DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The Syrian Military Prosecution says it has launched an investigation into violations committed by the United States military forces in the conflict-plagued Arab country, particularly the occupation troops’ training of the Daesh terrorists and collaboration with them to carry out various acts of terror.
“The Military Prosecution has come up with sufficient and incontrovertible evidence that American forces assert fairly direct control over Daesh members as well as their terrorist activities across Syria, using its illegal base in al-Tanf [region in southern Syria],” Ahmad Touzan, a spokesman for the prosecution, said at a press conference in the capital Damascus.
He noted, “We have convincing proof that many Daesh terrorists are currently being trained at that base. The armed terrorists visit the base aboard their vehicles without any restraint.”
Touzan stressed that the Syrian Military Prosecution will explore all available judicial means in order to prosecute American occupation forces for the plunder of natural resources in Syria’s oil-rich northeastern province of Hasakah as well as the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh also said the U.S. is behind the latest spate of deadly violence in the northeastern province of Hasakah, warning that Washington is seeking to revive the Daesh terror group to justify its occupation of the Arab country.
Speaking at a UN Security Council session on Wednesday, Sabbagh said last week’s attack by Daesh terrorists on the Kurdish-run Ghwayran jail, the criminal acts perpetrated by U.S.-backed militants of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and destruction of public infrastructure by U.S. warplanes demonstrate the urgent need to consider the fallout of such dangerous developments.
The Syrian diplomat underscored that the recent events in Hasakah require that the UN Security Council work toward putting an end to the presence of U.S. occupation forces in northeastern Syria and the southern al-Tanf region.
He also demanded a cession of U.S. support for the Kurdish-led SDF and terrorist groups, which are wreaking havoc across Syrian territories, as well as Washington’s plunder of Syria’s natural resources and assets.
On Wednesday, the U.S.-backed so-called Syrian Democratic Forces said they had retaken full control of Ghwayran prison, ending six days of battles that turned the largest city in northeastern Syria into a war zone.
More than 100 Daesh terrorists launched an attack against the Ghwayran prison on January 20 to free their comrades from the detention center, which was thought to hold some 3,500 Daesh inmates at the time of the assault.
A high-ranking Russian diplomat said U.S. occupation forces and local Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have failed to eliminate the hotbeds of terrorism and guarantee stability and security in the areas they control.
“It is obvious that neither U.S. forces nor the local Kurdish official have managed to ensure security in the northeastern Syrian territories. We once again stress the need for unconditional respect for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and restoration of Syrian government ... control over areas occupied by foreign military contingents,” Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexey Zaitsev said on Thursday.