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U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, Russia calls emergency U.N. meeting
Reuters ^ | September 17, 2016 | Angus McDowall and Andrew Osborn

Posted on 09/17/2016 3:09:51 PM PDT by Pinkbell

U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting Moscow to seek an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting.

The United States military said the coalition stopped the air strike against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit.

A U.S. military official said he was "pretty sure" targets mistakenly hit in the coalition strikes were Syrian forces.

Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after the air strikes, which allowed Islamic State militants to briefly overrun a Syrian army position near Deir al-Zor airport.

"We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.

She said the strikes threatened to undermine the ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia, which has been aiding Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war, and the United States, which has backed some rebel groups.

The Russian Defence Ministry said U.S. jets had killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers in four air strikes by two F-16s and two A-10s coming from the direction of Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group with contacts across the country, cited a military source at Deir al-Zor airport as saying that at least 80 Syrian soldiers had been killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: obama; russia; syria; syriaceasfire; syriawar
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
this US attack on the Syrian army today is being reported in the UK/French media, but not the US media.

I heard it last hour on the FOX radio news.

41 posted on 09/17/2016 4:24:56 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Pinkbell

Fine by me. Assad has destroyed Syria. And Putin deserves everlasting shame for supporting him, Butcher Assad should have been hanging from s lamppost ages ago.


43 posted on 09/17/2016 4:32:51 PM PDT by axiomatical
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To: Pinkbell

....And Wikileaks ACCIDENTLY revealed that Hillary Clinton has been selling weapons to ISIS.....Now, the US military is ACCIDENTLY helping them....

What if we US taxpayers ACCIDENTLY chose to stop paying taxes to support these fools....?


44 posted on 09/17/2016 4:40:20 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: silverleaf

October 12, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/syria-rebel-groups-ammunition-50-tons/index.html

U.S. military cargo planes gave 50 tons of ammunition to rebel groups overnight in northern Syria, ... dropped small arms ammunition and other items like hand grenades in Hasakah province in northern Syria to a coalition of rebels groups vetted by the US, known as the Syrian Arab Coalition.


45 posted on 09/17/2016 4:41:49 PM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: silverleaf

Sorry, but the GOPe Congress is in on the betrayal to the islamofascists......the Russians clearly have the higher moral ground....(very dangerous for us patriotic Americans, the globalist are provoking a war with a nuclear power)


46 posted on 09/17/2016 4:49:22 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: soycd

No accident.


47 posted on 09/17/2016 4:55:06 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: axiomatical

Assad is a BUTCHER because the western MSM has painted that label on him.....he is also the widely popular & legally elected President of a sovereign country that the anti-Christian globalists are trying to steal from the Russian sphere of influence....

The BUTCHERS are ISIS & those who support ISIS.....(especially those who do it with US tax dollars)


48 posted on 09/17/2016 5:03:28 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-neocon-in-the-oval-office

She is a sociopath.


49 posted on 09/17/2016 5:04:44 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Pinkbell

Obama and his puppet string pullers created the anarchy and turmoil in Syria purposely so they could create millions of Muslim refugees that will undermine our culture and that of Europe, while the multi-culturalist commies in the media that are behind it gain subversive power.

Our enemy is the media and those who undermine the USA. Call them whatever as they are truly traitors.


50 posted on 09/17/2016 5:05:41 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: Pinkbell

So is this the airstrike Obama was personally micromanaging? Isn’t there a Kerry brokered cease fire in effect? What the hell are these people up to? Do we have a declaration of war? I’m so sick of this crap I could puke. Either go all Dresden on the place or get out. Enough.


51 posted on 09/17/2016 5:09:33 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: semaj

The choice between the democrat traitor ship going on now and trusting Russia there is no choice but one.


55 posted on 09/17/2016 5:12:50 PM PDT by soycd
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
We also need to start spending on research and engineering.

The Chinese are coming on quickly and we will never fix the Mideast.

56 posted on 09/17/2016 5:15:28 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: apoliticalone

http://www.unz.com/article/an-obituary-of-the-new-york-times/

Discredited for sure.


57 posted on 09/17/2016 5:18:49 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: axiomatical

The Obama administration thanks you for your servicing.


58 posted on 09/17/2016 5:31:48 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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To: hondact200; humblegunner; Semper Mark; Darksheare; LucyT; OldSmaj; 50mm
I'll bet you look really spiffy, all dressed up in your Blues with the awards you didn't earn mismatched all over your chest.

You gonna tell us another tall tale like this one? " i have military service related injury related to the bombing in lebanon in 1983...and susequent days of being entombed in a collapsed building..." which is a complete lie.

What's the matter, Poser?
Why don't you answer when I call you a liar and a fraud?

Could it be because it's true?

59 posted on 09/17/2016 5:46:07 PM PDT by shibumi (Dancin in the Dark with Tramps in the Park, I'm the Fleetfoot VooDoo Man)
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To: shibumi

Don’t get me started on this low life fraud.

I won’t ever forgive him for insulting an honorable Military man.

And did this jerk ever apologize to our dear freeper?

NO.


60 posted on 09/17/2016 6:28:28 PM PDT by LucyT
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