Syria/Iraq update 11/15/2019..Putin Stresses That US Occupation of Syria is Illegal and Counter-Productive!

Putin Stresses That US Occupation of Syria is Illegal and Counter-Productive!

US Says It Won’t Abandon Fight Against IS in Syria

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Landing scenes of an offensive unit of the Russian military police on a former US base in Syria

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Syrian army takes full control of two villages in southeast of Idlib

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Syrian Army Kicks Off New Offensive In Southern Idlib

Syrian Army Launches New Ground Offensive In Southern Idlib

Military targets with Thermobaric rockets around Al – Bara town

Targeting al-Qaeda militias in Hass town of Idlib countryside

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Demos held in Iraq against US, Israel, Saudi Arabia

Security Forces clash with Iraqi protesters in Baghdad

Iraq’s defense minister says a third side is behind the deaths of some protesters during anti-government rallies in the past weeks.

PressTV-Putin: Russia still has lots of work to do in Syria’s Idlib

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow feels it still has a lot of work to do in the last major bastion of foreign-backed militants and Takfiri terrorists in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.

“We still have a lot of work in the zone of Idlib, as there is a large number of militants, who flee to other countries, including Libya by the way,” Putin told reporters at the 11th summit of BRICS nations in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia on Thursday.

He added Russia hopes the Geneva peace process for Syria would be successful.

“Yes, many objectives have been reached, but not at all every objective. I really expect that during the political process in Geneva, during work on amendments or a new constitution for Syria, we manage to mitigate the situation, establish good ties between the government and the opposition, and reach decisive general solutions which would appease the whole country and completely regain its territorial integrity,” the Russian leader pointed out.

The remarks on the same day that Syrian government forces managed to liberate the villages of al-Luaibdeh Gharbyia and Tal Khazna in Idlib province.

Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that Syrian army soldiers struck the gatherings and fortifications of militants from the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, with barrages of artillery rounds and rockets, killing and injuring a number of the terrorists.

Several militants fled away towards their strongholds in the countryside of Maarat al-Numan town, located 33 kilometers (20.52 miles) south of Idlib.

last week, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said the opening round of talks aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Syria had been “better than expected”, with a new round due to be held in Geneva later this month.

Speaking at a news conference at the end of the first round of the Constitutional Committee on November 8, Pedersen said, “I believe it has gone much better than most people would have expected.”

He added that the committee discussed many key issues, including Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and fighting terrorism, without elaborating.

The UN envoy noted that discussions were sometimes “very painful” but said the delegates to the committee from the government, foreign-sponsored opposition and civil society addressed them with professionalism.

“The next round of discussions will start on November 25,” Pedersen added.