Obama spent all of last week traveling through Asian countries to promote his Trans-Pacific Trade deal and a campaign against climate change, but was repeatedly forced to discuss his strategy against ISIS in multiple press conferences with world leaders.
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Khaled Khoja, the head of Syrian National Coalition, on Monday pledged the transition period in Syria would be without the Bashar al-Assad regime. This explains the ongoing U.S.-Russia war, even after the end of communism, the war that was begun by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990 just as the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact were ending, and the United States and its military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organisation continued and has since expanded right up to Russia’s very borders – the equivalent of Russia’s Warsaw Pact having absorbed Mexico or Canada and placed nuclear missiles right on America’s own border.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he wanted global co-operation to combat terrorism after Islamist militants allied to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network killed 19 people, including six Russians, in an attack on a luxury hotel in the West African nation of Mali. The two met last week during an economic summit in Turkey.
Almost five years of fighting between the Assad government and rebels has created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State to thrive in both Syria and Iraq.
Director general of Arbil airport Talar Faeq said: “There are fears for the aircraft and passengers due to Russian missiles”.
“Destroy Islamic State is not only a realistic goal, it is a task that we will lead the way”.
A peace plan agreed to last weekend by 17 nations meeting in Vienna says nothing about Assad’s future, but states that “free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months”.
“Mr. Putin will find in three months, six months, 12 months that the battle tide has turned against Assad despite his military presence”, he said. The president has since softened his tone. The Obama administration declined to comment Sunday on Medvedev’s statement.
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French President Francois Hollande will visit Obama at the White House on Tuesday before visiting Moscow on Thursday, part of the French leader’s efforts to unify the USA and Russian Federation in the fight against Islamic State. “We will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theaters and hotels are the new normal, or that we are powerless to stop them”.
