{"id":114457,"date":"2017-09-24T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=114457"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:39:19","slug":"russia-releases-footage-of-us-forces-deployed-at-isis-sites-in-deir-ezzor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=114457","title":{"rendered":"Russia releases footage of US forces deployed at ISIS sites in Deir Ezzor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA &#8211; The Russian Defense Ministry posted aerial footage showing US equipment deployed at ISIS positions north of Deir Ezzor city.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its Facebook page, the Ministry said US Special Operations Forces units enable US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) units to smoothly advance through the ISIS formations.<\/p>\n<p>Facing no resistance of the ISIS militants, the SDF units are advancing along the left shore of the Euphrates towards Deir Ezzor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-114460\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aerial photographs, taken on September 8-12, 2017 in the areas of Daesh troops&#8217; deployment, detected a big number of US Hummer armored vehicles, used by the US Army&#8217;s special forces,&#8221; the ministry wrote on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry added that the footage clearly showed that the units of US Army&#8217;s special forces were deployed in the footholds previously set up by ISIS militants. However, no signs of ongoing clashes with terrorists, as well as shell craters left after the coalition&#8217;s airstrikes were seen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the strongholds of the US armed forces being located where Daesh militants are currently deployed, there are not even signs of the organization of a battle outpost. This shows that all the US servicemen who are currently there, feel completely safe in the areas under the terrorists control,&#8221; the ministry outlined.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-114457 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/footage-US-forces-ISIS-Deir-Ezzor-Russian-Defense-Ministry-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>H. 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Facing no resistance of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[14330,723,7158,14318,14331],"class_list":["post-114457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-aerial-footage","tag-isis","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-syrian-democratic-forces-sdf","tag-us-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}