Poison Gas Dropped In Syria In Revenge For Helicopter Shoot down
Poison Gas Dropped In Syria In Revenge For Helicopter Shoot down…
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…
In a bid to match U.S. naval power projection capability, Russia is sending the accident prone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, to the Mediterranean to allow combat operations in the Syrian theater. This would be the first time that a Russian aircraft carrier would be engaged in combat. The ship has…
Opinion: Putin Wins Cold War With Turkey Over Shootdown.
Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin has confirmed on Monday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent a letter of condolence on the death of the Su-24 pilot to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Anadolu news agency has reported. “Kalin said that Erdogan offered his deep condolences on the downed Russian plane….
On June 16th, American F-18s launched from a carrier in the Med, tried and failed to stop Russian jets from bombing US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria. It seems Russian SU-34 Fullback bombers struck American backed forces garrisoned on Syrian side of the Jordanian border. The US Navy…