Prior to the 2011 outbreak of the Arab Spring, which completely transformed the alignment political forces across the Middle East and Fertile Crescent, Fox News ran an advertisement recommending investors to invest in Syria. With little to no mention of the Bashar Al Assad regime, its history or its leaders, the advertisement mentioned a few key feature of the Country’s gems, the refinement of its raw materials (i.e., oil).

Within the province of Hasakah, on the outskirt of the northeastern city of Qamishli, at the Village of Tal Dhahab, which is located within the region of the area designated as a Syrian “Jazira” where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers meet, the Syrian Arab Army, which is increasing its presence throughout the region, began to engage American forces, as they approached the village.

Approaching the village in a convoy of five military armored vehicles, American forces, together with a HILUX for QSD militia, attempted to pass through a checkpoint located within the village at Tal Dhahab, when Syrian Arab Army personnel confronted and repealed the convoy, expelling it from the area.

It is does not seem as though investors have made their way to the oil fields in Syria but American troops certainly have, albeit without a single share of the profiles gleaned from the sale of its exports. Referred to collectively as the “oil thieves” among Syrians in the region, American troops’ recent clash with Syrian Arab Army forces is significant for what it portends within the context of the recently convened Tehran summit.

The United States Central Command, one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense, recently issued, for instance, a condolence for three fights from Syrian Democratic Forces on Sunday, July 24th, 2022. In the press report, which indicates the deaths arose as a result of a clash with Turkish fighters, “the the Central Command of the US military extended its condolences to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), for Turkish targeting of three female commanders in the city of Qamishli, northeastern Syria, two days ago.”

Apparently, a Turkish drone targeted a car with these three SDF fighters, including one commander, on one of the roads in the eastern countryside of Qamishli.

“Salwa Yusuk (AKA Ciyan Afrin) a Deputy Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – along with 2 fellow female fighters – was killed in an attack near Qamishli, Syria, on July 22, 2022,” the CENTCOM said.

“Salwa was a critical SDF leader who led forces in combat vs ISIS since the height of the fight to defeat the vile ideology in NE Syria in 2017,” the US Central command tweeted.

After the Tehran summit on July 19, Turkey’s reaction, which is operating in parallel with the reactions of many neighboring states, such as Israel, renewed the extensive implementation of drones for warfare in both North and South east Syria, targeting civilians, military vehicles, municipal facilities, and farmlands.

The attacks come on the heel of repeated threats by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to launch a military operation in northern Syria against the cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.

Amidst these clashes and attacks, Israeli Defense Forces (henceforth IDF) executed a carefully planned attack within the city of Damascus immediately following the conclusion of Russia’s Tehran summit with Turkish, Iranian and Syrian leaders.

Described by media sources in Hebrew as an attack of the widest significant in the country’s history, the IDF targeted on July 21st, 2022 what is being called the “Iranian park” which is located within the Zaynab al-Sayyida area. The number of deaths, which is being reported in Syrian and Iranian news sources, range from three to eight.

The attack comes the day after Tehran summit convened where Faisal Mekdad, a Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, came with a request by Syrian president Bashar Al Assad to Iran. In the request, Assad requested for Iran to increase its presence throughout the region with a special emphasis on protecting Syria’s air forces. It is reported that Mekdad’s request was ignored. Israel’s response to Mekdad’s request is the July 21st, 2022 attack.

Citing a military source, Syria’s SANA news agency said Israel “carried out an aerial aggression” at 00:32 a.m., (2132 GMT Thursday), firing missiles from atop the Golan Heights by targeting “a number of positions in the vicinity of Damascus.”

The Syrian government last reported an Israeli attack on July 2 which it said targeted an area south of the Mediterranean city of Tartus and injured two civilians.

Israel has been carrying out strikes for years against what it has described as Iranian and Iran-backed targets in Syria, where Tehran has deployed forces in support of President Bashar al-Assad since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011 in the wake of the Arab spring.

Shortly before the conclusion of the Tehran summit, Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on July 20th, 2022 that Syria is taking a step parallel with Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in regards to diplomatic relations with Ukraine. Both countries unilaterally terminated diplomatic relations.

As tensions between the United States of America and Russia begin to rise, further clashes are expected to take place within Syria. In early July 2022, for instance, Russia advances to command of the regions within Syria Colonel-General Aleksandr Chayko from Ukraine to East Syria. In response to his appointment, the United States of America dispatched Amry General Michael Erik Krill to the area of Al-Tanf.

In regards to Chayko, Kurilla stated: “What we don’t know is, is he a dog off-leash trying to reestablish himself.” Kurilla’s statement regarding Chayko comes against the backdrop of a rise in the number of clashes between Russian and American forces in the skies of East Syria where the vastly significant confluence of landmasses in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan come together. The number of clashes within the bodies of water surrounding Abu Dhabi and the Red Sea show a similar rise in the number clashes.

As the United States of America’s proxy war with Russian in the Ukraine spirals out of control, wrecking death, havoc, and mayhem about its people, in the market, and throughout the world, clashes between Russia, the United States of America, Turkey, Iran, and Israel are likely to escalate, flare up and become all the more bellicose, especially as these countries struggle to maintain dominance in land, sea, air or over crucial access to the rich oilfields of Syria.