Russia, U.S. should join hands against Daesh Takfiri terrorism: Ban

More than four years ago, Obama demanded that Assad leave power.

Russian Federation has thrown its support behind Assad, while the Obama administration has backed the rebels.

But at the ASEAN summit, the final Chairman’s statement avoided any direct criticism of China, reflecting divisions among Beijing’s smaller neighbors on how far to go in speaking out, even collectively, against the region’s biggest power. To clarify the timeline, the State Department said last week that the clock starts once Assad’s representatives and opposition figures begin talks on a constitution.

Such fears have not prevented presidential candidates from offering new and bolder approaches.

But there was a few disappointment among US officials that Trudeau stuck to his campaign pledge to remove Canada’s warplanes from the coalition fighting Islamic State, despite the view that he could have used the Paris attacks as a reason to hold off on the move.

Assad considers anyone fighting him, including moderate rebels, to be terrorists. The two groups track Syria’s civil war based on reports from activists inside the country. “And you couldn’t get a number of their neighbors to agree to that outcome, as well”.

Many more discussions with Arab officials are planned over the next months.

The president spoke in Malaysia shortly before departing for Washington. The militant group is now setting its sights on targets outside its stronghold, including the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. From Russia’s ill-fated war in Afghanistan in the 1980s to the similarly troubled times for USA forces in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, large amounts of weapons were left behind or handed over to U.S.-trained forces.

Moscow’s relentless bombing campaign has also seen flights to and from two airports in northern Iraq suspended for 48 hours out of fears Russian missiles heading for Syria could strike a passenger jet. “So, the difference, the main difference, is that the Americans don’t cooperate with any ground troops, while the Russians are doing this”, he added. It is the very presence of a pro-Iran and pro-Russia regime that they need to replace with a pro-Western – and a Sunni of course – regime that would be more sensitive to their interests and more facilitating in helping them materialize their inter-continental energy-supply projects.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed in a phone call on Wednesday preparations for the upcoming Syria peace talks in Vienna focused on facilitating the intra-Syrian dialogue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. In an apparent rebuke to those who are against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States, Obama said that the Rohingya children “were indistinguishable from any child in America”. The destabilization of Assad’s legitimate government would only lead to more violence and unrest, and it is up to the Syrian people – not Western diplomats – to decide their nation’s future. Ban urged Russian Federation and the U.S.to work together and with other UN Security Council members.

It does not outline which opposition groups can negotiate with Assad and which are considered terrorist groups. He has made closer ties with certain countries such as Greece, Hungary, and now France a priority as this weakens the overall support for sanctions against Russian Federation over Crimea and East Ukraine.