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Kurds are claiming to end ISIS forces within 10 days
The Turks, Syrians and Iraqi Arabs want to end the Kurds 10 days after that. I sure hope that our leadership have the spine to continue to support them through thick and thin but I'm not going to bet the farm on it.
 

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https://sputniknews.com/military/20...-cruise-missile-threat-to-israel-report-says/

Tehran unveiled its new Hoveyzeh heavy medium-range cruise missile over the weekend at a defence exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The missile has a reported range of over 1,350 km, covering much of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Neither Israel nor the United States, or any other "military force in the world has so far found an effective means of intercepting cruise missiles before they strike, unless they are short range," Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile reported, citing military experts regarding the Hoveyzeh's successful test.
Pointing to three Iranian missile tests carried out in rapid succession between 29 December and 2 February, the website noted that "by test number three, the Hoveyzeh, which belongs to the Soumar family of cruise missiles, demonstrated that, while the Israel's Defence Ministry Research Administration and the US Missile Defence Agency were intent on developing missiles capable of striking targets outside the earth's atmosphere, the Islamic Republic had succeeded in producing low-flying cruise missiles that fly to target under the radar."
 

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The US will be within striking distance in Iraq
You get that from CNN??
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902031072089451-iraq-usa-foreign-advisers-bill/
Iraqi lawmakers are mulling legislation to terminate the security agreement with the United States, according to the First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Hassan Karim.

"During the next session, the parliament will work on the bill that would include the end of the security agreement with the United States, as well as the end of the presence of the US and other foreign military trainers and advisers in Iraq", Kaabi said in a statement released on the parliament website.
The statement comes amid US President Donald Trump's recent comment on the situation in the country. In particular, the US president said that Washington wants to keep its forces in Iraq so that the US could keep a close eye on Iran, "because Iran is a real problem," according to an excerpt from a CBS interview with Trump that will be aired later on Sunday.
 

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Isn't there a wide spread hatred of Kurds over there. Seems to me the Kurds are what the jews claimed to have been in terms of a people who have no homeland and everyone hates.
 

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Isn't there a wide spread hatred of Kurds over there. Seems to me the Kurds are what the jews claimed to have been in terms of a people who have no homeland and everyone hates.
The Turks, Syrians, Iraquis and Iranians have all conspired to carve up and crush the Kurds.
 

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The Turks, Syrians, Iraquis and Iranians have all conspired to carve up and crush the Kurds.
You spelled 'IDF local Mafia' wrong. They sent Syria their surrender location so once they have that area it is safe for the Kurds to stab Mossad in the back.
 

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Rouhani: Stability and security of Syria an important goal for Iran

GENEVA (Reuters) - The stability and complete security of Syria is an important regional goal for the Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday in a meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Tehran, according to the Tasnim news agency.
"One of the important regional and foreign policy goals of the Islamic Republic is the stability and complete security of Syria," he said. "And establishing normal conditions in Syria and the return of the people of this country to their normal lives."
 

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BBC Producer Says Footage of Alleged Gas Attack Victims in Syria's Douma Staged

LONDON (Sputnik) - Riam Dalati, a BBC Syria producer, has said that the footage of people being treated after an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma was staged.

Dalati wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the issue had been investigated for six months.

The journalist pointed out that no fatalities had occurred at the hospital, adding that the attack in Douma had happened but sarin had not been used there. However, Dalati noted that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) would look into whether chlorine was used at the scene.


The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the issue, said that Moscow is awaiting the BBC's official position after a statement by one of its producers about footage after an alleged chemical attack in Douma.

"The culmination of this theatre of the absurd may be considered the statements by a producer from Britain's BBC, who confirmed, based on his own research, the staged nature of the footage with the direct participation of the ‘white helmets'", Maria Zakharova said.

She added that Moscow wants to hear the company's position as a whole, because it actively covered those events.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902141072399864-syria-douma-gas-attack-vicitms-footage-hoax/

Well state TV (the great un-beeb-lievable) is at it again, like when they reported building seven (911) falling a half hour before it fell, the Russians poisoning the Skriples, and recently, the maga hat attack on the BBC cameraman at a Trump rally...

Lie lie lie, Deh lie la.....
 

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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902201072581486-us-syria-pullout/
GENOA (Sputnik) - The US is likely to retain control over the Kurdish-populated areas in northeastern Syria by keeping its troops in neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan and reserving the right to intervene if needed, Badran Jiakurd, an adviser to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), a de facto autonomous region, told Sputnik.

“The US administration seems to have understood the repercussions of a full withdrawal on the region. On this basis, we believe that the withdrawal will take a long time, and there could be a presence of the American military in the Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with northern Syria. This US military presence could be strategic to allow the US air force to intervene when necessary, so that NES would remain under the US control. In our judgment, we think that there is a plan in this direction,” Jiakurd said.
According to the official, after the full victory over the last pocket of the Daesh in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor is finally announced, “the US strategy, goals, and areas of military deployment in the region would be clearer.”


The 'plan' is trying to keep US/Israeli assets in control to the point they take on the role of blowing things and people up as has been happening in Iran. The part that is not being explained is that the Kurds would rather deal with Syria and Iran and Russia and Pakistan and Afghanistan for a lot of reasons other than killing 'their cousins' as that is only done when under similar threats. Iran can reach that part of Syria from their soil using missiles and I have to assume they are more accurate than a SCUD was.
If the region follows Syria because they did not fall into the hands of NATO, the danger then is that if one nation in South America also 'escapes' then all of South and Central America will also follow and rather than being sanctioned to death the industries will supply the people with enough money to take long vacations or something similar. Companies are down to single digit percent profit and they pay all the interest as they are 99% of the banks total transactions.
One thing is certain, events in the past have been delayed so they would happen on a certain day for one reason or another the the 'plan' will follow that same pattern somehow. It is a year late already btw.
 

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Rather than start some on topic threads, . . .


https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201902211072615149-us-afghanistan-war/
US policy-makers are continuing to oppose Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan. Speaking to Sputnik, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, economist, author and former US official, shared his views on the US' decades-long Afghanistan saga, surprising rise in opium crops under the American occupation and apparent use of Islamists by the US.

Donald Trump's decision to withdraw 1,000 or more US troops from Afghanistan has prompted concerns among American lawmakers and Washington's European allies. On 16 February the bipartisan group of US congressmen met with Afghan President Ashaf Ghani on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss the painful dilemma.
The US' Afghanistan war, which will mark its 18th anniversary this October, started in 2001 following the 9/11 terror attack under then-US President George W. Bush.
"Officially, Washington invaded Afghanistan because the Afghan government was allegedly harbouring Osama bin Laden who allegedly organised the attack on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon", Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, economist, author, and former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy under President Ronald Reagan, told Sputnik, adding that "Bin Laden was the excuse for an invasion that served several interests."



Iran Penetrates into US Command Center, Picks Up Drones Control

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh disclosed on Thursday that several US aircraft that were constantly flying over Syria and Iraq were under IRGC's control and their first-hand intelligence was being monitored and retrieved by his forces after penetrating into the US command center.


http://imemc.org/article/the-escalation-of-israeli-collective-punishment-of-palestinians/
 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-syria-.html
200 U.S. Troops to Stay in Syria, White House Says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-al...ria-withdrawal-plan-official-says-11550969310
U.S. Allies Spurred a Partial Reversal of Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan, Official Says

Likelihood of French, British withdrawal prompted administration to reconsider a complete pullout


Shades of 911 or what??
https://www.dailysabah.com/syrian-c...ported-50-tons-of-gold-from-syria-report-says
US Army transported 50 tons of gold from Syria, report says
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The U.S. Army is transferring tons of gold from Daesh-held areas in Syria to the U.S., multiple reports said.
According to a source who spoke to Kurdish Bas News Agency, the U.S. forces transferred about 50 tons of gold from areas seized from Daesh terrorists in eastern Syria's Deir el-Zour region and gave a portion of the remaining gold to the PKK's Syrian offshoot People's Protection Units (YPG).
The gold was reportedly transported from the U.S. military base in Kobani.
Meanwhile, 40 tons of gold bullions stolen by Daesh terrorists from Iraq's Mosul province was also taken by the U.S. forces.
Local sources who spoke to regime-run SANA news agency claimed that the troops relocated large boxes containing Daesh's gold treasure from al-Dashisheh region in southern Hasakah.
Daesh terrorist leaders nabbed by U.S. troops reportedly provided information on the whereabouts of the gold, the report said.
The claim coincides with a report by the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which said that the U.S.-backed YPG was after 40 tons of gold left behind by Daesh terrorists in Deir el-Zour.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/27/589672/Syria-United-States-Daesh-deal-gold
US giving Daesh safe passage in east Syria under gold deal: Local sources
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902271072790869-gold-for-safe-passage-deal-syria/US Forces in Eastern Syria Made 'Gold for Safe Passage' Deal With Daesh – Report
 

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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/257092-u-n-envoy-proposes-new-international-forum-for-syria
The new United Nations envoy for Syria proposed Thursday that major powers create a common international forum to move the war-battered country toward peace.
Geir Pedersen, who took up his post in January, made the proposal during his first appearance before the U.N. Security Council, which remains deeply divided over the way forward in Syria.
"There is a shared sense that battlefield developments might be winding down," Pedersen told the council. "Nevertheless, the conflict is far from over."
"If we are to see how issues can be unblocked and how to help the parties move in a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned process, a common forum where key states engage seriously on those issues may be needed," he said.
Russia, a veto-wielding council power whose backing for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been a decisive factor in the war, has taken a lead role in diplomatic efforts through the Astana group with Iran and Turkey.
U.N. diplomacy on Syria has been largely sidelined by the Astana group, while the United States has shifted its attention away from the Syria conflict.
President Donald Trump has announced that he is pulling out the bulk of U.S. forces sent to battle Islamic State jihadists.
Pedersen noted that five international armies operate across Syria's land and air space, creating daily risks for escalation and pledged to focus on improving international dialogue and cooperation.
Addressing the council, Russia appeared to welcome the proposal, even if it questioned the West's motives in Syria.
"We are open to cooperation with all interested parties that want sincerely -- and I underscore that word sincerely -- to facilitate stabilization and progress on a political settlement in Syria," said Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.
Pedersen, a Norwegian diplomat who took over the Syria file from Swedish-Italian envoy Staffan de Mistura, has traveled to Damascus for talks and worked hard to establish good relations over the past few weeks.