"There's been a rare armed uprising in a region of Syria currently occupied by American forces,
which has resulted in dead and wounded. Regional reports have tallied
at least 13 to as many as 25 people, both militants and civilians, have
been killed.
It happened in Deir Ezzor province, which
for years has had some 1,000 or more US 
soldiers occupying what is
Syria's only oil and gas rich province. The US has trained and supported
Kurkish-led "Syrian Democratic Forces" ...The clashes first broke out a day after the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained the commander and several members of the Deir Az Zor Military Council, a group that had been allied with the SDF, at a meeting they invited them to in the northeastern city of Hassakeh. Much of the Arab component of the US-backed forces in the region has
long been in tension with the area's Kurdish leadership. The Syrian
Kurds dominate the SDF, while the Arabs tend to be made up of remnant
"Free Syrian Army" factions. While Washington has long sought to present
the SDF as a broad coalition of anti-Assad "opposition" fighters, the
reality is that the Kurds and their interests totally dominate.
There's also the possibility that pro-Assad forces are covertly
encouraging the Arab tribes to rise up and throw off the American
occupation. For years, the Pentagon's chief enemy in the region has been
'pro-Iran' and Shia aligned forces, but if there's a broader push to
overthrow the US occupation from the Arab tribes." ZH
