US Warns Russia Over Military Buildup in Syria
The US warned Russia this weekend that its military building in Syria could lead to an unwanted escalation in the area. By: Hana Levi Julian Published: September 6th, 2015
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UN troops look at smoke rising from Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
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The U.S. warned Russia over the weekend that its military buildup in Syria could further escalate the conflict in the region.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “to discuss Syria, including U.S. concerns about reports suggesting an imminent enhanced Russian military buildup there,” the State Department said in a statement. “The secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-ISIL Coalition operating in Syria,” the statement continued.
ISIL is the Obama administration acronym for ISIS, or Da’esh. The two men agreed to continue their conversation at the United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month.
According to American intelligence reports, Russia has delivered prefab housing for hundreds of people and a portable air traffic station to an airfield near Latakia.
The U.S. government warned that Russian air strikes could interfere with current operations being conducted by the United States-led coalition against Da’esh (ISIS) in Syria.
It is also possible that Russian operations could strike opposition forces the Americans support.
The United States and Russia have very different ideas about how to solve the crisis in Syria; on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for “early elections” in Syria and suggested bringing “healthy” elements of the opposition to a new coalition government.
But Putin, who had first cleared his plan with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, did not specify which opposition elements would be acceptable.
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WarSclerotic 
September 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM
Putin must be laughing for the call he received from Kerry.The so called U.S. coalition has failed to stop ISIL with its air strikes possibly deliberately.After all ISIL is a creation of Saudi Arabia with the blessings of the U.S. with the goal to overthrown the current criminal regime of Syria and to stop Iranian incursion or influence in the region.While the response from the Russian foreign affairs minister Larov is supposedly the legit way to go-by the time the matter is brought to the U.N. there will be a full blown war.Grab the pop corn and see how this disaster will further unfold.Russian by then will have the bulk of the forces dedicated to defeat ISIL and the other opposition forces and save the AL Bashar Assad regime. And who knows what other surprises are in store.Possibly the installation of the SS-300 Russian Missiles in Syria to keep Israel in check in the event Israel decides to attempt to knock out the Iranian nuke systems.And a final outcome of a full blown war in the region would be the rise oil prices that would benefit both Russia and Iran.Both are desperate for the oil prices to rise.