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By Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in the water a little province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them lets get more on this story now from our colleague standoff has been following events and. First inspection it all sounds very serious it sounds like it. An escalation. Just exactly how you describe events on the ground in syria well i would describe it as the worst escalation that we have seen so far in that particular syrian province because according to the statement of the Russian Defense ministry heres what happened terrorist groups launched an offensive on the positions of the syrian army in that province in that northeastern syrian province the offensive was large scale with the use of very heavy weapons and artillery so syria. Syria it has well it took its own jets into the skies and asked russias air force also to help them repel the attack. So what the did but apparently according to moore school according to the russians Turkish
Giving thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. We start this hour with breaking news because syrian militants backed by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in water province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them. Of course one thing is that an office in the studio with me is been following events for as the escalation seems pretty concerning what exactly is happened and do we know much about the situation on the ground at the moment what the situation is very concerning in some of the worst as collations in syria in years i have to say and basically what happened terrorist factions of launched an offensive on the syrian positions trying to trying to push the syrian army out of the province they were supported by turkish artillery fire too so syria had to ask russia russias air force to intervene and together the syrians and russians repelled the attack but again it was supported by the officials syrian by the official turkish army and
Look at this from by the true times perspective then its more of a marriage of convenience if you look at that from original perspective in how the 3 countries act interact in syria than its more frango. I so youre right recently that the after the platform has started to lose its steam and that russia is now more actively trying to get the arab states involved in managing what essentially is an arab problem being now mediated by non arabs has there been any progress on that front well from the very beginning actually jordan joined the ass in the form of back in 2018 i believe and was the 1st arab observer state now in beginning of august there was and roundabouts in the talks and the. Iraq and lebanon joint so basically now we have all countries neighboring countries taking part in this process except of course taking part always clearly sitting on the sidelines and watch its important to send a signal to the arab audience to the arab street that these 3. Actors russia iran and turkey
Would you describe the state of affairs among these 3 unlikely partners. Well i would put it as a marriage of convenience which applies to both relations but here in marriage of convenience a love triangle love hatred it depends on how you look at it if you look at this from by the true times perspective then its more of a marriage of convenience if you look at that from original perspective in how the 3 countries act interact in syria than its more frango. I saw you write recently that the ass in the platform has started to lose its steam and that russia is now more actively trying to get the arab states involved in managing what essentially is an arab problem being now mediated by non arabs has there been any progress on that front well from the very beginning actually jordan joined the ass in the form of back in 2018 i believe and was the 1st arab observer state now in beginning of august there was and roundabouts in the talks and the assault on. Iraq and lebanon joint so basically