Schlagwort: Kerry

[caption id="attachment_12118" align="alignleft" width="300"] Hisbollah-Anschlag auf US-Botschaft in Beirut, 1983[/caption] „At another point, Mr. Kerry spelled out in stark terms distinctions the United States was making between combatants, which have upset the Syrian opposition: The United States wants the rebels to help it fight the Islamic State and Al Qaeda…

„Aber das ist nur die halbe Wahrheit: Man hat das mörderische Treiben der iranischen Milizen und russischen Bomber in Syrien nicht nur konsequent ignoriert, man hat es letztlich gutgeheißen. Dass der US-amerikanische Außenminister John Kerry prompt ‚ein kleines bisschen Fortschritt‘ ausmachte, als die russischen Luftangriffe auf Aleppo gerade wieder volle…

Von Oliver M. Piecha Der von den USA und Rußland vereinbarte Waffenstillstand in Syrien war von Anbeginn eine Farce. Jeder, der es wissen wollte, konnte es wissen, außer vielleicht dem deutschen Außenminister Frank Walter Steinmeier, dem Freund Putins und eines so end- wie ziellosen Dialogpalavers. Es ist nicht bei einer…

„The agreement that Secretary of State John Kerry announced with Russia to reduce the killing in Syria has widened an increasingly public divide between Mr. Kerry and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, who has deep reservations about the plan for American and Russian forces to jointly target terrorist groups. Mr.…

„Confusion reigned Monday over Syria’s new cease-fire as Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and Russia could permit President Bashar Assad’s government to launch new airstrikes against al-Qaida-linked militants. The State Department quickly reversed itself. (…) Kerry’s comments at a news conference were the closest any American…

Heute Abend soll eine Waffenruhe in Syrien in Kraft treten, die – einmal mehr ohne Beteiligung von Syrern – der amerikanische mit dem russischen Außenminister ausgehandelt haben. Mit Ausnahme des deutschen Außenministeriums, das die diplomatische Initative begeistert begrüßte, scheint niemand wirklich daran zu glauben, dass dieses Abkommen ein anderes Schicksal erwartet, als…

„In the late summer of 2011, President Barack Obama declared the reign of Bashar al-Assad ‚illegitimate‘ and told him the time had come to ‚step aside.‘ In the early fall of 2015, U.S. officials laughingly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s unexpected direct military intervention into Syria as an accident waiting to happen…

„If Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, he might want to make Secretary of State John Kerry his special envoy for U.S.-Russian cooperation in the war on terror. While the men disagree on many things – from the Iran deal to the provenance of the Islamic State –…

„The US is expected to offer to cooperate with Russia in Syria, in a controversial pact which would see Washington effectively change course and help shore up President Bashar al-Assad. John Kerry, secretary of state, is in Moscow, where he will offer the option of a military alliance aimed at…

„Instead of helping to topple Assad, the mass-murdering goon who drops barrel bombs on civilian areas, the White House launched a phony train-and-equip program that required rebel fighters to sign a document that they wouldn’t use their weapons against the dictator who was murdering their families. The administration’s anti-ISIS campaign…

„Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the news conference that Moscow would not stop bombing, as the deal did not apply to Islamic State and to a rebel group called the Nusra Front, which is affiliated with al Qaeda. ‚Our airspace forces will continue working against these organizations,‘ he said. But…

„Some experts now say the line often repeated by Kerry and many of his western counterparts – that there is ‚no military solution‘ to the crisis in Syria – has actually allowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies to pursue such a military solution with impunity. … Analysts generally…

„By kowtowing to Russia and accepting that Bashar al-Assad might be able to stay on, America all but guaranteed Syria’s bloody war will drag on. … [T]he Obama administration itself has increased the odds of failure. Its recent tilt toward Russia’s position on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…

Von Alexander GruberVor einigen Wochen war auf The Daily Beast über vermehrte Hinweise zu lesen, dass Russland damit begonnen habe, die Hisbollah aufzurüsten und Raketen, Anti-Panzerwaffen sowie anderes Kriegsgerät an die schiitische Terrororganisation zu liefern. Aktuell macht die libanesische Nachrichtenplattform NOW News mit einem Bericht auf, der die enge Kooperation…

„Obama’s air campaign began with ‚absolutely no coordination with moderate Opposition forces on the ground,‘ the [Istanbul-based National Coalition for Syrian and Revolutionary Forces] protested. Since then, Syria’s pro-democracy revolutionaries have been sidelined ever further. The Syrian corpse heaps have grown only higher. Half the Syrian population — 12 million…