“We are negotiating to establish a military base in Qatar, thereby creating a training ground for the elite members of Afghanistan,” a Western security official said. NATO troops ready to support training for Afghan special forces An integral part of NATO’s military operation is helping to train Afghan security forces to fight Afghan insurgents. Each NATO training session for Afghan troops in Qatar is expected to last four to six weeks. Fears that the Taliban will overwhelm the Afghan army have been heightened in recent times as the insurgent group has carried out many major attacks and captured many military bases. Qatar has been known as the seat of the Taliban’s political office since 2013. In recent years, it has also mediated peace talks between US officials, NATO representatives, the Afghan government and the government. Taliban. According to two sources, the US, UK and Turkey are ready to deploy experts to train Afghan forces in Qatar.

On April 15, 2021, one of the US military bases located north of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor was covered with an “unknown” missile attack, ie not yet. Which armed group assumes responsibility.

As a result of the missile raid, several US servicemen were injured and taken very quickly to a nearby hospital. This was announced by Aletejah TV from Iraq after consulting local sources.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Mehr news agency made it clear that the missile attack was carried out “against the US headquarters, which is responsible for exporting oil obtained from the Syrian territory”.

At the same time over the past few months, a number of similar attacks have been carried out against various targets of the US military in eastern and northeastern Syria, causing some minor damage.

Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition online publication Enab Baladi claimed that the missile strike hit the base of the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) consisting of directly supported Kurdish fighters. by Washington.

The detail to note is that none of the media has indicated the specific coordinates of the US military base that suffered the attack, nor the location where the missiles were launched.

Since 2015, Washington has controlled nine military bases in northeastern Syria, close to hydrocarbon mines, four of which are in Deir ez-Zor province and 5 in Al-Hasakah province. Furthermore, at all of these facilities, besides the Americans, there were Kurds.

Analysts say the latest attack could be carried out by the remnants of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization or by pro-Iran militias fighting on the Damascus side.

Besides, it is not possible to rule out the raid involving the Syrian government army, when Damascus always affirms that it will regain its sovereignty over the entire resource-rich Northeast region.

On April 14, Syrian government sources said several IS jihadists attacked the SDF prison in Al-Hasakah city, where IS prisoners are being held. The results of this clash have not been released.

It should be noted that since September 2020, the US has increased its military facilities in Syria, regularly dispatching reinforcements to its bases from Iraq and in the opposite direction, escorting the oil caravan.

Oil sourced from northeastern Syria is of great importance to the United States, because it helps Washington pay for the expenses of the Syrian battlefield and partly to support the Kurdish forces. contradiction.

On the side of the Damascus government, they always asserted that the US action was to take resources and seriously violate the sovereignty of an independent country.

Currently, the Syrian government army only controls more than 60% of the territory, while the Northwest is actually under Turkish control, while the northeastern part is rich in resources occupied by the US.