After its withdrawal .. Why did US forces redeployed in northern Syria?

Adnan Hussein - Syrian-Turkish border

US forces have redeployed to a number of military bases in northeastern Syria despite announcing their withdrawal earlier, days after sending huge reinforcements to protect oil wells in Deir Ezzor province.

US forces were stationed at three main bases east of the Euphrates, most notably the base and airport on Saturday and the silos of the town of Sereen in eastern Aleppo countryside, and at the carrot base adjacent to the city of Raqqa, which was the center of military operations against the Islamic State earlier, and deployed at a base near the city of Qamishli.

Local sources told Al-Jazeera Net that a military convoy of US forces, including empty trucks and armored vehicles, arrived at a base on Saturday south of the city of Ain al-Arab Kobani on October 30 last October estimated at about 100 vehicles and carrying dozens of soldiers.

The sources also confirmed that similar forces were deployed at al-Jazira base and Hemo base near al-Qamishli and carried out a military patrol in the area. It is not known why the forces returned to these bases after they withdrew.

Several scenarios
It seems that the Turkish-Russian agreement on northern Syria did not like the United States, which began to return to the points it withdrew from, and that the US plan to withdraw was either to push Turkey to fully intervene along the border and thus pushed towards a comprehensive confrontation with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces and possibly Russia The regime, which did not happen, or that Washington really wanted to give the region to the Turks, but they gave it to the Russians, according to analysts.

Darwish Khalifa, a writer and political analyst from Aleppo countryside, told Al-Jazeera Net that "several reasons called for the US to redeploy its forces in the north-east of Syria, including in response to the request of the Pentagon rejecting the operation of the spring, as well as taking into account the refusal of Congress to withdraw before guaranteeing the defeat of ISIS at all and giving An opportunity for the Turkish strategic ally to end the aspiration of the Syrian Democratic Forces to secede.

Other reasons, he adds, are to stay beside the oil and phosphate fields in order not to go to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian ally aspiring for military and economic control, and thus impose a strategy on military interventionists, as well as the existence of intelligence reports that the organization is restructuring and this dispels the symbolic victory that US President Donald Trump achieved the killing of Baghdadi in Idlib countryside.

Khalifa said that according to the available information, the Americans had withdrawn 700 of their soldiers, but in return returned 1000 and this gain for them, as well as a major move to the lobbies of rival regional countries in the Middle East to impose their vision on US policy, and this was evidenced by the large movement of the pro-Turkish lobby As well as Maadi calculated on the axis of Saudi Arabia UAE.

The sudden withdrawal of US troops from Syria in early October confused the papers and led to changes in the map of control of the land, which benefited both Russia and the Syrian regime in particular, where their forces are now sharing control over points and cities and many sites.

Oil protection
Local sources indicate that the return of US forces to some of its bases may come as a temporary deployment and take the remaining military equipment there and transferred to the province of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah countryside, the whereabouts of oil.

For his part, journalist Omar Abu Laila, director of Deir ez-Zor 24, believes that the redeployment of US forces is the implementation of a previous decision to protect oil fields, but the main reason is to cut off all the ways that may help the return of the Islamic State or the Assad regime from the use of oil fields And protect the surroundings.

Syrian researcher Abdel Nasser al-Ayed explains that the deployment of US forces will be wider in the coming phase in terms of equipment and elements, and will be in the governorates of al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor in order to show great strength on the ground as a harsh message to the Syrian regime and Iran, and a veiled message to Russia that the US presence in the region continues.

He believes that "the deployment of US forces in bases such as Srin and Raqqa is a temporary process until the completion of their perception and crystallization of their vision for the future of the region, but they will abide by the US-Turkish agreement."