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title: "Syria: More US Involvement"
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**The other day the idea of the US upping the ante in Syria was brought up and lo and behold…**

[**Air Force F-35s sent to Middle East will help with fight in Syria, patrols of key strait**](https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-07-27/f35-middle-east-10872387.html)

> **A squadron of F-35 Lightning IIs, some of the Air Force’s most advanced fighter jets, has arrived in the Middle East**, where the planes will join patrols that aim to deter Iran from seizing oil tankers, the service said in a statement this week.

> **The jets will also be used in missions against the Islamic State in Syria,** the 9th Air Force statement issued Wednesday said.
> 
> The deployment comes amid a recent buildup of forces in the Middle East after U.S. claims of Iranian ship seizures at sea and Russian provocations in the air.
> 
> Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the deployment of the F-35s as well as F-16 fighter jets and the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner.
> 
> **A Marine expeditionary unit was also ordered to the Middle East last week, and [a squadron of A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthogs” arrived in March.](https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-05-23/a10-navy-iran-10207083.html)**
> 
> The role of these newly deployed additional forces is to “[deter Iranian destabilizing activities in the region](https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-07-20/iranians-hormuz-american-military-pentagon-10804810.html),” Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla said last week.
> 
> Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command, was referring **to U.S. claims** that Iran has harassed ships in the key waterway known as the Strait of Hormuz.

***US claims***– **The US has made many claims..**

> The Pentagon says it has stepped up patrols over the strait. **Iran has been accused by the U.S**.of attacking, seizing or trying to seize nearly 20 internationally flagged merchant vessels over the past two years.

**Iran has been accused by the US….(narrative creation)**

> The **F-35s, flown by the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, will partner with A-10s and F-16s already there in monitoring the strait, the 9th Air Force statement said.**
> 
> **“The F-35’s increased capacity and capability will allow the U.S. to fly in contested airspace** across the theater if required,” it said.
> 
> Some 900 American troops are deployed to fight ISIS, but **the U.S. accuses Russia of harassing its drones in Syria and placing its aircraft and pilots there at risk.**

> On Sunday, a Russian fighter jet flying at close range fired flares at a U.S. drone and [severely damaged](https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-07-25/russia-jet-drone-syria-10849176.html) its propeller, the Air Force said in a statement this week.
> 
> The White House said Wednesday that a second Russian aircraft had flown “dangerously close” to another U.S. drone in the skies over Syria this week, The Associated Press reported.

**Too much is at stake for the US. This is their remake of the Middle East/North Africa- long planned and in motion to counter the China led Silk Road. The creation of Greater Kurdistan, which is not coincidentally, favoured heavily by Israel.**