Russian fighter jets have bombed a series of towns to destroy ISIS.
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Did Vladimir Putin just trick himself into solving Syria’s war?
A short time ago, cooperation was almost unthinkable. Ever since, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been in the midst of refocusing its energies on countering the potential military threat from Russian Federation.
“Russian Federation and Iran should choose between supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, who “cannot regain legitimacy”, or “[saving] the Syrian state” by finding a truly legitimate Syrian government, U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday, The Associated Press news agency reported. The U.S., France and other Arab and Western allies want Mr. Assad out. The day before the killings in Paris, Obama said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that Islamic State had been “contained” geographically since the campaign began. After a weekend meeting in Turkey between Messrs.
Tehran and Moscow believes that Syrian government as the only viable option for confronting the Islamic State, a militant group that has taken advantage of the vacuum created by the civil war by gaining territory under their control. “Maybe it’s getting through to them”, Talbott said.
But Putin later said the matter must be decided by the Syrians as part of that process.
“We must be implacable against all forms of violence”.
Besides, the Syrian president said that terrorists “are the main obstacle of any real political advancement”.
“Even if I said that was okay, I still don’t think it would actually work”, Obama said. “You can not achieve anything politically while you have the terrorists taking over many areas in Syria”, he said. Underlining the widening scope of the probe, police in Germany said they arrested five suspects, including two women.
However, they remained at loggerheads over the role that Assad would play in Syria’s political process.
Putin also instructed Russia’s military to cooperate with the French navy in the Mediterranean Sea.
Mr Putin has been seeking to capitalise on shifting dynamics in the West following the Paris carnage and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane over Sinai in October, arguing that Russia and the West should unite against a common enemy. US trade with Russian Federation makes up a trivial percentage of the country’s GDP. “They are the ones that can give the guarantees to the regime that they have a stake in the future”. The country also has suffered increasing casualties from the war.
Moscow has shown more willingness to accept a settlement that blocks Mr. Assad from running for re-election, they said.
“A lot will depend on where the Russians go according to their own interests”, said a European official involved in the Syria diplomacy.
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, America and Europe had imposed harsh sanctions against the country, with the relationship between Moscow and the West reaching a chilly low-point.
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A US-led air coalition has been waging an air war against IS for more than a year, with French strikes in Syria beginning in September.
