The morning news for Eaglecrack.
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The Syrian army may soon launch an attack on the strategic town of Maardes, which is still controlled by the notorious terrorist group Jund al-Aqsa; its possible destruction will certainly shed more light on the Syrian war, according to Russian military expert Yevgeny Krutikov.
It appears that the Syrian army is preparing for an attack on Maardes, located north of the city of Hama. It's located on the main highway linking Damascus to Aleppo, and is controlled by the terrorist group Jund al-Aqsa, the Russian newspaper Vzglyad quoted military expert Yevgeny Krutikov as saying.
In his Vzglyad article,"The Syrian Army is Close to Destroying a Very Suspicious Group," Krutikov recalled that the Salafist jihadist rebel group Jund al-Aqsa was notorious for its use of drones during the fighting and the fact that it was previously funded by Washington. Right now, the group, which is allied with the Free Syrian Army, controls several villages in the north of Hama province in western Syria, but is trying to further expand its clout, according to Krutikov.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160924/1045664233/syria-army-attack-terrorists.html
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No matter how hard Russia tries to establish a working relationship with Washington to jointly fight against terrorism, US "hawks" have repeatedly upset the applecart of Russo-American cooperation.
Fifteen years ago, Washington had a chance to establish mutually beneficial working relations with Moscow. "There was a brief time 15 years ago when the Washington and Moscow had a real opportunity to establish a more durable partnership on security issues," Dr. Andrew C. Kuchins, a research professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University, writes in his op-ed for the Washington Post.
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https://sputniknews.com/politics/20160924/1045662700/us-russia-partnership-security.html
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The demands to ground the Syrian aviation are a clear violation of the country's sovereignty, Damascus won't do that regardless the demands from the US and Germany, according to Mohamed Khair al-Akkam, Syrian parliamentarian and member of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation for the intra- Syrian dialogue in Geneva.
Syria won't ground its combat aviation regardless of demands from the US and Germany, which say that this will allegedly allow to the cessation of hostilities to be maintained, Mohamed Khair al-Akkam, Syrian parliamentarian and member of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation for the intra- Syrian dialogue in Geneva told Russia's Izvestia newspaper.
"It goes without saying that Syria will never agree to stop the flights and its airstrikes on the armed groups due to a very simple reason: we are being offered to stop eliminating those who, even regardless the ceasefire, continued their fighting against the Syrian army and kept killing civilians," the Syrian politician told the newspaper. "Moreover, such demands represent an evident attempt to violate Syrian sovereignty. Damascus has every right to defend its territories and its people from terrorists and this is exactly what it is doing," he further stressed.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160924/1045663808/syria-no-fly-zone.html
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Residents in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo cowered in their homes on Saturday as relentless missile strikes and barrel bomb attacks pounded the besieged eastern half of the divided city.
The raids by Russian and Syrian aircraft continued for a second night, after Damascus announced an operation late Thursday to recapture all of the city.
Heavy bombardment on Friday killed at least 47 people, among them seven children, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
The toll was expected to rise with the ongoing strikes levelling entire buildings, and obliterating whole streets.
"There are certainly deaths in the bombing (on Saturday) but we don't have tolls yet and people are still trapped under the rubble," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
An AFP correspondent in eastern Aleppo saw massive destruction in several neighbourhoods, including Al-Kalasseh and Bustan al-Qasr, where some streets were almost erased by the bombardment.
Unexploded rockets were still buried in the roads in some areas, and elsewhere enormous craters around five metres (16 feet) deep and wide had been left by the bombing.
Residents and activists described the use of a missile that produced earthquake-like tremors upon impact and razed buildings right down to the basement level where many residents desperately seek protection during bombing.
Syrian, Russian Aircraft Pound Rebel-Held Aleppo — Naharnet
In Kerry's Own Words: Syria Prohibited from Attacking al-Qaeda | World News |Axisoflogic.com
No wonder the United States insisted that its Syria ceasefire deal with Russia remain secret! It turns out that one of the US demands was that the Syrian air force must be prohibited from attacking al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). Crazy conspiracy theory? These are John Kerry's own words at the UN yesterday:
Why US kept Syria truce terms secret:
Syrian planes prohibited from flying over areas where al-Nusra is present i.e. US protecting al-Qaeda pic.twitter.com/LQ6NuUZqSI
- the Lemniscat (@theLemniscat) September 22, 2016
Kerry argued at the UN that it would be impossible to separate Washington's "moderates" from al-Qaeda while al-Qaeda was under attack:
Now, I have said to Russia many times it’s very hard to separate people when they are being bombed indiscriminately and when Assad has the right to determine who he’s going to bomb, because he can, quote, 'go after Nusrah' but go after the opposition at the same time because he wants to.
Does this make any sense? It seem much more logical to argue that the threat of being bombed alongside al-Qaeda would be the greatest incentive for "moderates" to separate themselves from al-Qaeda as soon as possible!
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The Syrian army may soon launch an attack on the strategic town of Maardes, which is still controlled by the notorious terrorist group Jund al-Aqsa; its possible destruction will certainly shed more light on the Syrian war, according to Russian military expert Yevgeny Krutikov.
It appears that the Syrian army is preparing for an attack on Maardes, located north of the city of Hama. It's located on the main highway linking Damascus to Aleppo, and is controlled by the terrorist group Jund al-Aqsa, the Russian newspaper Vzglyad quoted military expert Yevgeny Krutikov as saying.
In his Vzglyad article,"The Syrian Army is Close to Destroying a Very Suspicious Group," Krutikov recalled that the Salafist jihadist rebel group Jund al-Aqsa was notorious for its use of drones during the fighting and the fact that it was previously funded by Washington. Right now, the group, which is allied with the Free Syrian Army, controls several villages in the north of Hama province in western Syria, but is trying to further expand its clout, according to Krutikov.
Read more:
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160924/1045664233/syria-army-attack-terrorists.html
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The US attack against the Syrian Arab Army in the Deir ez-Zor region leaves more questions than answers, although Washington has declared the airstrikes an "accident." It could not have simply been a mistake, Pakistani political analyst Salman Rafi Sheikh believes.
It is unlikely that the US-led coalition's airstrikes in Syria's Deir ez-Zor region against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions took place due to a mere "accident," Salman Rafi Sheikh, a political analyst and expert on Pakistani foreign affairs believes. "A look at the pattern of how the US-led coalition has been striking in the region would further reveal that the last strike, which killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers, was not simply a mistake," Sheikh writes in his article for New Eastern Outlook.
Sheikh pointed out that the SAA has been fighting against Daesh in the Deir ez-Zor region for a long time. However, the US-led coalition did not attack the terrorist group when it countered the SAA's attacks and seized Palmyra.
Surprisingly, the deadly strike has been conducted at a time when the SAA was gaining momentum on the ground. "The fact remains that the strike has taken place at a time when the Syrian army was successfully pushing ISIS [Daesh] back and bringing more and more [of the] region under its control," Sheikh underscored. It seems that the SAA's military success "was clearly running counter" to the US' objective to weaken the Syrian government forces and prevent them from re-establishing Assad's authority in the country's troubled regions.
Read more:
https://sputniknews.com/politics/20160924/1045665455/syria-us-attack-pentagon.html