The Turkish leader has previously threatened to cut off ties with Israel if Trump follows through with his promise to move the US embassy. He has helped organize an international meeting of officials from Muslim majority countries to discuss how they should respond. Furthermore, he also warned that moving the embassy would represent an obstacle…
MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Forces carried out over 420 sorties in Syria over the past seven days and destroyed over 910 facilities belonging to international terrorist groups, the Russian Defense Ministry said in its weekly infographics published by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Friday. The infographics shows that 19 foreign aircraft peformed surveillance…
The bombers had destroyed all the designated targets, “which was confirmed by special monitoring equipment,” the Defense Ministry said MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. Six Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range bombers of the Russian Aerospace Force hit targets of the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia) in northeast Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. “On November…
Syria’s Bashar Assad made a surprise visit to Russia to express thanks for Moscow’s help in the fight against terrorism. At a meeting with President Putin, which began with an embrace, the leaders discussed the Syrian political settlement ahead of Moscow’s talks with Iran and Turkey.
KHMEIMIM /Syria/, November 18. /TASS/. Russian officers have delivered more than 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of the populated locality of Al-Shakrahiyah in the Syrian region of Daraa, Chief of the Russian center for reconciliation of opposing sides in Syria General Sergei Kuralenko said at a daily briefing on Saturday. The Russian center…
Stephen K. Bannon joined other Republican grandees such as Sen. [Talmud] Tom Cotton at a packed event in Washington. The optics were almost too perfect. Minutes before Bannon, the [fired] former White House chief strategist, was due to speak in the highlight time slot at the Hudson Institute’s security summit on Monday, all went dark. 10…
“We should finally acknowledge that no one but President Assad’s armed forces and Sunni Kurdish militias are truly fighting the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations in Syria,” Putin told the U.N. General Assembly. Read Putin’s U.N. General Assembly speech. Putin urges global community to pitch in to demine Syria and provide humanitarian aid “I would like once…
MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Forces have killed more than 30 terrorist ringleaders since the beginning of October, the chief of the Main Operations Department of Russia’s General Staff, Sergey Rudskoy, said. “Special attention was paid to destroying the heads of armed groups. Since early October, ~ 31 of them have been killed,” the…
The Art of the Big Whopper… or New Adventures in Propaganda [ Editor’s Note: Phil Butler has a well-timed rundown on Israel’s plans to salvage, when it can, from its disappointment in not enjoying Syria as a crushed and Balkanized neighbor – and a reality where Israel would not be effectively controlling the territory north…
Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw. “In the case of northern Iraq; Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form a tripartite mechanism and will decide on shutting down the…
