John McCain, who claimed that the USA wasn’t doing enough to support the rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad. A US program to train Syrians was abandoned as a failure, and the new deployment essentially would replace that program.
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Just ahead of the talks, more than 50 people were killed on October 30 when rockets fired by Syrian government forces hit a market in a rebel-held area outside Damascus, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
“We have no doubt that the growth rates in our economy will continue and the financial health of the kingdom will remain as strong as it has been”, he said.
According to U.S. Department of Defense, the coalition has conducted 7,712 airstrikes since operations began, the majority in Iraq, but the number of strikes in Syria is expected to increase. Officials said the forces were not meant for front-line combat. “I can not be more specific than that, primarily for reasons related to Operational Security”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in response to question about the USA plan widely reported on the U.S. media.
Iran appears to be adjusting its stance in ways that could create more ground for compromise with Western countries that are coming to accept Assad cannot be driven from power by force.
Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry said 19 people died and 138 were rescued near the eastern island of Kalymnos, in one of the worst accidents in Greek waters since hundreds of thousands starting fleeing the war in Syria. “And President Obama has made a very straightforward and simple decision entirely in keeping with his originally stated policy that we must defeat and destroy Daesh”.
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Last week, the USA sustained its first death in the battle against the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies say they only arm and finance secular or moderate rebel groups.
The YPG was accused of war crimes in a recent report by Amnesty global, which documented allegations that the group forcibly displaced Arabs and Turkmen and burned down villages perceived as cooperating with its opponents.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Vienna that the decision to deploy special forceswould make cooperation between USA and Russian armed forces even more important.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on October 30 that Washington, Moscow, and more than a dozen other countries have directed the United Nations to launch a new diplomatic process between Assad’s government and the rebels.
Deputy foreign minister said the second point was President Bashar al-Assad’s stepping down which was a part of the United States timetable for the transition of power in Syria; “with the efforts of FM Zarif, it was not included in the final statement and it was decided that the political process will be Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, and the Syrian people will decide the future of Syria”, he asserted. Russian Federation resisted the push by blocking attempts at the United Nations to pressure the Syrian leader and insisting that any new government be established only by mutual consent of both the government and the opposition.
But no agreement was reached on Assad.
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Notably, Lavrov declined to criticize, at least publicly, President Barack Obama’s decision on the Special Forces and took issue with the suggestion that it risked setting the conditions for a Cold War-like proxy war between Russian and American forces.
