McCain, who has long promoted deploying U.S. ground forces to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, told Alhurra TV that Russia has established itself and become "the dominant player."
"They have for the first time since 1973 played a major role in the Middle East, and they're achieving all of their objectives while we sit by and call it a quagmire or in the words of the secretary of defense, unprofessional," McCain said. "It has become almost a joke."
Obama authorized an aerial campaign against the Islamic State that has included more than 2,600 airstrikes in Syria and 4,600 in Iraq, but the bombings have had limited success and he has so far ruled out sending American ground troops.
McCain said it is "obvious" Russia is targeting moderate opposition fighters and not the Islamic State with its own airstrikes that began last week, and criticized as "outrageously immoral" the failure of the U.S. to protect the Syrian rebels it has trained and equipped.............http://www.voanews.com/content/mccain-russia-winning-in-syria/2994818.html
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Russian warplanes in Syria destroy U.S.-trained rebels' weapons depots: commander...
ReplyDeleteRussian air strikes have destroyed the main weapons depots of a U.S.-trained rebel group in Syria, their commander said on Wednesday, in an expansion of Russian attacks on insurgents backed by foreign enemies of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, whose fighters have attended military training organized by the Central Intelligence Agency in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, was also hit last week by Russian raids as Moscow began its air campaign in support of Damascus...............reuters.com
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