“The Turkish government has made some progress in their thinking, they realized Daesh is a threat”, the diplomat said, using an Arabic acronym for Isis.
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“Saudi Arabia declared its determination against Daesh [Arabic term for ISIS] by saying they were ready to send both jets and troops”, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a newspaper statement over the weekend.
The action drew condemnation from the Syrian government, whose forces are advancing against insurgents in the same area under the cover of Russian airstrikes. “We believe it will fail and when it does the situation will be completely different”. He told Handelsblatt, “A ground operation draws everyone taking part in it into a war …”
“America? Are they doing anything?” he asked.
“Bashar Assad could have prevented the escalation if he had taken democratic reforms in time”.
Syria’s civil war entered a new phase previous year when Russian Federation joined the conflict on the side of Assad, whose control had progressively slipped to rebels and terrorist groups.
Yesterday’s survey also found Russians were not following events in Syria as closely as they were at the end of past year.
“Thanks to the leadership of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (secretary general) Jens Stoltenberg, we are exploring the possibility of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation joining the coalition as a member itself”, Ashton Carter said.
The two criticisms came against the backdrop of news from Syria that no aid trucks had yet moved toward needy regions there and illustrated how thoroughly the Middle East chaos had dominated the conference.
At the same conference, Kerry said Russian airstrikes have targeted “legitimate opposition groups”.
Medvedev also described NATO’s relationship with Moscow as “closed” and hostile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said back in 2007 in the same conference in Munich that the establishment of a new missile defense system by Western countries is risking a new Cold War.
The West says it has satellite images, videos and other evidence to show Russian Federation is providing weapons to the rebels and that Moscow has troops engaged in the conflict that erupted following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014. “I think they will not stop at nothing”. “His appetite is growing with the eating”, McCain said, adding, “We have seen this movie before in Ukraine”.
Medvedev’s reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, is not an idle one.
The leaders of the major imperialist powers, including the US, Germany, France and Britain, see no alternative to war. “It is sad that it is so, but it is so”. It fretted, “As slower growth and stagnating living standards stoke popular discontent, angry citizens will take to the streets”. Regional Kurdish forces supported by Washington are also fighting Islamic State in Raqqa province.
“This tendency, in particular, was presented in a speech of German Foreign Minister Walter Frank-Steinmeier, as well as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who several times repeated that Islamic State was the main enemy of the European community, and the main task for the moment was to efficiently fight terrorism”.
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“You ask me if I accept a cease-fire or a cessation of hostilities”.
