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Russia and the United States have exchanged opinions on setting up a "three-star" Syrian communication channel at the level of generals, said Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, a spokesman for the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"A working level discussion has taken place to exchange initial thoughts on how such a channel might be established to enhance deconfliction," Hicks told TASS. The official did not elaborate on who held the discussions and when.

According to Hicks, the U.S. side expects that the armed forces of Russia and the United States will exchange information on Syria at a higher level than they presently do. This alternative channel of communication will allow to more efficiently manage "the immediate deconfliction we have been doing over the last several months."

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It marks the second meeting in a month between Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and his Russian counterpart.

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On "The Turkish Bridge"

The US and Russian Military Leaders
Meet On "The Turkish Bridge";

The Trump Bridge
to The Other America
is needed in the US.

The US is back in the Middle East.
Gen. Dunford's meetings with his Russian and Turkish counterparts is the first logical and needed step in the resolutions of the chains of regional conflicts.
In the background, Mike Pompeo's recent visit to the region and the previous meeting between Gen. Dunford and Gen. Gerasimov in Baku on 2.16.17, most likely played their positive preparatory roles.

Apparently, it was approved and initiated on the highest political levels.
This can be viewed as one of the early signs of the more assertive posture in the foreign policies and the possible predictor of their future successes (the issue and the question of the future Kurdish state should not be overlooked), which might be one of the decisive factors in the Trump Administration's continuing struggle for political, social, and mass-psychological legitimacy. The farther and deeper is its self-positioning and the continuing turn to the self-identity as the National Security Administration, the more beneficial it will be for the current Administration and for the country. The productive mutual working accommodations with the USIC are one of the pressing goals in this direction.

The situation with and around the allegations of Trump's ties with Russia is complex, probably not easy to investigate, and is enormously important for the present and the future functioning of the US political bodies. It is in the most far-reaching interests of Mr. Trump to cooperate, to support, and to help this investigation completely and wholeheartedly, in all its aspects, including the nature and origins of his possible surveillance (hypothetically, not necessarily and not only by the FBI and USIC, including Counterintelligence services, but by a broad variety of other possibly interested parties, including the various Foreign Intelligence Services). If there was not any wrongdoing, Mr. Trump might be completely exonerated.

Regardless of this process of the Congressional and IC inquiries, which should proceed their own ways and unimpeded, the business of governing in the internal and external affairs should proceed its own way also, as usually, not in the atmosphere of a "crisis", but in a fully functioning mode.

Some observers do believe that "every crisis is the mother of opportunities".

Michael Novakhov

3:17 PM 3/7/2017

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WASHINGTON — The top American military officer met Tuesday with his Russian and Turkish counterparts to discuss how to avoid an unintended confrontation as forces from all three nations operate on an increasingly crowded battlefield in northern Syria.

The unusual three-way meeting was held in Antalya, Turkey. It brought together Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian general staff; and their Turkish counterpart, Gen. Hulusi Akar.

The major purpose of the session was to discuss “the fight against all terrorist organizations in Syria” and “the importance of additional measures for de-conflicting operations,” a spokesman for General Dunford said in a statement.

The situation in northern Syria has become increasingly tense in recent days. Supported by American and Russian airstrikes, Turkish forces and Syrian militias supported by Turkey recently succeeded in taking the town Al Bab from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

But Turkey’s main worry is not ISIS but ensuring that Syrian Kurds do not establish a ministate in northern Syria. That has spurred fears that Turkish troops and their allies in the Syria opposition might move to seize Manbij, a town in northern Syria that was taken from ISIS by Syrian Arab and Kurdish militias backed by the United States.

The fighters defending Manbij do not believe that the Turkish posture is mere saber-rattling. Abu Amjed, the head of the Manbij Military Council, said in an interview last week that his fighters were being shot at by Turkish troops and that he considered Turkey to be more of a threat than ISIS.

As the situation escalated, the Manbij Military Council has tried to pre-empt any Turkish offensive by striking a deal with Russia to turn nearby villages under its control over to Syrian government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. As part of that deal, a Syrian government convoy with humanitarian aid began to make its way to Manbij, escorted by Russian armored vehicles, which halted just short of the town.

At the same time, American troops in Stryker fighting vehicles and armored Humvees flying large American flags began to appear in and around Manbij to dissuade Turkish-backed militias and other groups from attacking the area. The American troops include a unit of Army Rangers, who appear to have been sent to northern Syria from the base American forces use in Erbil, Iraq. It was an unusually public role for Army Rangers, who often prefer to operate in the shadows.

Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday that the American deployment was intended as a “visible sign of deterrence and reassurance.”

“We are concerned about anybody who views Manbij as needing to be liberated,” he added.

One American official described the situation around Manbij as a potential tinderbox. There have already been a couple of friendly fire incidents, including a Russian airstrike last week that hit Syrian Arab fighters trained by the Americans. The worry is that a small incident could rapidly escalate and undermine the American-backed push to capture Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate.

“There is a need for an effective coordination in the efforts to clear Syria of all terror groups because so many countries are involved there,” Binali Yildirim, the Turkish prime minister, said of the generals meeting. “That’s the real aim of the meeting.”

The challenge facing the United States and Turkey, however, goes well beyond drawing clear battle lines.

American Special Operations Forces regard the Y.P.G. — the Syrian Kurdish militia that is officially known as the People’s Protection Units — as an effective battlefield ally whose participation is vital to roll back the Islamic State in Syria.

While President Trump has yet to decide the matter, American commanders have also argued for equipping the Y.P.G. with armored vehicles, heavy machine guns and anti-tank missiles so they could join the operation to seize Raqqa.

Turkey, which has cast the Kurdish militias as terrorists, has vociferously objected to such a move. The American military has tried to develop ways to reassure Turkey, including by increasing the number of Syrian Arabs that would be used to take Raqqa.

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The heads of the Russian, Turkish, and US armed forces are meeting in southern Turkey in a rare face-to-face summit on the war against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

The meeting in Antalya comes amid around the northern Syrian town of Manbij, where troops from all three countries are now involved in a Mexican standoff following clashes between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces.

General Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian General Stafff, and General Hulusi Akar, who heads the General Staff of the Turkish Armed forces, went into a meeting on Tuesday morning to “ to discuss issues of security in Syria and Iraq,” the Russian ministry of defence said.

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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, the United States and Russia must coordinate fully to clear Syria of terrorist groups and the three countries' chiefs of staff were working to prevent clashes between the different parties in the country, Turkey's prime minister said.

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The slogans which bring people into the streets may touch on socio-economic problems, democracy, and corruption, the Russian analyst says. “But the main thing among both Ukrainians and Belarusians is the struggle for the liberation of their country and nation and for a renewed Daughter-Motherland under national banners” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=58BD999DEF564).

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