Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture Raqqa during talks between the two leaders at a G20 summit in China, Erdogan said, according to Wednesday’s edition of Turkey’s Hurriyet daily.
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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to keep up negotiations over a cease-fire agreement for Syria, a senior Obama administration official said Monday.
Still, as Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended an economic summit, the leaders were under pressure to push the negotiations beyond the sticking points that have thus far prevented a deal. “However, we must ensure that it is an effective agreement”, the official said. The State Department has said it wants nationwide ceasefire between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military and the rebels, rather than another limited “cessation of hostilities” that has repeatedly failed in the past.
The deal depends on the two sides agreeing to closer military coordination against extremist groups operating in Syria, something the Russians have long sought and the USA has resisted.
Turkey would be ready to join any initiative proposed by the United States to capture an Islamic State stronghold in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday, as Turkish-backed forces took more Syrian land from jihadists.
US officials say they are awaiting sufficient evidence to justify the request to extradite Gulen, who is 75 and says he is in failing health. Though a recent report, from a highly credible security researcher who was part of the government’s efforts in this field, has suggested the USA government has fewer zero-day exploits stockpiled than anyone believes. They discussed, above all, Syria and Ukraine.
But Turkey’s tactics have drawn criticism from its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally the United States and also from Russian Federation, with which it recently patched up ties.
The Islamic State militant group asserted responsibility for the bombings, as well as for another that targeted Syrian Kurds in the northeastern city of Qamishli and was not reported by SANA. “The second achievement which I think is very important is that China and the United States announced the ratification of the Paris Agreement”, said French President Francois Hollande.
The plan would forge an unlikely U.S.
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Obama, who had just come from a 90-minute session with Putin on the sidelines of the summit, also pointedly noted, “We’ve had problems with cyber intrusions from Russian Federation and other countries in the past”.
