Kremlin Press Service Jul. 22 2016 Saudi Arabia will offer Russia access to the Gulf Cooperation Council Market and regional investment funds if it ends its support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said in an interview with the Politico.eu news website. Russia’s military intervention in Syria…
SU-24 July 23, 2016 Over the past few years the Syrian Civil War has turned into a proxy conflict, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Cold War. Russian and American backed forces routinely fight each other in Syria, while their trainers and advisors keep their distance. That’s because rule #1 of a…
French president announces plan to send artillery, but no ground troops, to combat ISIL in Iraq in August. French President Francois Hollande has said that France will send heavy artillery to Iraq to support the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Hollande announced the plan on Friday, saying the artillery equipment…
The US involvement in Syria comes in “two main flavors”: one is an overt military operation which aims to defeat Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), while the other is a CIA-led clandestine program to support the Syrian rebels which are seeking to topple Bashar al-Assad. Although US efforts to supply rebels in Syria have repeatedly resulted in American weapons finding their…
France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will assist airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, French President Francois Hollande has said. Hollande was speaking after a Defense Council meeting in the Elysee Palace in the French capital. The carrier will be deployed at the end of September this year, according to the French…
Scores of civilians trapped in Islamic State-controlled territory in northern Syria were reportedly killed Tuesday by airstrikes from Western coalition aircraft. The reported death toll, potentially the highest ever to result from a coalition bombing in the international campaign against ISIS, continued to climb as The Intercept reached out to monitoring groups tracking operations in…
