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The man has a unique sense of understanding.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has designated the insurgent group Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist organization, according to a presidential decision published on Friday, as Damascus prepares for a military assault in northwest Syria where the group holds sway.
The notice in the Official Gazette matches a decision by the United Nations in June to add Tahrir al-Sham to the list of people and organizations whose assets are to be frozen because of links to militant groups al Qaeda and Islamic State.
It comes before an expected attack by the Syrian army, backed by Russia, on the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib which is home to nearly 3 million people on the border with Turkey.
Tahrir al-Sham, which includes the al Qaeda-linked group formerly known as Nusra Front, is the most powerful jihadist alliance in Idlib, the last major rebel-controlled enclave outside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's control.
Russia said on Friday the Syrian government had every right to chase terrorists out of Idlib, adding that talks were underway to set up humanitarian corridors there.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week it would be disastrous to seek a military solution in Idlib, even though there were militants there.
Ankara, which has a small military presence in Idlib, has warned an assault could unleash a fresh wave of refugees.
"It is important for all of us to neutralize these radical groups," he said. "But we have to distinguish the civilians from the terrorist groups."
U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday there was a high concentration of foreign fighters in Idlib, including an estimated 10,000 who he said belonged to Nusra Front and al Qaeda.
But he said there should be no rush to military action and called for more time for Russia, Turkey and Iran to discuss the situation in Idlib.
The decision to add Tahrir al-Sham to the list of designated groups was taken by President Tayyip Erdogan. Ankara had already listed Nusra Front as a terrorist group.
Erdogan is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a three-way summit in Iran on Sept. 7.
(Reporting by Dominic Evans; editing by David Stamp)
did you notice, when there was a motion a while back to limit the presidents power to wage war, all the Trump haters lined up with his supporters to let him keep that power, when someone wanted to stop the US governments financing terrorists, the law didnt pass, when a senator wanted to limit the ability to help Saudi kill woman and kids in Yemen, yes you guessed it, all the trump hating democrats made sure to vote for the industrial military complex profits. thats why i have no respect for any one of them, they are a bunch of bought and paid for warmongers. it's just a game to them, they take turns being in power and being in opposition, but the wars just keep getting started, the bombs keep flying.
Is that what they call it?they just got defeated democratically.
Is that what they call it?
Robert Reich for President.
I'm not American and I'd even vote for him. lol
1) Trump wanted to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
In April 2017, the US launched a cruise missile strike against a Syrian regime airbase — the first intentional US strike on Bashar al-Assad’s forces since the Syrian war began in 2011. The strike was in direct response to a chemical weapon attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed at least 85 civilians.
But Woodward reports that Trump wanted the strikes to be a lot more punitive.
“Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,” Trump told Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, referring to Assad and his forces. After hanging up with Trump, according to Woodward, the secretary told one of his senior staffers: “We’re not going to do any of that. We’re going to be much more measured.”
Mattis’s more restrained response is what Trump ultimately authorized. But it’s completely possible that without Mattis’s intervention, the US would’ve launched a larger-scale strike to try to kill Assad. That would certainly have angered Assad’s main backer, Russia, and may have led to a broader Washington-Moscow confrontation.
So Trump is apparently fine with assassinating foreign leaders — at least in theory. That’s quite an insight into how Trump wants to use his military.
Perhaps that should be expected: In 2011, Trump said that former President Barack Obama should kill then-Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
“Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick,” Trump said in a video blog. “We should do on a humanitarian basis, immediately go into Libya, knock this guy out ... and save the lives.”
Robert Reich worked for JFK and was Clinton's Secretary of Labor....
is he the guy that sponsored the bill about war powers of the president? name sounds familiar...