Tag

Russian Federation on Thursday insisted its warplanes in Syria were hitting at the same terrorists targeted by the United States and contradicted American criticism that its military failed to coordinate the airstrikes, describing the allegations as a “war of...

“Pervasive overseas security gaps make it easier for aspiring foreign fighters to travel to terrorist hotspots – and increase the odds that trained jihadists will be able to travel to America undetected”, the report said.

A statement issued by the Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group“, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

Russia’s air strikes were its first military engagement outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.

“The US-led coalition will continue to fly missions over Iraq and Syria as planned and in support of our global mission to degrade and destroy ISIL (Islamic State)”, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

“This is a plan that doesn’t compromise on security and safety, the screening measures that Canadians rightly expect us to have for refugees … especially when they’re coming from a conflict zone with such large-scale terrorist organizations in them.”

Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reports an unnamed government source as saying Cameron would accept Assad remaining as interim leader, while a unity government is formed in Syria. A Labour Party aide said Assad could not be part of a peace plan.

At the White House, presidential spokesman Josh Earnest also expressed concern over the Russia’s actions. And the reason they’re trying to prop him up is because this is essentially the client state that they’ve had in the Middle East for quite a few time now,...

The latest state department report said: “Iran continued its terrorist-related activity in 2014, including support for Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, Lebanese Hezbollah, and various groups in Iraq and throughout the Middle East”.

He spoke of only two possible outcomes for a settlement in Syria, saying a transitional council reached through a political process would be the “preferred option”.

“This was one of the reasons why we were witnessing more and more refugees moving onwards because it was impossible to sustain their lives in their first countries of asylum”, added Guterres, a former Portuguese Prime Minister who is soon exiting the role after nearly...

He said that while it was vital to coordinate efforts against Islamic State militants this was not yet happening.

Putin’s chief of staff Sergei B. Ivanov told the upper house that the measure was meant to authorize actions by Moscow’s air force in Syria.

The two leaders met following highly contentious and conflicting speeches at the UN General Assembly earlier in the day.

The strikes come hours after Vladimir Putin was given permission to use military force in Syria by his country’s parliament.