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"The War Against the Assad Regime Is Not a ""Pipeline War""" The explanation that is rapidly gaining popularity is that the war in Syria is a pipeline war, fought to ensure that the natural gas from Qatar would go to Europe through Syria and would weaken Europe's dependence on Russia for its energy.
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- While developments in Syria will not have a great effect on the world’s oil market, if Russia remains involved for long it may stand to lose serious economic support from the Gulf monarchies and could see Ankara driving a hard bargain on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey.s a result, the Russian military operation in Syria, in the short term, neither holds any significant losses (expenses) for Russia, nor promises any significant gains. At the same time, in the event of a more serious and long-term involvement in the civil war in Syria, Russia may face significant economic losses.
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- 1 August 17, 2015 Without American Influence, Iran and Russia Will Send Syria Deeper into Chaos Bashar al-Assad has a big problem. 2  The Syrian civil war has drained his military of manpower, equipment, and morale. 3  The Syrian dictator has been forced to retreat into Syria’s coastal west and deep south.
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Why Russia is backing Syria Russia isn't just protecting its business interests – it fears Syrian civil war could have knock-on effects in Dagestan and beyond. Syrians demonstrating against the Arab League's decision to impose sanctions on the country this week. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features.
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Iraq/Jordan/Turkey: Syrians Blocked from Fleeing War 1 Turkey only sporadically allows small numbers from the Bab al-Salam camp and other displaced Syrian camps in Syria close to the Turkish border to cross into Turkey, with thousands blocked for weeks or months inside Syria.Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey risk turning Syria into an open-air prison for tens of thousands of Syrians unable to escape the carnage in their country,” Simpson said.
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- Rep. John Lewis on Reprehensible Actions Of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “I watched in horror today at the news reports of the chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people. Tiny little children, babies in their mothers’ arms were struggling for life.
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Five years on, how Syrian conflict changed the world There is one man on this planet who can end the civil war in Syria by making a phone call, and that's Mr. Putin, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said recently. CBS This Morning Ash Carter: Russia's help for Assad will come back and get them. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has some tough words about Russia.
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- By Michael Weiss. It’s been a lousy week for Bashar al-Assad. First came news that Syria was to be suspended from the Arab League despite the complicating fact that Assad still technically holds the presidency of the Arab League Council, the chief decision-making body of the organization.
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- by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review. Syria is weird for reasons that transcend even the bizarre situation of bombing an abhorrent Bashar al-Assad who was bombing an abhorrent ISIS — as we de facto ally with Iran, the greater strategic threat, to defeat the more odious, but less long-term strategic threat, ISIS.
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"The War Against the Assad Regime Is Not a ""Pipeline War""" The massive, direct and immediate power interests of the US war state -- not the determination to ensure that a pipeline would carry Qatar's natural gas to Europe -- drove the US policy of participation in the war against the Syrian regime.
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Iraq/Jordan/Turkey: Syrians Blocked from Fleeing War Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of thousands stranded in dangerous conditions in Syria’s conflict-ridden border regions. Only Lebanon has an open border policy for Syrians fleeing the conflict.Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey risk turning Syria into an open-air prison for tens of thousands of Syrians unable to escape the carnage in their country,” Simpson said.
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Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water Yet in the current fighting in Iraq, the major dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are seen not just as strategic targets but as powerful weapons of war. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images. A Kurdish fighter looks at smoke rising on the horizon following U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants at Mosul Dam.
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Kremlin officials admit Russia initially lied about its aims in Syria And Russian officials have admitted that Moscow's intervention in Syria is focused on bolstering Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the end goal of giving the outside world a choice between Assad or ISIS, Bloomberg Business reports.
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- An ally of Syria since 1956, Russia has supported the Syrian government since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, with military aid in the form of weaponry, training, and military advisors.
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The blood of Syrians is on the hands of Americans, Canadians, Europeans and Saudis - are you prepared for war with Russia? Has enough blood not been spent? The blood of Syrians is on the hands of Americans, Canadians, Europeans and Saudis - are you prepared for war with Russia? Has enough blood not been spent? M y ancestors were native to Mount Lebanon.
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Why Russia is backing Syria Russia's fears about a civil war developing in Syria are geostrategic and may not be too dissimilar to some of the more cautious western foreign policy analysts, war-gaming the effects it would have on the region. Russian middle eastern experts compare Syria to Russia's own province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus.
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United Nations Security Council On 11 October, the United Nations Security Council gave approval for a joint UN-OPCW mission to oversee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapon capability. This is the first time that there will be a joint mission of this kind.
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Frogs of War: Explaining the New French Military Interventionism Frogs of War: Explaining the New French Military Interventionism. For special access to experts and other members of the national security community, check out the new War on the Rocks membership. French bombs have been falling on Syria since the end of September, reinforcing France’s tough new image in the international and English-speaking press. The French have been known for many years as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” owing in part to their refusal to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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- The Suez War in 1956 accelerated a multiplication of ties between Syria and the Soviet Union, simultaneously with the increase in power and influence of the Ba'ath Party in Syria. The Syrian Revolution of February 1966 allowed the Soviet Union the opportunity to further support Syria.
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Syria In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. During the 1990s, Syria and Israel held occasional peace talks over its return. Following the death of President al-ASAD, his son, Bashar al-ASAD, was approved as president by popular referendum in July 2000.
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"The War Against the Assad Regime Is Not a ""Pipeline War""" As has been the case with all the other wars the US has fought over the decades, opponents of the US war state have had to come up with their own explanations for the sponsorship of a sectarian bloodbath in Syria.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Syrian Civil War The Syrian Civil War has huge implications for the state of international relations, and not just in the Middle East, but across the world and even within the United States. On an international scale, the Syrian conflict creates a complicated diplomatic situation, especially in terms of Russian-American relations.
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- Any military move by Tripoli to deploy troops to retake control of the port terminals would be considered a declaration of war, federalist Ibrahim Al-Jathran told cheering crowds gathered in the eastern coastal town of Ajdabiyah on Monday.
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- 1 Nikki Haley Says U.S. May ‘Take Our Own Action’ on Syrian Chemical Attack APRIL 5, 2017. 2  Trump’s View of Syria and Assad Altered After ‘Unacceptable’ Chemical Attack APRIL 5, 2017. 3  Survivors of Syria Gas Attack Recount ‘a Cruel Scene’ APRIL 4, 2017. 4  Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad APRIL 4, 2017.
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Syria's civil war: five years of Guardian reporting Syria's civil war: five years of Guardian reporting. by Martin Chulov, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Graham-Harrison, Ian Black and Patrick Kingsley. by Martin Chulov, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Graham-Harrison, Ian Black and Patrick Kingsley.