Russia, USA to hold military talks over Syria: Pentagon

Carter said Moscow has been reckless in its military commitment, risking clashes with U.S. and other planes targeting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria as part of a 60-plus member coalition.

“There were no requests for expanding military bases in Syria from Moscow”.

“United States military should have been given the mission to retaliate”.

Karim al-Nouri, the spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Forces, the paramilitary force in Iraq made up predominantly of Shiite militias, said the Russians are “more serious in eliminating Daesh” than the Americans.

He said Putin, believing US and European leadership to be weak, “is counting on the USA fear of escalation and fear of confrontation to stop any thought of retaliation”.

The move appears to be a signal from Washington that it is not going to recognize Chinese territorial claims over the islands.

“In these conditions we can assume that the leaders of al Qaeda and other global terrorist organisations will try to take retaliatory measures”, said Alexander Kumanyayev, head of the federal security service’s directorate in Ingushetia.

A war in Syria with modern arms is likely to be quite expensive for Russian Federation, Aslund pointed out. “The Syrian army has experience in this field”. “The Chinese ship has crossed the Suez Canal in Egypt and is now in the Mediterranean Sea”.

“Foreign policy is viewed as a spectacle here”, said Goncharov. As of today, almost a half of China’s imported crude oil comes from Middle Eastern countries.

Six world powers – the USA, Germany, France, U.K., Russian Federation and China – and Iran had reached a landmark deal in July to limit Iran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade, in return for the lifting of worldwide energy and financial sanctions.

Russia’s main breeding ground for Islamist radicals is in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region, including the republics of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, where Islamist insurgencies have been simmering for years. But in Syria, the Russian defense ministry has turned itself into a 24-hour news station, pumping out slick TV footage of cruise missile and air strikes complete with animated graphics.

“Moreover, we may harm Assad, because the larger our presence in Syria, the stronger the reaction of the West, Saudi Arabia and Turkey”, he added.

Such developments are possible and the European Union will follow Russia’s actions in Syria, but it is now too early to speak about such a scenario, the source said. “To get more, you need to send ground troops into Syria”.

Second, Russian Federation will do anything – and our use of that word is neither hyperbolic nor figurative – that Putin deems necessary to accomplish principle number one.

China might also have seized a good opportunity to put the USA and its allies in an awkward position.