Cuban Troops Going To Syria: Cuba Bolsters Russia’s Miltary Action In Syria

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated Cuban troops could have been training in Russia and should have arrived in Syria on Russian planes. When contacted, neither the Pentagon nor various US intelligence agencies would confirm the report.

They “came within visual recognition”, Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, said Tuesday during a Pentagon news briefing in Baghdad. “It hasn’t worked for 50 years”.

More than 250,000 people have died and more than 4 million have been displaced by the Syrian civil war.

With Obama’s failure to train rebel troops, coupled with Russian attacks on rebel groups, and now the reports of Cuban troops on the ground in Syria, it appears that Obama is the one who is being isolated.

The institute said Cuba’s involvement in the Middle East brings into question about how serious the country is about improving relations with the United States, which opposes the Assad government. After the executive order was issued, America and Cuba had not engaged in diplomatic relations since 1961.

“This is not the first time that Cuban military personnel have been involved in global military missions in support of Russian objectives”.

“This is a historic step forward in our efforts to normalize relations with the Cuban government and people, and begin a new chapter with our neighbors in the Americas”, Obama said in July from the White House Rose Garden. While small, the Cuban military is “very well-trained”, according to Suchlicki, who said their presence in Syria is a “departure from what the USA expected”. In the 1970s Cuba sent several hundred thousand troops to Angola and other African countries alongside Soviet weapons to support African leaders attempting to gain power.

Russian Federation claims that it is targeting Islamic State (Daesh) insurgents, but the United States, which is also conducting an air campgain in Syria, has said that Moscow’s campaign has mainly targeted other insurgent groups, including those that have fought Islamic State. “In 1973, Cuba sent troops to Syria to support them in the Yom Kippur War against Israel”. Russia’s Interfax news agency, citing Russian military officials, said the talks would be held via video conference.

Cuba has entered Syria’s conflict alongside Russian and Syrian regime forces, a US-based monitoring group has said, making it the latest state to become embroiled in the proxy war dividing the world along old Cold War lines.