Siria, le truppe russe e quelle Usa continuano a collaborare: ecco dove

Sul fronte ucraino Mosca e Washington sono su posizioni opposte. Invece, nell'ambito del conflitto siriano, collaborano da tempo. La collaborazione va in scena quasi ogni giorno negli strategici territori del nord-est, ai confini con Turchia e Iraq

Posters of Syria's President Bashal al-Assad hang on a building in the central Syrian town of al-Qaryatain in the Homs province, on December 2021, next to buildings damaged during fbattles in 2015 between the Islamic State group (IS) and government forces. - Six years have passed since Russian-backed government forces ousted jihadists from the town but most of the Christians who fled have not returned and those that remain have neither a church nor a priest to turn to this holiday season. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sul fronte ucraino Mosca e Washington sono su posizioni opposte. Invece, in Siria, collaborano, e da tempo. La collaborazione militare va in scena quasi ogni giorno negli strategici territori del nord-est, ai confini con Turchia e Iraq

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A Russian soldier stands near a Russian military police vehicle in the Syrian rebel-held Daraa al-Balad district of the southern city of Daraa on September 6, 2021 as Russian forces enforce a ceasefire between government forces and local committees as part of reconciliation efforts after several months of siege by government forces. - A Russian-brokered ceasefire came into force on September 1 in Daraa province, the cradle of Syria's uprising where government forces have been battling holdout rebels. The southern province of Daraa, held for years by opposition forces, was returned to government control in 2018 under a previous Moscow-backed ceasefire that had allowed rebels to stay in some areas. (Photo by Sam HARIRI / AFP) (Photo by SAM HARIRI/AFP via Getty Images)

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I comandi militari americano e russo in Siria smentiscono che si tratti di un vero e proprio coordinamento, come invece accade - sempre in Siria - tra Russia e Turchia, tra Russia e Iran e tra Russia e Israele. Si parla invece di meccanismi quotidiani di comunicazione per "ridurre il conflitto"

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Russian military police vehicles drive along a road in the countryside near the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province on October 24, 2019, as part of a joint patrol between Russian forces and Syrian Kurdish Asayish internal security forces near the border with Turkey. - Russian forces have started patrols along the flashpoint frontier, filling the vacuum left by a US troop withdrawal that effectively returned a third of the country to the Moscow-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Anche dopo l'avvio delle operazioni militari russe in Ucraina, fonti locali nella zona hanno assistito al passaggio, sulla stessa strada che da Qamishli porta verso il confine con l'Iraq, di pattuglie russe e di altre pattuglie militari statunitensi. Nell'area inoltre sorgono sia avamposti russi e basi militari Usa

Guerra Ucraina, sale il numero di generali russi morti. Perché vengono mandati al fronte?

NORTHEASTERN SYRIA - MAY 25: A U.S. Army soldier guides an armored vehicle under a live wire while on a joint patrol with local allied forces on May 25, 2021 near the Turkish border in northeastern Syria. U.S. forces, part of Task Force WARCLUB operate from remote combat outposts in the area, coordinating with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in combatting residual ISIS extremists and deterring pro-Iranian militia. U.S. troops primarily use the Oshkosh M-ATV, a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Attualmente in Siria rimangono circa 900 militari americani nell'ambito della Coalizione anti-Isis creata nel 2014 e di cui fanno parte diversi altri eserciti occidentali. La presenza americana è osteggiata dal governo centrale di Damasco, di Bashar al Assad che ha invece richiesto formalmente nel 2015 il sostegno militare russo

epa07078111 Children look out from their destroyed home as White Helmets volunteers search for survivors after several air strikes destroyed civil buildings in Hamoria city, al-Ghouta, Syria, 09 January 2018. The White Helmets volunteers pulled out more than 15 survivors, and at least 17 people got killed in the air strikes in the city, while a total of at least 27 people got killed on the day in the eastern Ghouta region. EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA

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Tra Mosca e Damasco l'alleanza risale ai tempi della Guerra fredda. I militari russi in Siria sono presenti in forze nel porto di Tartus e nella base di Hmeimin, quartier generale di Mosca nella regione. Una presenza che consente al presidente russo Vladimir Putin di proiettare la sua influenza a ridosso del Bosforo e in tutto il Mediterraneo orientale

epa09710166 General view of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square from the State Department Store GUM in Moscow, Russia, 26 January 2022. According to the national coronavirus information center, over the past 24 hours, a record number of 74,692 cases of the coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV

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Da quando la Russia ha invaso l’Ucraina, Mosca ha però ridotto di un quarto i raid aerei contro presunte postazioni dell'Isis nella Siria centrale. Secondo l'Osservatorio nazionale per i diritti umani in Siria, l'aviazione russa ha condotto 300 raid aerei dal 24 febbraio al 23 marzo, mentre nelle 4 settimane precedenti, da fine gennaio a fine febbraio, aveva condotto più di 1.200 attacchi

DARAA, SYRIA - SEPTEMBER 01: A photo shows Russian troops entering in the Syrian district of Daraa al-Balad in Syria's southern province of Daraa, Syria on September 01, 2021. A cease-fire agreement has been reached between the negotiating committee in Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in southwestern Syria and Russia following heavy shelling on the enclave by Syrian regime forces in recent days, according to local sources on Wednesday. The agreement allowed the Russian military police and a security committee affiliated with the Syrian regime into the neighborhood to cement the cease-fire, the sources said. (Photo by Yasser Alhatib/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Ma, in un altro quadrante del conflitto siriano, nella zona nord-occidentale di Idlib, in queste ultime quattro settimane le forze di Mosca hanno continuato a pattugliare l'area in maniera congiunta con i militari turchi. Le forze russe si coordinano in Siria anche con l'Iran. Allo stesso tempo, i generali russi hanno mantenuto stretti contatti con i loro colleghi israeliani

epa09716604 Syrian people displaced due to the security operations against the Islamic State (IS) group return to their house at a district in Hasaka, northeastern of Syria, 29 January 2022. The US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that they had retaken full control of Ghwayran prison in the city of Hasaka and re-arrested dozens of jihadists holed up in the prison and in nearby houses, after a major jailbreak attempt from the so-called Islamic State group (IS or ISIS) militants. EPA/AHMED MARDNLI

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In tutto questo continuano a giungere dalla Siria notizie dell'arruolamento da parte delle forze russe e di loro intermediari di un numero crescente di miliziani locali da inviare in Donbass. E si è diffusa la notizia dell'arruolamento russo anche di miliziani di Hezbollah