TEHRAN (FNA)- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to take a high-profile trip to Tehran in a move seen by mainstream Arab media as the official launchpad for kickstarting the Turkey-Iran-Russia coalition on Syria.
Erdogan made a half-a-day trip to Russia after the recent coup in Turkey to meet and hold negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg. Their talks were mainly focused on finding a way to end the war in Syria while both countries have set up a joint commission to implement the results of their talks.
According to al-Arab, the triangle of Iran-Turkey-Russia is forming an international coalition to confront the West.
Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:21
Russian Officials Suggest Use of Turkish NATO Base for Syria Raids
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian officials mooted the possibility of using Turkey’s Incirlik air base as a hub for carrying out air strikes in Syria, following the rapprochement between the two countries.
An MP from the Russian parliament, Igor Morozov, suggested that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could offer Russia use of the airbase, which is currently used by NATO and is home to around 50 US nuclear warheads, Middle East Eye reported.
But a move for Russians to use Incirlik, based in the East of the country, would be highly controversial as Russia and NATO have been at odds over a number of issues, including Syria and the Ukraine. http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950527001308
TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi whistleblower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, called on the Saudi officials to accept their failure against the Yemeni army and resistance forces.
“Unfortunately, I fear that the Houthis and Ali Salih (former Yemeni president) have won the political, military and intelligence battle and we, under the command of Mohammad bin Salman, the Saudi defense minister, have lost the military, political and intelligence war,” Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Wednesday.
In relevant remarks earlier this week, Mujtahid mocked Saudi Arabia for the failure of its missile defense shields in defusing the Yemenis’ primary missile attacks.
As the saying goes,”Oh what a tangled web we weave .When we first practice to deceive”. It appears the UK’s “Sky News” never heard that saying. They ran a “blockbuster” report of “Russian mercenaries” operating in Syria. Saying 100’s have been killed there and the facts hidden from the public inside Russia. But now an actor has admitted that Sky News in Moscow paid him and others to pretend they were Russian mercenaries to concoct that story for their news report:
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950528000536
AUG 18
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US has set up a new military base in Hasaka, Northeastern Syria, under the pretext of demining the region, Kurdish sources said on Thursday.
“The US has deployed tens of its marines in Mabrouka village in the Western parts of Hasaka province under the pretext of demining Ra’s al-Ain city which is now under the control of Kurdish forces,” sources told FNA.
According to the Kurdish sources, the US forces have set up their base in one of the buildings of Syria’s power department in Mabrouka named Housh al-Kahroba.
Useless corrupt UN calls end to Aleppo ‘humanitarian aid’.
previous episodes I read about mentioned they at some point got through some powdered milk, but that is absolutely useless because they’ve had no water for eons there.
The United Nations has suspended a meeting of its humanitarian task force in Syria amid concerns over the ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastern country.
Speaking at a press conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said that he had decided to stop the meeting after just eight minutes, arguing it made “no sense” to plan aid deliveries when they would not be let into the humanitarian besieged areas.
The israelis continue to use their american colony to attack Syria, while having their quislings there pretend to fight the zionazi proxy terrorist forces on the ground.
Washington’s Conundrum in Syria: Russia, Iran and China Team Up
“China’s recent announcement of an increase of its humanitarian support for the Syrian people and that it would provide additional training to the Syrian forces comes as a “headache for the US,” according to the American media.
“As if the multi-party war in Syria weren’t complicated enough, it now appears that the People’s Republic of China has decided to take a more active role in the conflict, providing increased humanitarian assistance and possibly military training to Syrian forces,” says the New York-based news website The Fiscal News.
The website notes that Beijing’s announcement comes just a day after Russia announced that it had launched strikes against Daesh from an airbase inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Combined, these two events create a major foreign policy conundrum for the Obama administration, as three of the countries, most resistant to the US on the global stage, appear to be teaming up against a non-state actor that has frustrated the US for years,” it further notes.
This point of view is echoed by The New York Times, which says that Russia now has “the ability to strike from virtually all directions in a region where it has been reasserting its power — from Iran, from warships in the Caspian Sea, from its base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia and now from the Mediterranean.”
The newspaper however notes that the decision to fly the long-range bombers from Iran rather than from Moscow is even “far more important militarily”: if it continues, this “could result in a more devastating air war over a long period of time.”
The outlet explains that “while both Russia and the US say they share the goal of defeating the Islamic State group (Daesh) in Syria, they are waging parallel but separate wars against the militant group while simultaneously backing opposite sides in the conflict between Russia’s ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and his other opponents, including rebels backed by the US.”
Pentagon ‘Sinking’ Millions of Dollars Into Spies-for-Hire to Work in Syria
Meanwhile on Wednesday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he US has acknowledged that it has been unable to separate the opposition in Syria from terrorists.
“Regrettably, our partners in fact acknowledged that they cannot do this,” Lavrov said.
“But we are not making a tragedy out of this. The directions of our work now allow switching to a coordinated and a more efficient cooperation in the fight against terrorists,” Russia’s top diplomat added.
Earlier in August Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also said that the US was unprepared to separate terrorist organizations from the moderate opposition in Syria.
“The Syrian government has embarked on the separation of terrorists from the moderate opposition and the civilians.. Our colleagues in Washington were not ready to do for political reasons, and did not intend to do throughout the past months in defiance of the signals and the promises they gave us,” Ryabkov added.
Russian-US partnership in Syria cannot be genuine as long as Washington puts forward additional demands, according to the diplomat.
“We have repeatedly drawn the Americans’ attention to the fact that after each successful round of closed negotiations and after reaching certain agreements, Washington begins putting forward additional requirements that violate the entire balance and prevent progress immediately afterward,” Ryabkov then said.
He added that “there are regular Russia-US contacts along various lines. Both foreign and defense ministries are involved in these contacts.
“We attribute as unflattering the assessments we hear from our American colleagues,” he said.
“Washington has been completely inconsistent in its actions in Syria, putting forward demands to stop fighting terrorists as soon as the Syrian army has achieved real success in fight against terrorists”, Ryabkov said.
As soon as the Syrian government and the armed forces have achieved, with Russian support, a real progress in the fight against terrorists, the Americans began to use unacceptable methods, demanding, in essence, the cessation of the fight against terrorists.
US Secretary of State John Kerry made the promise to separate the groups as part of the understandings underlying the February 22 cease-fire, but never delivered on it.
A central issue in the US-Russian cease-fire negotiations in February was the fact that the opposition groups supported by the CIA operate in close proximity to and full cooperation with units of al-Nusra Front.
Last year the former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford (2010-2014), admitted that the Obama administration had long “looked the other way while the [al-]Nusra Front and armed groups on the ground, some of which are getting help from the US, have coordinated in military operations against the regime.”
Now, backed with US weaponry, these same groups are a significant barrier to upcoming peace talks in Geneva.”
Senor sultan says….
Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:12
Erdogan to Visit Tehran to Launch Turkey-Iran-Russia Coalition
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950527000285
TEHRAN (FNA)- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to take a high-profile trip to Tehran in a move seen by mainstream Arab media as the official launchpad for kickstarting the Turkey-Iran-Russia coalition on Syria.
Erdogan made a half-a-day trip to Russia after the recent coup in Turkey to meet and hold negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg. Their talks were mainly focused on finding a way to end the war in Syria while both countries have set up a joint commission to implement the results of their talks.
According to al-Arab, the triangle of Iran-Turkey-Russia is forming an international coalition to confront the West.
Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:21
Russian Officials Suggest Use of Turkish NATO Base for Syria Raids
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian officials mooted the possibility of using Turkey’s Incirlik air base as a hub for carrying out air strikes in Syria, following the rapprochement between the two countries.
An MP from the Russian parliament, Igor Morozov, suggested that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could offer Russia use of the airbase, which is currently used by NATO and is home to around 50 US nuclear warheads, Middle East Eye reported.
But a move for Russians to use Incirlik, based in the East of the country, would be highly controversial as Russia and NATO have been at odds over a number of issues, including Syria and the Ukraine.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950527001308
Whistleblower: S. Arabia Defeated in Yemen Heavily
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950527000840
TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi whistleblower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, called on the Saudi officials to accept their failure against the Yemeni army and resistance forces.
“Unfortunately, I fear that the Houthis and Ali Salih (former Yemeni president) have won the political, military and intelligence battle and we, under the command of Mohammad bin Salman, the Saudi defense minister, have lost the military, political and intelligence war,” Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Wednesday.
In relevant remarks earlier this week, Mujtahid mocked Saudi Arabia for the failure of its missile defense shields in defusing the Yemenis’ primary missile attacks.
http://yalibnan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/YEMEN-MAP-KHAMIS-MUSHAIT–e1433661186424.png
No doubt! Behold the (large bore) caliber of their leadership:
http://syrianperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Cp2dCu1WcAIjmAk.jpg
As the saying goes,”Oh what a tangled web we weave .When we first practice to deceive”. It appears the UK’s “Sky News” never heard that saying. They ran a “blockbuster” report of “Russian mercenaries” operating in Syria. Saying 100’s have been killed there and the facts hidden from the public inside Russia. But now an actor has admitted that Sky News in Moscow paid him and others to pretend they were Russian mercenaries to concoct that story for their news report:
https://www.rt.com/news/356422-russia-skynews-syria-actor/
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950528000536
AUG 18
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US has set up a new military base in Hasaka, Northeastern Syria, under the pretext of demining the region, Kurdish sources said on Thursday.
“The US has deployed tens of its marines in Mabrouka village in the Western parts of Hasaka province under the pretext of demining Ra’s al-Ain city which is now under the control of Kurdish forces,” sources told FNA.
According to the Kurdish sources, the US forces have set up their base in one of the buildings of Syria’s power department in Mabrouka named Housh al-Kahroba.
http://www.ephotopix.com/image/asia/syria_province_map.gif
Useless corrupt UN calls end to Aleppo ‘humanitarian aid’.
previous episodes I read about mentioned they at some point got through some powdered milk, but that is absolutely useless because they’ve had no water for eons there.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/18/480586/Syria-Aleppo-UN-Staffan-de-Mistura
The United Nations has suspended a meeting of its humanitarian task force in Syria amid concerns over the ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastern country.
Speaking at a press conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said that he had decided to stop the meeting after just eight minutes, arguing it made “no sense” to plan aid deliveries when they would not be let into the humanitarian besieged areas.
Anyone verify or refute this?
WTF: Guy who taken pictures working for AFP is in same group from the beheaders who behead a Kid in Aleppo.
https://cdn.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2016/Aug/18/LiveLeak-dot-com-b0f_1471568490-CqLxovbUAAEFoFf_1471572646.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bdd097484ddad31ab6&ec_rate=230
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0f_1471568490
The israelis continue to use their american colony to attack Syria, while having their quislings there pretend to fight the zionazi proxy terrorist forces on the ground.
Washington’s Conundrum in Syria: Russia, Iran and China Team Up
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160820/1044457514/russia-china-iran-syria.html
“China’s recent announcement of an increase of its humanitarian support for the Syrian people and that it would provide additional training to the Syrian forces comes as a “headache for the US,” according to the American media.
“As if the multi-party war in Syria weren’t complicated enough, it now appears that the People’s Republic of China has decided to take a more active role in the conflict, providing increased humanitarian assistance and possibly military training to Syrian forces,” says the New York-based news website The Fiscal News.
The website notes that Beijing’s announcement comes just a day after Russia announced that it had launched strikes against Daesh from an airbase inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Combined, these two events create a major foreign policy conundrum for the Obama administration, as three of the countries, most resistant to the US on the global stage, appear to be teaming up against a non-state actor that has frustrated the US for years,” it further notes.
This point of view is echoed by The New York Times, which says that Russia now has “the ability to strike from virtually all directions in a region where it has been reasserting its power — from Iran, from warships in the Caspian Sea, from its base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia and now from the Mediterranean.”
The newspaper however notes that the decision to fly the long-range bombers from Iran rather than from Moscow is even “far more important militarily”: if it continues, this “could result in a more devastating air war over a long period of time.”
The outlet explains that “while both Russia and the US say they share the goal of defeating the Islamic State group (Daesh) in Syria, they are waging parallel but separate wars against the militant group while simultaneously backing opposite sides in the conflict between Russia’s ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and his other opponents, including rebels backed by the US.”
Pentagon ‘Sinking’ Millions of Dollars Into Spies-for-Hire to Work in Syria
Meanwhile on Wednesday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he US has acknowledged that it has been unable to separate the opposition in Syria from terrorists.
“Regrettably, our partners in fact acknowledged that they cannot do this,” Lavrov said.
“But we are not making a tragedy out of this. The directions of our work now allow switching to a coordinated and a more efficient cooperation in the fight against terrorists,” Russia’s top diplomat added.
Earlier in August Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also said that the US was unprepared to separate terrorist organizations from the moderate opposition in Syria.
“The Syrian government has embarked on the separation of terrorists from the moderate opposition and the civilians.. Our colleagues in Washington were not ready to do for political reasons, and did not intend to do throughout the past months in defiance of the signals and the promises they gave us,” Ryabkov added.
Russian-US partnership in Syria cannot be genuine as long as Washington puts forward additional demands, according to the diplomat.
“We have repeatedly drawn the Americans’ attention to the fact that after each successful round of closed negotiations and after reaching certain agreements, Washington begins putting forward additional requirements that violate the entire balance and prevent progress immediately afterward,” Ryabkov then said.
He added that “there are regular Russia-US contacts along various lines. Both foreign and defense ministries are involved in these contacts.
“We attribute as unflattering the assessments we hear from our American colleagues,” he said.
“Washington has been completely inconsistent in its actions in Syria, putting forward demands to stop fighting terrorists as soon as the Syrian army has achieved real success in fight against terrorists”, Ryabkov said.
As soon as the Syrian government and the armed forces have achieved, with Russian support, a real progress in the fight against terrorists, the Americans began to use unacceptable methods, demanding, in essence, the cessation of the fight against terrorists.
US Secretary of State John Kerry made the promise to separate the groups as part of the understandings underlying the February 22 cease-fire, but never delivered on it.
A central issue in the US-Russian cease-fire negotiations in February was the fact that the opposition groups supported by the CIA operate in close proximity to and full cooperation with units of al-Nusra Front.
Last year the former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford (2010-2014), admitted that the Obama administration had long “looked the other way while the [al-]Nusra Front and armed groups on the ground, some of which are getting help from the US, have coordinated in military operations against the regime.”
Now, backed with US weaponry, these same groups are a significant barrier to upcoming peace talks in Geneva.”