Russian Military Buildup In And Around Syria
Russian Military Buildup In And Around Syria…
Russian Military Buildup In And Around Syria…
The Russian navy is showing off its capability in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Syria where Russia has maintained a naval base at Tartus since the 1970s. Ships involved in the exercise include two corvettes, the Serpukhov and Zeleny Dol, armed with cruise missiles Russia used last year to…
Russia Says No Change In Strategy In Syria After Turkish Offer To Join Forces…
Russia’s use of mercenaries in hybrid warfare is well-documented. However, there has been no official Russian acknowledgement of large numbers of Russian ground troops fighting in Syria. SkyNews was able to interview two men anonymously, called Alexander and Dmitry, who described a large training program for a mercenary army trained…
Poison Gas Dropped In Syria In Revenge For Helicopter Shoot down…
Toxic gas was dropped on a Syrian town near where a Russian helicopter was shot down early this week, a Syrian rescue service told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Syria Civil Defence said 33 people, mostly women and children, were affected by the gas, which…
Recently news leaked that Russian combat aircraft purposefully bombed a secret US base on the Jordanian, Syrian border. US and British troops were active from time to time at the facility. Since the base was not in the normal attack area of the Russian and Syrian forces, the Pentagon confirmed…
US military officials believe Russia aircraft, operating out of Syria in June, purposefully bombed a secret US facility in Syrian territory near the Jordanian border. The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia took the action against the base, that sometimes housed secret American and British forces, in order to pressure…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to have offered Russia joint operations in Syria against the Islamic State. This is a huge propaganda win for the Kremlin, which has pushed for months for this type of arrangement to legitimize their own operations in the Syrian theater. The document…
This week a video appeared of a Russian helicopter being downed by Islamic State fighters in Syria. The Kremlin admitted the shoot down and said the aircraft was an old technology MI-24 which is flown by the Syrian air force. Moscow said the aircraft was being piloted by Russian pilots…