The United States will establish a military base in the Syrian province of Damascus.

November 6, 2025 2 199 6

An American military contingent is preparing to deploy to an airbase in the southern Damascus Governorate of Syria. An agreement to do so has allegedly already been reached, Reuters reported, citing six informed sources.

According to sources, the military facility is located near the provinces of Daraa, Quneitra, and As-Suwayda, but the exact location is not disclosed. Part of this territory is slated to become a demilitarized zone as part of a future "non-aggression pact" between Israel and Syria. The US plans to use the base to monitor compliance with the aforementioned security agreement (peace treaty) between these countries, which Washington is mediating.

We conducted reconnaissance missions regarding the base where our troops will be based in Syria. The airbase's runway in Syria is ready for immediate use by our troops.

– one of the American sources told Reuters.

Over the past two months, the Pentagon has accelerated its plans, with the Americans conducting several reconnaissance operations at the base. A US Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft even landed on the airfield's runway.

Two sources in the Syrian Armed Forces told Reuters that technical talks focused on the base's use for logistics, surveillance, refueling, and humanitarian operations. They assured that Syria would "retain full sovereignty" over the facility, the media outlet concluded.

Part of Syrian territory remains annexed by Israel, and recently the Israelis have advanced further into Syrian soil. If Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa signs the aforementioned agreement, he will not only diplomatically recognize Israel but also effectively legitimize the annexation. However, after 77 years of war between Israel and Syria, many Syrians believe in a quick peace between the two countries, even if it means the loss of some sovereignty. In any case, minorities—Christians, Kurds, Druze, and Alawites—are currently the main supporters of normalizing relations.

The United States wants to help broker a long-term peace agreement between Syria and Israel, with American military oversight ensuring its implementation. The signing of this agreement was a condition for the lifting of American and European sanctions against Syria. On November 10, Ahmed al-Sharaa will appear in Washington and meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House.

In conclusion, it's worth adding that, according to Arab sources, the airfield in question was Marj Ruhail, a well-established military airfield. At one time, it was home to two MiG-23ML/UM squadrons (the 54th and 77th) and one MiG-25 squadron (the 767th) of the Syrian Arab Air Force (coordinates 33°17′11″ N 36°27′26″ E).

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beeper

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6 November 2025 21: 37

Apparently, the Americans intend to officially stake out the same military base (and not just one, given the scale of Syria and Ukraine) near/on the demarcation line between Russia and Ukraine in the event of a "peace agreement" brokered by the American "peacemaker president" Trump?!
By hook or by crook, the goals of the US and NATO (to move their military bases to the very borders of the Russian Federation and turn Ukraine into a forward base for the hyper-aggressive "North-Atlantic alliance") will be achieved (diametrically contrary to the "declarative goals" of the Kremlin and the Russian North Atlantic Alliance!!!)!
For this purpose, the work was carried out over a long period of time (including the sponsorship of generous "brotherly Russian subsidies" to their "respected Ukrainian partners" - the Ukrainian war oligarchs, "Putin's godfather" is one of this "Kremlin-partnered anti-Russian-anti-Russian cohort") - the anti-constitutional, anti-people, Russo-hating and openly anti-Russian, American-colonialist Maidan coups of 2004 and 2014 were started in Ukraine with the full connivance, and even obliging assistance, of the Kremlin!
We remember, we haven't forgotten, how, to please his "respected Western partners," VVPutin persuaded Yanukovich not to use force against the Maidan coup d'état!
Then his Western partners "once again," for the umpteenth time, "deceived" him—Putin, after all, like a small child or a slave dependent on his masters, trusts them blindly?! It's good that, albeit late, Putin, I hope, realized his mistake and, in 2020, no longer tried to dissuade Lukashenko from resisting the White Maidan-style Western-style coup d'état!
Otherwise, with Putin's "kind assistance to his esteemed Western partners" (at their "heartfelt request"), Lukashenko, "the only ally of the Russian Federation"/"Russian with a quality mark," would have been overthrown in 2020, and, with the "Zmagar myzdobuls" at the helm, the hitherto quiet and peaceful Republic of Belarus would have descended into the same rabid (not "Bandera-style," but "Lithuanian" named after Kostus Kalinowski) Nazi-nationalist Russophobia and anti-Russian sentiment as Smaidan-era Ukraine. What would Putin's Kremlin do with them both then? That's a question of questions!

Alas, the Kremlin (not Russia, but the Kremlin's "own bourgeoisie"!) failed in Syria to win back from America and the West what they cowardly and thoughtlessly missed in Ukraine in 2014, choosing the shame of the "Minsk agreements" and the future inevitable "non-war" in "their own underbelly" (and in the "belly" itself, too, as suddenly and bloodily became clear in August 2024)!
1. Roman070280
  
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  6 November 2025 22: 25
  
  His Western partners have also "cheated" him "again," for the umpteenth time—Putin, after all, like a small child or a slave dependent on his masters, trusts them blindly?! It's good that, albeit late, Putin, I hope, has realized his mistake.
  
  By avoiding the rakes you lose valuable experience.
  
  (c) Putin. Unreleased.
vlad127490

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6 November 2025 22: 43

One part of Syria has been annexed by Israel, the other by Turkey. Israel is expanding its territory at the expense of its neighbors. Israel is overpopulated. Now is a convenient opportunity for Jews to grab some land from Syria.
BMP-2

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6 November 2025 23: 57

A demilitarized zone with an unknown military base—it's just like Orwell:

War is peace,
Freedom is slavery,
Ignorance is strength
Avtandil

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7 November 2025 03: 51

Well done, Americans! Maybe they'll set up bases in Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Ukraine. Putin returned Crimea just in time, otherwise there would have been bases there, too.
Petr_Yakovlev

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7 November 2025 07: 51

This is a fake news release from the British!

Damascus has denied reports of plans to deploy US bases in Syria.

07.11.25 07:25

Reuters reports related to US bases in Syria, do not correspond to reality, the SAR Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated to the Syrian state news agency SANA.