Posted on 10/21/2017 10:25:04 PM PDT by NorseViking
Rapid advances by Russian- and Iranian-backed government forces in eastern Syria are thwarting the U.S. military’s hopes of pressing deeper into Islamic State territory after winning the battle for Raqqa.
An expansion of territory held by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad is also likely to provide Assad with additional leverage in political negotiations over Syria’s future, talks the United Nations hopes to reconvene next month.
In a statement this week, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said the “latest developments” in Syria pointed “to the urgent need to reinvigorate the political process.”
The recent government gains have cut off the approach of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to remaining militant strongholds in the southeastern part of the country, including the crucial town of Bukamal near the Syria-Iraq border.
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How dare them secure territory in their own country? Our neocon generals have only one goal in mind, and that’s a sunni government in Syria.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
Russia is also being blamed by Wapo and other #NeverTrump media out there for promoting the independence movement in Catalonia.
Also known as the Syrian government forces...
Our presence in Syria presumably was for the purpose of defeating ISIS, nothing more. The President promised we would not get involved in nation building.
So, if ISIS has been defeated in Syria and expelled, why do we stay?? for territorial purposes? to change the government of a sovereign state? why?
How many innocent people in Syria only have died ? 500,000
Assad for all his warts and flaws ran a secular country where Christians and other minority religions were free to practice their faith.
McCain and his fellow neocons have cause more death and destruction kowtowing to their Saudi masters...
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