{"id":1745,"date":"2020-06-13T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2020-06-13T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:29:51","slug":"north-east-syrian-playground-for-armored-vehicles-russian-and-american-dyna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/report\/north-east-syrian-playground-for-armored-vehicles-russian-and-american-dyna\/","title":{"rendered":"North-East Syrian playground for armored vehicles; Russian and American dyna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> North-East Syria has become a playground for armored vehicles. Not a week goes by without the Russian army stopping a US patrol, the Syrian Arab Army stopping a US patrol, or the other way around. Military patrols have even been reported to chase each other through the countryside like cat and mouse.<br> Another flare-up between Russian and US forces happened yesterday near Derik, close to North-East Syria&#8217;s sole border crossing with the autonomous Kurdish Region in Iraq and the outside world. The US forces have been seen circling around the new Russian post&#8217;s area in order to provoke. The Russian forces blocked a US patrol, sparking the negotiations seen here.<br> Both forces blocked the road for hours, causing unrest amongst civilians that were waiting in a long line to get through.<br> Other Russian and US vehicles were &#8220;playing cat-and-mouse&#8221; in the surrounding countryside, reported by villagers, with the US trying to open and Russia block alternative routes back to the main road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/photo_2020-06-09_00-40-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/photo_2020-06-09_00-40-49.jpg 892w, https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/photo_2020-06-09_00-40-49-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/photo_2020-06-09_00-40-49-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/photo_2020-06-09_00-40-49-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Pro-PYD locals were gathered by Kurdish traffic police and asayish to protest and pelt the Russian forces with stones, but have since been pushed back to a checkpoint by the local security forces on order of the US.<br> Asayish has also opened a path for local traffic to continue moving past the quarrelling US and Russian forces, after hours of waiting &#8220;The Russians have the upper hand,&#8221; per an eyewitness. &#8220;They have what they came<br> for. The Americans didn&#8217;t want to let them into the territory but they have even succeeded to block their patrol from returning to their post. The Americans let the Turks into North-Syria. The little peace we have now, we have to thank Russia for.&#8221;<br> After Turkish military and its allied mercenaries launched an offensive against the U.S.-backed SDF in October 2019, Russian troops stepped into the region, following a partial U.S. troop withdrawal from the border area between Syria and Turkey. Russia prevented the Turks from invading even more territory and causing more bloodshed by forcing Erdogan into a peace treaty.<br> As the Russians stepped into the region, the U.S. have again increased their presence in the region they left open to Turkish violence, obviously afraid of Russia&#8217;s growing influence. The U.S. keeps forcing the Kurds to stay away from Russia and the Syrian government, and pushes them towards a Kurdish-Kurdish agreement instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North-East Syria has become a playground for armored vehicles. Not a week goes by without the Russian army stopping a US patrol, the Syrian Arab Army stopping a US patrol, or the other way around. Military patrols have even been reported to chase each other through the countryside like cat and mouse. 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