Syria Disintegrating: Part 2

[11B4V]

Syria Will 'Pay a Heavy Price' for Another Chemical Attack, White House Says
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT
The Failing New York Times
JUNE 26, 2017

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This outer borough mouthbreathing monkey is going to get us in a shooting war with Russia and Iran, if only because it's the opposite of Obama's Syria policy.   

Now that isn't helpful in reconciling the parties. Quit hurting 'Murica

[Grinning_Colossus]

TASS reports that an Iraqi TV station has reported that some ISIS dudes said that al-Baghdadi is dead.

http://tass.com/world/955752

[CountDeMoney]

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria

President Trump has decided to end the CIA's covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

The program was a central plank of a policy begun by the Obama administration in 2013 to put pressure on Assad to step aside, but even its backers have questioned its efficacy since Russia deployed forces in Syria two years later.

Officials said the phasing out of the secret program reflects Trump's interest in finding ways to work with Russia, which saw the anti-Assad program as an assault on its interests. The shuttering of the program is also an acknowledgment of Washington's limited leverage and desire to remove Assad from power.

[mongers]

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria

President Trump has decided to end the CIA's covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

The program was a central plank of a policy begun by the Obama administration in 2013 to put pressure on Assad to step aside, but even its backers have questioned its efficacy since Russia deployed forces in Syria two years later.

Officials said the phasing out of the secret program reflects Trump's interest in finding ways to work with Russia, which saw the anti-Assad program as an assault on its interests. The shuttering of the program is also an acknowledgment of Washington's limited leverage and desire to remove Assad from power.

Is this the one being run from Northern Jordan, with their active support and the Israelis turning very blind eyes too?

Or was is this the cock-up that was the Iblib province affair?

[citizen k]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-backed-kurds-release-video-221907876.html

US-backed Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Syria released a video on Saturday showing their fighters destroying a tank being used by Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Syria, Military Times first reported.

I guess they were taking a break from fighting ISIS.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-backed-kurds-release-video-221907876.html

US-backed Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Syria released a video on Saturday showing their fighters destroying a tank being used by Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Syria, Military Times first reported.

I guess they were taking a break from fighting ISIS.

given the support Turkey gave IS one can wonder if it's possible to speak of a break at all...

[Valmy]

We really need to stop 'backing' people.

[mongers]

We really need to stop 'backing' people.

How about 'fronting' people instead; that's working out so well for the Donald. 

[Eddie Teach]

/front stabs DWM

[mongers]

Heart broken,photo of 4 years child who is migrating from Syria to Jordan, the UNHCR team caught him when he was migrating alone in desert from Syria to Jordan. the only thing he had in his shopper were the clothes of his mom and sister,who killed in Syria.

[Berkut]

If only they had a wall, these kind of problems would not occur.

[Jacob]

That's heartbreaking.

[Valmy]

That's heartbreaking.

C'est la guerre.

And it just goes on and on.

[11B4V]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/image-syrian-boy-desert-un-refugees-tweet

Sorry to be the party pooper

[Ed Anger]

Likely has a block of C4 in the bag too.