Arab ministers consider recognising syrian opposition to Assad’s regime. But Mr Obama has warned that such unilateral action by the U.S. would threaten the broader peace process.
At the heart of the dispute is Syria’s Kurdish forces, whose armed campaign for autonomy has captured much of XO 카지노Syria’s northern, including the Iraqi border.
The Syrian Kurdish leaders and their armed allies say Kurdish peshmerga forces should focus on fighting ISIS rather than helping Assad’s security forces.
They say they need to fight the extremist fighters because they consider those fighters to be the ones who are behind the bombings, assassinations and attacks that have rocked cities in Iraq.
And they say US-led air strikes on ISIS targets have caused civilian casualties and are also directly killing them.
While Western intelligence and Arab media say IS is suffering significant damage in Iraq, the group’s self-proclaimed media wing has been busy trying to spread its message to potential recruits.
’We are ready to cooperate with America’: Kurdish fighters say’moderate’ Islamic State fighters are being killed by US air strikes
In a video posted on social media last week, one of the fighters asked if he should be prepared to face IS fighters ”in the face” of U.S. airstrikes.
The militant threatened: ”We will not let you defeat us. We will not let you defeat the crusaders.”
Mr Obama said earlier this week that he was ”not going to pretend” that it is ”our sole concern” in the region. But Mr Assad’s forces have said they will defend their gains.
’We’ll try to find a political solution’, says Kerry
Speaking earlier on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Brussels, said it would be ”dangerous” for Mr Assad to use the opposition ”as a평택출장안마 shield” against American strikes.
His counterpart also said that the U.S. could not get what it wanted from Russia, the main ally of Assad, by ”messing” with the Syrian regime’s nuclear programmes.
The threat of using the international community to impose an international solution on Syria wa성남출장마사지s also being discussed by senior US and European diplomats at the UN.
’It is time for Assad to resign’: Turkey’s president
Erdogan’s comments were published after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested there would be a ”positive” outcome from the Syrian peace process, where the opposition could be part of any peace negotiations if it ”took its eyes off” Syria.
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