US military air landing operations continues in the eastern Euphrates regions in conjunction with the withdrawal of troops
On Monday, US forces carried out two air landing operations in Raqqa region, while their helicopters opened heavy fire on civilian houses in Mahmudli village, west of the city.
The US helicopter gunships carried out intensive movement this afternoon over the neighborhoods of the city of Tabqa and on the sides of the island of Ayed at the banks of the “Assad” lake on the river Euphrates Middle.
The air activity of the US forces coincided with the ground units to deport the remaining vehicles, equipment and ammunition from the region.
And to the west of the city of Raqqa about 40 kilometers, Apache helicopters, opened heavy fire machine guns in the vicinity of the village of Hadaj near the town of Mahmudli, a village adjacent to the Euphrates River, which belongs to the tribes of Al Bujabir and Ajeel.
The correspondent of the Russian “Sputnik” news agency said that people of the village located to the north of Al Tabqa city about 20 km, US aircraft carried heavy machine guns at dawn today, maneuvers over the village housing in conjunction with about 10 armored vehicles raided a house in the village.
In the city of Raqqa, US forces carried out an early morning raid on a building in “Hisham bin Abdul Malik” street, and local sources confirmed to “Sputnik” that the landing didn’t result in any obvious results, saying that the American soldiers didn’t seem to find their goal during the operation.
Over the past few weeks, US helicopters have carried out a series of extinctions in areas under their control in the western countryside of the city of Raqqa.
US helicopters continue to carry out operations of this type, but the last few days witnessed a significant increase in this type of work.
Last weekend there was an air landing of US special forces in the area of Al Sahal in the south-west of Raqqa.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to Sputnik that a US force carried out an operation in the town on the road of Aleppo, about 15 km from Al Raqqa, and arrested ‘Issa Al Shawawkh’ and took him to an unknown destination.
Al Shawakh is the nephew of ‘Abu Luqman’ (His real name Ali Al Shawakh), who was the so-called governor of Raqqa appointed by the Islamic State during its control of the city.
Sources at the town of Al Sahel told “Sputnik” correspondent that ‘Issa Al Shawawkh’ wasn’t wanted previously, and everyone knew that he had been living in the town of Al Sahel since the American forces and their allies took control of the town and Al-Raqqa.
It has a huge and dangerous amount of information about the terrorist organization’s relations, including the dark chapters of Al Raqqa deal, during which the city has moved from a tight control of ISIS to the American forces and its allies.
That he was in a period of proclamation announcing his conversion from (the Free Army) to (The state of Islam in Iraq and Syria) and the other information that may be related to the countries that participated in supporting the extension of ISIS inside Syria when it was named (the Free Army), and the parties with weapons and funds and delivery methods, Security information in addition to the satellite images that were flowing to it continuously from the areas of control of the Syrian army in the east of the country, which contributed mainly to support the ability to occupy areas of the Syrian desert related to the Syrian-Iraqi border to the Al Tanf area.
On February 7, US forces carried out an aerial landing in Mansoura, about 35 km west of the city of Raqqa.
According to local sources in the town on the Raqqa-Aleppo road, the landing took place near the typical boarding school south of the town And the receipt of grain at the road Mansoura – Rusafa.
According to the sources, the model primary school, which was dropped near it, still contains about 200 bodies, the vast majority of children and women who had fled to escape from the towns and villages of the western Raqqa villages, before they touched (the famous Mansoura massacre committed by US coalition aircraft through heavy shelling continued for hours targeted the school with high-impact missiles, in the context of air operations to facilitate with the penetration operation by SDF fighters in the town.
The landing took place in the village of Mansoura with four Apache helicopters.
According to eyewitnesses from the town, two of them landed on the ground, each of them leaving about 10 soldiers, while two other planes remain in the sky at low altitude.
According to the residents, one of the goals of the landing of the Mansoura was the arrest of one of the leaders of the former eminent advocates, who was also free with the knowledge of the US intelligence and the knowledge of Kurdish “Asayish forces” the security arm of the SDF, however they didn’t find him.