US Illegally Building Airbase In Northern Syria

Last month, Fars News reported Washington was illegally rebuilding and equipping a Hasakah province airbase in northern Syria, an area controlled by Kurdish People’s Defense Unit (YPG) fighters. The facility hasn’t been used since 2010.

US warplanes already lawlessly bomb infrastructure and government targets on the pretext of combating ISIS.

Russia uses Syria’s Latakia airfield legally, responding to Assad’s request for help against terrorists, causing havoc in ISIS and other takfiri ranks, supporting Syrian ground forces retake lost territory.

Does Washington intend using the reconstructed facility for more intensive aerial war on Syria? It’s 2.5 km runway can be used to launch attacks and deliver military supplies.

Obama has no Security Council authorization or permission from Damascus for its Syrian operations – naked aggression by any standard, raping the country since March 2011, massacring its people, displacing half its population internally or externally.

Reportedly US drones and helicopters already operate from the new facility. Warplanes are expected to follow, along with a location for airlifting in announced US combat troop deployments.

US warplanes are attacking its territory from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase, Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti facility, bases in Qatar and elsewhere regionally. The new facility may eliminate the need for more distant ones.

Western media are silent on what’s ongoing – throughout nearly five years of conflict proliferating Big Lies, supporting US-led naked aggression, irresponsibly blaming Assad for Obama’s high crimes, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists as US proxy foot soldiers, committing slow-motion genocide against an entire population, on the pretext of opposing the scourge it actively aids.

Washington’s new base may facilitate greater carnage. Endless war without mercy on Syria rages – unaccountable high crimes against peace.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at [email protected]. His new book is titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War”. www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html Visit his blog site at www.sjlendman.blogspot.com.