Such efforts would also further strengthen violent jihadists – including ISIS – supported by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Gulf States.
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The Iraq-Syrian war is the cause of the European Union’s refugee crisis and it is going to get worse.
“All these factors together brought things to what we have today”. The meteoric rise of IS due in part to oil revenue, their exceptional command structure and operational capabilities caught the West, I would say completely by surprise.
“We do not believe there have been any civilian casualties as a result of United Kingdom strike activity”.
“That means we should first unite against terrorism”.
Moustafa leads a brigade of about 10,000 Free Syrian Army fighters, who he said have pushed back regime forces this week along several key supply routes near Aleppo. “That is unacceptable,” he said.
Four million Syrians have fled their country, with most seeking shelter in neighbouring Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
“If you are anxious about [refugees], stop supporting terrorists“. The administration of US President Barack Obama plans to hold direct talks with their Russian counterparts on the situation in Syria and Russia’s participation in resolving the crisis in the region.
For example, the suggestion has been made that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is the big victor of the nuclear agreement with Iran, and therefore the USA should accelerate efforts for “regime change” in Syria, a la Libya and Iraq. Their only criticism of the United States and Australian bombing campaigns is they are not directly aimed against Assad and have not provided sufficient support to the so-called “revolutionaries” fighting his regime.
In fact, the conflict could become even more intense and drag on even longer, with word that Russian Federation appears to be sending more of its forces and aircraft into Syria. “Because they do not accept partners and do not accept independent states”.
It was back in August 2001 that President Obama stated “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way”, Obama said in a written statement. “This is the principle according to which I look at this issue”.
And though Assad may survive for a time, his family’s days of ruling Syria are coming to a close.
In 2003, the Coalition government of Prime Minister John Howard was one of a handful that joined the “coalition of the willing”, led by the United States , to invade and occupy Iraq on the basis of the lie that former President Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction that were a threat to the world.
And if we consult those interests rather than respond to a reflexive Russophobia that passes for thought in the think tanks, we should be able to see our way clear to collaborate in Syria. The USA and its few remaining allies are reluctant to attack ISIS in an effective way because crushing it might strengthen Assad.
“The relationship between Syria and Iran is an old one”. In Slovakia and Poland people are openly demanding that only Christian Syrians be allowed in, although the whole world knows that all Syrian communities have suffered and are suffering from the current tragedy. We worry about just general disease burden in refugee populations as they are at risk from a number of highly transmissible and infectious diseases, but with a deliberate disease, intentionally meant to infect high numbers, the possibility that an epidemic would go global, increases.
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However, he laid to rest claims by Western media that Tehran has sent an army or armed forces to Syria. Bipartisan support in Canberra for the war in the Middle East is paralleled by the transformation of Australia into a central base of operations for the U.S. military build-up in Asia, in preparation for conflict with China. This has always been the case, and it is natural for this cooperation to grow between the two countries in a state of war,”Assad said”.
