Lavrov insisted in a phone call with Kerry on Friday that the Syrian-Turkish border must be completely closed to curb the flow of terrorist reinforcements to Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Of the estimated 3,922 to 4,294 foreign fighters from EU member states, some 2,838 came from Belgium, Britain, France and Germany, said the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague on Friday, AFP reported.
Using data supplied by 26 EU countries, the independent think tank found that while around 30 percent have since returned home, about 14 percent were killed on the battlefield.
ZH site good for financials only; their smarmy & hypocritical tabloid BS on most geopol events is nauseating.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why this is occurring now.
Notice how they’ve humbly taken credit for the turn in Syria since last September.
We now have the answer: according to a follow up report by Reuters, the U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria “as it looks to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State.”
According to Reuters, this troop expansion would leave the U.S. special operations contingent many times larger than the around 50 troops currently in Syria, where they operate largely as advisors away from the front lines.
UH-OH, looks like Erdo’s days are numbered with these kind of signpost events showing.
Maybe his recent disgusting public performance of grovelling, toadying, whining & arse-licking didn’t meet their high standards, so this comes out 1 day later.
No idea if that other faux ‘leak’ warned by Russia in advance & covered so extensively was to try to run cover for this.
Or it’s just a way to obliquely slander the Trump.
Hacktivists have released the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens including that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The unnamed group uploaded national ID numbers, addresses, birthdates and the names of parents of 49,611,709 Turkish nationals in a 6.6-gigabyte file on Monday.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950116001275
APR 4
TEHRAN (FNA)- Food parcels belonging to the US Pentagon were discovered in Beiji oil refinery in Salahuddin province in Northern Iraq after the refinery and the nearby city were taken back from the ISIL terrorist group in mid-October.
The Food parcels were discovered by a group of Iranian documentary filmmakers, including Vahid Farahani and Seyed Hashem Moussavi, who were in Iraq in October to prepare a documentary on the Iraqi army’s military advances against the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Salahuddin province, specially in Beiji city North of Baghdad.
Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:44
Report: ISIL Reduces Salaries of Terrorists in Syria by Half
TEHRAN (FNA)- The recently released reports unveiled that the salaries of the members of the terrorist groups, specially the ISIL, in Libya has remained unchanged while those of the terrorists in Syria and Iraq has been cut by 50 percent.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the ISIL’s financial section in Raqqa in a circulation to the militants had informed them of reductions in their salaries.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/04/02/1037345/lavrov-to-kerry-seal-the-turkish-syrian-border-to-prevent-terrorists-flow
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated in the a phone call with US State Secretary John Kerry that the Turkey-Syria border remains ‘full of holes’ and is actively used to bring terrorists to Syria via Turkey.
Lavrov insisted in a phone call with Kerry on Friday that the Syrian-Turkish border must be completely closed to curb the flow of terrorist reinforcements to Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
In other words, ” If you don’t do it we will”.
RR
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/04/02/1037397/most-foreign-fighters-in-iraq-syria-from-four-eu-nations
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Around 4,000 Europeans traveled to Syria and Iraq to join militant groups as foreign fighters, most from just four EU countries, a new study said.
Of the estimated 3,922 to 4,294 foreign fighters from EU member states, some 2,838 came from Belgium, Britain, France and Germany, said the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague on Friday, AFP reported.
Using data supplied by 26 EU countries, the independent think tank found that while around 30 percent have since returned home, about 14 percent were killed on the battlefield.
Quraytayn has been taken. The SAA is moving at lightening speed.El Dezoir and Raqqa are next.
RR
ZH site good for financials only; their smarmy & hypocritical tabloid BS on most geopol events is nauseating.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why this is occurring now.
Notice how they’ve humbly taken credit for the turn in Syria since last September.
We now have the answer: according to a follow up report by Reuters, the U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria “as it looks to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State.”
According to Reuters, this troop expansion would leave the U.S. special operations contingent many times larger than the around 50 troops currently in Syria, where they operate largely as advisors away from the front lines.
In other words, while Russia has been hinting at de-escalation while in reality it was building up a military presence, now it is the US’ turn.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-03/us-greatly-increase-special-forces-deployed-syria
UH-OH, looks like Erdo’s days are numbered with these kind of signpost events showing.
Maybe his recent disgusting public performance of grovelling, toadying, whining & arse-licking didn’t meet their high standards, so this comes out 1 day later.
No idea if that other faux ‘leak’ warned by Russia in advance & covered so extensively was to try to run cover for this.
Or it’s just a way to obliquely slander the Trump.
Hacktivists have released the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens including that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The unnamed group uploaded national ID numbers, addresses, birthdates and the names of parents of 49,611,709 Turkish nationals in a 6.6-gigabyte file on Monday.
The seemingly politically motivated leak, which has been partially verified, is one of the largest of its kind.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/04/459129/turkey-hackers-leak-erdogan/
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950116001275
APR 4
TEHRAN (FNA)- Food parcels belonging to the US Pentagon were discovered in Beiji oil refinery in Salahuddin province in Northern Iraq after the refinery and the nearby city were taken back from the ISIL terrorist group in mid-October.
The Food parcels were discovered by a group of Iranian documentary filmmakers, including Vahid Farahani and Seyed Hashem Moussavi, who were in Iraq in October to prepare a documentary on the Iraqi army’s military advances against the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Salahuddin province, specially in Beiji city North of Baghdad.
just like a corporation’s performance bonus.
Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:44
Report: ISIL Reduces Salaries of Terrorists in Syria by Half
TEHRAN (FNA)- The recently released reports unveiled that the salaries of the members of the terrorist groups, specially the ISIL, in Libya has remained unchanged while those of the terrorists in Syria and Iraq has been cut by 50 percent.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the ISIL’s financial section in Raqqa in a circulation to the militants had informed them of reductions in their salaries.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950116000684