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Turkey and Russia to discuss removal of Kurdish militia from Syrian towns
Turkey and Russia will discuss the removal of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the northern Syrian towns of Manbij and Kobani during talks in Sochi next wee Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday.
Erdogan says Turkey to resume Syria offensive if truce deal falters
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and "crush the heads of terrorists" if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area was not fully implemented.
Turkey Occupies Strategic Syrian City After Kurdish Retreat
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The Turkish Army and Ankara-backed militants occupied the Kurdish-held town of Ras al-Ain on Sunday in line with an agreement that calls for the Kurdish militias' withdrawals 20 miles to the South from Syria's border with Turkey during a 120-hour-long ceasefire.
Russia doesn't rule out new contract to supply air defense systems to Turkey: IFX
Russia does not rule out reaching a new contract to supply its air defense missile systems to Turkey, Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov as saying on Saturday.
All U.S. troops withdrawing from Syria expected to go to western Iraq: Pentagon chief (Late news - reported over a week ago?)
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants and "to help defend Iraq."
Coming Back to Another Warzone: US Troops Leaving Syria Will Find ‘Home’ in Western Iraq
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - President Donald Trump recently insinuated that troops stationed in Syria would be returning home, but it appears
that more than 700 troops leaving the country are actually destined for another Middle East warzone: Iraq.
Esper told reporters that he would not rule out the possibility that the American troops could conduct cross-border missions into Syria from their new home in Iraq.
Explaining his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, Trump argued earlier this month that it was “time to bring our soldiers back home” – but it now appears that this won’t be happening any time soon.
US Withdrawal from Syria's Aleppo, Raqqa Completed
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The United States has fully pulled it servicemen back from its compounds in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Raqqa after President Donald Trump declared that American troops stationed in the war-ravaged country would be returning home.
US Army Moving ISIL Terrorists out of Syria's Hasaka in Heavy Heliborne Operation
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The US army helicopters have been sighted in heavy operation in Syria's Northern province of Hasaka since Sunday morning as eyewitness accounts said the choppers are taking large groups of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) Takfiri terrorists away.
Reviving Destroyed Oil, Gas Fields Begins in Syria's Raqqa After Years of US Bombardment
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Recovery works at oil and gas fields in the Syrian province of Raqqa as well as in the "triangle" between the freed provinces of Raqqa, Hama and Homs have begun, head of the state-run al-Saura field management Ali Ibrahim stated.
“The restoration of the fields will require a lot of work and the involvement of large companies,” he told RIA on Sunday as all oil wells and the entire infrastructure at the treatment plants of the fields were completely destroyed, while the pipelines were partially destroyed.
Ibrahim stressed that the destruction was caused by the American coalition's airstrikes, which bombed territories under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group and fired rockets at each well.
In late July, colonel general Sergei Rudskoy, the chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said American private military companies, numbering over 3,500 personnel, are plundering Syrian oil facilities under the cover of the US-led coalition, TASS news agency reported.
“Aside from training militants, the US entities in Syria are involved in plundering oil facilities and deposits in the area across the Euphrates that belong to the legitimate Syrian government. Lately, US private military companies have been observed to actively beef up their personnel. Today, the mercenaries of the private military companies in Syria exceed 3,500 people,” Rudskoy noted.
The senior Russian general further revealed that US military companies are involved in the illegal production and sale of Syrian crude oil from al-Omar, Conoco and al-Tanak fields.
A criminal scheme of Syrian crude cross-border deliveries is in effect. Actually, Syrian national wealth is being plundered,” Rudskoy added. “All this activity by US private military companies is conducted under the cover of the international anti-terror coalition.
In actual fact, this is smuggling business seized by the Americans from Daesh,” the Russian general stated.
Rudskoy then accused the United States of providing various Arab and Kurdish militia groups in Northern Syrian with different kinds of ammunition in exchange for assistance in the illegal trafficking of Syrian oil to the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
Syrian Army Recaptures More Kurdish-Held Regions as Ceasefire Between Kurds, Turkey Not Holding
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Syrian army units continued their deployment in Hasaka countryside, entering Yalda castle and fortifying their positions in Tel Tamar-Al-Ahras area, while clashes were reported between Turkish-supported militants and Kurdish militias in the Northern parts of the war-torn country.
Russia Thinks Strategy, Purpose of US Presence in Syria Incomprehensible
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Moscow cannot understand the strategy and objective of Washington’s presence in the conflict area in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.
"In general, we cannot grasp the strategy and purpose of Washington’s presence in the conflict zone [in Syria]. Like in Afghanistan, they either pull in or pull out [forces], either stay or drag on, and then again pull out. That is how things stand with the international coalition’s so-called solution to the Syria conflict," she said on Russia’s NTV channel on Saturday
The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson underscored that within the coalition "there has been no unanimity on the issue".
Turkey and Russia will discuss the removal of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the northern Syrian towns of Manbij and Kobani during talks in Sochi next wee Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday.
Erdogan says Turkey to resume Syria offensive if truce deal falters
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and "crush the heads of terrorists" if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area was not fully implemented.
Turkey Occupies Strategic Syrian City After Kurdish Retreat
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The Turkish Army and Ankara-backed militants occupied the Kurdish-held town of Ras al-Ain on Sunday in line with an agreement that calls for the Kurdish militias' withdrawals 20 miles to the South from Syria's border with Turkey during a 120-hour-long ceasefire.
Russia doesn't rule out new contract to supply air defense systems to Turkey: IFX
Russia does not rule out reaching a new contract to supply its air defense missile systems to Turkey, Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov as saying on Saturday.
All U.S. troops withdrawing from Syria expected to go to western Iraq: Pentagon chief (Late news - reported over a week ago?)
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants and "to help defend Iraq."
Coming Back to Another Warzone: US Troops Leaving Syria Will Find ‘Home’ in Western Iraq
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - President Donald Trump recently insinuated that troops stationed in Syria would be returning home, but it appears
that more than 700 troops leaving the country are actually destined for another Middle East warzone: Iraq.
Esper told reporters that he would not rule out the possibility that the American troops could conduct cross-border missions into Syria from their new home in Iraq.
Explaining his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, Trump argued earlier this month that it was “time to bring our soldiers back home” – but it now appears that this won’t be happening any time soon.
US Withdrawal from Syria's Aleppo, Raqqa Completed
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The United States has fully pulled it servicemen back from its compounds in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Raqqa after President Donald Trump declared that American troops stationed in the war-ravaged country would be returning home.
US Army Moving ISIL Terrorists out of Syria's Hasaka in Heavy Heliborne Operation
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - The US army helicopters have been sighted in heavy operation in Syria's Northern province of Hasaka since Sunday morning as eyewitness accounts said the choppers are taking large groups of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) Takfiri terrorists away.
Reviving Destroyed Oil, Gas Fields Begins in Syria's Raqqa After Years of US Bombardment
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Recovery works at oil and gas fields in the Syrian province of Raqqa as well as in the "triangle" between the freed provinces of Raqqa, Hama and Homs have begun, head of the state-run al-Saura field management Ali Ibrahim stated.
“The restoration of the fields will require a lot of work and the involvement of large companies,” he told RIA on Sunday as all oil wells and the entire infrastructure at the treatment plants of the fields were completely destroyed, while the pipelines were partially destroyed.
Ibrahim stressed that the destruction was caused by the American coalition's airstrikes, which bombed territories under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group and fired rockets at each well.
In late July, colonel general Sergei Rudskoy, the chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said American private military companies, numbering over 3,500 personnel, are plundering Syrian oil facilities under the cover of the US-led coalition, TASS news agency reported.
“Aside from training militants, the US entities in Syria are involved in plundering oil facilities and deposits in the area across the Euphrates that belong to the legitimate Syrian government. Lately, US private military companies have been observed to actively beef up their personnel. Today, the mercenaries of the private military companies in Syria exceed 3,500 people,” Rudskoy noted.
The senior Russian general further revealed that US military companies are involved in the illegal production and sale of Syrian crude oil from al-Omar, Conoco and al-Tanak fields.
A criminal scheme of Syrian crude cross-border deliveries is in effect. Actually, Syrian national wealth is being plundered,” Rudskoy added. “All this activity by US private military companies is conducted under the cover of the international anti-terror coalition.
In actual fact, this is smuggling business seized by the Americans from Daesh,” the Russian general stated.
Rudskoy then accused the United States of providing various Arab and Kurdish militia groups in Northern Syrian with different kinds of ammunition in exchange for assistance in the illegal trafficking of Syrian oil to the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
Syrian Army Recaptures More Kurdish-Held Regions as Ceasefire Between Kurds, Turkey Not Holding
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Syrian army units continued their deployment in Hasaka countryside, entering Yalda castle and fortifying their positions in Tel Tamar-Al-Ahras area, while clashes were reported between Turkish-supported militants and Kurdish militias in the Northern parts of the war-torn country.
Russia Thinks Strategy, Purpose of US Presence in Syria Incomprehensible
Sun Oct 20, 2019 - Moscow cannot understand the strategy and objective of Washington’s presence in the conflict area in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.
"In general, we cannot grasp the strategy and purpose of Washington’s presence in the conflict zone [in Syria]. Like in Afghanistan, they either pull in or pull out [forces], either stay or drag on, and then again pull out. That is how things stand with the international coalition’s so-called solution to the Syria conflict," she said on Russia’s NTV channel on Saturday
The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson underscored that within the coalition "there has been no unanimity on the issue".
