American support of ISIS in Syria shows deplorable priorities
The week before, the bill also failed to get the necessary votes. We worry about just general disease burden in refugee populations as they are at risk from a number of highly transmissible and infectious diseases, but with a deliberate disease, intentionally meant to infect high numbers, the possibility that an epidemic would go global, increases.
Ankara believes that there are about 900 in ISIL, and close to 300 with the Nusra Front, fighting in neighboring Syria and Iraq, the official told the Hurriyet Daily News. Western powers such as the United States , UK and France, along with regional allies such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, grossly miscalculated in 2011, believing that President Bashar al-Assad would fall as swiftly as Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
Both the Bush and Obama administrations hold equal responsibility for the situation in which the USA finds itself. But experts say an offensive against the militants is unlikely as long as the civil war continues. It was the first time in two years that the council’s 15 members agreed on a political statement about the conflict.
Russian Federation saw an opportunity and stepped in rather aggressively to reshape the scramble for Syria.
No one knows when the war will end. Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germans are ready to receive up to a million Syrian refugees out of the goodness of their heart.
Pursuant to Title 17 U.S.C. 107, other copyrighted work is provided for educational purposes, research, critical comment, or debate without profit or payment. If European states don’t want to take in the tens of thousands of refugees now, it’s not going to get better a year from now when IS is running Syria or taking parts of Turkey.
RT has picked some of President Assad’s worthwhile quotes. We need President Assad to maintain command and control over his military, his weapon classes and territory. In other words, Assad and his regime now possess the vital military and political back up and his position of authority over the country is now rock-solid. But a political settlement has been elusive.
“If you are anxious about [refugees], stop supporting terrorists“.
Whether it’s a no-fly zone or not, no one in Washington seems to agree on a solution in Syria. Last week, Iran said it does not agree that Mr. Assad should give up power.
“Syrian rebel groups probably make the most extensive use of heavy equipment at the moment, thanks largely to battlefield successes”, Jeremy Binnie, Middle East/Africa Editor for IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, told FoxNews.com.
President Obama’s schizophrenic Syria policy has been a disgrace.
And foreign minister Sergei Lavrov called last week for co-ordination and communication between Russian and coalition forces.
Indeed, the problem in Syria is not so much with the Russians – or Iran, Hezbollah and Assad, all of whom see the Syrian civil war correctly as a fight to the finish against Sunni jihadis. This has reduced the possibility of a diplomatic end to the war.
The new war is destabilising the entire Middle East and deepening the humanitarian crisis of the Iraqi and Syrian peoples. Earlier, he tried to negotiate cease-fires in parts of the country to gain trust among the fighting groups. Tierney P. Wilson / U.S. Navy and U.S. Navy.
Noura al-Ameer, a Syrian in exile, has come to think of the conflict that has ravaged her country as the third world war. No discussion or vote has taken place in parliament; the opposition Labor Party has simply extended its bipartisan support to the Liberal-National Coalition government. Increasing global involvement, particularly by Moscow, is stoking fears that the already awful conditions for Syria’s people could worsen. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted the story for Learning English. But the record also shows that quick and peaceful transition as here in Tunisia has proven the least costly among the Arab nations, while on the other hand, the protracted and violent change in Syria is deadly and destructive.