Image by Kremlin.ru U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vietnam and issued a joint statement on the Syrian conflict. The main points of the press release is that the two leaders agree the conflict does not have a…
Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, announced today that a possible resolution to the Syria problem may be on the table for discussion in the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Asia. Russia Says West Should Rebuild Syria, Not Us The Syrian settlement as a topic for a meeting…
Image by Medija centar Beograd The head of the international affairs committee at the Russian parliament’s upper house (Federation Council) Konstantin Kosachev said Sunday that the West essentially broke the Middle East and should therefore pay to fix it. Kosachev blamed the ‘forced export of democracy’ which caused the Syrian…
Image by AlAboud83 A Russian general officer was killed in Syria during shelling by the Islamic State. SYRIA-ISRAEL TENSIONS AND ESCALATION: AIRSTRIKES AND BACKGROUND “Division general Valeri Assapov was killed when a shell exploded during shelling by IS fighters,” the ministry was quoted as saying by local media, reported VOA…
Hurdles And High Hopes On The Way To Kurdistan’s Historic Referendum.
Image by Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_Russia The Founding Fathers set up a system of checks and balances. That’s something we all learned about this in civics class (unless you are a millennial who didn’t take civics). So, it is well within the authority of the legislative branch to attempt to tie the president’s…
Image by mil.ru Russia has long coveted a permanent base in the Middle East, from imperial to Soviet times. The recent Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war stems from this desire to have permanent access to the Levant and the Mediterranean to further project power into the region. Moscow…
Russian Defense Ministry Says Agreements On East Ghouta Zone In Syria Signed.