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Moscow renewed its willingness to prosecute Daash condition in Iraq received a formal request
10/7/15
RIA news agency quoted Russian Valentina Matviyenko President of the Russian Federation Council as saying that her country would consider expanding the scope of air strikes against militants in Syria include Iraq so that if it received a request from Baghdad. She added that Russia has not yet received such a request from the Iraqi government.
He was quoted by Russian news agencies, on Monday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying that Iraq did not ask Moscow carry out air strikes against al Daash on its territory. He added that Russia is ready to make contact with the Syrian army.
According to American, Iraq officials planned to establish a joint center for the exchange of intelligence information with Syria, Iran and Russia to fight Daash group, in a move that could further marginalize the United States in the war against these extremist group.
This is the latest sign of Russian influence, which expands in the region agree, where Russia began large lining of its troops and military equipment along the Syrian coast. It can be such a large role in Iraq comes at the expense of American influence, where Washington is trying to compete with the Iranian influence on the battlefield.
The Russian Federation Council has authorized unanimously, on Wednesday (30 September 2015), President Vladimir Putin's use of the Russian armed forces outside the territory of the country, and in confirmed the Office of the President of the Russian, that the mandate allows the use of the air force only.
She had announced that the Russian Defense Ministry in the words of Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov its spokesman, in the wake of the issuance of the authorization to start military air operation in Syria aimed at elements of al Daash and its positions, while the Russian official sources confirmed that the process the military will be in coordination with the Syrian army in order to serve targeted Daash sites and points of contact with and warehouses.
It is noteworthy that Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision and the delegation of the Russian Federation Council for the use of armed forces outside the country to measure welcomed unrivaled in the official, social and religious circles Russian.
In a related development, the US President decided Barack Obama not to confront Russia directly on the new air campaign in Syria, believing that Russian President Vladimir Putin will quickly find itself in a quagmire Syrian, but he agreed to a new escalation of US efforts against Daash group, according to a report published by the Washington Post newspaper.
put Obama's US reaction toward the actions of Russia during a meeting with his top aides on Thursday evening, the details were confirmed at a meeting on Friday morning for senior national security officials in the White House.
Obama also agreed to the proposed actions, gave priority to strengthen the fight against the extremists, those procedures recommended by the new head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dnford, including US arms shipments directly by road from Iraq to Syrian fighters from the Kurds and the Arabs who fought for a group Daash in recent months and expelled them from large parts of northern Syria, along the Turkish border.
It is expected, according to the Washington Post, that the Kurds begin now to move south toward the capital of tenderness extremists, and also due to US air strikes condense west of the Euphrates, where opposition forces backed by the United States has achieved little success against Daash. Those strikes will be launched from the Turkish Incirlik base and aircraft will join the coalition partners to the US aircraft. Apart from attacking Daash, it seems that Russian air strikes for the three days, focused largely on the opposition forces fighting west of Syria against Bashar al-Assad's army, backed by Moscow.
Did Obama respond directly to questions about what he would do to help the opposition, which includes thousands of fighters who have been trained and armed with the Over the years of the CIA. Administration officials said that the training and equipment limited to those who are inside Syria will continue but it is likely to continue the same approach.
He Officials American, according to the US newspaper, expressed concern that the Russian bombardment caused the destruction of a secret program was trying to attract fighters to fight al-Assad, it is likely to increasing frustration rebels from the Americans to Aaflon much as the Russians do their part in the conflict.
quoted the Washington Post for US Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, as saying that the United States is not moving as it was previously, "We are paying a heavy price of our reputation through Smahna for the emergence of Russians look the player most powerful on the ground in Syria, also have interest in protecting moderate population and this leads us to a wider participation risky.
"said a US military official, unnamed Washington Post, that no reply direct military response against the Russians may require the powers of the new presidential, but Obama said during a news conference at the White House Friday that he does not intend to confront Russian troops directly when he said "I will not make Syria a proxy war between the United States and Russia, that would be the wrong strategy on our part. It is a battle between Russia and Iran on the one hand and the lion and the majority of the Syrian people. The real battle is with Daash ".
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