Sourced : Military Times By: Shawn Snow Kurdish activists claim Turkey is building up its military forces in northern Syria for an assault on the Kurdish held district of Afrin, a development that could cause serious setbacks in the ongoing American-backed operation to liberate the defacto capital of ISIS, Raqqa. U.S. officials in Baghdad say… Continue reading TURKISH MILITARY BUILDUP IN NORTHERN SYRIA THREATENS AL-RAQQAH OPERATION
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U.S MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDES ANTI-TANK ROCKETS FOS SYRIANS FIGHTING ISIS
Sourced : Military Times By: Shawn Snow The Defense Department’s fiscal 2018 budget request continues the program of training and equipping vetted Syrian partners in the fight against ISIS, and the proposal includes funds for U.S. AT-4 anti-tank rockets or Russian SPG-9 recoilless rifles, and several thousand RPG-7s, a move likely to irk U.S. NATO… Continue reading U.S MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDES ANTI-TANK ROCKETS FOS SYRIANS FIGHTING ISIS
US DISPATCHES 100 TRUCKS PACKED WITH MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO YPG
Sourced : Hurriyet Daily News The U.S. dispatched around new 100 trucks consisting of military equipment to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria on May 15 and May 20, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. The trucks were reported in the city of al-Hasakah, located in northeast Syria, before heading to Raqqa’s northern rural… Continue reading US DISPATCHES 100 TRUCKS PACKED WITH MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO YPG
ASSESSING RUSSIA’S REORGANIZED AND REARMED MILITARY
Sourced : Carnegie Endowment By Keir Giles Recent Western assessments of Russia’s renewed military power have led to a wide range of differing conclusions and, taken together, provide a mixed and confusing picture of the scale and nature of the threat. Impressive capabilities demonstrated in Ukraine and Syria have given rise to concern that Western… Continue reading ASSESSING RUSSIA’S REORGANIZED AND REARMED MILITARY
SO TRUMP IS ARMING KURDS…THEN WHAT ?
Sourced : Defense One By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Council on Foreign Relations An overnight decision months in the making is now official U.S. policy: America will directly arm the Syrian Kurds. NATO ally Turkey may see Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists, but the Pentagon sees them as the most effective local force in the fight… Continue reading SO TRUMP IS ARMING KURDS…THEN WHAT ?
PUTIN HAS A NEW SECRET WEAPON IN SYRIA, CHECHEN AND INGUSH COMMANDOS
Sourced : Foreign Policy By Neil Hauer Τhe Russian intervention in Syria has been, by most accounts, a success. And Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to do everything he can to keep it that way. Beginning with an air campaign on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015, Russian forces have not… Continue reading PUTIN HAS A NEW SECRET WEAPON IN SYRIA, CHECHEN AND INGUSH COMMANDOS
TURKEY THREATENS U.S FORCES IN SYRIA AS PUTIN PRESSES FOR SAFE ZONES
Sourced : Foreign Policy By Paul McLeary Α top aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted Wednesday that U.S. commandos in northern Syria could be targeted by Turkish rockets if they continue to work with Kurdish fighters along the border with Turkey. The comments by Ilnur Cevik, a senior political advisor to Erdogan, came… Continue reading TURKEY THREATENS U.S FORCES IN SYRIA AS PUTIN PRESSES FOR SAFE ZONES
U.S TROOPS DEPLOYED ALONG SYRIA-TURKISH BORDERS
Sourced : The Star By Sarah El Deeb U.S. armoured vehicles are deploying in areas in northern Syria along the tense border with Turkey, a few days after a Turkish airstrike that killed 20 U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, a Syrian war monitor and Kurdish activists said Friday. Footage posted by Syrian activists online showed a convoy… Continue reading U.S TROOPS DEPLOYED ALONG SYRIA-TURKISH BORDERS
ERDOGAN : MANBIJ, RAQQAH ARE ANKARA’S TWO STRATEGIC TARGETS IN SYRIA
Sourced : Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey has two important targets in Syria, which are Manbij and Raqqa, while reiterating that the country will support the Raqqa operation if the PKK-affiliated Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) does not participate. Last month, Turkey officially announced that Operation Euphrates Shield that, which been… Continue reading ERDOGAN : MANBIJ, RAQQAH ARE ANKARA’S TWO STRATEGIC TARGETS IN SYRIA
IRAQ’S SHIITE CLERIC MOQTADA AL-SADR URGES ASSAD TO STEP DOWN
Sourced Al Arabiya Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling on Washington and Moscow to stop intervening in the conflict. The Najaf-based Shiite cleric condemned the killing of 87 people, including 31 children, in a suspected chemical attack last week in a rebel-held Syrian… Continue reading IRAQ’S SHIITE CLERIC MOQTADA AL-SADR URGES ASSAD TO STEP DOWN