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Al-Tanf Base
Al-Tanf () is a U.S. military base in a part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria, which is controlled by the Syrian Free Army. It is located 24 km (15 mi) west of the Al Waleed border crossing, al-Walid border crossing in the Syrian Desert. The surrounding Deconfliction line, deconfliction zone is located along the Iraq–Syria border and the Jordan–Syria border. The garrison is located along a critical road known as the M2 Baghdad–Damascus Highway. The Rukban refugee camp for Refugees of the Syrian civil war, internally displaced Syrians is located within the deconfliction zone. A significant United States Armed Forces and allied European presence at the outpost began in early 2016 during the American intervention in the Syrian civil war, American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war in order to train anti-Islamic State fighters of the Revolutionary Commando Army#New Syrian Army, New Syrian Army armed opposition group, which was dissolved and reemerged as the Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Military Bases
This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at :Former military installations of the United States. A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any "base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction ... roperational control of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense." An installation or group of installations may, in turn, serve as a base, which DOD defines as "a locality from which operations are projected or supported."Nicastro, Luke, and Tilghman, Andrew. U.S. Overseas Basing: Background and Issues for Congress'. Congressional Research Service, July 10, 2024. The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European and Middle Eastern countries, which makes it the same as Arabia Standard Time, East Africa Time, and Moscow Time. During the winter periods, Eastern European Time ( UTC+02:00) is used. Since 1996, European Summer Time has been applied from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Previously, the rules were not uniform across the European Union. Usage The following countries and territories use Eastern European Summer Time during the summer: * Belarus, Moscow Summer Time in years 1981–89, regular EEST from 1991-2011 * Bulgaria, regular EEST since 1979 * Cyprus, regular EEST since 1979 ( Northern Cyprus stopped using EEST in September 2016, but returned to EEST in March 2018) * Egypt, in the years 1988–2010, 2014–2015 and since 2023 (see also Egypt Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadism, Salafi jihadist organization and unrecognized quasi-state. IS occupied significant territory in Iraq and Syria in 2013, but lost most of it in 2019. In 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate, and claimed religious, political, and military authority over all Muslims worldwide, a claim not accepted by the vast majority of Muslims. It is List of designated terrorist groups, designated as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations and many countries around the world, including Muslim world, Muslim countries. By the end of 2015, its self-declared caliphate ruled an area with a population of about 12 million, where they enforced their extremist interpretation of Islamic law, managed an annual budget exceeding billion, and commanded more than 30,000 fighters. After a grinding co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Intervention In The Syrian Civil War
{{Infobox military conflict , width = 440px , conflict = US intervention in the Syrian civil war , partof = Operation Inherent Resolve, the war against the Islamic State, and the foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war , date = 22 September 2014 – present({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=09, day1=22, year1=2014) , place = Syria , coordinates = , map_type = , map_relief = , latitude = , longitude = , map_size = , map_marksize = , map_caption = , map_label = , territory = , result = Ongoing * 19,786+ US and allied airstrikes, over 16,000 hitting ISIL positions * Thousands of targets destroyed, thousands of militants killed * US-backed opposition training program 2014–2017 * US and allies supplying weapons and advisers to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces * ISIL loses most of its territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
