The United States is failing to stand up to Russia, which is committing “war crimes” in Syria, a leading Syrian opposition negotiator said on Sunday, as Russian-backed forces appeared to tighten the siege on the city of Aleppo.
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Kerry said last week after talks with President Vladimir Putin and Lavrov in Moscow he had reached a common understanding on the steps needed to get Syria’s peace process back on track.
“U.S. officials report increasing evidence that the group is plotting external operations against Europe and the United States”.
“We would like to see what kind of guarantees the U.S.is able to agree with Russia”, Kodmani said.
“We have agreed to steps that, if implemented in good faith, can address two serious problems”, he told reporters. The U.S. and Russian Federation would create a separate headquarters and a specific office for cooperation.
According to an eight page document released to the Washington Post on Thursday, the United States and Russian Federation might be working to establish a joint headquarters, possibly based in Amman, Jordan, from which to coordinate airstrikes and share information against ISIS and various other Islamic extremist groups that have sprouted up throughout Syria.
A draft of the proposal said that Washington wanted Moscow in return to ensure the Syrian air force would be grounded and would no longer drop bombs on civilians under the guise of targeting terrorists.
In a joint press statement, McCain and Graham pressed for President Barack Obama to “terminate Secretary Kerry’s risky scheme to help Russian Federation prop up the murderous Assad regime in Syria”.
Whereas Kerry decried the Syrian government’s bombing of moderate opposition forces and civilian targets, Lavrov focused his attention elsewhere. Nusra’s fighters are often embedded with such groups on the battlefield or move between various militant formations. “And nowhere is there a greater hotbed or incubator for these terrorists than in Syria”.
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“I think people all over the world are looking to us, and waiting for us to find a faster, more tangible way of them feeling that everything possible is being done to end this terrorist scourge, and to unite the world in the most comprehensive efforts possible to fight back against their nihilistic, depraved approach to life, and death”, Kerry added.
