Russia warns of unilateral strikes against rebels violating cease-fire if US refuses to coordinate

Russia warns of unilateral strikes against rebels violating cease-fire if US refuses to coordinate

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MOSCOW -- Russia on Monday warned the United States that it will start responding to cease-fire violations in Syria unilaterally starting Tuesday if the U.S. refuses to coordinate rules of engagement against the violators.
The Russian military have accused the U.S. of dragging its feet on responding to Moscow's proposals on joint monitoring of a Syria cease-fire. A top Russian general said on the weekend that further delays are leading to civilian casualties, like in Aleppo where 67 civilians reportedly have been killed by militant fire since the truce started.
Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff said in a statement on Monday that Russia will have to use force unilaterally that because the U.S., in talks with Russia last week, had refused to coordinate a joint response.
"The American side was not ready for this particular discussion and for the approval of the agreement," the statement quoted him as saying.
The cease-fire that began on Feb. 27, brokered by Russia and the U.S., has helped significantly reduce hostilities. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have been excluded from the truce.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week recalled some of Russian warplanes from Syria, but said the action against ISIS and the Nusra Front would continue. The U.S. military has also continued its fight against those designated terrorist groups under the auspices of the truce.
Both sides have complained continually of cease-fire violations since the day it took effect, with moderate opposition groups claiming the Assad regime has continued attacking them, also.
But in spite of these regular challenges, the truce has largely held and ushered in the first real hopes of an eventual end to the war in five years. The conflict has left more than 270,000 people dead, and forced millions of Syrians to flee their homes, fueling the largest exodus of refugees since World War II.
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Ехавшую на суд над Савченко депутата Верховной рады не пустили в Россию - РБК

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Human rights defenders battle on as Chechnya cracks down

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Head of Committee to Prevent Torture speaks out after office raid, beatings of journalists and attack on him in street
It has not been a good month for the Committee to Prevent Torture. The human rights group, which works to bring to justice Russian police and officials who use torture on prisoners, had its offices in Chechnya broken into. Another of its premises in neighbouring Ingushetia, where the group has kept its documents on Chechnya since its previous Chechen offices were burned down a year ago, was raided by armed men.
The same evening, masked men accosted a minibus full of journalists on a tour put on by the group. They stopped the bus on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, beat the passengers and set the bus on fire, screaming that the group should stay out of Chechnya.
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Biden Tells AIPAC Two-state Solution the 'Only Way' to Security

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has assured a pro-Israel lobbying group that Iran is not close to developing a nuclear weapon. Speaking Sunday in Washington at a meeting of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, Biden said "Iran is much, much further away from obtaining a nuclear weapon than they were a year ago."  The vice president told the activists the U.S. is "watching Iran like a hawk." Biden also urged Israel to negotiate a two-state solution to the Middle East region's ills. "The only way in my view to guarantee Israel's future and security of its identity as a Jewish and democratic state is with a two-state solution," he said. Palestinians have grown frustrated with the growth of Jewish settlements on land Palestinians want for a future state.   Vice President Biden also spoke indirectly about the U.S. presidential race.  He said, "As the Jewish people know better than any other people, any action that marginalizes one religious or ethnic group imperils us all... It is incumbent on all of us to stand up against those who traffic in pernicious stereotypes, who seek to scare and divide us for political gain, because the future belongs to the bridge builders, not the wall builders." Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said if he is elected he would build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep Mexicans out of the U.S., calling Mexicans rapists and criminals.

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Russia's UK Embassy Slams FT Article on Anti-Terror Campaign in Syria - Sputnik International

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Russia's UK Embassy Slams FT Article on Anti-Terror Campaign in Syria
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in London responded on Monday to an article in the Financial Times newspaper which criticized Russia's anti-terrorist campaign in Syria, arguing that the article presented a lopsided view on the ...

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Refugees: Turkish Coast Guard Becoming More Violent

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War refugees from the Middle East newly arrived in Greece say Turkey's gendarmes and coast guard are becoming increasingly violent in their efforts to stop asylum-seekers from crossing the Aegean Sea - both on Turkish beaches, to disrupt the boarding of smugglers’ boats, and later when refugees are under way. One Syrian asylum-seeker currently at the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border told VOA that Turkish coast guards circled the small rubber boat she was in and ordered all the occupants to jump into the sea. “They had their cameras ready and I think they wanted to film us to show how they rescue refugees,” says Ramia Sabbagh, a 19-year-old from Aleppo, who said it took 40 days for her family to organize a trip across the Aegean. In the end they were able to escape the Turkish coast guard after another refugee boat appeared, diverting attention. Earlier this month, Britain’s BBC News broadcast a short video supplied by refugees showing Turkish coast guards hitting a boat full of migrants with sticks. The incident was in Turkish waters and the refugees on their way to the Greek island of Lesbos accused the coast guard of attacking them. Turkish authorities insist the coast guard was just trying to stop the boat without harming the occupants. Other refugees report confrontations on beaches near the Turkish port of Izmir as they walked to prearranged meetings with smugglers. A 27-year-old Afghan who worked as an interpreter for both U.S. and British forces in Afghanistan told VOA he and his companions made three attempts to complete the Aegean crossing before being successful on their fourth try. The previous attempts failed because they were spotted on the seafront and Turkish gendarmes intercepted them. “They slapped us around; took our cash and cell phones,” he said. He asked for VOA not to use his name - the Taliban killed his father last year and he fears other family members could be at risk if his name is mentioned in the international media. He declined a Taliban recruitment offer, prompting his flight overseas. There have also been accusations by Syrian refugees of having been dumped on the other side of the border back into Syria if they prove too troublesome for Turkish authorities. In December refugees said several hundred held at the Tekirdag detention center two hours from Istanbul were bused to the border and pushed back over the border into Syria. They had been among refugees who had refused to move away from the Turkey-Greece border near the town of Edirne. Last Friday, European Union and Turkish leaders agreed to a deal whereby refugees from the Middle East as well as migrants from Africa will be returned to Turkey after landing in Greece. In return the EU will supply an additional nearly $3.4 billion in funding to help Turkey with the economic burden of the refugee crisis and will relocate to member states up to 72,000 of an estimated 2.7 million Syrian refugees currently in Turkey. Rights groups have condemned the deal, saying it violates both EU human rights legislation and international law governing the handling of war refugees.  “Turkey is not a safe country for refugees and migrants, and any return process predicated on it is being so will be flawed, illegal and immoral,” Amnesty International said in a statement on the announcement of the deal. Any increase in violence by Turkish coast guards and gendarmes will likely encourage rights campaigners to challenge the EU-Turkey deal in the European courts, a move they have threatened. Last month, Amnesty issued a report also accusing Turkish security forces of having shot and wounded civilians, including children, who were attempting to flee war-ravaged Syria by crossing into Turkey. The New York-based human rights organization said Turkish authorities had left thousands of civilians trapped in northern Syria after they fled their homes during a blistering Russian-backed offensive by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.  “Turkey’s highly selective practice is appalling - only severely injured people are allowed entry to seek medical treatment,” said Tirana Hassan, crisis response director at Amnesty International, on the release of the report. Turkey has long declared it has an open-door policy for Syrian refugees fleeing conflict, but the Syrian border has been shuttered to civilians for more than a year, forcing those fleeing to paying smugglers. There have been dozens of reports of Turkish border guards shooting at civilians trying to cross into Turkey. In May 2015, VOA reported on claims by Syrian civilians that they had been shot at by Turkish guards near the town of Kilis trying to deter refugees from reaching a tunnel under the border fence. Human Rights Watch has also accused Turkish authorities of summarily pushing back Syrians detected as they try to cross.  The rights organization documented cases in a November report, saying: “Syrians described Turkish border guards intercepting them at or near the border, in some cases beating them, and pushing them and dozens of others back into Syria or detaining and then summarily expelling them along with hundreds of others.”

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PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - March 21 - Daily Mail

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Заявление начальника Главного оперативного управления Генштаба ВС РФ генерал-лейтенанта Сергея Рудского

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Ukraine president's envoy not allowed to enter Russia - Ukraine Today

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Ukraine president's envoy not allowed to enter Russia
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The Russian border control service has not allowed Ukraine's presidential envoy for the peace settlement in Donbas Iryna Gerashchenko to enter the country, Ukrainian president's press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on Monday (March 21), according ...

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Commentary: Assignment To Harass

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Attempts by authoritarian governments to intimidate and harass Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalists only serve to emphasize how well these reporters are doing their jobs, says RFE/RL's Editor in Chief Nenad Pejic

Russia Says Might Use Force to Cease-Fire Violators in Syria - ABC News

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For Ukraine, EU Sanctions on Russia Hang in the Balance - STRATFOR

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For Ukraine, EU Sanctions on Russia Hang in the Balance
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) hopes to persuade the European Union to renew sanctions against Russia -- set to expire in July -- at their next vote on the matter. (JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images) ... 
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Is Russia Really Pulling Out from Syria? Nyet. - Observer

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Is Russia Really Pulling Out from Syria? Nyet.
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Majority of Norwegians 'do not believe in God' for first time in country's history 

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Asked 'Do you believe in God?', those responding 'no' outweighed those who said 'yes' for first time ever

Russia warns US it will use force in response to Syria cease-fire violations - Fox News

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Russia warns US it will use force in response to Syria cease-fire violations
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Syria talks may hinge on Russia's willingness to put pressure on Assad 

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Chances of new constitutional settlement for Syria seem remote as delegates in Geneva wrangle over procedure
The Syrian opposition has vented its frustration at the Assad regime delegation at the Geneva peace talks, accusing its leaders of procrastinating and avoiding any substantive dialogue in favour of arguing about procedures.
The anger suggests the success of the talks may turn on the willingness of Russia to put pressure on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, to stop the talks ending in an early stalemate.
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Russia Requests Meeting With U.S. On Syria Truce

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Russia's military is calling for an urgent meeting with U.S. representatives to agree on the mechanism for enforcing the cease-fire in Syria.

Daily Vertical: Weaponization By Any Other Name (Transcript)

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As the European Union and Turkey were negotiating an agreement last week to ease the worst refugee crisis since World War II, Moscow chimed in with a snarky message.

The Daily Vertical: Weaponization By Any Other Name

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Israel-Syria Border Quiets as Humanitarian Aid Increases

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Less than an hour after a car bomb exploded wounding his leg in the Syrian province of Quneitra, Dr. Abu Hamzeh was in Israel. The Israelis opened a passage at the border and took him to a hospital in Safad. There, he, a surgeon-turned-patient, found himself in pajamas with Hebrew letters and an Israeli doctor tickling his foot and asking, "You feel?"  Abu Hamzeh is not his real name. Journalists were allowed to see wounded Syrians on condition they do not publish their names or pictures that could put them at risk when they go home. So the 35-year-old doctor gave one name, changed his mind and gave another, which means Hamzeh's father. Abu Hamzeh is a Sunni-Muslim and a rebel. In the bed next to him was a farmer, Fares, 24, a Shiite-Muslim who was wounded when he accidentally stepped on a bomb near Damascus. The Shi'ites support President Bashar Assad, but Fares said he did not belong to any militia. Medical aid across the border The medical treatment given them and more than 2,100 other Syrians in recent years is one of the reasons why Israel's border with Syria became so quiet. " For months there has been no cross-border fire," the Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of General Staff Major General Yair Golan told VOA. The border is 100 kilometers-long. The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah, which Western countries and the Arab League consider a terrorist organization, is in the north. Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida, controls the central sector and Shuhadat al-Yarmukh, which declared allegiance to the Islamic State, is in south. They say they want to destroy Israel. But the people who live in those areas are primarily concerned with local issues, Professor Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University's vice rector and an expert on Syria, says. They are "deeply conservative, but religion has been imbued with a local tradition of moderation," wrote Khaled Yacoub Oweis in a paper  published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.  Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's condition for aid, that the Syrians "not allow any terror ...to approach our border and operate against us," is one that even radical militia leaders can accept. Their immediate aim is to get rid of the Assad regime and establish a caliphate. Humanitarian aid Liquidating Israel is a future goal, the Institute for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv noted in a recent publication. All the players in southern Syria, even violent Jihadist forces that do not consider Israel an imminent enemy, can acquiesce to ad hoc activities to meet security, civilian or humanitarian needs, the statement said. The arrangements on the Golan were made through intermediaries. "We [only] talk to Syrian elements across the border who are moderate," Major General Yair Golan said. The Free Syrian Army appears to be such a group.It is a fairly moderate, secular, U.S.-backed organization. Some people get to the border on their own, Major General Golan said.They include pregnant women and children who are sometimes  accompanied by a parent or a grandparent. But 70 to 80 percent of the arrivals are orthopedic cases.  Saving lives, helping wounded Israel treats them regardless of their organizational affiliation. "We don't screen people in need," Israeli spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said. Israeli soldiers in full battle gear meet the Syrians at the border. Medics undress them, check their wounds and after initial treatment cover them with a sheet or a blanket and send them to a hospital.  The wounds are sometimes gory. Professor Alexander Lerner, who heads Ziv Hospital's Orthopedic Department, said doctors sometimes amputate a leg above the injury, remove the devastated part and join the section that can be saved. Then they stretch the leg by two millimeters a day.  Most of the patients "go home walking," he said. Israel also provides villagers with food, fuel, and blankets.  Meanwhile, it erected a formidable border fence topped with rows of coiled barbed wire. It set up cameras and radar. A new division was built with rapid response teams and a hotline to the air force that can intervene swiftly.  The army's main concern is to prevent "a sudden storming of the border," Lieutenant Colonel Lerner said. Some Syrians tried to persuade Israel to deepen its involvement, but General Golan was emphatic. "It would be a grave mistake to intervene … to help this one or that one," he asserted. The regime and the Jihadist organizations are Israel's bitter enemies. The Institute for Strategic Studies' publication noted that Israel doubts the new Syrian players would be reliable partners and the lessons from its involvement in Lebanon still hurt. What began with a Good Fence policy in Lebanon ended with painful Hezbollah attacks and an unconditional withdrawal to the international border.

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Georgia's refusal to continue dialogue with Russia won't ease tensions — official - TASS

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Georgia's refusal to continue dialogue with Russia won't ease tensions — official
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Russia gives US new ultimatum in Syria cease-fire
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The head of Russia's Security Council says Ukrainian nationalism and economic pressures could destabilize the security situation on the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine two years ago.

Russia is following a clear strategy in Syria

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Few in Moscow believe that the Assad regime will last long without changes, writes Fyodor Lukyanov
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad©AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
V
ladimir Putin’s decision to pull Russian troops out of Syria hit the headlines around the world. But it should have been expected. Official statements said from the beginning that the operation would last only a limited time, that there would be no permanent extensive military presence, that the purpose was not to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime but to save the country’s statehood and that the future would have to be determined by the Syrian people through political talks. What they said then is actually happening.
So why now? The question of an exit strategy has been raised throughout the operation, and Mr Putin felt the time was right. Looking back, one can see why. The Syrian regime had had to be fortified because, Russia believed, the spread of radical Islam could be stopped only by strengthening statehood; the Syrian government is internationally recognised and Moscow had offered to help it. Russian aircraft bombed its opponents — Isis and other militant groups — but the mission took longer than planned because Syria’s army was less combat-ready than expected. Eventually, the situation was reversed, allowing Russia to reduce its presence and its responsibility for the future.

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What are the results? The Assad regime has been saved from collapse and increased the territory it controls. The change in the balance of forces on the ground has inspired hope for genuine talks; it is well known that some parties seriously consider political deals only when military victory becomes implausible. The opposition can no longer hope to win militarily, and neither can the regime after Russian troops leave. Syria needs profound reforms to recover a viable statehood and few in Moscow believe the present regime will last long without changes. Russia’s pullout is a signal to the Syrian authorities that it will not do their work for them.
Russia had started the operation under the slogan of combating Isis — but this task became secondary and the war was essentially waged for Syria itself. The main question was whether statehood could recover as a sustainable, gov­ernable entity. The approach assumed any destruction of the administrative structure would be the result of the regime’s deposition and chaos could ensue. Still, efforts by Moscow in Syria and the US-led coalition in Iraq did stop the spread of Isis. To secure its defeat, more is needed. Air strikes are not enough; a ground campaign and ideally joint efforts by the regime and opposition must follow. This can be achieved only through a political process.
Can Mr Assad survive without Russia? It will not leave completely. There have been two recent similar situations. When the US pulled out of Iraq completely, the country fell apart and Isis emerged. When the US withdrew most of its troops from Afghanistan but left a serious military presence, it kept the country together despite all its problems. Russia should keep its military infrastructure and a contingent of forces in Syria to guarantee the regime will not collapse. Moscow has learnt its lessons.
What are the political results? Russia has proved to be an influential international operator. The agenda for discussion with the west has widened. Before the Syria campaign, it focused mainly on the Ukraine peace process — a peripheral issue compared with the Middle East. It would be naive to expect a “Ukraine for Syria” bargain, but there is no doubt Moscow is taken more seriously than six months ago, and this will have an impact on the Ukrainian talks.
Do the Geneva peace talks have any future? That Russia is distancing itself from Mr Assad while not giving up on him is a positive sign. Syria will change, and Moscow will be able to interact not only with Assad’s regime but also with a broader array of actors. Coupled with intensive diplomatic efforts between Moscow, Washington and Riyadh, this will provide a chance for a settlement.
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President Obama Arrives in Cuba for Historic Visit

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 President Obama's three-day trip to Cuba includes a visit to Havana's cathedral, meeting political dissidents, and a baseball game in addition to the central focus of his itinerary: showcasing the potential of economic ties between the U.S. and Cuba. Photo: Getty

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