Today, the YPG announced a new alliance with small groups of Arab fighters, which could help deflect criticism that it fights only on behalf of Kurds.
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Cartoons of the Russian Federation leader have also been widely shared on social media, portraying him as muscular and fearless, as his popularity soars in the region.
Putin met Saudi Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of a Formula One race in a Russian resort on Sunday. “The Russian intervention in Syria will engage them in a sectarian war”, the source said on Monday, adding that the kingdom “warns of the unsafe consequences of the Russian intervention”.
De Mistura said Assad’s government had signaled its readiness to join four working groups that he planned to convene in Geneva to tackle aspects of post-conflict Syria.
A man removes belongings from his damaged house that was hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the town of al-Ghariyah al-Gharbiyah in Deraa province, Syria on October 12, 2015.
Britain agreed on the final outcome for Assad.
Countering this, the European Union ministers said in a statement that “this military escalation risks prolonging the conflict, undermining a political process, aggravating the humanitarian situation and increasing radicalization”.
The FSB said a few of the suspects had been trained by Islamic State militants and were plotting a terrorist attack on Moscow’s public transport. In its briefings, it describes all of the targets it strikes as belonging to Islamic State.
Syria is in its fourth year of civil war, pitting a range of rebel groups against each other and state forces.
The United States has also been leading air strikes with a military campaign in the country against the Islamic state since thirteen months, but has failed to make any progression.
“The clashes are the fiercest since the Russian air campaign began on September 30”, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Putin, however, said Moscow is not considering placing ground troops in Syria.
Abdel Rahman said the rebels were sending reinforcements to Kafr Nabuda to battle the regime, which was also shelling other parts of Hama and Latakia provinces.
A senior opposition commander from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) told Sky News that Russia’s aim is clear – to push rebels back from areas around Syrian President Assad’s stronghold in Latakia because the opposition were getting close.
They are Syrians waiting for the Turkish military patrol to pass. It can take days before they find the right moment, but when it comes they run across the border.
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet KGB, said in a statement that two of the individuals arrested confessed to a planned attack on Moscow’s transportation infrastructure, the semi-official RT network noted.
