“The steps Russian Federation is taking and the bombing campaign in Syria are quite unacceptable to Turkey”, he added.
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“We think that it’s self defeating”, he said. Two USA officials said the fighters numbered in the thousands but declined to offer a precise figure. It was blatant in Afghanistan in the 1980s when the Ronald Reagan administration armed and financed jehadi groups fighting against a secular regime.
“But meanwhile we are supporting the Americans and others who are attacking Isil in Syria. With the Syrian planes, we would get a warning but now all of a sudden we see them over our heads”, he said.
US officials said the issue is one of many being hashed out by top leaders within the department and the military’s Joint Staff.
However, sideline meetings on Russia’s involvement in Syria are likely to have dominated.
Putin has said Russian Federation would be fighting “gangs of global terrorists”.
Cook said both sides in Thursday’s talks presented proposals and ideas for avoiding conflict between US and Russian aircraft.
In a video released Friday, al-Muhaysini said that the Russian intervention will boost the morale of fighters in Syria.
Indeed, the Russian president knows well but cares not that Assad’s war crimes against civilians have fueled Sunni support for the Islamic State. The Islamists in Chechnya had launched a brutal secessionist movement in the Caucasus in the 1990s. “This is what I want to understand”, he asked. If the I.S. contagion remains unchecked, the jehadi flames can seriously singe Russian Federation. The USA rejected the proposal, confident that Bashar al-Assad would be overthrown in a few months, meeting the fate of Muammar Qaddafi.
In Syria, Obama based his hopes on diplomacy without providing any military support to moderates, which might have made a difference three years ago.
He’s still there, though, and a convergence of Western trepidation and Russian resolve could strengthen his position further. In the last four years, the Syrian army has remained united and kept the Islamist hordes out of Damascus and most of the populated regions of Syria.
As Russian Federation planned more air strikes today, Mr Putin met Francois Hollande in Paris to overcome tension over military operations. Turkey continues to be the main conduit through which money and militants still flow into Syria.
If it had the wit, the Obama administration would be not angered, but appropriately humiliated.
Activists are reporting intense fighting between Syrian troops and members of the Islamic State group in the contested eastern city of Deir el-Zour.
Erdoğan said he expressed his views on Russia’s air strikes during his visit to Moscow at the end of September, as well as in a recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
An underground command post had been destroyed in a strike in Latamna, in Hama province, it said. “The first reports of civilian casualties came even before our jets took off”. Only Bulgaria acceded to the American request.
It is exactly that “what next” question that leads a few other observers to believe Putin is making a fatal mistake in escalating his support for Assad.
Putin, on the other hand, says Assad should stay. “This is not a few superpower chessboard contest”, he said. Russian Federation has reiterated that it supports its Syrian ally to the hilt. The Syrians trained and equipped by the USA have primarily been operating in the north. On gun control he said: “The politics has to change”.
Lavrov’s speech was largely in response to comments from French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who said Russian warplanes “didn’t hit Islamic State”, and from U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who also had said the Russians appeared to have targeted areas that did not include Islamic State militants.
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Russian military spokesman Maj.-Gen.
