Posted on 03/22/2021 7:25:32 AM PDT by dynachrome
Airstrikes on several locations in northwest Syria near the border with Turkey have killed at least one person and set afire several trucks used to distribute aid, opposition activists and a paramedic group said Monday.
The late Sunday attacks angered Turkey, which had asked Russia to secure an immediate end to the strikes, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, adding that Turkish troops had been placed on alert.
Turkey and Russia support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict. The countries reached a deal last March that stopped a Russian-backed government offensive on the northwestern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold in war-torn Syria.
Opposition activists claimed that Russian warplanes carried out the attacks near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey late Sunday, hours after government artillery shelling hit a major hospital in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria. Six patients, including a child, were killed. Medical staff were wounded, forcing the facility to shut its doors.
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Russian aims and Turkey’s aims collide, but both have a third aim, which is the control of Syria for their mutual benefit. That requires for Turkey the keeping of tensions with the Kurds and Turkish control of parts of Syria, But for Russia it requires keeping Assad in power. Without Assad in power, without Russia in Syria, Iran and Hezbollah would take it over.
Expect tensions within the space of Syria to continue, because the comity between Turkey, Russia and Iran can only continue in the status quo of the tensions in Syria, not their resolution in favor of Iran or Turkey.
Turkey and Russia support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Turkey and Syria support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Turkey and Iran support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Iran and Syria support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Russia and Syria support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Russia and Iran support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict.
Doesn’t the US have some troops in Syria, somewhere?
If it weren’t for the jackoffs fighting over control there, we’d probably have more, what with Biden and his handlers being touch-holes and everything.
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