French President Franç ois Hollande is urging the USA and Russian Federation to join with his country to defeat extremists.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin in Moscow. Within six months, the negotiations are to establish a “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian” transitional government that would set a schedule for drafting a new constitution and holding a free and fair U.N.-supervised election within 18 months.
Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority has suspended flights to the northern Kurdish self-ruled region for two days starting Monday due to Russia’s air campaign in neighbouring Syria, a statement said. “We will not allow these killers to have a safe haven”, Obama said, adding that the world is determined “to push back on the hateful ideologies that fuel this terrorism”.
The Russian Defence Ministry was quoted today as saying jets targeted several provinces in the country as their bombing campaign against the terrorist group was stepped up.
The United Nations on Friday unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for countries to take “all necessary measures” to combat Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
“What we are doing in parallel besides fighting terrorism, we need to make the dialogue, but the concrete steps should follow at least a major defeat of the terrorists and the government takes control of a major area that has been captured by the terrorists”, he said.
“And those aren’t the groups that they were now hitting with strikes”, Obama said”. You need troops on the ground. It said two completed explosive devices were found in the hideout. The US, Great Britain, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Jordan, Canada and the Netherlands have launched airstrikes in Iraq, while the USA, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have used air power in Syria. Most of Russia’s Muslims are Sunnis.
Russia’s role came up in both Monday meetings, as participants discussed how to broaden the fight against the Islamic State without sacrificing the goal of eventually toppling Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In Europe, let’s not forget, the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies are trying to figure out how best to contain Russian Federation in the wake of its seizure of Crimea and adventurism in Ukraine.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 83 percent of registered voters believe a large-scale terrorist attack in the United States is likely.
“We will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theaters and hotels are the new normal”, says President Barack Obama. He said the USA had survived mass casualties before and pointed out that New Yorks Times Square was again filled with people rightly so.I was very proud of the fact that the fundamental nature of America and how we treated each other did not change, Obama said. ISIS claimed responsibility for the incident, which cost 224 lives. They’ve seized on previous statements in which the president called them the “JV team” and “contained”.
“We will not give in to fear, or start turning on each other, or treating a few people differently because of religion or race or background”, he said during a press conference in Malaysia.
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“Mr. Putin will find in three months, six months, 12 months that the battle tide has turned against Assad despite his military presence”, he said.
