{"id":2032,"date":"2017-05-05T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2017-05-05T19:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:39:59","slug":"putin-has-a-new-secret-weapon-in-syria-chechen-and-ingush-commandos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/05\/putin-has-a-new-secret-weapon-in-syria-chechen-and-ingush-commandos\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTIN HAS A NEW SECRET WEAPON IN SYRIA, CHECHEN AND INGUSH COMMANDOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2033\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/CHECHEN-COMMANDOS-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Foreign Policy<\/p>\n<p>By Neil Hauer<\/p>\n<p>\u03a4he 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.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with an air campaign on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015, Russian forces have not only stopped regime losses but also helped Damascus retake Aleppo city in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the opposition stronghold under government control and Assad\u2019s hold on power no longer in question, Moscow has said it plans to reduce its presence in the country. But while some Russian forces did initially depart in early January, Moscow is actually expanding its role in Syria. Russian officials announced major expansions to Russian military bases in the country while the number of private contractors fighting on the Kremlin\u2019s behalf also swelled.<\/p>\n<p>Most interestingly, however, Putin deployed an unprecedented Russian weapon to Syria: several units of Chechen and Ingush commandos hailing from Russia\u2019s restive North Caucasus region.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/05\/04\/putin-has-a-new-secret-weapon-in-syria-chechens\/?utm_content=buffer03686&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Foreign Policy By Neil Hauer \u03a4he 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/05\/putin-has-a-new-secret-weapon-in-syria-chechen-and-ingush-commandos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PUTIN HAS A NEW SECRET WEAPON IN SYRIA, CHECHEN AND INGUSH COMMANDOS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1486,1487,1485,51,27,15],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-chechen","tag-ingush","tag-north-caucasus-region","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}