Iran Rejects Russian Demand To Withdraw Troops From Syria
However former Sunday Times journalist Hala Jaber countered that Putin did not refer to Iran or other Syrian allied forces: "Iran's presence is not viewed in the same league as that of the US and as such is not negotiable nor will be used by Syria as an exchange commodity..." Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Russian experts familiar with his thinking, wants a Syria exit plan, but faces an Iranian roadblock.
The Russian envoy said: "This is a very complex matter, because these measures must be implemented collectively, and start in parallel with a stabilizing process, because the military part is nearing its end and the confrontations are now in a final stage".
In the escalating confrontation between Israel and Iran, Israel's defence minister called on Syria's President Bashar Assad on Friday to rid his country of Iranian forces based there - warning their presence will only cause more trouble to the already war-ravaged country. Israel fears that will allow Iran to more easily transfer weapons to Hezbollah, Lebanon's powerful Shiite guerrilla force, and reinforce the militant group's influence over the region. Iran, after dominating Iraq, wants to increase its economic, military and political influence in Syria.
Iran does not object to continuing to abide by the nuclear deal as long as it can sell its oil, even if one of the chair's legs is missing and it has to sit somewhat uncomfortably in the absence of the US.
Therefore, it is Russian Federation that will have to make a choice between an alliance with Iran, or an accord with the U.S., some Arab countries and Israel.
Pro-Syrian government forces have been battling for weeks to recover the city of Al-Hajar al-Aswad and the adjacent Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp from the Islamic State since driving rebels from eastern Ghouta in April.
Germany insists that a United Nations peacekeeping force should help facilitate next year's elections in Ukraine.
The ultra-hardline jihadist group the Islamic State, which was driven from most of the Euphrates River valley a year ago, now controls only two besieged desert areas in eastern Syria. And - to make things worse - as Iranian officials raced to contain the damage from these two events, Israel hyped up its pounding of Iranian military targets in Syria, with the Russians looking on.
Army soldiers fired into the air in celebration and held Syrian flags, against a smashed cityscape of shattered buildings and widespread destruction, state television footage showed.
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Still, experts agreed preventive gun safety legislation is critical. "We have to arm our teachers", he said. However, according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott , he didn't have the courage to take his own life.
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Relatives said they remained "mostly in the dark about the specifics" of the attack and shared "the public's hunger for answers". But even better than that is four to five guns to one". "Some people are saying you can't prevent guns with guns", Ybarra said.
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However, the deaths of 72 people will be looked at by the inquiry, including Maria Del Pilar Burton, 74, who died in January 2018. How long will it take? The two additional members are expected to join the second phase of the inquiry that begins in December.
"The capital in now free of military operations for the first time in almost 7 years", the war monitor said.
This is a reference to the still ongoing but thorny Astana, Kazakhstan centered talks involving Russia, Turkey, and Iran which has been by and large rejected by the vast majority of anti-Assad fighters, especially due to Iran's contentious role as a main guarantor of the deal.
Tensions between the two regional arch-rivals came to a head last week after missiles were launched from Syria targeted Israeli positions in the Golan Heights.
Mayhoub says "Damascus and its surroundings are completely secure".
A war-monitoring group said about 1,600 people, including hundreds of Islamic State gunmen, left the area Saturday and Sunday, heading toward the desert in the east of the country after a deal with the government.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom -based monitoring group downplayed the military victory, saying that it was a "secret agreement" between the government and ISIS that allowed the rebels to depart.
Syrian media initially reported that it was a suspected USA missile attack, but the United States denied it had launched any air strikes against the country.
Information for this article was contributed by Nasser Karimi, Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue of The Associated Press.
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