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© Ammar Abdullah / ReutersSmoke rises from shelling near Dahiyat al-Assad, west Aleppo city, Syria October 28, 2016
"Russian specialists found that militants in east Aleppo used ammunition with poisonous substances, with the ammo targeting west Aleppo. The collected samples leave no doubt that it's a toxic agent," Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference with his Belarusian counterpart in Minsk, as cited by Interfax.
However, when the Russian Ministry of Defense addressed the leadership of the UN watchdog OPCW "with the demand to urgently send its experts to Aleppo to participate in the sample analysis," the organization "refused to carry out this simple task, citing security issues."
The underlying reason behind this, Lavrov said, seemed to be "tremendous pressure from our Western colleagues," because "our and Syrian sides guaranteed security [for the experts]."
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New evidence suggests Green Berets in Jordan were murdered - deliberately targeted by facility guard
© AP Photo/ Mohammad Hannon
Investigators of the incident are saying that the US troops may have been murdered, Fox News reported.
A surveillance video and witness accounts have shown that the servicemen were shot by a guard without being provoked, the media outlet added.
The troops were on a training mission in Jordan and came under fire when they were entering a military facility.
Comment: According to SOFREP, special forces sources believe the assailant was an ISIS sympathizer/infiltrator. The slain men were about to be transitioned back to the U.S. So the question remains: why were they targeted? Given the discontent within the special forces about being forced to train jihadis, did these men know too much? And who was this Jordanian military gate guard working for? See: Three Green Berets training 'moderates' killed in Jordan by ISIS supporter - CIA 'ignored' multiple warnings
© AP Photo/ SAFIN HAMED
The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigators work in the areas recently liberated from Daesh and its research shows that ammunition boxes left by the jihadists can be traced back to factories in Eastern Europe, the BBC reported Monday, citing CAR team leader James Bevan.
Inquiries by Bevan's team indicated that the factory orders could be traced back to the United States and Saudi Arabia. Ammunition was then shipped to southern Turkey en route to opposition groups in northern Syria. "Their procurement networks reach out into southern Turkey and they obviously have a series of very strong relationships with very big distributors," Bevan told the BBC.
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
According to the agency citing the Syrian army's general command, the government forces are also monitoring all movements in the region.
The Syrian army is aware of locations of all headquarters and warehouses.
© AP
North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the US demanding it stops the 'hostile nuclear threats' towards the rogue state and its leader.
The missive sets out what it now expects from American and is being seen by many in Washington as a direct message to new President-elect Donald Trump.
North Korea has kept pretty silent about Mr Trump's shock victory in the November 8 election but it has now laid out what it wants of the incoming US administration.
Comment: Reinforcing what N. Korea said earlier: North Korea 'doesn't care' who US president is, calls for shift from 'hostile policy'
© ReutersNicolas Sarkozy cast his vote in the rightwing primary election on Sunday morning but was forced to concede defeat.
Nicolas Sarkozy has conceded defeat in the French rightwing primary vote.
The former French president had attempted to stage a comeback for the 2017 elections but was forced to concede after Sunday's votes saw him slipping further behind his fellow candidates.
© Mike Segar
The FEC highlighted over 1,000 donations amounting to about $1.3 million that seemingly violated campaign finance laws.
A letter sent to Donald Trump for President Inc. asks the campaign to immediately clarify and take steps to rectify the issues raised.
Comment: That's the US Federal Government for ya! Never mind the wholesale influencing-peddling and country-pillaging and raping perpetrated by Hillary Clinton's 'Clinton Foundation' and about half a dozen laws she's broken during and after her stint as Secretary of State.
© Sergey Orlov / Sputnik
"One of the reasons why Russia opposed the deployment of the American ABM [anti-ballistic missile] system in Europe was the concern that this infrastructure may be quickly converted to deploy strike systems, in particular land-based cruise missiles. These concerns are being confirmed today," Senator Viktor Ozerov, who chairs the upper house's Defense and Security Committee, told Ria Novosi.
The Russian lawmaker was referring to interceptor missile launchers deployed in Poland and Romania, which Washington insists are needed to protect Europe from a rocket attack. The vertical-launch systems are the same used on American missile cruisers to fire Tomahawk missiles.
Comment: More on Russia's preparedness:
- President Putin meets defense industry leaders and military chiefs as Russia prepares for possible war with NATO
- Putin: Russia will oppose any attempts to break global strategic balance, including NATO missile system
- Putin: Russia is not going to attack anyone-claims of Russian threats 'simply stupid'
Russia has the right to protect itself against NATO's eastward expansion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the deployment of Russian ballistic missiles in the Kaliningrad Region. He called the Western alliance an "aggressive bloc."
"Russia is doing all that is necessary to protect itself against the backdrop of NATO's expansion toward its borders. NATO is indeed an aggressive bloc, that is why Russia is doing everything that is necessary," Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, as cited by Interfax.
"Russia has all the sovereign rights to take the necessary measures across all the territory of the Russian Federation," the spokesman added.
He was asked to comment on the deployment of Russian missile complexes to the Kaliningrad Region exclave - Russia's westernmost point. Peskov declined to say whether the missile systems had already been deployed to the region and whether they would be deployed there permanently.
© Wikipedia/ Taras Kalapun
"To Syria, the issue of creating a full-fledged Russian naval base is linked to the problem of maintaining national sovereignty. For many states a foreign military facility on their territory would mean an impairment of their rights. It's precisely the opposite for Syria. A Russian naval base will uphold Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said.
Russia's increased military presence in Syria will also send a signal to those countries which have tried to carry out operations on the Syrian territory without an explicit consent from Damascus. "I think that other countries will have a more cautious and measured approach towards Syria's territorial integrity if Russia establishes a full-scale naval base in Tartus. This step will help to protect Syria's sovereignty and the Syrian state in general. We view the country's fragmentation as the greatest threat that Syria faces," the analyst said.
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