• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Tower 22 is more like a rear det for Al Tanf. It’s a way to project force into Syria without actually going in and leaving the SDF to work the Syrian side, with the implication that Syria might attack the SDF base but not risk attacking Jordan. There are bases in Jordan, well, not bases like Germany or Kuwait but diplomatic compounds with every thing that comes with that.

    It’s not a black site though, they’ve posted pictures a few years back when a Syrian drone wrecked a few buildings.