don t mess around. that is the province right in syria and where in 2013, the turks shot down a syria helicopter and fighter that strayed into that area. and so that border air is contentious and it is all the more contentious now, because the nonisis fighters have saunthuary in turkey. they are hosting 600,000 refugees. syrians and russians know it. and why the russians are concentrate nothing that province. you go west you hit the mediterranean and that is la tak
believe that nobody else is getting hurt. with a joint declaration that moscow s strikes led to civilian casualties and did not target daesh. another name for isis and now president obama has a declaration of his own. an attempt by russia and iran to prop up assad and try to pacify the population. is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire. this is the first time since world war ii that american and russian war planes have conducted air strikes over the same country and it seems chaotic. but critics think putin s plan is crystal clear. if he can wipe out all the nonisis elements on the ground in syria. they can turn to the world and say, okay, guys, here s your choice. isis or assad. there s no one left. why does the pentagon just defend c.i.a.-trained rebels against russia? it can t. the u.s. official tells fox legal issues and rules of engagement prohibit american forces from targeting anyone but terrorists from isis or nusra
fight isis. russia is out there trying to protect assad from the people who represent the greatest danger to him right now, and that is the sort of nonisis rebels. that could change, right. they re just only just got there. if they feel at a point when the greater threat comes from isis, they can pivot to that it they ve got planes on the ground. the planes can fly in any direction. right now, the russian calculation is that assad s greatest threat comes from the rebels. it also lays out when you see the coalition air strikes and the russian air strikes just how complicated and complex and really challenging it is now for these two groups need to be coordinating in between in all of this. the pentagon just announced they are having deconflicting, this is a new term, for me, anyway, deconflicting talks with the russians about their different operations in syria. so the very least you d hope is that there s conversations
to say collapse is maybe a bit of stretch. certainly they are under more strain because rockets were landing and didn t have ability and manpower to keep the ground war going. that is why he is relying more and more on barrel bombs which everybody has been describing as the main catalyst for refugee crisis that we have seen a sudden spike of people leaving and going to europe. the people that are leaving to go to europe are leaving from areas being bombarded by the regime. they are not leaving from areas held by isis. the regime is fighting more and more against people in nonisis held territory and russia is now supporting that regime. the case that russia would make for the united states to be supportive of what it is doing and propping up assad is saying take a look at iraq. saddam hussein was terrible. you took him out and it got even worse. so you have a strong man over there and a bad strong man,
it s significant. it creates a space for refugees. monitored by air by the u.s. right? by the u.s. and nato forces. they are saying that nonisis syrian rebels will be guarding the ground. we ll figure that out later. not a lot of those forces are available. the other question is is there going to be a no-fly zone? what happens if assad s planes get over that zone? will american planes attack or if american planes are there, will the syrians attack? it s a new level of complication. it shows that the allies the coalition are now willing to not put troops on the ground they are certainly putting a footprint down. let s look at iraq. there s a bit of development there. u.s. troops are trying to take back ramadi.