Daesh attacks Syrian air base in east, dozens reported killed

Indirect support for Assad would come from a country that has no qualms about it, thereby enabling the West to stick to its old he-must-go policy.

The refugee crisis in Europe is increasing calls for the British forces to somehow intervene in Syria. And people are becoming much more hostile in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan where arms were originally thrown open to these refugees.

It was always going to be a matter of time before the Syrian people who are caught up in the war started fleeing to find safe heavens elsewhere. About a quarter will be children. Often they had no idea what country they were in, but finally he reached France. Many are traversing unsafe routes, suffering from starvation, facing the threat of human trafficking, and enduring debilitating psychological trauma.

On Friday, Putin admitted, “we are already giving Syria quite serious help with equipment and training soldiers, with our weapons”.

London’s aggressive posture received support from Paris, after French President François Hollande proposed “to neutralize” Assad at an ambassador’s meeting in Paris last month. He says more than half the Syrian government’s army is Sunni. But when the Kurdi family met their smugglers in Turkey, they were surprised by how crowded the small, flimsy, fiberglass boat was. And now it’s feeling pressure to take Syrian refugees, years after policy and principle could have been applied strategically (i.e., resolving a civil war rather than a refugee crisis). This is where Russian interests in Syria overlap with those of the West.

“Russia has never made a secret of its military-technical cooperation with the Syrian Arab Republic”, she said in a statement posted on the ministry website and carried by state-run media.

This summer, the Pentagon’s inspector general launched an investigation of whether U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, had altered military intelligence assessments to make the campaign seem more successful, officials said. And we are haunted by the atrocities that we did not stop and the lives we did not save’. President Vladimir Putin has been coy on the subject, saying Russian Federation is weighing various options. But sovereignty can not be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the global community to turn a blind eye. It is likely to blow up in our faces.

In his own remarks after Wednesday’s meeting on Capitol Hill, Mr. Kerry said only that “we are looking hard at the number that we can specifically manage with respect to the crisis in Syria and Europe“.

“That was our President, and I agree with every word he said”. These are questions the United States hasn’t answered.

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“Where is that President Obama today?” It is the moral and just response to suffering.

“Unfortunately, the Administration is still “considering a range of options” to respond to this issue, a NSC spokesman stated this week”.

However, the internal battle soon took a proxy form, with Iran and Russian Federation supporting Assad in a bid to save their only political ally in the Middle East. Yet he stressed Westerners should focus more on Assad.

“As the Administration stands by, Russian Federation is capitalizing on American inaction to provide additional support for the Assad regime”. Russian Federation has sent housing for hundreds of personnel to Syria and even a portable air traffic control system to an airfield in Syria near Assad’s base of power. We think it is bad, and it certainly is.

This is a world away from what they could offer in Libya but still lacking compared to the Tornado: Typhoon cannot yet operate the Brimstone missiles which have characterised Tornado deployments in recent years.

I’ve been speaking with a Sunni friend of mine from Deir ez-Zor. The United States hasn’t decided how it wants to deal with the great mass of Syrian rebels which are Islamist, that America doesn’t like because the secular Syrians – many of them have left the country.

“It is not too late”.

“What we want to know is what is being prepared against us and what is being done against the Syrian population”, he said. Now would be a good time to prove us sceptics wrong.