the US is the primary beneficiary of this state of affairs, as it allows Washington to justify its continued illegal military deployment in the country's northeast, a spokesman for the Russian military grouping in Syria announced in a briefing Tuesday.
Pointing to a recent uptick in terrorist activity in the Syrian Desert, a vast region accounting for about 55 percent of the Arab Republic's total area, the spokesman said it could be attributed to an ‘amnesty' program for former militants by Washington's Kurdish allies.
The spokesman also pointed to efforts by the militants to commit acts of sabotage. Earlier this month, a Russian major general was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) laid by militants went off, he recalled.
“By sabotaging transport communications and carrying out acts of sabotage against Syrian oil and gas industry facilities, by attacking patrols and the posts of Syrian Army units, militants are destabilizing the situation in the…
