As US Tries to Remake Rather than Rebuild Northern Syria, Local Resistance Groups Emerge
NOVANEWS
A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to Manbij, northern Syria, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla).
The growing discontent among Syrian civilians in areas under American control suggests the unraveling of the U.S. occupation of Syria may come from internal, not external, forces.
By Whitney Webb
RAQQA, SYRIA – A handful of groups claiming to resist the U.S.-led occupation of Northeastern Syria have sprung up throughout the region since the year began — targeting U.S. forces as well as the U.S. proxy in the area, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Since last year, the U.S. has been occupying over 30 percent of Syrian territory, as well as most of the country’s oil, gas, agricultural and fresh-water resources.
Most of the groups have sprun...