US military supported Syrian rebel offensive that toppled Assad government

Syrian rebel commanders admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played key roles as well.

By Ben Norton

December 23, 2024

Syrian rebel commanders have boasted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.

They acknowledged this in a report published by major British newspaper The Telegraph, titled “US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’”.

The article revealed that a rebel group armed, trained, and funded by the United States, based in the south of Syria, collaborated with rebranded al-Qaeda in the north, to jointly topple the Syrian government.

According to the Telegraph report, the US military helped to create a rebel group called the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA).

The US and UK armed and trained the RCA. The Pentagon paid the fighters a salary of $400 per month, which The Telegraph noted was “nearly 12 times what the soldiers in the now defunct Syrian army were paid”. (This was because Western sanctions on Syria had crushed the country’s economy, causing high rates of inflation that decimated local purchasing power.)

The US military knew that an offensive was being planned to topple Assad, The Telegraph reported. It pressured disparate rebel groups and mercenaries in southern Syria to unify behind the US-funded RCA.

In the lead-up to the assault, which was launched in November 2024, US military officers met with Syrian rebel commanders in the Al-Tanf base that the US has built on the border with Iraq.

Read more: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/23/us-military-syria-rebels-assad/

PDF: BN23.12.2024

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