Retaliation For Drone Strike: US In Syria Violates International Law

[G.L.R.]

US Vows To Respond Against Drone Strikes On Their Forces In Syria

October 23rd, 2021



The US government is now seeking retaliation as "its right" ... But how can a foreign military, illegally occupying Syrian land, have any right to retaliate when their presence there is itself an act of war?

This Wednesday night, a military base located in Syria's Dimashq Province, was hit by drone strikes and other projectiles in "a deliberate and coordinated attack", according to US Central Command... The locations struck, which sit along Syria's border with Iraq and Jordan, instantly sparked suspicion that the 'Syria Allies Operations Room' of armed groups had orchestrated the attack as retaliation. The group had released a statement, on October 14, in which they stated that they would respond harshly to airstrikes launched against Syria, by Israel, which had killed a Syrian soldier and injured 3 others. The Syria Allies Operation Room had stated that the Israeli attack, on Syria's Palmyra, had been carried out from Jordan and through the al-Tanf area, making the US government complicit.

It has been stated by the US that they believe the strikes came from the East... CENTCOM's statement issued on the attack said that "We maintain the inherent right of self-defense and will respond at a time and place of our choosing," which is an interesting comment due to the fact that the US government is currently occupying Syrian territory in contravention of International Law. In fact, the United States currently occupy two portions of Syrian territory, the al-Tanf area, along with North Eastern Syria, making them dominant over roughly a third of Syrian territory. They are also violating the 4th Geneva Convention, which stipulates that a foreign power cannot loot the resources of the nation it has entered. In the case of the United States, which entered Syria during the Presidency of Barrack Obama, it has never received any congressional approval for its occupation.

Ensuring Zionist expansionism

The American government currently controls over 90% of Syria's oil, primarily located around the al-Omar oil fields, in addition to its most fertile agricultural lands.... Western media, however, remains willfully oblivious to the heinous crimes that are currently being committed against Syria, carried out through successive US administrations, and calls US allied forces "rebels"....

US Vows To Respond Against Drone Strikes On Their Forces In Syria
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