“Without Russian Federation, one can not meet the great challenges of this world”, he said, adding that the global role of Putin is “more positive than negative, despite our differences”.
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The United States has “operational information” that leads USA officials to believe Russian military aircraft hit a hospital while carrying out bombing raids in Syria, the State Department said on Thursday. According to the AFP, the first deployment to Syria would be composed of “fewer than 50” Special Operation forces to the North of the war-torn country. Iran and Russian Federation were being coordinated on this issue, though President Hassan Rohani has already declared that he “will support Bashar until the end” and would not agree to oust him at any stage. And the tactically foolish ban on Assad’s participation in any US-led strike against the Islamic State – not to mention calls for opposition factions to hold provisional elections – is sloganeering, not policymaking.
ISIS is too unsafe to have people on the ground, Clapper said.
Russian Federation and Syria are conducting airstrikes in the country, but Earnest said it was unlikely the US troops would be at risk because Russian Federation has not bombed in the area where they will be.
Due to the losses they suffered, leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra in Hama province joined ISIL, the source said, adding that al-Nusra has replaced its emblems and flags with those of “Ahrar al-Cham Islamic Movement” in order to solicit political and financial support from certain states.
“It is premature to talk about complete victory over the terrorists in Syria”, Kartapolov said. “Importantly, the Syrian armed forces have promptly repelled all of their counterattacks”.
But the U.S. maintaining there will be no boots on the ground in Syria White House spokesman Josh Earnest insists the elite fighters will be there to “train, advise and assist”.
Syria’s civil war has aggravated sectarian tensions in the region, with Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia and a few Iraqi militias, all Shi’ite, backing Assad against rebel groups that are overwhelmingly Sunni.
To be sure, a major reason for this failure is the lack of consensus not only throughout the government – ask five senators what to do about Syria and you will probably get at least six answers – but also within the administration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that victory in the fight against terrorism in Syria should come before any concrete dialogue on political reconciliation in the war-torn country, Xinhua reports. Looking at how Putin operated lately, even though I don’t exactly know, I dare say there might be one fundamental problem with Putin’s understanding of the United States: He perceives Obama as weak and indecisive, which may be actually true as far as his foreign policy is concerned – after all, Republicans say the same thing (laughing).
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Russia’s air campaign is costing the Russian government as much as $4 million a day, according to an analysis by a leading defense think tank.
