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Syria state media says US forces ‘kidnapped civilians’ near Deir al-Zor -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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DUBAI, (Reuters) -U.S. troops conducted a large-scale airborne operation in the vicinity of Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria Monday at dawn. This was according to SANA state news agency.

It said that the American forces arrived in Busayra (east of Deir al-Zor) and “kidnapped several civilians.”

The report was not confirmed by an independent source.

Deir al-Zor lies along the border with Iraq. It is an important supply route for Iranian-backed militias, which regularly send reinforcements into Syria in support to President Bashar al-Assad and other rebels.

U.S. forces have been deployed to an al-Tanf base, south of Deir al-Zor as part of a combat mission against Islamic State militants, who are still fighting a low-level rebellion in Syria and Iraq.

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