Russian missiles have cause multiple worldwide concerns over the weekend.
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Trying to reassure a nation on edge, President Barack Obama said Sunday the Islamic State group “cannot strike a mortal blow” against the US, and he warned that overreacting to the Paris attacks would play into extremists’ hands.
The former Soviet Union was the first state to recognise Iran as an Islamic republic after the 1979 revolution, but Moscow later provided Saddam Hussein with weapons during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated Washington’s position on removing Assad from power.
McGurk said the operation will back an Arab-Kurdish coalition headed by the main Syrian Kurdish militia, which is opposed to Assad.
We believe that there is more that can be done if countries are willing to contribute additional resources.
“Destroying [Islamic State] is not only a realistic goal, we’re going to get it done”, he said at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur after a meeting of Asian leaders in Malaysia. As long as Assad stays there is no way to unite the country’s various factions for the fight against Islamic State. Even a few prominent Democrats have chimed in. Sen.
Obama said that, at multilateral talks in Vienna on a political solution to the conflict, Russian Federation agreed to a political transition process taking place, but had yet to commit to Assad “moving out”. The White House has insisted there will be no change in plans.
Warren said that US and coalition airstrikes were degrading ISIS oil facilities, an important source of revenue, and enabling the Kurds to expand territory in their control while assisting the ISF in completing the encirclement of Ramadi.
As the United States has turned its attention to defeating the Islamic State group, it has softened its stance on the Syrian leader.
“Russia’s strategy is to unlock the grip of insurgents around the regime of Bashar al-Assad, cutting off their lines of communication”.
The Russian defence chief said the number of aircraft involved in pounding the jihadis was increased to 69, the Express of London reported. “And it is not one that has allowed them to build a coalition on almost the scale of what the United States has built”. The group has vowed more operations outside of its stronghold in Syria and Iraq, but in doing so has also intensified the attacks it faces from western nations.
But the Russian president bolstered the campaign after ISIS blew up an airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in October, killing all 224 people on board.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week in a meeting with military officials that they must prepare for the next stage of the battle. They are cooperating with us.
On CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Hagel said the administration had been too focused on getting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of office and should turn its attention more to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
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Since the Paris massacre, Putin has been on a charm offensive with the French.
