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Syria holds 300 French soldiers and US, Israeli and Arab state soldiers and intel operatives captive. Putin requesting Iran to leave the country could also be a strategic move by Russia to avoid US, Israeli and Saudi Intervention as they negotiate the prisoner swap.
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During
a Sochi meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad, Russian
President Vladimir Putin stated that it is necessary for foreign
armed forces to pull out from the country, as the Syrian army has
achieved success in fighting against terrorism and is kicking off the
political process.
Sputnik
has discussed the foreign military presence in Syria with Akram al
Shalli, an expert from the Syrian Crises and Preventive Wars Office.
"Vladimir
Putin's statement during a meeting with Bashar Assad about the need
to withdraw foreign contingents from Syria breaks the dreams of the
aggressors, as if they could still try to accomplish their goals in
the region by proxy criminal mercenaries," Shalli told Sputnik.
Al
Shalli went on to say that the Syrian army had detained hundreds of
foreign intelligence officers, including from the United States, the
United Kingdom, Arab states and Israel.
“For
example, there are about 300 only French soldiers of different ranks.
We see attempts to pressure the Syrian government to free the captive
foreign soldiers. But these dreams are not destined to come true,
because now the odds are in favor of the government's forces and its
allies,” he stressed.
The
analyst has also touched upon the latest missile strikes by the US,
France and the UK against Syria in response to the alleged use of
chemical weapons by government forces in the city of Douma last
month.
“Even
the latest missile strike on Syria did not cause significant damage;
the aggressors had reported the targets of the attack in advance.
This was done so that the Western leaders could save face to their
people," the analyst said.
According
to Shalli, the detention of foreign military officers gives a double
advantage to the Syrian government: firstly, they failed to implement
their goals, and secondly, it is an additional trump card at the
negotiating table with foreign forces.
"The
Syrian peace settlement directly depends on the situation on the
battlefield. And now the aggressors are constantly retreating, they
are unable to launch any offensive on the army's position. Therefore,
the Syrian government can set forward its terms," the analyst
concluded.
The
US-led international coalition has been conducting airstrikes against
Daesh* targets in Syria since 2014 without a UN mandate or
authorization from the Damascus government.
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Syria — Reports
The
US and France have reportedly enhanced their military presence in the
war-ravaged country, with Paris in turn having promised support for
the Kurdish militia, pressured by Turkish forces. The Syrian
government has repeatedly stated that the coalition and Turkish
forces in the country are "illegitimate" and has demanded
that "invading forces withdraw immediately from the Syrian lands
they have occupied."
Iran
to Stay in Syria as Long as Damascus Wants - Tehran
Instead,
in early May, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new operations
to come, in addition to the Euphrates Shield, its first direct
military intervention in Syria to push Daesh away from the Turkish
border, as well as prevent the advance of local Kurdish groups, and
Operation Olive Branch in the city of Afrin to clear Turkey's Syrian
border of Kurdish groups, which it believes are linked to the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization by
Ankara.
On
May 20, the Anadolu news agency reported that French special forces
had installed six artillery batteries north of the Baguz village in
Deir ez-Zor privince, held by Kurdish militia in line with President
Emmanuel Macron's earlier promise to support the Syrian Kurdish
units.
The
United States has also repeatedly been reported to have dispatched
military columns and set up new bases in Syria shortly after
President Donald Trump declared that the American forces would be
leaving Syria “very soon” and “let other people take care of
it” instead. His remarks contradicted earlier comments made by
high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and State Department, claiming
that US troops would maintain an open-ended presence in Syria.
The
views expressed in this article are solely those of the speaker and
do not necessarily reflect the official position of Sputnik.
*Daesh,
also known as ISIL/ISIS/IS, is a terrorist group banned in Russia and
many other countries.
Iran
is feeling marginalized because of the Russian role in Syria
Declared
the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Bahram Qasim, on Monday, his
country's refusal of any call to withdraw the Iranian forces or
militias from Syria, saying that “Iran will remain in Syria at the
request of Damascus”.
Said
Qasim in a press conference “no one can force Iran, something, Iran
will remain in Syria as long as the demand of the market. standing
and continuous”, in reference to the invitation of the Russian
President, Vladimir Putin, last Thursday during his meeting with his
Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, to eject the foreign forces from
Syria, including the Iranian forces.
Added
denominator that “the presence of Iran in Syria came under the
request of the Syrian government, and they have to leave they entered
Syria without the permission of the Syrian government”.
The
Russian media quoted the Russian president's Special Envoy for the
Syrian settlement, Alexander freed, to permit Putin, about the
withdrawal of foreign troops from Syria for all actors except Russia.
Said
free, said, “this permit is for all groups to foreign military,
which exist on the territory of Syria, including Americans, Turks,
Hezbollah, and the Iranian people”.
And
Iran's marginalization because of the Russian role in Syria, where
location detection "tab you" of the Secretary of the
expediency Council of Iran and Commander in chief of the former
Revolutionary Guards, Major General Mohsen rezaei, last week,
Presidents Putin and Bashar al-Assad, are working with the west to
develop a political solution to the Syrian crisis through the Delete
Iran from the Syrian scene, and that the Islamic Republic of Iran is
the victim's elder to resolve the Putin of his decision to adopt the
principle of Geneva for a political solution.
He
stressed that the meeting which brought together Syrian President his
Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, recently in Suzhou city, to be
followed by the development of extremely important on the regional
scene in general and on the Syrian Arena special, explaining that the
repercussions of the events will reflect in particular on the
presence of Iran on the coast of Syria, and that Moscow began to
bargain with the West through the exclusion of the Islamic Republic
of Syria.
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