President Obama Talks About Russia's Actions in Syria
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During his Oct. 2 press conference, President Obama said Russia 'had to go into Syria, not out of strength but out of weakness.'
During his Oct. 2 press conference, President Obama said Russia 'had to go into Syria, not out of strength but out of weakness.'
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday called for an investigation into reports that civilians and Red Crescent volunteers were killed in air strikes in Al-Mokha and Taiz in Yemen earlier this week, and urged precise targeting by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country.
The president said the United States would not cooperate in Russian military operations that he said would provide a recruiting tool for Islamic radicals.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is rejecting Russia's military campaign in Syria, saying it fails to distinguish between terrorist groups and moderate rebel forces with a legitimate interest in a negotiated end to the civil war....
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended his country’s bombardment of Syria and denied reports that Russian bombs had targeted opposition rebel forces not affiliated with terrorist groups.
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Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria showed a meticulously planned effort to eliminate any rebel threat to the coastal stronghold of Moscow ally President Bashar al-Assad and his Shiite-linked Alawite minority.
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Russian warplanes continued their bombardment of targets in Syria, destroying more Islamic State infrastructure, as an official said such strikes could go on for months.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin launched strikes against opponents of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Kremlin’s propaganda channels are trying to rally the country behind his second foreign military intervention in two years
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Russian warplanes have destroyed an Islamic State command centre in Syria, according to Moscow's Defence Ministry.
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Civil defense members put out the flames on a burning military vehicle at a base controlled by rebel fighters from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement at Hass ancient cemeteries in the southern countryside of Idlib
A coalition of countries condemns Russia for killing civilians and not targeting Islamic State (IS) forces in air raids on Syria.
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Analysts: Russia's Syria Advance Shakes Regional Powersby webdesk@voanews.com (Heather Murdock)
“Tell Barack Obama, tell Russia, tell Iran that too many people are dying every day,” said Hani, a first grade teacher from Syria, as he awaited entry to a refugee camp in Croatia in late September. “Too many people.” Over the following week, aerial bombardments by the U.S.-led coalition continued in Syria as Hani trudged toward Germany, trying to leave the chaos behind. But rather than slowing, the war has only expanded with Russia entering the fray. Russia says its only goal is to...
Obama administration officials say Russian airstrikes against what they call "indiscriminate" targets in Syria have not prompted a broad re-evaluation of U.S. strategy inside the war-torn country. VOA White House correspondent Aru Pande takes a look at U.S. options in Syria, in light of Russia's recent military intervention.
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European nations are joining the United States in demanding that Russia stop targeting opposition groups other than the Islamic State militants as Russian warplanes continue to conduct raids in Syria. The demand came in a statement from Britain, France, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States Friday. VOA Europe correspondent Luis Ramirez reports.
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The Syrian air force has been bombing anti-government rebels—as well as innocent civilians—with crude barrel bombs that rarely hit their targets. But the arrival of the Russian air force isn’t bringing a big increase in accuracy. Their bombing technology is a generation behind American weapons, and that could end up pinning a target on the back of every Russian soldier in Syria as well as back home.
The U.S. has claimed that the Russian air strikes that began this week appear aimed at Syrian rebel forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad instead of the Islamic State in Syria and Greater Iraq. But they may not be very effective. Video released by the Russians—and U.S. intelligence reports—indicate the bombs being dropped are unguided, and that at least some of them are going astray.
That could lead to big problems for the Russians, according to Lieut. General Bob Otto, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. “Those aren’t precision weapons,” Otto said Thursday of the Russian bombs. “We can tell what’s hanging off the airplane” via intelligence imagery, he said. They’re “dumb” bombs, guided to their targets only by gravity and the plane’s position and velocity when they’re released. Such weapons are notoriously inaccurate.
The U.S. has known for years—especially following hundreds of drones strikes in Pakistan—that ill-aimed weapons can cause more problems than they solve. “We believe if you inadvertently kill innocent men, women and children, then there’s a backlash from that,” Otto said. “We might kill three and create 10 terrorists. It really goes back to the question of are we killing more than were making?”
The U.S. and its allies have been using smart bombs against ISIS targets, and won’t attack them unless it believes there is a low chance of civilian casualties. That’s kept the number of bombing missions low, Otto added.
The U.S. and its allies have been attacking ISIS targets that “are the most precise in the history of warfare,” Army Colonel Steve Warren said Thursday from Baghdad, where he is a spokesman for the anti-ISIS campaign. “The amount of care that we have taken to preserve civilian life, to preserve civilian infrastructure, is unprecedented.”
The Syrians have been using barrel bombs, which are literally barrels crammed with high explosives and shrapnel that cost as little as $200 apiece. They’re the perfect weapon for sowing terror from the skies, and so inaccurate that some international groups argue their use constitutes war crimes. But they’re perfect for an embattled dictator with dwindling weapons stockpiles—and a still-flying air force.
Russia’s munitions lag so far behind those of Western militaries because the Soviet Union fell apart at the same time as smart-bomb technologies were taking off. Since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian military has invested relatively few rubles in improving the accuracy of their air-delivered weapons, Pentagon officials say.
Videos released in recent days by the Russian military appear to show some of their weapons missing their targets. This excerpt, apparently shot from a drone overhead, appears to show cluster bombs—weapons that are designed to wipe out infantry formations—hitting Syrian soil, followed by a volley of larger detonations, most of which seem to miss.
Russia has faced Islamic terrorist in the past, largely from Chechen separatists who have killed hundreds with bomb blasts in apartment buildings and market places. The Internet is littered with videos of Muslims killing Russians, and Russians killing Muslims. Moscow’s actions now underway in Syria are likely to add to the collection.
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Russia ramps up its campaign of air strikes against opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, amid fresh criticism from the US-led anti-IS coalition.
Iraq's prime minister says that he would "welcome" air strikes by Russia in his country if Moscow made such a proposal, but that hasn't happened yet.
U.S. and Russian defense officials held talks October 1 aimed at avoiding conflicts in Syria, but one top general said the United States will not share sensitive intelligence with Russia.
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Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, offered little clarity on whether the terrorists being targeted include rebels backed by the United States and its allies.
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The United States and other nations that back groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad had accused Moscow of targeting almost every opposition group but the Islamic State.
With Syria “disintegrating” after years of civil war, some Israelis argue, it is hard to imagine a stable state to which the territory seized in the 1967 war could be returned.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked forces guarding one of Libya's main oil ports on Thursday with a gun assault and an attempted car bomb in an escalation of their campaign in the North African state, a local security official said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Warplanes believed to be Russian bombed an Islamic State-held town 130 km (80 miles) northeast of Damascus overnight, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 44 people in Istanbul on Friday on suspicion of links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a continuing crackdown on militants ahead of a snap national election in November, local media reported.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it had carried out new rounds of air strikes in Syria, hitting 12 Islamic State targets.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande and Russia's Vladimir Putin had an in-depth discussion on Syria on Friday in which they "tried to narrow down differences on political transition," an aide to Hollande said after the two met in Paris.
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BEIRUT (Reuters)- - Across the Middle East, America’s traditional allies are watching with disbelief as Russia and Iran mount a show of force in Syria, and they are wondering how it will end.
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