re: Update: Operations by US Central Command are complete. - Gen. Dunford

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I’ve watched this through in Syria and Iraq quite a bit. I just remember the info and being surprised US was striking there but Palmyra is a major historical town and was important to protect, though most of it got demolished by ISIS. I clicked on a Washington post article that quoted 43 air strikes b/c I didn’t remember us being THAT involved with Palmyra so that proved my point. 43 air strikes is nothing considering much of it was countryside.

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We hit the airbase very hard when ISIS recaptured it and took out all of their armor. Russia had to provide minesweepers because they completely booby trapped the old town and new town. It was nasty stuff.

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SDF is Kurdish dominated, they have spread to a frick ton of non Kurdish areas and are literally treating the people no different than ISIS did.

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They've done a pretty good job at implementing arabs into it. I've heard about the clashes between kurds and arabs but I think for the most part it's been resolved.