The American intelligence and analytical company Stratfor has released satellite images, which, according to the authors of the report, are proof that the Russian military is building its air base at the Syrian Latakia airport. The pictures were obtained on September 4. They show how two additional helicopter platforms are being built at the airport, and the runway along the entire length ...
Russia's actions in Syria and support for the government of Bashar al-Assad will not change the US strategy to combat the Islamic State terrorist group in this country. US President Barack Obama stated this. “This (Russian action) will not change our main strategy, which is to put pressure on ISIS in Iraq and Syria,” Obama said...
“The Obama administration and the US intelligence community have concluded that Russia intends to launch combat missions from a new air base in Syria,” journalist Josh Rogin writes in The Bloomberg View. But there is no consensus in the US government that...
US intelligence has evidence of a significant increase in Russia's involvement in the Syrian civil war, including satellite images of a Russian military base currently under construction near the city that has become a stronghold for the Syrian president ...
Greece has refused the United States' request to close the Athens airspace (FIR Athens) for Russian planes carrying humanitarian aid to Syria. “On Saturday, the US Embassy asked the Greek service government to ban Russian aircraft from flying to FIR Athens. The Greek government refused this ...
Secretary of State John Kerry called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to express concern about reports of a strengthening Russian military presence in Syria, where Russia may support the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The conversation was reported by Reuters with reference to the press service of the US Foreign Ministry. In the message…
Russia refused to enter into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State. This was announced by Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin. Moscow believes that Western countries have not finally decided on the goals of military intervention: to destroy terrorism or overthrow Bashar al-Assad. "We…
Despite the shared goal of saving the Middle East from the Islamic State, Russia and the United States cannot agree on many issues that prevent them from joining forces against the extremists. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry twice...
The Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) said the terrorist attack in the south of the country killed at least 27 people and injured about a hundred. The explosion occurred in the city of Suruch, located near the Syrian border. The Turkish Interior Ministry does not rule out that the number of victims ...
The Russian Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, May 19, came under mortar fire. There were no casualties, material damage was caused. As the press secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission Asiya Turuchieva told the agency, 2 mortar shells exploded on the territory of the embassy. One of them fell near the main entrance, the other hit ...