Russian Federation will join anti-ISIL coalition if Syrian govt respected

Did Vladimir Putin just trick himself into solving Syria’s war?

French President Francois Hollande will visit Washington on November 24 for talks with Obama before meeting Putin two days later in Moscow.

In Manila on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama said efforts to defeat IS will not succeed until there is a political agreement in Syria, and he does not believe a settlement should leave Assad in power.

In other words: The United States demands Russia’s assurance that Assad will be removed from power, or else the USA will provide whatever assistance is necessary to bring to power in Syria whatever jihadists can do the job of removing him, because his non-sectarian and decidedly secular government is “pouring gasoline on the fire” there, and because it is “backwards”, not forward-looking, like a Syrian government controlled by U.S-approved jihadists would be.

At a summit this week in Turkey, Putin met with Obama and other Western leaders, showing that the USA and its allies need Russia’s help to confront the extremist group.

Also present will be Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose strikes against those he regards as terrorists in Syria are suspected by the West to be created to shore up the rule of Bashar Assad rather than to defeat Islamic State. A number of unlikely allies – including Russian Federation, the United States, China, and many European countries – are joining forces and shared intelligence in what Pope Francis is calling “World War III”.

“We are now acting in Syria legally and are willing to cooperate in practice with the members of the [US-led] coalition that are prepared to respect Syria’s sovereignty and the goals of the Syrian government”, Lavrov said. Russian Federation signed on to a diplomatic statement in Vienna on Saturday calling for a “Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition”.

But Putin later said the matter must be decided by the Syrians as part of that process.

According to Assad, Islamic State will have the ability to remain “strong as long as they have strong support from different states, whether Middle Eastern states or Western states”. He’s consulting with members of the coalition who have pledged to destroy the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS.

The warming relationship is likely to make a few Americans, whose opinion of Russian Federation is the worst in years, uneasy. “No xenophobic, anti-Semite, anti-Muslim act must be tolerated”, he said.

“We do not have to lose out values in terms of our ability to vet people”, Kerry said in criticizing lawmakers who hours earlier voted overwhelmingly in support of a House bill that tightens an already stringent vetting process for Syrian and Iraqi refugees wishing to enter the U.S. A few of the rebel groups Russian Federation has been bombing in the name of fighting terrorism are backed by America.

“What would our country be without its cafes, concerts, sport events, museums?” “Maybe it’s getting through to them”, Talbott said.

The HMS Defender will provide air cover for the French vessel, the ministry said in a statement on its website Wednesday. “The same as we did after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001”, Lavrov said. The day before the killings in Paris, Obama said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that Islamic State had been “contained” geographically since the campaign began.

“Now, anyone can say ‘I’m opposition.’ What does it mean, how do you translate it?”. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is considered to be a terrorist organization by both Turkey and the U.S. For Turkey, the Kurds are a much bigger threat even though the Islamic State group has also carried out attacks on Turkish soil.