On March 3, soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and supporters of the Damascus government intercepted yet another convoy of the US-led coalition in the northern countryside of al-Hasakah.
The soldiers and locals prevented the coalition’s convoy, which consisted of several armored vehicles, from entering the town of al-Dadushiyah. After a brief stand-off, the convoy was forced to retreat from the town’s outskirts. The Syrian state TV aired footage of the stand-off.
The stand-off came amid high tensions between government forces and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Hasakah.
Two days earlier, a unit of the SDF attacked a group of SAA soldiers who intercepted a US-led coalition convoy near the village of Ghuzlia in the northern al-Hasakah countryside. Two SDF fighters and two service members of the army were killed.
The SDF’s attack was likely an attempt to intimidate SAA soldiers in al-Hasakah, who have been intercepting US-led coalition convoys for the last few months. As evident by the stand-off in al-Dadushiyah, this attempt failed.
It’s worth noting that several units of the SAA and the Russian Military Police were deployed in al-Hasakah and many other parts of northeastern Syria in October of 2019 to enforce an agreed upon ceasefire between the SDF and Turkish forces, who were conducting a large-scale military operation in the region at the time.
Source: South Front