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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 16:06 schreef IPA35 het volgende:
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TheRealBTL twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 15:58:00 Turkey suspects Russia building air base near border with Syria - https://t.co/xYmgQ6mHB2 reageer retweet

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watanisy twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 16:03:38 #SAA #NDF captured Bayt Awan and Sawda(Karabacakli) villages acc. to pro SAA source /Latakiahttps://t.co/HDhH67J1vIhttps://t.co/T7lBwnUpgZ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 16:16 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
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Saudi FM, Gulf states discussing sending special forces to #Syria.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 16:36 schreef marsan het volgende:

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Lol special forces. Die gasten daar rennen al weg als je hard boe roept.

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In the fight against Daesh, few forces have been as effective on the ground as the Kurdish YPG. While Russia has insisted that the group be part of the Syrian peace talks, Turkey has steadfastly refused, calling the YPG a "terrorist group."

Earlier this month, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units retook the Kara-choh oilfield from Daesh, also known as IS/Islamic State. Located in Syria’s Hasakah province, the field provided Daesh with vast amounts of crude that was sold on the illegal oil markets.

Fighters from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) monitor the horizon in the northeastern

Hitting the Enemy Where It Hurts: Kurdish Forces Disrupt Daesh Oil Trade
This is only one example of the YPG’s success in combatting the terrorist group across northern Iraq and Syria. The Kurdish fighters have proven themselves to be one of the most effective ground forces in Syria.

In light of this fact, the Russian government has been pushing for the YPG’s inclusion in Syrian peace talks. But Turkey views the presence of Kurdish forces along its border as a threat, and has refused to acknowledge the YPG’s effectiveness.

"Turkey will be supporting any initiative for a political solution in Syria, except the only criteria we want is that the moderate opposition should be represented by their own will and initiative. There should not be any representation of terrorist groups around the table," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"Some circles, including Russia, they want to spoil the opposition side, putting some other elements in the opposition side like the YPG, which has been collaborating with the regime and attacking the moderate opposition."

Turkey’s opposition threatens to delay the UN-hosted peace talks, extending the violence in Syria. Davutoglu said that he already met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier to discuss his concerns.

The prime minister’s comments follow a familiar pattern of anti-Kurdish policies implemented by Ankara.

On Tuesday, reports surfaced that Turkish troops had crossed into Syria. While ostensibly aimed at liberating the city of Jarabulus from Daesh, the decision came as the YPG was preparing to launch its own operation against the city.

A resident walks on the rubble of a destroyed house in the mostly-Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey.
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'Peace Process in Name Only': True Reason Behind Turkey’s Kurdish Crackdown
Ankara may be more interested in keeping the YPG from gaining a foothold near the Turkish border. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long warned that a Kurdish advance west of the Euphrates would result in a military response.

Reports also indicated that the Turkish military did not engage Daesh, and that members of the terrorist organization remained unresponsive to the Turkish presence.

The Erdogan administration has also launched brutal operations against Kurdish communities within Turkey. These security raids have left hundreds dead, including civilians, and resulted in the arrest of a number of Turkish academics who have vocally opposed the government’s treatment of Turkish Kurds.

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mutludc twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 18:01:33 Germany wants Kurdish representatives to be part of Syria talks via @ReutersUK https://t.co/uWiQtJR5X3 https://t.co/RxmUCLKCwI reageer retweet

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sayed_ridha twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 17:53:40 2 #FSA commanders "Haithan Ez Al-Rejal & Shaher Al-Shaher" were assassinated by IED at Al-Hameh - Qudsiyyah in #Damascus countryside reageer retweet

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Ald_Aba twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 18:22:14 Another militant camp along #Turkey #Syria border. This area: https://t.co/97z6KjV7OS https://t.co/2nLhZbWrzs reageer retweet

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Vladimir Putin asked Bashar al-Assad to step down

Igor Sergun was asked by Vladimir Putin in 2015 to propose to Bashar al-Assad that he step down. The answer was no.

Just weeks before his death on January 3, Colonel-General Igor Sergun, director of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, was sent to Damascus on a delicate mission.

The general, who is believed to have cut his teeth as a Soviet operative in Syria, bore a message from Vladimir Putin for President Bashar al-Assad: the Kremlin, the Syrian dictator’s most powerful international protector, believed it was time for him to step aside.

Mr Assad angrily refused.

Two senior western intelligence officials have given the Financial Times details of Sergun’s mission. The Russian foreign ministry referred a request for comment to the defence ministry, which said it was unable to comment.

But on Friday, in response to a question from a journalist, asking if the Russian leader had asked Mr Assad to step down, a spokesman for Mr Putin said: “No, that’s not so.”

Russia’s failed gamble in Damascus left Mr Assad more entrenched than before, and hopes for a diplomatic solution to the vicious civil war appear again to be ebbing away.

UN officials have spent the past week lowering expectations that the talks between the warring factions planned for January 25 in Geneva will go ahead, let alone produce a breakthrough.

It is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. News of the secret proposal delivered by Sergun — a choreographed transition of power that would maintain the Alawite regime but open the door to realistic negotiations with moderate rebels — added to a growing mood of optimism among western intelligence agencies in late 2015.

For the US-led coalition fighting Isis, it seemed that accommodating Moscow could break years of diplomatic deadlock over Mr Assad’s removal — a move Washington views as a precondition to cooling the sectarian tensions in Syria and Iraq that have fed the jihadi insurgency.

Moscow’s military intervention in the conflict in support of Damascus in late September, many in Europe and the US reasoned, had reached its limit. “Mr Putin had taken a look under the bonnet of the Syrian regime,” one senior European intelligence official told the FT “and found a lot more problems than he was bargaining for.”

However, Russia overplayed its hand, the official said, and Mr Assad made clear to Sergun that there could be no future for Russia in Syria unless he remained as president.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 20:03 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:
Zozo.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 20:17 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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dit is wel een ERRUG sappig verhaal, daarom mijn twijfels over de authenticiteit, maar if true is dit uiteraard HUGE, tot nu toe riep putin altijd, de syriers zelf moeten bepalen wie hun president is, wat eigenlijk impliceerde dat assad lekker mocht blijven zitten op het pluche

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 20:23 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Alleen al het feit dat Poetin het zou vragen ipv eisen zaait al twijfels bij mij Mocht het waar zijn dan wordt Poetin eindelijk wakker. Goede zaak.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 18:19 schreef IPA35 het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 19:31 schreef primakov het volgende:
Turkey Freaks Out After Russia Insists Kurds Participate in Syrian Talks

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 12:54:09 #Breaking Germany says Syrian Kurds must participate in talks https://t.co/m6b4LLP4oS reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 15:30:22 Carter: U.S-led coalition needs to take back #Mosul and #Raqqa https://t.co/ohjzpI5Xyz https://t.co/PTt5Ojg8OC reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2016 21:08 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
De VS is er op gebrand Raqqa en Mosul in te nemen, het wordt dus een mooi jaar.

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op vrijdag 22-01-2016 om 15:30:22 Carter: U.S-led coalition needs to take back #Mosul and #Raqqa https://t.co/ohjzpI5Xyz https://t.co/PTt5Ojg8OC reageer retweet