“Russia has used political, economic, and military tools to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of neighboring countries, flouted global legal norms, and destabilised the European security order by attempting to annex Crimea and continuing to fuel further violence in eastern Ukraine”, Mr Carter said yesterday (Oct 14) in Washington.
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“Unfortunately, our American colleagues, who are interested in… fighting terrorism, refused to accept the wording that described this as a terrorist act”, Lavrov said, adding, “It is sad that our American colleagues in this case in fact do not side with those who fight against terrorism and condemn terror”.
Although Washington sent the refusal to Russia’s proposal on Wednesday, Moscow is ready to cooperate with the U.S. on Syrian issues in any format and through any channel, Lavrov said.
Assad’s foreign opponents appear to be stepping up support for rebel groups in response to the Russian-Iranian intervention.
The USA military said on Monday it had airdropped small arms ammunition for Syrian rebel groups now fighting the militants of the Daesh, the extremist group, inside Syria.
Aleppo is divided with the Syrian army, Isis, other Islamists and rebel groups backed by the West all controlling separate enclaves in and around the city. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a Russian defense ministry spokesperson.
Hodges said he was surprised when Russian Federation sent troops into Syria.
The official said the Iranian troops and their allies were building up for a huge offensive against insurgents in Aleppo province, which would be announced in the coming days.
“General Farshad Hasounizad, defender of the Sayyeda Zeinab Shrine and former commander of the Saberin Brigade, was killed in Syria”, a reporter in the state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) wrote in a post on his Instagram account Tuesday afternoon. “We will, God willing, move to attack, not just defense”. “I believe a few of our partners simply have mush for brains”, he said.
Iraq now hosts an intelligence fusion centre with Russian, Syrian and Iranian liaisons and reportedly has begun using situational awareness generated from the centre to bomb Isis positions.
With air support from Russian Federation, Assad’s government is trying to retake territory seized this year by insurgent groups that include the Nusra Front, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaida, and U.S.-backed units calling themselves the Free Syrian Army. The Iraqi defence ministry has provided “assurances that our information will be appropriately protected”, Warren said on 1 October. “Nothing has been finalised”, Carter said.
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“From the Kamchatka peninsula through south Asia, into the Caucasus and around to the Baltics, Russian Federation has continued to wrap itself in a shroud of isolation”.
