{"id":50672,"date":"2020-01-23T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50672"},"modified":"2020-01-23T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:34:08","slug":"us-troops-seen-blocking-russians-from-syrian-oilfields-in-series-of-dangerous-standoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50672","title":{"rendered":"US Troops Seen Blocking Russians From Syrian Oilfields In Series Of Dangerous Standoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US Troops Seen Blocking Russians From Syrian Oilfields In Series Of Dangerous Standoffs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yet another dangerous incident has played out between American and Russian forces operating in Syria in what appears a series of standoffs near key oil installations since Saturday.\u00a0\u201cThis is the third incident that occurred within a week,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>one local reporter told\u00a0VOA<\/a>\u00a0in an alarming report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image source: journalist\u00a0Mohammed Hassan\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Days ago we reported on the first incident<\/a> involving a US convoy blocking a Russian convoy on a highway near the town of Rmelan, after the Americans were apparently concerned the Russians were going to enter an oil field<\/strong>, which the US administration says it has “secured”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now\u00a0Voice of America<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports\u00a0three total incidents<\/strong>, with the most recent ones happening Tuesday and\u00a0Wednesday in al-Hasakah province, as newly\u00a0detailed by the opposition outlet<\/a>\u00a0Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image source: journalist Mohammed Hassan <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of the incidents involved US forces blocking Russian military vehicles and forcing them to turn around as they neared sensitive oil installations held by the US-backed Kurdish SDF and American special forces in Syria’s northeast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One eyewitness reporter on the ground described the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident on Tuesday is part of a series of similar incidents that happened in recent days between the two powers over their presence in Syria, local sources said. <\/p>

\u201cThis is the third incident that occurred within a week,\u201d<\/strong> said Nishan Mohammad, a local reporter who said he witnessed another recent standoff between U.S. and Russian troops in northeast Syria.<\/p>

\u201cI was there last weekend when U.S. soldiers stopped Russian military vehicles and forced them to head back to their base,\u201d<\/strong> he told VOA in a phone interview Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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US Troops Seen Blocking Russians From Syrian Oilfields In Series Of Dangerous Standoffs Yet another dangerous incident has played out between American and Russian forces operating in Syria in what appears a series of standoffs near key oil installations since Saturday.\u00a0\u201cThis is the third incident that occurred within a week,\u201d\u00a0one local reporter told\u00a0VOA\u00a0in an alarming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3969,827,4318],"class_list":["post-50672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-oil-fields","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50673,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672\/revisions\/50673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}