IMAGE: Russian military police patrolling area around Manbij (AFP Photo/Delil SOULEIMAN – 2019)
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
This morning, Russian military officials announced they are now patrolling the region surrounding Syria’s northern town of Manbij, specifically in the areas which separate Turkish troops and the Syrian Arab Army soldiers.
IMAGE: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the ground and speaking to Syrian Arab Army officers.
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Last night, Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria issued a statement that an agreement has been reached with the government in Damascus allowing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to takeover key strategic positions along Syria’s northern border with Turkey.
This week, President Trump ordered U.S. forces to withdraw from northeastern Syria, opening the door for Turkey to enter that region in order to flush-out Kurdish YPG/PKK militants previously working as proxies for the Pentagon, and leaving the fight against ISIS in temporary limbo.
On Thursday, 21WIRE editor Patrick Henningsen talks to RT News International about the current situation and what needs to happen to mitigate more serious complications down the road. Watch:
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
As US foreign policy goals continue to drift away from the mutual interests of its allies, some of Washington’s fundamental alliances may come under stress as a result. Will its financial largess hasten the demise of its most important military alliances?
According to a statement today by the Russian Foreign Ministry, the US government has failed to provide visas to key Russian diplomats on their way to attend the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York City.
US officials claim that Russia failed to provide visa documents on time, but this claim was flatly refuted by the Russian ministry. Snubbed diplomats included Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Russian upper house’s foreign affairs committee. He did not hold back his scorn for Washington’s underhanded red-tape stunt, stating:
As Westminster battles itself and Europe over Brexit, another key issue is laying under the surface which will have profound implications on not only UK and European affairs, but on the entire global world order.
This past week has seen a dangerous cocktail in international affairs – a five-way collision course between Saudi Arabia,Yemen, Iran, Israel and the United States. And all of this coming on the heels of a hasty departure by Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, and right before a hotly contested Israeli election run-off.
SANCTIONS MILL: President Trump with his pro-Israel Secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, allowing the US Treasury Department to be virtually commandeered by Israeli interests.
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
“While US President Donald Trump boasts about the defeat of Islamic State in Syria, US government-purchased weapons appear in the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Yemen.”
This latest move by the US federal government smacks of desperation, as they try and coerce yet another witness into turning federal evidence in the wider effort to build its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
