The Syrian Crisis

[F-14B]

At this stage the Turks don’t want a clash with HTS (Al Nusra) . They stroke a deal with them to share the ground in and around Idlib.

turkey is trying to recapture its old provinces back you mean

 

[IndianHawk]

Those bloody turks are trying to kill Kurdistan before it is even born. Turkey itself has 20 % Kurdish population.

Kurds have suffered enough . At the hands on Saddam by ISIS and by turkey . They deserve an independent nation. India Should help Kurds at least financially. Turkey needs to be cut to size.

 

[The Messiah]

Those bloody turks are trying to kill Kurdistan before it is even born. Turkey itself has 20 % Kurdish population.

Kurds have suffered enough . At the hands on Saddam by ISIS and by turkey . They deserve an independent nation. India Should help Kurds at least financially. Turkey needs to be cut to size.

India should first grow the balls to help the balochs and east turkestanis to gain independence from pakistan and china before helping the kurds.

 

[Tactical Frog]

Isis de facto capital in Syria is about to fall in the hands of SDF Kurdish led coalition in a matter of days/ hours .

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-in-isiss-capital-of-cruelty?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[IndianHawk]

India should first grow the balls to help the balochs and east turkestanis to gain independence from pakistan and china before helping the kurds.

Kurds have more numbers better probability.

 

[Tactical Frog]

Turks not even shy of hiding anymore their goals !

http://www.trtworld.com/mea/turkish-forces-enter-idlib-as-per-astana-agreement-11303

The operation aims at shutting any Kurd (YPG) attempt to gain an access on the mediterranean coast.

« Turkey’s military cordon in Idlib will provide a safe zone and prevent the PKK- PYD from extending their sphere of influence to Aleppo’s Afrin town in the northeast of Idlib.

The terror group has been occupying Afrin since 2011, a strategic move to give it access to the Mediterranean from the Iraqi border.«

 

[Tactical Frog]

Civilians escaping Raqqa falling into the hands of SDF .



What kind of agreement is possible between Assad and the Kurds ? I don’t think that the Syrian Kurds will ever accept to live again under the domination of the Assad family. For once, Assad and Erdogan’s interests may soon align against the Kurds in Syria.

 

[Tactical Frog]

The number one problem with PKK/YPG is their strange leftist ideology . That will never allow them to work with the rest of the Syrian opposition.

So they might be very well end crushed when Isis, the unique reason why they got the backing of US and the Western powers, is gone .

 

[Rahul Prakash]

The number one problem with PKK/YPG is their strange leftist ideology . That will never allow them to work with the rest of the Syrian opposition.

So they might be very well end crushed when Isis, the unique reason why they got the backing of US and the Western powers, is gone .

My dream any faction practising multiculturalism,feminism or any faction supporting a faction doing this must be destroyed.this will be good for India.

So go go Assad ,massacre those antifa Kurds.

 

[F-14B]

the fact is that the Kurds state has to come that is the logical end to this skullduggery that was started by the British and the French with the Sykes-Picot Agreement or better known as the Asia Minor agreement

I here by attach the said agreement for refrrence and to take the discussion further

1. Sir Edward Grey to Paul Cambon, 15 May 1916

I shall have the honour to reply fully in a further note to your Excellency's note of the 9th instant, relative to the creation of an Arab State, but I should meanwhile be grateful if your Excellency could assure me that in those regions which, under the conditions recorded in that communication, become entirely French, or in which French interests are recognised as predominant, any existing British concessions, rights of navigation or development, and the rights and privileges of any British religious, scholastic, or medical institutions will be maintained.

His Majesty's Government are, of course, ready to give a reciprocal

assurance in regard to the British area.2. Sir Edward Grey to Paul Cambon, 16 May 1916
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 9th instant, stating that the French Government accept the limits of a future Arab State, or Confederation of States, and of those parts of Syria where French interests predominate, together with certain conditions attached thereto, such as they result from recent discussions in London and Petrograd on the subject.

I have the honour to inform your Excellency in reply that the acceptance of the whole project, as it now stands, will involve the abdication of considerable British interests, but, since His Majesty's Government recognise the advantage to the general cause of the Allies entailed in producing a more favourable internal political situation in Turkey, they are ready to accept the arrangement now arrived at, provided that the co-operation of the Arabs is secured, and that the Arabs fulfil the conditions and obtain the towns of Homs, Hama, Damascus, and Aleppo.

It is accordingly understood between the French and British Governments---

1. That France and Great Britain are prepared to recognize and protect an independent Arab State or a Confederation of Arab States in the areas (A) and (B) marked on the annexed map, under the suzerainty of an Arab chief. That in area (A) France, and in area (B) Great Britain, shall have priority of right of enterprise and local loans. That in area (A) France, and in area (B) Great Britain, shall alone supply advisers or foreign functionaries at the request of the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States.

2. That in the blue area France, and in the red area Great Britain, shall be allowed to establish such direct or indirect administration or control as they desire and as they may think fit to arrange with the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States. 3. That in the brown area there shall be established an international administration, the form of which is to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other Allies, and the representatives of the Shereef of Mecca.

4. That Great Britain be accorded (1) the ports of Haifa and Acre, (2) guarantee of a given supply of water from the Tigris and Euphrates in area (A) for area (B). His Majesty's Government, on their part, undertake that they will at no time enter into negotiations for the cession of Cyprus to any third Power without the previous consent of the French Government.

5. That Alexandretta shall be a free port as regards the trade of the British Empire, and that there shall be no discrimination in port charges or facilities as regards British shipping and British goods; that there shall be freedom of transit for British goods through Alexandretta and by railway through the blue area, whether those goods are intended for or originate in the red area, or (B) area, or area (A); and there shall be no discrimination, direct or indirect against British goods on any railway or against British goods or ships at any port serving the areas mentioned.

That Haifa shall be a free port as regards the trade of France, her dominions and protectorates, and there shall be no discrimination in port charges or facilities as regards French shipping and French goods. There shall be freedom of transit for French goods through Haifa and by the British railway through the brown area, whether those goods are intended for or originate in the blue area, area (A), or area (B), and there shall be no discrimination, direct or indirect, against French goods on any railway, or against French goods or ships at any port serving the areas mentioned.

6. That in area (A) the Baghdad Railway shall not be extended southwards beyond Mosul, and in area (B) northwards beyond Samarra, until a railway connecting Baghdad with Aleppo via the Euphrates Valley has been completed, and then only with the concurrence of the two Governments.

7. That Great Britain has the right to build, administer, and be sole owner of a railway connecting Haifa with area (B), and shall have a perpetual right to transport troops along such a line at all times.

It is to be understood by both Governments that this railway is to facilitate the connexion of Baghdad with Haifa by rail, and it is further understood that, if the engineering difficulties and expense entailed by keeping this connecting line in the brown area only make the project unfeasible, that the French Government shall be prepared to consider that the line in question may also traverse the polygon Banias-Keis Marib-Salkhab Tell Otsda-Mesmie before reaching area (B).

8. For a period of twenty years the existing Turkish customs tariff shall remain in force throughout the whole of the blue and red areas, as well as in areas (A) and (B), and no increase in the rates of duty or conversion from ad valorem to specific rates shall be made except by agreement between the two Powers.

There shall be no interior customs barriers between any of the above-mentioned areas. The customs duties leviable on goods destined for the interior shall be collected at the port of entry and handed over to the administration of the area of destination.

9. It shall be agreed that the French Government will at no time enter into any negotiations for the cession of their rights and will not cede such rights in the blue area to any third Power, except the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States without the previous agreement of His Majesty's Government, who, on their part, will give a similar undertaking to the French Government regarding the red area.

10. The British and French Governments, as the protectors of the Arab State, shall agree that they will not themselves acquire and will not consent to a third Power acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third Power installing a naval base either on the east coast, or on the islands, of the Red Sea. This, however, shall not prevent such adjustment of the Aden frontier as may be necessary in consequence of recent Turkish aggression.

11. The negotiations with the Arabs as to the boundaries of the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States shall be continued through the same channel as heretofore on behalf of the two Powers.

12. It is agreed that measures to control the importation of arms into the Arab territories will be considered by the two Governments.

I have further the honour to state that, in order to make the agreement complete, His Majesty's Government are proposing to the Russian Government to exchange notes analogous to those exchanged by the latter and your Excellency's Government on the 26th April last. Copies of these notes will be communicated to your Excellency as soon as exchanged.

I would also venture to remind your Excellency that the conclusion of the present agreement raises, for practical consideration, the question of the claims of Italy to a share in any partition or rearrangement of Turkey in Asia, as formulated in article 9 of the agreement of the 26th April, 1915, between Italy and the Allies.

His Majesty's Government further consider that the Japanese Government should be informed of the arrangement now concluded

source:https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Sykes-Picot_Agreement

 

[Willy2]

Damn it !!!!!!!!!!
Good Generel is no more....hero of Deir-ezzor killed....R.I.P ..Om shanti

https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...n-general-issam-zahreddine-killed-deir-ezzor/
Breaking: Prominent Syrian general Issam Zahreddine killed in Deir Ezzor


BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:10 P.M.) – The prominent Syrian Arab Army (SAA) officer, Major General Issam Zahreddine, was killed today in Deir Ezzor after his convoy struck a land mine planted by the Islamic State (ISIS).

According to a military source, General Zahreddine was conducting a special operation at Saqr Island in Deir Ezzor, when his vehicle struck the land mine.

General Zahreddine was the commander of the elite 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard that heroically fought off the Islamic State (ISIS) for several years, while under siege and under supplied.


The General was born in rural Sweida village of Tarba and was 56 years old at the time of his death.

 

[Tactical Frog]

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed forces in Syria claimed Tuesday that they had full control of the Islamic State's onetime capital of Raqqa, heralding an end to the militants' presence in their most symbolically important stronghold and raising new questions about the United States' future role in Syria.

Mustafa Abdi, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, said that military operations had halted and that members of the joint Kurdish-Arab force were clearing the city of explosive devices and hunting for sleeper cells.

The U.S. military said a formal victory announcement will come after SDF forces are sure that no pockets of Islamic State resistance remain in the city, but the SDF portrayed the battle for Raqqa as over.

"There is an air of jubilation in the city," Abdi said. "People are overjoyed that they are finally rid of this scourge."

Kurdish and Arab fighters took to the streets to celebrate the end of the battle they have fought for four months, climbing onto vehicles and parading around the deserted, destroyed city, according to photographs posted on social media. One showed the offensive's commander, Rojda Felat, waving a large yellow-and-red SDF flag in Naim Square, where the Islamic State carried out its beheadings.


By the time the battle was over, Raqqa had lost all strategic significance to the group that once had used the city to showcase its brutality and plot attacks against the West. The fall of the Iraqi city of Mosul in July and the loss of large areas of territory in eastern Syria to Syrian government forces leave the militants in control of only one sizable stretch of territory, spanning the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Related: [ISIS is near defeat in Iraq. Now comes the hard part.]

But the capture of Raqqa by the SDF, backed by U.S. airstrikes and American advisers on the ground, nonetheless marks a milestone in the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State. In a briefing to reporters in Washington, a U.S. military spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, called it "momentous." He said that the Islamic State has now lost 87 percent of the territory it once controlled and that 6,500 fighters remain, out of tens of thousands at the peak of the group's prowess.

The victory also intensifies growing questions about what comes next. The remaining Islamic State strongholds in Syria lie to the south in the province of Deir al-Zour, where the Syrian government and its Iranian-backed and Russian allies are making fast progress. The U.S. military will leave it up to the SDF to decide whether it wants to continue to advance into the area, Dillon said.

Perhaps more importantly, the Trump administration has not yet indicated whether it is prepared to stay on in northeastern Syria to provide protection for the fledgling ministate being forged by Syria's Kurds. The experience over the past two days of the Kurds in neighboring Iraq may embolden the Syrian government to challenge the Syrian Kurdish enclave once the Islamic State is vanquished, just as the Iraqi government has moved to dislodge Kurdish forces from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other areas they controlled.

Syrian government officials have spoken on several occasions about their determination to regain control over all of the territory they lost to the rebellion against President Bashar al-
Assad, including the area controlled by the Kurds.

"What would be disastrous for Syrian Kurds is a rapid U.S. drawdown in Syria. It would take away their major foreign patron," said Nicholas A. Heras of the Center for a New American Security.

Photo Gallery: Syrian forces liberated Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a senior commander said, in a major defeat for the collapsing extremist group that had proclaimed the city to be the capital of its ?caliphate.?
Related: [ISIS has been a catastrophe for Sunnis in Iraq and Syria]

A civilian council comprising Arabs and Kurds is waiting in the wings to take over governance of Raqqa, under the auspices of the Kurdish-led administration running northeastern Syria. But the international community has not committed funds for reconstruction of the devastated city, and the absence of a clear U.S. policy for northeastern Syria risks undermining the gains, cautioned Hassan Hassan of the Washington-based Tahrir Institute.

"No one trusts the Americans, not even the Kurds," he said. "To defeat extremism after destroying areas through the necessity of war, you have to deal with the consequences, not just drop bombs and leave because you have an aversion to war."

The offensive to capture the city began in June, with the SDF advancing on the ground as U.S.-led coalition airstrikes pummeled the militants. As was the case in Mosul, victory over the militants has come at a tremendous price. Much of the city now lies in ruins, its residents scattered in displacement camps across the country.

At least 1,000 civilians are said to have died, according to estimates by monitoring groups, most of them in the relentless airstrikes. More than 270,000 people fled their homes during the battle, according to the United Nations, and many will find they do not have homes to go back to.


Besieged and severely weakened, dozens of militants had launched a final stand from inside Raqqa's main hospital and stadium. But the end of the battle was hastened by a controversial deal brokered by local officials under which local fighters were offered the chance to escape prosecution, if they had not committed crimes, by surrendering to the SDF. Dillon said 350 fighters had surrendered in recent days, including some foreign fighters. They are being screened by the SDF to figure out whether they had participated in killings, he said.

Raqqa was the first provincial capital to fully fall from government control when it was captured in March 2013 by moderate and extremist groups including the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, then operating as the Syrian wing of the Iraqi-based Islamic State.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...e36eca-b24c-11e7-99c6-46bdf7f6f8ba_story.html

 

[Willy2]

Kurds going to get a big slap soon ....
I think Raqqa would be under the control of arab fraction in SDF...and they are virtually rebel under SDF colour

Kurd's understanding with US to form SDF might kill their dream of Kurdish nation ....
They are virtually now enclosed in south by arab sunni rebels( easily manipulated by Turkey-Russia) and in north by turk itself

 

[Tactical Frog]

Kurds going to get a big slap soon ....
I think Raqqa would be under the control of arab fraction in SDF...and they are virtually rebel under SDF colour

Kurd's understanding with US to form SDF might kill their dream of Kurdish nation ....
They are virtually now enclosed in south by arab sunni rebels manipulated by Turkey-Russia) and in north by turk itself

I agree with you on one point : YPG Kurds are surrounded by ennemies. Nobody likes them. Most of sunni rebels dislike them to say the least. Turkey will do everything in its power to destroy their basis in Syria ( reminder YPG is just a branch of PKK ). And last but not the least, Bashar Al Assad is also determined to regain full control of Syria with help of Iran.

Add to this that the YPG in Syria cannot expect much help from the Iraqi Kurds. Bleak days ahead for YPG .

 

[Tactical Frog]

Damn it !!!!!!!!!!
Good Generel is no more....hero of Deir-ezzor killed....R.I.P ..Om shanti

https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...n-general-issam-zahreddine-killed-deir-ezzor/
Breaking: Prominent Syrian general Issam Zahreddine killed in Deir Ezzor


BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:10 P.M.) – The prominent Syrian Arab Army (SAA) officer, Major General Issam Zahreddine, was killed today in Deir Ezzor after his convoy struck a land mine planted by the Islamic State (ISIS).

According to a military source, General Zahreddine was conducting a special operation at Saqr Island in Deir Ezzor, when his vehicle struck the land mine.

General Zahreddine was the commander of the elite 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard that heroically fought off the Islamic State (ISIS) for several years, while under siege and under supplied.


The General was born in rural Sweida village of Tarba and was 56 years old at the time of his death.

He is one of the worst war criminal ever born. RIP Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.


As such on the European list of Syrian regime personalities submitted to sanctions

 

[Willy2]

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He is one of the worst war criminal ever born. RIP Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.


As such on the European list of Syrian regime personalities submitted to sanctions

I would say ,lesser evil ....
I am just thinking why SAA don't move towards city of Busayrah ? I mean controlling meeting point of 2 great river ,Khabur-Euphrates should have great strategic value , but they let Kurds(SDF) to take control of that area

 

[Tactical Frog]

UN report blames gas attack on Syrian regime
Carole LANDRYOctober 27, 2017
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - United Nations investigators on Thursday blamed a sarin gas massacre on Bashar al-Assad's regime, as the United States renewed its warning that he has no role in Syria's future.

The expert panel's report and tough remarks by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson overshadowed the announcement that UN-sponsored peace talks will resume next month.

More than 87 people died on April 4 this year when sarin gas projectiles were fired into Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the Idlib province of northwestern Syria.

Images of dead and dying victims, including young children, in the aftermath of the attack provoked global outrage and a US cruise missile strike on a regime air base.

Syria and its ally Russia had suggested that a rebel weapon may have detonated on the ground but the UN panel confirmed Western intelligence reports that blamed the regime.

"The panel is confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhun on 4 April 2017," the report, seen by AFP, says.

The report will increase pressure on Assad's regime just as Washington, in the wake of battlefield victories against the Islamic State group, renews calls for him to step down.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's comments to reporters came during a visit to Geneva in which he met UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is trying to convene a new round of peace talks next month.

The secretary said US policy has not changed, but his remarks represented tougher language from an administration that had previously said Assad's fate is not a priority.

"We do not believe there is a future for the Assad regime, the Assad family," Tillerson said.

"I think I've said it on a number of occasions. The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end, and the only issue is how should that be brought about."

Russia, which is running a parallel peace process with Iran and Turkey in a series of talks in the Kazakh capital Astana, reacted coolly to Tillerson's remarks.

"I think we should not pre-empt any future for anybody," said Moscow's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, who on Tuesday had vetoed a US attempt to extend the gas attack probe.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the UN panel's report had reached a "clear conclusion" and urged the "international community to unite to hold Assad's regime accountable."

"I call on Russia to stop covering up for its abhorrent ally and keep its own commitment to ensure that chemical weapons are never used again," he said.

- Civil war -

De Mistura hopes to convene an eighth round of Syrian peace talks between Assad's regime and an opposition coalition in Geneva from November 28.

These will be focused on drafting a new constitution and holding UN-supervised elections in a country devastated by several overlapping bloody civil conflicts.

Assad's regime has been saved by Russian and Iranian military intervention and he insists that he will not stand down in the face of what he regards as "terrorist" rebels.

But Western capitals, the opposition and many of Syria's Arab neighbors hold Assad's forces responsible for the bulk of the 330,000 people who have died in the conflict.

In addition to chemical weapons attacks against his own people, his government is accused of overseeing the large-scale torture and murder of civilian detainees.

The previous US administration often said that Assad's days were numbered, but then president Barack Obama decided not to use force to punish his chemical weapons attacks.

His successor, President Donald Trump, did order one missile strike on a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack.

But US policy has otherwise focused solely on the defeat of the Islamic State jihadist group, driving it out of its last bastions in eastern Syria's Euphrates valley.

Tillerson said, however, that he hopes a way to oust Assad will "emerge" as part of de Mistura's UN-mediated talks.

- 'Moment of truth' -

He argued that the UN Security Council resolution setting up the peace process already contains a procedure to hold elections that Washington does not think Assad can win.

"The only thing that changed is when this administration came into office, we took a view that it is not a prerequisite that Assad go before that process starts, rather the mechanism by which Assad departs will likely emerge from that process," he said.

Earlier, de Mistura had told the UN Security Council that with the defeat of the Islamic State, the Syrian peace process had reached a "moment of truth."

"We need to get the parties into real negotiations," the envoy said.

Seven rounds of talks have achieved only incremental progress toward a political deal, with negotiations deadlocked over Assad's fate.

The opposition insists any settlement must provide for a transition away from Assad's rule but, as government forces make gains, there is little likelihood of a breakthrough.

 

[Rahul Prakash]

UN report blames gas attack on Syrian regime
Carole LANDRYOctober 27, 2017
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - United Nations investigators on Thursday blamed a sarin gas massacre on Bashar al-Assad's regime, as the United States renewed its warning that he has no role in Syria's future.

The expert panel's report and tough remarks by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson overshadowed the announcement that UN-sponsored peace talks will resume next month.

More than 87 people died on April 4 this year when sarin gas projectiles were fired into Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the Idlib province of northwestern Syria.

Images of dead and dying victims, including young children, in the aftermath of the attack provoked global outrage and a US cruise missile strike on a regime air base.

Syria and its ally Russia had suggested that a rebel weapon may have detonated on the ground but the UN panel confirmed Western intelligence reports that blamed the regime.

"The panel is confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhun on 4 April 2017," the report, seen by AFP, says.

The report will increase pressure on Assad's regime just as Washington, in the wake of battlefield victories against the Islamic State group, renews calls for him to step down.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's comments to reporters came during a visit to Geneva in which he met UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is trying to convene a new round of peace talks next month.

The secretary said US policy has not changed, but his remarks represented tougher language from an administration that had previously said Assad's fate is not a priority.

"We do not believe there is a future for the Assad regime, the Assad family," Tillerson said.

"I think I've said it on a number of occasions. The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end, and the only issue is how should that be brought about."

Russia, which is running a parallel peace process with Iran and Turkey in a series of talks in the Kazakh capital Astana, reacted coolly to Tillerson's remarks.

"I think we should not pre-empt any future for anybody," said Moscow's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, who on Tuesday had vetoed a US attempt to extend the gas attack probe.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the UN panel's report had reached a "clear conclusion" and urged the "international community to unite to hold Assad's regime accountable."

"I call on Russia to stop covering up for its abhorrent ally and keep its own commitment to ensure that chemical weapons are never used again," he said.

- Civil war -

De Mistura hopes to convene an eighth round of Syrian peace talks between Assad's regime and an opposition coalition in Geneva from November 28.

These will be focused on drafting a new constitution and holding UN-supervised elections in a country devastated by several overlapping bloody civil conflicts.

Assad's regime has been saved by Russian and Iranian military intervention and he insists that he will not stand down in the face of what he regards as "terrorist" rebels.

But Western capitals, the opposition and many of Syria's Arab neighbors hold Assad's forces responsible for the bulk of the 330,000 people who have died in the conflict.

In addition to chemical weapons attacks against his own people, his government is accused of overseeing the large-scale torture and murder of civilian detainees.

The previous US administration often said that Assad's days were numbered, but then president Barack Obama decided not to use force to punish his chemical weapons attacks.

His successor, President Donald Trump, did order one missile strike on a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack.

But US policy has otherwise focused solely on the defeat of the Islamic State jihadist group, driving it out of its last bastions in eastern Syria's Euphrates valley.

Tillerson said, however, that he hopes a way to oust Assad will "emerge" as part of de Mistura's UN-mediated talks.

- 'Moment of truth' -

He argued that the UN Security Council resolution setting up the peace process already contains a procedure to hold elections that Washington does not think Assad can win.

"The only thing that changed is when this administration came into office, we took a view that it is not a prerequisite that Assad go before that process starts, rather the mechanism by which Assad departs will likely emerge from that process," he said.

Earlier, de Mistura had told the UN Security Council that with the defeat of the Islamic State, the Syrian peace process had reached a "moment of truth."

"We need to get the parties into real negotiations," the envoy said.

Seven rounds of talks have achieved only incremental progress toward a political deal, with negotiations deadlocked over Assad's fate.

The opposition insists any settlement must provide for a transition away from Assad's rule but, as government forces make gains, there is little likelihood of a breakthrough.

It is India's interest for USA and allies to lose as they are the ones promoting anti nationalism.

Also USA and co are the bigger enemies in the combination of China and co and USA and co.in war in which two of your enemies are fighting support the underdog to weaken the stronger enemy.then in the meantime grow your power in peace until your power matures.

So now instead of forming alliance against China with USA play them both like pakistan.dont buy f16,but use them to absorb Chinese pressure.take their FDI and their jobs.

 

[Kshatriya87]

It is India's interest for USA and allies to lose as they are the ones promoting anti nationalism.

Also USA and co are the bigger enemies in the combination of China and co and USA and co.in war in which two of your enemies are fighting support the underdog to weaken the stronger enemy.then in the meantime grow your power in peace until your power matures.

So now instead of forming alliance against China with USA play them both like pakistan.dont buy f16,but use them to absorb Chinese pressure.take their FDI and their jobs.

Of course they do. UN is just another word for an American concubine.

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[bhramos]

Recent Footage Of Syrian Army Military Operations In Northern Hama