U.S.-led air strikes on Islamic State militants who control a third of Iraq, have failed to turn the tide in Iraq’s conflict, which has sapped the OPEC oil producer’s finances and fueled sectarian bloodletting.
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A total of 30 militants of the IS group were killed in airstrikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces on Saturday near the IS-held city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security official said.
A retired highly-decorated US Air Force general says the Russian air campaign in Syria is “very definitely effective” because it has been targeting militant groups fighting the Syrian armed forces.
Indeed, USA Today reported earlier today-citing an anonymous Pentagon official-that almost one-third of Russia’s combat aircraft and fifty percent of its transports in Syria are grounded at any one time.
In a statement released on Friday, Zameli said that the joint data center between Iraq, Syria and Russian Federation was still in its initial stage, noting that however, it has offered important intelligence information which helped end the battle in Baiji, raqi TV, al-Sumaria reported on Friday.
The strategies emerged after discussions which took place over the past few weeks between military field commanders and the president’s most senior national security advisers, including Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Secretary of State John Kerry. That’s just a fact of life-and one of the reasons the U.S. Air Force is so eager to replace its oldest fighters (the U.S. Navy’s rebuilt F-14D (R) jets are a good case study). While this has been the official White House policy, a new report shows that things could be changing, according to The Hill on October 26. The rebels are hoping for more military support from Arab states, notably Saudi Arabia, which has warned Russian Federation its intervention will escalate the war and inspire more foreign fighters to go to Syria to fight. The push against Raqqa, if it proves effective, would mark a significant setback for the Islamic State, US officials said. He promised to pay 3 million euros ($3.42 million) to anyone who kills Assad and 2 million euros ($2.28 million) to anyone who kills Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, whose men are fighting alongside Syrian troops. But Carter, far from presenting the Kirkuk incident as an aberration, unconditionally defended the operation and seized on it as an opportunity to assert the intention of the United States military to intensify its operations in Iraq.
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In that interview, Obama also ruled out sending U.S. troops to Syria. He added, “We don’t know who succeeds Assad”. Russian Federation intervened to protect its sole military base outside the borders of the former Soviet Union, its air base at Tartus, and oil and gas pipeline routes critical to the oligarchs represented by the regime of President Vladimir Putin.
