Russia, working with Iran and the Syrian regime, insists Assad will remain in power.
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“Over the years, our friends here in Asia have been victims of terrorism, and many of them are close counterterrorism partners with us”, he said. Maybe the Islamic State hates people who were once allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad or other Shiite terror groups. Russian Federation entered the fray in September, and France started to bomb ISIS positions in Syria the same month. Hollande then heads to Russian Federation for talks with Putin.
Russian Federation has not officially committed to a transition of Assad moving out, but they did agree to the political transition process. “This was something that was deliberately and carefully planned over the course, I think, of several months in terms of making sure that they had the operatives, the weapons, the explosives with the suicide belts”. The administration will no doubt repeat its commitment to a coalition that includes enhanced intelligence sharing and law enforcement cooperation as well as support for strikes in Syria against the Islamic State. The militant group is now setting its sights on targets outside its stronghold, including the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. Having secured a veto-proof majority in the House, supporters are now hoping for a repeat in the US Senate, while Obama works to shift the conversation to milder visa waiver changes that wouldn’t affect Syrian refugees. It said two completed explosive devices were found in the hideout.
If the opposition rejects talking, Assad will not resign as a result. Most of Russia’s Muslims are Sunnis. The United States and allies still seek his removal, though the priority now is the Islamic State. The group claimed responsibility for blowing a Russian passenger jet out of the sky over Egypt, killing 224 people.
Separately, the USA military said it had destroyed 283 tanker trucks used by IS militants to transport oil from producing fields in eastern Syria to smuggling points, an acceleration of attacks aimed at crippling the group’s oil revenues. “If you overreact or attack the wrong target, you are playing into the hands of the terrorists”. “We will destroy this terrorist organization”, he vowed.
“Let us as legislators rise above petty politics, rise above sectarian fears… the underlying layer of xenophobia”, Gutierrez said on the House floor. The Obama administration declined to comment on his statement.
The Republican-dominated Ohio House, meanwhile, is also urging the President to halt the settlement of Syrian refugees here citing safety concerns.
Only hours before the “act of war” that changed Paris forever, U.S. President Barack Obama was vaunting the progress of his year-long military mission against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. They’ve seized on previous statements in which the president called them the “JV team” and “contained”. Asked on Twitter why France didn’t invoke NATO’s Article 5, French Ambassador to the U.S. Gerard Araud tweeted that one reason was “the dialogue with Russian Federation”.
Mr. Obama returned to Washington early Monday morning after a nine-day trip to Turkey, the Philippines and Malaysia.
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“Not because our military could not march into Mosul or Raqqa or Ramadi and temporarily clear out ISIL”, President Obama said. “What I do know is my expectation – which is the highest fidelity to facts, data, the truth”. Between meetings with Arab officials in Abu Dhabi, the chief American diplomat told reporters Obama was asking everyone in the USA government for new concepts to speed up the fight. The president said, essentially, that he had considered all the options and decided that even a large-scale terrorist attack in the heart of a major European capital was not enough to make him reconsider his policy.
