Article snippet: Posted at 12:12 am on June 19, 2017 by Grant Gambling Recently RedState has been covering the mounting tensions concentrated in pockets of the Euphrates Basin which straddles Iraq and Syria, where forces emboldened by Shiite supremacy wrapped in Iranian nationalistic fervor threaten to drastically complicate the United States’ efforts to bring down the Islamic State. Operation Inherent Resolve is a coalition force led by the United States and the coalition has instructed the Damascus Alliance to maintain a 55 kilometer “de-conflicted” zone at all times something both Iranian-backed militias and the regular Syrian army has ignored 4 times. And now, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the primary US proxy fighting ISIS, is engaged in clashes with the Syrian Government Forces (SAA) in a place near Resafa. The SAA wants their pilot back and is willing to enter the de-conflicted zone to get him. It would behoove those who have access to the back channels with Russia to set up freely giving him or his remains back to the Syrians and remind the SAA the de-conflicted zones are not a request or a suggestion. Because some in the media are hell-bent on claiming this escalation is coming from the United Sates. When the United States Military takes a notion to escalates a situation it unmistakable and one-sided. That is Max Blumenthal sharing Moscow’s talking points, conservative readers may remember him form Clinton email revelations and being publicly humiliated by Andrew... Link to the full article to read more