Using Russia’s cover, Iran begins sending fighters to Syria

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter slammed Russian Federation on Wednesday for what he called “unprofessional behavior”.

Groups of Iranian troops have been arriving in Syria via an airport in Latakia province, activists and a monitoring group say, as the Syrian army launches a major offensive north of the strategic city of Homs.

A week into the multipronged offensive, insurgents say they are overstretched, exhausted and their ammunition is depleted.

Those actions are of “great concern” to the United States, and are a main reason why the current military discussions with Russian Federation are narrowly focused on aerial operations as opposed to broader military discussions, one of the officials said.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson of the Russian foreign ministry said that Russian fighter jets destroyed a building in Aleppo from where ISIS militants prepared to carry out suicide attacks and rigged vehicles with explosives.

Russia’s airstrikes and its military and political support for government of Bashar al Assad in Syria is making a bad situation more unsafe and more costly to the civilians who remain in the crossfire, Daryl Kimball, the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA) told Trend October. 15. After building up its forces in Syria, the Russian military launched airstrikes on September 30 and have primarily targeted Jaysh al Fateh and allied rebel groups in the northwest.

Such support would be “a complicated proposition”, he added, given that a lot of the materiel the USA has sent to moderate rebels has ended up in the hands of jihadists.

“Now they are taking cover behind Russian Federation, since it is a superpower and strengthens their position”, Alezzah said.

A USA official, who believes up to 150 US trained rebels have been killed by the Russians, told Fox News: ‘Putin is deliberately targeting our forces.

“General Farshad Hasounizad, defender of the Sayyeda Zeinab Shrine and former commander of the Saberin Brigade, was killed in Syria”, a reporter in the state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) wrote in a post on his Instagram account Tuesday afternoon.

The Central Intelligence Agency requires the vetted rebel groups it supports to take a video of every use of a TOW missile and to send the empty canisters back to American operatives in Turkey, according to Charles Lister, a Syrian expert at the Brookings Doha Center, a USA think tank branch in Qatar. He said Russian Federation had proposed sending a delegation headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The Observatory reported fighting between Islamic State fighters and government forces trying to advance towards an air base besieged by the jihadist group in Aleppo province.

“The trouble is that America doesn’t have a partner”, he said.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration refuses to provide direct military assistance to the Syrian Kurds.

“Turkey can not accept any cooperation with terrorist organisations which have waged war against it”.

Turkey and its allies, including the United States, have labeled the Kurdistan Workers’ Party a terrorist organization.

If the Assad government ultimately collapses, the USA will need allies amid what will likely be a protracted struggle for power in that country, White said.

Information for this article was contributed by Zeina Karam, Sarah El Deeb and staff members of The Associated Press and by Ilya Arkhipov and Stepan Kravchenko of Bloomberg News.