Urgent! With Eyes on Syria, Netanyahu Emergency Meeting with Putin in Moscow Plus: Largest Deployment Since USSR Collapse! WW3: Russia Challenges U.S., Joins Syria’s Assad with Nukes, ICBMs, Jets, Ships! (Video)
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Netanyahu Emergency Meeting With Putin Now!
WWIII: Russia Challenges U.S., Joins Syria’s Assad with Nukes, ICBMs, Jets, Ships
Russia sends ships, aircraft and forces to Syria: U.S. officials
Russia
has sent two tank landing ships and additional aircraft to Syria in the
past day or so and has deployed a small number of forces there, U.S.
officials said on Wednesday, in the latest signs of a military buildup
that has put Washington on edge.
The
two U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said
the intent of Russia’s military moves in Syria remained
unclear.
U.S.
officials have not ruled out the possibility that Moscow may be laying the
groundwork for an air combat role in Syria’s conflict to bolster Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad,
a longtime Russian ally, has seen the area he controls whittled down to a
fifth or less of Syria’s territory after more than four years of grinding
civil war.
An
official with the Russian defense ministry declined to
comment.
A
traditional arms supplier to Damascus, Moscow has supported Assad
throughout the war that has fractured Syria and has said it strongly
opposes Islamic State, a militant group that is also the target of a
U.S.-led air campaign.
One
of the U.S. officials said initial indications suggested the focus was on
preparing an airfield near the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of
Assad.
The
officials estimated that dozens of the naval infantry forces had recently
arrived at the airfield, possibly to help provide security.
Russian delivery of weapons to Syria cripples Turkey’s hopes of toppling Assad
The
recent Russian military buildup in Syria to back the Syrian
government against rebels in the civil war is like the kiss of death
for Turkey‘s dream to oust Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad by supporting the rebels.
Russia’s
delivery of advanced weapons, alleged construction by Russia of an
air base and a naval base near Latakia sent ripples of anxiety throughout
Ankara.
“The
Russian and Iranian support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deals a
heavy blow to Turkey’s policy aimed at getting rid of Assad,” Faruk
Loğoğlu, a former ambassador, told Sunday’s Zaman.
Top
Russian officials admitted in the past week to a military transfer of
weapons and servicemen to Syria, while they defended their position,
saying Russia is helping Assad in his fight against
terrorism.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin was quoted by the Associated Press as saying in a
speech in Tajikistan early in the week, “We are supporting the government
of Syria in the fight against terrorist aggression, are offering and will
continue to offer it necessary military-technical
assistance.”
Calling
on other nations to also offer support to the Syrian government, Putin
reportedly added in televised remarks, “Without an active participation of
the Syrian authorities and the military, it would be impossible to expel
the terrorists from that country and the region as a whole, and to protect
the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Syrian people from
destruction.”
According
to Loğoğlu, who occupied top posts in the Turkish Foreign Ministry before
leaving the ministry in 2006, Russia is making by this move its military
and strategic presence in Syria lasting and important.
Turkish
officials admitted earlier to having supported some of the groups fighting
to overthrow the current Syrian regime.
But
Russia’s determination to stand by Assad, who had before the civil war in
Syria close ties with Turkish officials like President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, is to constitute a major obstacle before Turkish officials’
ambitions about getting rid of Assad at all cost.
“It’s
not all that realistic, nor was it so even earlier, to expect Assad to
fall when Russia is strongly behind him,” Deniz Bölükbaşı, a former
ambassador who also held important posts in the Foreign Ministry, told
Sunday’s Zaman.
With eyes on Syria, Netanyahu meets with Putin in Moscow
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departs on a lightning visit to Moscow for
talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russia’s new military
presence in Syria • New satellite images show four Sukhoi fighter jets
parked at airport near Latakia.
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed Monday morning on a lightning visit
to Moscow, where he was scheduled to hold a three-hour meeting with
Russian President Vladimir Putin before returning to Israel in the
evening.
evening.
The
focus of the meeting was expected to be Russia’s deployment of military
forces in Syria.
Last
week, an Israeli official said Netanyahu would present to Putin “the
threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry
to the Syrian arena and from the transfer of lethal weaponry to Hezbollah
and other terrorist groups.”
Netanyahu
was expected to tell Putin that Israel will not accept any limits on its
freedom to operate in Syria. In recent years, foreign media outlets have
reported a number of Israeli airstrikes in Syria that were mean to prevent
the transfer of weaponry from the Assad regime to Hezbollah and other
terrorist groups.
Israel
wants to avoid any friction with Russian forces on the ground in Syria. If
Russian soldiers were accidentally hit in any Israeli strikes in Syria,
this could cause a crisis in the Israel-Russia relationship.
On
the issue of Russia’s military presence in Syria, the Israeli government
is in coordination with the American government. The U.S. is also engaged
in a dialogue with Russia about its military presence in
Syria.
Other
officials taking part in the Netanyahu-Putin meeting will be IDF Chief
of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi, head of
the Military Intelligence Directorate. The participation of military
officials in a diplomatic meeting between two heads of state is unusual.
Their presence emphasizes the importance Israel places on avoiding a
confrontation with Russian military forces in Syria.
Netanyahu’s
entourage to Moscow also includes National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen,
Military Secretary Brig. Gen. Eliezer Toledano and the prime minister’s
media adviser, Boaz Stembler. Unlike on most of the prime minister’s trips
abroad, no journalists are accompanying him during the Moscow
visit.
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