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US seeking to perpetuate conflict in Syria: Analyst

Thursday, 01 March 2018 7:20 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 02 March 2018 4:25 AM ]

Richard Becker

The United States has set up numerous military bases in Syria to divide the war-torn country and perpetuate the conflict there, while seeking to establish a permanent military presence in the region, an antiwar activist in San Francisco says.

“It appears that the United States military is determined to maintain indefinitely a military presence in Syria ,as well as inside Iraq,” said Richard Becker, a regional coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition, protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations.

“This of course has the effect of partitioning Syria, dividing Syria into different zones of control and deteriorating Syria’s position as far as a sovereign country,” Becker said on Thursday in an interview with Press TV.

PressTV-US set up 20 military bases in N Syria: Russia

A top Russian security official says the US has set up around 20 military bases in areas controlled by the Kurdish militants it supports in northern Syria.

A top Russian security official says the US has set up around 20 military bases in areas controlled by Kurdish militants it supports in northern Syria, adding that Washington “provoked” Turkey into launching an offensive in those regions by providing the Kurds with advanced weapons.

Alexander Venediktov, an official from Russia’s Security Council, said Thursday that the establishment of peace in war-torn Syria is impeded by external interferences, particularly American meddling, in the conflict, according to Russian media.

Turkey launched the so-called Operation Olive Branch in Afrin on January 20 in a bid to eliminate the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The offensive came after the US said it would set up a 30,000-strong militant border force at Turkish doorstep.

“The United States is perpetuating the war and has for many years, together with its allies, perpetuated this terrible war against the people of Syria,” Becker said.

“If we take an overall historical view, we can see that the aim of US foreign policy has been, for many decades now, has been to prevent truly independent sovereign states from developing in the Middle East,” he noted.

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