{"id":4080,"date":"2018-08-24T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2018-08-24T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:16:47","slug":"63-000-russian-troops-fought-in-syria-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/24\/63-000-russian-troops-fought-in-syria-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"63.000 RUSSIAN TROOPS FOUGHT IN SYRIA SINCE 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY-e1527978506485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Middle East Monitor<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military has revealed that over 63,000 troops from its armed forces have fought in Syria since Moscow entered the conflict in 2015, involvement that has turned the tide of the war in the regime\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment has included some 434 generals over the past three years, and about 90 percent of Russian combat pilots have flown in Syria. The Russian military has also used the conflict to test some of its most advanced weapons, including its latest jets and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The figures have been revealed after US National Security Adviser John Bolton yesterday stated that Russia was \u201cstuck\u201d in Syria, alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Trump administration that Moscow could not bring about the withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I don\u2019t think they [Russia] want to be stuck there. I think their frenetic diplomatic activity in Europe indicates that they\u2019d like to find somebody else, for example, to bear the cost of reconstructing Syria \u2013 which they may or may not succeed in doing,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180823-63000-russia-troops-fought-in-syria-since-2015\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Middle East Monitor The Russian military has revealed that over 63,000 troops from its armed forces have fought in Syria since Moscow entered the conflict in 2015, involvement that has turned the tide of the war in the regime\u2019s favour. The deployment has included some 434 generals over the past three years, and about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/24\/63-000-russian-troops-fought-in-syria-since-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">63.000 RUSSIAN TROOPS FOUGHT IN SYRIA SINCE 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","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=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}