southfront--2020-06-18--U.S. Africa Command Releases New Photos Of ‘Russian’ Warplanes In Libya

On June 18 , the U.S. Africa Command ( AFRICOM ) released new photos of what it claimed to be “ Russian ” warplanes deployed in Libya .
The photos show a Su-24 attack aircraft and a Mig-29 fighter aircraft in the al-Jufra Air Base , in central Libya .
The base is controlled by the Libyan National Army ( LNA ) .
Forces of the UAE , a key regional ally of the U.S , are reportedly present in the base .
The AFRICOM claims that 14 MiG-29s and several Su-24s were flown from Russia to Syria , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The U.S. argues that Russia sent warplanes to Libya to provide air support for private military contractors ( PMCs ) fighting for the LNA .
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Gen. Gering went on to claim that the “ Russian ” warplanes in al-Jufra are being flown by “ inexperienced , non-state PMC mercenaries.
” The AFRICOM has been leading a media campaign accusing Russia of intervening in Libya for a few weeks .
In spite of these claims , not a single “ Russian airstrike ” has been reported in Libya so far .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ belong to the Russian Aerospace Forces was presented by the AFRICOM .
While the U.S. is panicking over the supposed Russian intervention in Libya , it continues to turn a blind eye to Turkey ’ s incursion in the country ’ s war .
In the past few months , Ankara deployed loads of weapons and 14,000 Syrian militants in Libya to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord .
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On June 18, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) released new photos of what it claimed to be “Russian” warplanes deployed in Libya.
The photos show a Su-24 attack aircraft and a Mig-29 fighter aircraft in the al-Jufra Air Base, in central Libya. The base is controlled by the Libyan National Army (LNA). Forces of the UAE, a key regional ally of the U.S, are reportedly present in the base.
NEWS: New evidence of Russian aircraft active in Libyan airspace (1 of 3)
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“#Russia‘s sustained involvement in #Libya increases the violence and delays a political solution.” – BG Gering, director of operations
Release: https://t.co/g3PYHBDCOC
Photos: https://t.co/ftYyEeX1GQ pic.twitter.com/G34ILYIJvM — US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) June 18, 2020
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The Spoon Rest is a Russian-made, mobile early warning radar system designed to provide tactical support to military activities, used when deployed for tactical combat operations. Russian aircraft delivered to Libya in late May are being actively flown in Libya. pic.twitter.com/zaqcZH4jIS — US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) June 18, 2020
The AFRICOM claims that 14 MiG-29s and several Su-24s were flown from Russia to Syria, then to the al-Jufra Air Base in Libya. The U.S. argues that Russia sent warplanes to Libya to provide air support for private military contractors (PMCs) fighting for the LNA.
“Russia’s sustained involvement in Libya increases the violence and delays a political solution,” said U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Bradford Gering, USAFRICOM director of operations. “Russia continues to push for a strategic foothold on NATO’s southern flank and this is at the expense of innocent Libyan lives.”
Brig. Gen. Gering went on to claim that the “Russian” warplanes in al-Jufra are being flown by “inexperienced, non-state PMC mercenaries.”
The AFRICOM has been leading a media campaign accusing Russia of intervening in Libya for a few weeks. In spite of these claims, not a single “Russian airstrike” has been reported in Libya so far. No solid evidence proving that these warplanes belong to the Russian Aerospace Forces was presented by the AFRICOM.
While the U.S. is panicking over the supposed Russian intervention in Libya, it continues to turn a blind eye to Turkey’s incursion in the country’s war. In the past few months, Ankara deployed loads of weapons and 14,000 Syrian militants in Libya to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Turkish Forces Conduct Patrol On M4 Highway In Greater Idlib Without Russian Participation

On June 18 , Turkish forces conducted a patrol on the M4 highway in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater @ @ @ @ @ Police didn ’ t take part in the patrol , which set off from town @ @ @ @ @ .
Turkish forces managed to reach the town of Kafir in the countryside of the @ @ @ @ @ In the course of the new patrol , Turkish forces passed through checkpoints of al-Qaeda-affiliated @ @ @ @ @ terrorists .
Opposition sources claimed that Russian forces didn ’ t take part in the @ @ @ @ @ that targeted one of their armored vehicles during the last joint patrol , which took @ @ @ @ @ The Turkish patrol was likely carried out to scout and secure the M4 ahead of @ @ @ @ @ the Russian Military Police .
Ankara is committed to open the highway under the March @ @ @ @ @ Any safety issues or delays could jeopardize the agreement .
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On June 18, Turkish forces conducted a patrol on the M4 highway in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
The Russian Military Police didn’t take part in the patrol, which set off from town of Tronba in south Idlib. Turkish forces managed to reach the town of Kafir in the countryside of the city of Jisr al-Shughur.
In the course of the new patrol, Turkish forces passed through checkpoints of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists.
أبطال هيئة تحرير الشام يقومون بحماية الدوريات الروسية والتركية.. أذكر أن أبطال هيئة تحرير الشام قد عاهدوا أن لا تمر هذه الدوريات إلى على جثثهم فكيف تمر هذه الدوريات اليوم؟! وأذكر أيضاً أنهم قاموا بزرع مسامير على طريق ال 4m هل ما زالت المسامير بخير؟ Q pic.twitter.com/BI7OLCwRAM — هادي دعدوع (@VFKH1m4QQdnSWbz) June 18, 2020
Opposition sources claimed that Russian forces didn’t take part in the patrol due to the attack that targeted one of their armored vehicles during the last joint patrol, which took place two days ago.
The Turkish patrol was likely carried out to scout and secure the M4 ahead of an upcoming joint patrol with the Russian Military Police. Ankara is committed to open the highway under the March 5 agreement with Russia. Any safety issues or delays could jeopardize the agreement.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Status And Development Of US Military Biological Projects

Originally appeared at Foreign Military Review # 3 2019 , translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront The U.S. military and political leadership ( MPL ) has consistently declared in international forums the punctual implementation of the “ Convention on the Prohibition of the Development , Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction ” ( hereinafter , the Convention or BTWC ) .
The convention was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1971 , entered into force in 1975 , and is open-ended .
According to foreign and Russian biologists , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a control and inspection mechanism for the implementation of its main provisions by the participating countries .
At the same time , the U.S. MPL is avoiding the participation in the development of this mechanism and signing the relevant protocol proposed by Russia .
In addition , the American leadership , through its extensive biological-military activities , had deliberately committed serious violations of the Convention , which should be considered as a departure from international law .
The results of the analysis of foreign and Russian information materials , statements of former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Giorgadze and assessments of annual reports of the U.S. State Department by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation allow to draw conclusions about systematic violations of the basic provisions of the Convention and the creation of biological ( bacteriological ) weapons in this country by the U.S. leadership .
The medical and biological activities of the U.S. military department on the perimeter of the Russian borders pose a serious threat to the security of Russia and other states .
The locations of biological laboratories , according to foreign and Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of them are located in areas adjacent to Russia and China and are a constant source of biological threats to these states .
In the former republics of the USSR , the Pentagon has funded the operation and development of new microbiological laboratories .
More than 30 U.S.-controlled laboratories with a high level of biological protection are currently being upgraded , which is also confirmed by official UN data .
Their capabilities make it possible to conduct a full range of studies with agents of extremely dangerous infectious diseases .
The content @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new types of biological attack agents with predetermined pathogenic properties may be produced .
According to foreign information sources , basic U.S. Central Reference Laboratories ( CRLs ) , supplemented by a network of zonal stations , operate in the Ukraine and Georgia .
In addition , under an agreement between its Ministry of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense , the Ukraine has laboratories for the study of highly dangerous infections .
There is one laboratory in each of the cities of Kiev , Odessa , Kherson , Ternopil , Uzhgorod @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two laboratories in Dnepropetrovsk and three in Lvov .
Georgia has a number of biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon : the National Center for Infectious Disease Control and the Institute of Microbiology , Virology and Bacteriophages ; the Richard Lugar Laboratory for Public Health Research on the outskirts of Tbilisi ( Alekseevka village ) ; and modernised regional sanitary epidemiological stations .
The head of Rospotrebnadzor , chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova , in late 2018 said that the Pentagon planned to organise a laboratory in Simferopol under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiments on people and creation of biological weapons .
This is confirmed by the discovery of 46 rodent internal organ samples , 104 ectoparasite pools , and 105 human blood serum samples prepared for shipment to the United States on the peninsula in the former Soviet anti-plague station .
According to her , American laboratories located near Russia ’ s borders in the post-Soviet space can artificially change viruses .
Thus , in the summer of 2018 a group of Russian tourists returned from Georgia in serious condition due to an acute intestinal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rospotrebnadzor scientists found out that such variant of the pathogen is not described and is not presented among the known data .
According to their data , insects capable of transmitting dangerous viruses to people are being brought to Georgia by drones from the USA .
The well-known American centre R. Lugar in Georgia , which was previously accused of testing toxic chemicals on local residents under the guise of treatment , is engaged in this work .
Former UN member of the Biological Weapons Commission Ihor Nikulin said the Americans in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In recent years , outbreaks of measles , hepatitis , tuberculosis , rabies and other infectious diseases have increased in the country .
Only in 2017 , tens of thousands of Ukrainians died from infections .
Meanwhile , viruses are often spread using drones and insects .
The implementation of the U.S. programme “ Allied Insects ” began in 2016 .
The number of biological laboratories built or upgraded by the United States in the former Soviet Union is increasing .
There are ten of them in Kazakhstan , the same number in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Armenia .
Russia is almost completely surrounded by biological laboratories .
All over the world , Washington has 200 laboratories .
It is possible that the outbreak of Ebola in Africa , which took the lives of 10 thousand people , is associated with the Americans ’ experiments .
It is important to note that Washington declares exclusively the civilian purpose of the activities of these facilities , allegedly in the interests of ensuring the biological security of the republics .
It is stated that , with the participation of American military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pathogens that are particularly dangerous .
According to foreign and Russian experts , these laboratories are used for purposes hostile to Russia and other countries .
There is an increase in uncontrolled covert and sudden intervention in the field of biosecurity of states with the following tasks : putting under control the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet republics and the work carried out in them with pathogens ; data collection on infectious diseases and export of national collections with strains of pathogens that can fight the effects of vaccines and are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ territorial microorganisms to create a new generation of highly effective offensive biological weapons against Russia , Iran and China ; conducting sabotage operations aimed at causing damage to the economy ( destruction of livestock , discrediting state products on world markets , etc . )
and human potential as a result of reduced immunity and ability to reproduce ; testing on the ground of biological agents , increasing their virulence , tracking the ways and methods of their distribution ; increasing the dependence of Russia , China and Iran on the products of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ develop medicines for diseases artificially synthesized or modified using the CRL network and circumventing the restrictions regulated by the articles of the BTWC .
The Ukraine , Georgia , Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan handed over their collections of pathogens of dangerous diseases and combat strains of microorganisms created in the former USSR to the Americans .
The Pentagon ’ s research into ethnically based differences in people ’ s susceptibility to dangerous diseases is dangerous .
This opens up the possibility of obtaining ( by genetic modification the forms of pathogenic microorganisms ) such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population of the Russian Federation and other countries will have no natural immunity , and the available medical means of protection may prove ineffective .
It is known that the Pentagon has repeatedly sent viable anthrax agents to 195 recipients in 12 countries where well-known laboratories have been built in recent years in violation of all accepted standards .
For example , a “ live ” recipe was intentionally sent to the Republic of Korea as part of an alleged test of the integrated biological assessment system , and the US subsequently stated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The specifics of their creation and functioning are confirmed by the hostile aims and objectives of these laboratories : – All facilities are being built at the Pentagon ’ s expense , not the ministries of health of the states .
According to foreign experts , the financing of their activities in the period from 2017 to 2019 will amount to about 1 billion dollars , and only in 2019 , in accordance with the budget request of the US administration , more than 197 million dollars will be allocated for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Such significant costs can be justified by the possibility of placing expensive dual-use equipment .
– The experience of using such facilities by the Americans shows that they are removed from national control and operate in a closed mode .
– Laboratories are staffed by foreign personnel with diplomatic immunity .
– The directors of the facilities , as a rule , are appointed persons loyal to the Pentagon ’ s military or intelligence personnel .
– The CRLs are located in cities or in close proximity to major cities ( Odessa , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Odessa ) , airports ( Tbilisi ) , or in earthquake-prone areas ( Almaty ) .
From the point of view of security their positions are extremely vulnerable .
Data published by former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giogadze on the activities of the United States at the R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research received an important international response .
It should be emphasized that these materials were thoroughly studies by the command of the Russian Armed Forces and used at a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ materials of I. Giorgadze ’ s website “ Georgia yesterday , today , tomorrow ” , in 2018 , a new eight-story administrative and laboratory building was built on the territory adjacent to the R. Lugar centre .
Two floors of the new building are completely dedicated to the medical research unit , which is a branch of the W. Reed U.S. Army Research Institute .
It is known that this military unit of the army is engaged in the study of particularly dangerous infectious diseases .
The American and Georgian authorities are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and direction of projects implemented in the centre .
The Pentagon is trying to introduce the same camouflaged military medical and biological facilities in other republics of the former USSR .
The documents indicate that Washington ’ s priority research list includes potential biological weapons agents : agent of tularemia , anthrax , brucellosis , dengue fever , Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and other diseases transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods .
The Pentagon is particularly interested in atypical forms of plague , which are being searched for in pockets throughout Georgia , including in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I. Giorgadze ’ s data , Georgian specialists are restricted in moving around the centre , do not have the right to get acquainted with American documents , and do not have information about the Pentagon ’ s closed laboratory developments .
At the same time , US military biologists working at the centre have diplomatic immunity .
For them , the notification nature of transporting biomaterials through deep channels is implemented without checks and declaring them before local supervisory authorities .
Thus , this protection allows the members of the Armed Forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to fulfill the orders of its government in circumvention of the Georgian legislation .
In addition , Washington secured financial support from London and Berlin for the R. Lugar centre , facilitated its partnerships with major scientific research institutions such as the UK DEO ’ s Science and Technology Laboratory and the Institute of Microbiology of the Bundeswehr , as well as the R. Koch Institute , B. Nocht Tropical Medicine and F. Leffler Veterinary Medicine ( all in Germany ) .
Giorgadze ’ s information draws attention to the use of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spread infected insects in the air and various types of capsules for the delivery of chemical and biological formations .
The possibility of equipping the capsules with tranquilisers , poisonous , radioactive and narcotic substances and pathogens of infectious diseases is shown .
Materials on the results of the conducted research on the impact of an unknown drug on Georgian citizens , which resulted in the death of more than 160 people were made public .
There are reasons to believe that the R. Lugar centre has conducted tests of a highly toxic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lethality .
The published data point out that the collection and export abroad of biological materials of Russian citizens with undeclared purposes represents a threat to the security of the Russian Federation .
As part of the Genographic Project , American companies collected clinical material on monoethnoses from the North Caucasus , the Far East and the Ural regions .
Thus , the U.S. military and pollical leadership , violating the basic provisions of the BTWC , is developing its military and biological activities and , under the guise of implementing protective or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ build its military and biological potential .
Contrary to its international obligations , the U.S. has retained national legislation that allows for work in the field of bacteriological ( biological ) weapons .
In particular , the ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol “ For the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating , Poisonous or Other Gases , and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare ” by the United States attached a number of notes allowing the retaliatory use of chemical and toxin weapons .
According to the U.S. Federal Act “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act ” ( the “ Patriot Act ” ) , research in the fileld of creating bacteriological ( biological ) weapons is allowed with the authorisation of the American government .
At the same time , participants in such research are not criminally liable for developing such weapons .
The While House , offering supposedly charitable assistance in the sanitary and epidemiological field , concurrently increases the potential for covert and sudden intervention in the development of the situation in the field of biosecurity , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also far beyond their borders .
In conclusion , it is important to cite the statements made by the President of the Russian Federation , Vladimir Putin , at the XVth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club , after reviewing the information materials on the implementation of the BTWC by the United States : “ Reports of the development of biological weapons are alarming .
I can ’ t judge how reliable the data of the former Minister of State Security of Georgia is .
These developments are very dangerous and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genetics .
We can talk about drugs that selectively affect a person in accordance with their belonging to a certain ethnic group .
If someone is going to develop such things , they should understand that others will do it as well .
To prevent these problems , the international community should sit down at the negotiating table and develop common rules of conduct in this extremely sensitive area.
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Originally appeared at Foreign Military Review #3 2019, translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront
The U.S. military and political leadership (MPL) has consistently declared in international forums the punctual implementation of the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction” (hereinafter, the Convention or BTWC). The convention was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1971, entered into force in 1975, and is open-ended.
According to foreign and Russian biologists, a disadvantage of the BTWC is the lack of a control and inspection mechanism for the implementation of its main provisions by the participating countries. At the same time, the U.S. MPL is avoiding the participation in the development of this mechanism and signing the relevant protocol proposed by Russia. In addition, the American leadership, through its extensive biological-military activities, had deliberately committed serious violations of the Convention, which should be considered as a departure from international law.
The results of the analysis of foreign and Russian information materials, statements of former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giorgadze and assessments of annual reports of the U.S. State Department by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation allow to draw conclusions about systematic violations of the basic provisions of the Convention and the creation of biological (bacteriological) weapons in this country by the U.S. leadership.
The medical and biological activities of the U.S. military department on the perimeter of the Russian borders pose a serious threat to the security of Russia and other states. The locations of biological laboratories, according to foreign and Russian experts, have been chosen so that many of them are located in areas adjacent to Russia and China and are a constant source of biological threats to these states. In the former republics of the USSR, the Pentagon has funded the operation and development of new microbiological laboratories. More than 30 U.S.-controlled laboratories with a high level of biological protection are currently being upgraded, which is also confirmed by official UN data. Their capabilities make it possible to conduct a full range of studies with agents of extremely dangerous infectious diseases.
The content of most of the work indicates that new types of biological attack agents with predetermined pathogenic properties may be produced.
According to foreign information sources, basic U.S. Central Reference Laboratories (CRLs), supplemented by a network of zonal stations, operate in the Ukraine and Georgia. In addition, under an agreement between its Ministry of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense, the Ukraine has laboratories for the study of highly dangerous infections. There is one laboratory in each of the cities of Kiev, Odessa, Kherson, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Vinnitsa, Kharkov and Lugansk, two laboratories in Dnepropetrovsk and three in Lvov.
Georgia has a number of biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon: the National Center for Infectious Disease Control and the Institute of Microbiology, Virology and Bacteriophages; the Richard Lugar Laboratory for Public Health Research on the outskirts of Tbilisi (Alekseevka village); and modernised regional sanitary epidemiological stations.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova, in late 2018 said that the Pentagon planned to organise a laboratory in Simferopol under the guise of a medical centre to conduct experiments on people and creation of biological weapons. This is confirmed by the discovery of 46 rodent internal organ samples, 104 ectoparasite pools, and 105 human blood serum samples prepared for shipment to the United States on the peninsula in the former Soviet anti-plague station.
According to her, American laboratories located near Russia’s borders in the post-Soviet space can artificially change viruses. Thus, in the summer of 2018 a group of Russian tourists returned from Georgia in serious condition due to an acute intestinal infection.
Having studied the pathogen, Rospotrebnadzor scientists found out that such variant of the pathogen is not described and is not presented among the known data. According to their data, insects capable of transmitting dangerous viruses to people are being brought to Georgia by drones from the USA. The well-known American centre R. Lugar in Georgia, which was previously accused of testing toxic chemicals on local residents under the guise of treatment, is engaged in this work.
Former UN member of the Biological Weapons Commission Ihor Nikulin said the Americans in the Ukraine are also testing questionable vaccines. In recent years, outbreaks of measles, hepatitis, tuberculosis, rabies and other infectious diseases have increased in the country. Only in 2017, tens of thousands of Ukrainians died from infections. Meanwhile, viruses are often spread using drones and insects. The implementation of the U.S. programme “Allied Insects” began in 2016.
The number of biological laboratories built or upgraded by the United States in the former Soviet Union is increasing. There are ten of them in Kazakhstan, the same number in Georgia, eight in Azerbaijan and seven in Armenia.
Russia is almost completely surrounded by biological laboratories.
All over the world, Washington has 200 laboratories. It is possible that the outbreak of Ebola in Africa, which took the lives of 10 thousand people, is associated with the Americans’ experiments.
It is important to note that Washington declares exclusively the civilian purpose of the activities of these facilities, allegedly in the interests of ensuring the biological security of the republics. It is stated that, with the participation of American military biologists, these laboratories conduct research on pathogens that are particularly dangerous.
According to foreign and Russian experts, these laboratories are used for purposes hostile to Russia and other countries. There is an increase in uncontrolled covert and sudden intervention in the field of biosecurity of states with the following tasks: putting under control the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet republics and the work carried out in them with pathogens; data collection on infectious diseases and export of national collections with strains of pathogens that can fight the effects of vaccines and are resistant to antibiotics; collecting information about territorial microorganisms to create a new generation of highly effective offensive biological weapons against Russia, Iran and China; conducting sabotage operations aimed at causing damage to the economy (destruction of livestock, discrediting state products on world markets, etc.) and human potential as a result of reduced immunity and ability to reproduce; testing on the ground of biological agents, increasing their virulence, tracking the ways and methods of their distribution; increasing the dependence of Russia, China and Iran on the products of the Western pharmaceutical industry in order to develop medicines for diseases artificially synthesized or modified using the CRL network and circumventing the restrictions regulated by the articles of the BTWC.
The Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan handed over their collections of pathogens of dangerous diseases and combat strains of microorganisms created in the former USSR to the Americans.
The Pentagon’s research into ethnically based differences in people’s susceptibility to dangerous diseases is dangerous. This opens up the possibility of obtaining (by genetic modification the forms of pathogenic microorganisms) such biological affective agents, to which the population of the Russian Federation and other countries will have no natural immunity, and the available medical means of protection may prove ineffective.
It is known that the Pentagon has repeatedly sent viable anthrax agents to 195 recipients in 12 countries where well-known laboratories have been built in recent years in violation of all accepted standards. For example, a “live” recipe was intentionally sent to the Republic of Korea as part of an alleged test of the integrated biological assessment system, and the US subsequently stated that the mailing was made in error.
The specifics of their creation and functioning are confirmed by the hostile aims and objectives of these laboratories:
– All facilities are being built at the Pentagon’s expense, not the ministries of health of the states. According to foreign experts, the financing of their activities in the period from 2017 to 2019 will amount to about 1 billion dollars, and only in 2019, in accordance with the budget request of the US administration, more than 197 million dollars will be allocated for the implementation of research and military-technical projects. Such significant costs can be justified by the possibility of placing expensive dual-use equipment.
– The experience of using such facilities by the Americans shows that they are removed from national control and operate in a closed mode.
– Laboratories are staffed by foreign personnel with diplomatic immunity.
– The directors of the facilities, as a rule, are appointed persons loyal to the Pentagon’s military or intelligence personnel.
– The CRLs are located in cities or in close proximity to major cities (Odessa, Kharkov, Almaty), near seaports (Odessa), airports (Tbilisi), or in earthquake-prone areas (Almaty). From the point of view of security their positions are extremely vulnerable.
Data published by former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giogadze on the activities of the United States at the R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research received an important international response. It should be emphasized that these materials were thoroughly studies by the command of the Russian Armed Forces and used at a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defence in October 2018.
According to the materials of I. Giorgadze’s website “Georgia yesterday, today, tomorrow”, in 2018, a new eight-story administrative and laboratory building was built on the territory adjacent to the R. Lugar centre. Two floors of the new building are completely dedicated to the medical research unit, which is a branch of the W. Reed U.S. Army Research Institute. It is known that this military unit of the army is engaged in the study of particularly dangerous infectious diseases. The American and Georgian authorities are taking measures to conceal the true nature and direction of projects implemented in the centre. The Pentagon is trying to introduce the same camouflaged military medical and biological facilities in other republics of the former USSR.
The documents indicate that Washington’s priority research list includes potential biological weapons agents: agent of tularemia, anthrax, brucellosis, dengue fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and other diseases transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods. The Pentagon is particularly interested in atypical forms of plague, which are being searched for in pockets throughout Georgia, including in the immediate vicinity of Russia.
According to I. Giorgadze’s data, Georgian specialists are restricted in moving around the centre, do not have the right to get acquainted with American documents, and do not have information about the Pentagon’s closed laboratory developments. At the same time, US military biologists working at the centre have diplomatic immunity. For them, the notification nature of transporting biomaterials through deep channels is implemented without checks and declaring them before local supervisory authorities.
Thus, this protection allows the members of the Armed Forces of the United States to solve problems and to fulfill the orders of its government in circumvention of the Georgian legislation. In addition, Washington secured financial support from London and Berlin for the R. Lugar centre, facilitated its partnerships with major scientific research institutions such as the UK DEO’s Science and Technology Laboratory and the Institute of Microbiology of the Bundeswehr, as well as the R. Koch Institute, B. Nocht Tropical Medicine and F. Leffler Veterinary Medicine (all in Germany).
Giorgadze’s information draws attention to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Americans to spread infected insects in the air and various types of capsules for the delivery of chemical and biological formations. The possibility of equipping the capsules with tranquilisers, poisonous, radioactive and narcotic substances and pathogens of infectious diseases is shown.
Materials on the results of the conducted research on the impact of an unknown drug on Georgian citizens, which resulted in the death of more than 160 people were made public. There are reasons to believe that the R. Lugar centre has conducted tests of a highly toxic chemical preparation or biological agent with high lethality.
The published data point out that the collection and export abroad of biological materials of Russian citizens with undeclared purposes represents a threat to the security of the Russian Federation.
As part of the Genographic Project, American companies collected clinical material on monoethnoses from the North Caucasus, the Far East and the Ural regions.
Thus, the U.S. military and pollical leadership, violating the basic provisions of the BTWC, is developing its military and biological activities and, under the guise of implementing protective or other peaceful research, is continuing to build its military and biological potential. Contrary to its international obligations, the U.S. has retained national legislation that allows for work in the field of bacteriological (biological) weapons. In particular, the ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol “For the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare” by the United States attached a number of notes allowing the retaliatory use of chemical and toxin weapons.
According to the U.S. Federal Act “Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act” (the “Patriot Act”), research in the fileld of creating bacteriological (biological) weapons is allowed with the authorisation of the American government. At the same time, participants in such research are not criminally liable for developing such weapons. The While House, offering supposedly charitable assistance in the sanitary and epidemiological field, concurrently increases the potential for covert and sudden intervention in the development of the situation in the field of biosecurity, not only in the post-Soviet states, but also far beyond their borders.
In conclusion, it is important to cite the statements made by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, at the XVth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, after reviewing the information materials on the implementation of the BTWC by the United States: “Reports of the development of biological weapons are alarming. I can’t judge how reliable the data of the former Minister of State Security of Georgia is. These developments are very dangerous and are associated with the latest advances in genetics. We can talk about drugs that selectively affect a person in accordance with their belonging to a certain ethnic group. If someone is going to develop such things, they should understand that others will do it as well. To prevent these problems, the international community should sit down at the negotiating table and develop common rules of conduct in this extremely sensitive area.”
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southfront--2020-06-18--Fifteen Syrian Service Members Killed, Injured In New Eastern Hama Attack

Early on June 18 , ISIS terrorists launched an attack on positions of the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) in the eastern Hama countryside .
The attack targeted checkpoints of the army near the town of Ithriyah , which is located on a key trade road linking the northern city of Aleppo with Hama .
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) , six Syrian service members were killed and nine others were injured in the attack .
Pro-government sources said that at least five terrorists were killed .
“ This attack is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten days , meaning that the Islamic State is stepping up its attacks within a new area , which is the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle , ” the monitoring group said in a report .
Following the attack , the SAA deployed fresh reinforcements near Ithriyah .
Several sources also reported that Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS ’ hideouts in eastern Hama .
The SAA and its allies recently conducted a series of successful security operation in eastern Homs , southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor .
Apparently these efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to southeastern and eastern Hama .
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Early on June 18, ISIS terrorists launched an attack on positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the eastern Hama countryside.
The attack targeted checkpoints of the army near the town of Ithriyah, which is located on a key trade road linking the northern city of Aleppo with Hama.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), six Syrian service members were killed and nine others were injured in the attack. Pro-government sources said that at least five terrorists were killed.
“This attack is the fifth of its kind in less than ten days, meaning that the Islamic State is stepping up its attacks within a new area, which is the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle,” the monitoring group said in a report.
Following the attack, the SAA deployed fresh reinforcements near Ithriyah. Several sources also reported that Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS’ hideouts in eastern Hama.
The SAA and its allies recently conducted a series of successful security operation in eastern Homs, southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor. Apparently these efforts forced the remaining ISIS terrorists to flee to southeastern and eastern Hama.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Idlib Al-Qaeda Promotes Its ‘Successes’ In Fight Against Syrian Army

The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces are amassing their troops and equipment near the town of Ayn Issa in northern Raqqah .
This town , located near the crossroad of the M4 highway and the Sanliurfa-Raqqah road , has been the target of Turkish expansionist efforts for a long while .
Nonetheless , the Turkish Army and its proxies failed to capture it during the active phase of their Operation Peace Spring on October 9-22 , 2019 .
Since then , they have been drawing up plans on how to push back the Syrian Army from Ayn Issa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a part of the M4 highway there .
Another such high priority target for Turkey is the town of Tell Tamr located on the road to Al-Hasakah .
Over the past week , the Turkish Army and Turkish-backed groups have significantly strengthened their strike force north of Ayn Issa .
This move was made simultaneously with the start of Turkey ’ s Operation Claw-Tiger against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers ’ Party ( PKK ) in northern Iraq .
Syrian sources expect that Turkey may use the recent escalation of its war on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expand its control zone in northeastern Syria under some pretext or other .
ISIS cells continue their attacks on the eastern bank of the Euphrates .
Late on June 17 , an IED explosion destroyed a vehicle of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces near the village of Ruwaishid killing at least one person .
Another ISIS attack reportedly took place near as Suwayr , when ISIS gunmen shelled an SDF checkpoint .
The military situation in southern Idlib remains relatively calm despite provocations from radical militant groups .
Fa Ithbatu , a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is yet to take any real action against the Syrian Army despite loud statements .
Wa-Harid al-Mu ’ minin , which preceded Fa Ithbatu , claimed that it had carried out at least 547 attacks on government forces killing at least 950 government fighters over the past 20 months .
However , these claims are hardly consistent with reality .
Meanwhile , Turkey has continued to send its proxies from groups deployed in Idlib and Afrin to Libya in order to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord .
According to reports , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trained for the deployment has reached 14,000 .
At least 400 of these have already died in fighting against the Libyan National Army .
This factor would also undermine the offensive capabilities of Idlib groups in the event of a new confrontation with the Syrian Army .

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The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces are amassing their troops and equipment near the town of Ayn Issa in northern Raqqah. This town, located near the crossroad of the M4 highway and the Sanliurfa-Raqqah road, has been the target of Turkish expansionist efforts for a long while. Nonetheless, the Turkish Army and its proxies failed to capture it during the active phase of their Operation Peace Spring on October 9-22, 2019. Since then, they have been drawing up plans on how to push back the Syrian Army from Ayn Issa and to seize control of at least a part of the M4 highway there. Another such high priority target for Turkey is the town of Tell Tamr located on the road to Al-Hasakah.
Over the past week, the Turkish Army and Turkish-backed groups have significantly strengthened their strike force north of Ayn Issa. This move was made simultaneously with the start of Turkey’s Operation Claw-Tiger against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Syrian sources expect that Turkey may use the recent escalation of its war on the PKK to make another attempt to expand its control zone in northeastern Syria under some pretext or other.
ISIS cells continue their attacks on the eastern bank of the Euphrates. Late on June 17, an IED explosion destroyed a vehicle of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces near the village of Ruwaishid killing at least one person. Another ISIS attack reportedly took place near as Suwayr, when ISIS gunmen shelled an SDF checkpoint.
The military situation in southern Idlib remains relatively calm despite provocations from radical militant groups. Fa Ithbatu, a new al-Qaeda-linked coalition formed by Turkish-protected militants, is yet to take any real action against the Syrian Army despite loud statements.
Wa-Harid al-Mu’minin, which preceded Fa Ithbatu, claimed that it had carried out at least 547 attacks on government forces killing at least 950 government fighters over the past 20 months. However, these claims are hardly consistent with reality.
Meanwhile, Turkey has continued to send its proxies from groups deployed in Idlib and Afrin to Libya in order to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord. According to reports, the total number of militants deployed or trained for the deployment has reached 14,000. At least 400 of these have already died in fighting against the Libyan National Army. This factor would also undermine the offensive capabilities of Idlib groups in the event of a new confrontation with the Syrian Army.
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southfront--2020-06-18--France Accused Turkish Navy Of Harassing One Of Its Warships In Mediterranean

On June 17 , the French Ministry of Armed Forces accused the Turkish Navy of harassing a French warship in the Mediterranean sea .
The warship , that was participating in a NATO mission , tried to check a cargo vessel on suspicion it was taking arms to Libya .
However , a Turkish frigate intervened .
The frigate carried out radar targeting at least three times , suggesting that a missile was about to be launched at the French warship .
“ This is an extremely aggressive act that is unacceptable by an ally against a NATO ship , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , adding “ We consider this an extremely grave matter … We can not accept that an ally behaves this way , that it does this against a NATO ship , under NATO command , carrying out a NATO mission.
” A Turkish official denied France ’ s claims , accusing French forces of attempting to search a Turkish ship in international waters .
The official said Ankara expects allies to show “ understanding and sensitivity towards the Turkish Navy and its presence.
” Turkey shipped large quantities of heavy weapons to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Libya over the recent few months violating a UN-imposed arms embargo .
Ankara also deployed 14,000 Syrian fighters in the country .
France is not apparently pleased with Turkey ’ s ever growing influence in the region because it limits prospects of France-linked oil companies operating there .
This is an example of the current division within the NATO over the situation in Libya , that was wrecked by the pact ’ s intervention in 2011 .
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On June 17, the French Ministry of Armed Forces accused the Turkish Navy of harassing a French warship in the Mediterranean sea.
The warship, that was participating in a NATO mission, tried to check a cargo vessel on suspicion it was taking arms to Libya. However, a Turkish frigate intervened. The frigate carried out radar targeting at least three times, suggesting that a missile was about to be launched at the French warship.
“This is an extremely aggressive act that is unacceptable by an ally against a NATO ship,” a French defence official told AFP, adding “We consider this an extremely grave matter … We cannot accept that an ally behaves this way, that it does this against a NATO ship, under NATO command, carrying out a NATO mission.”
A Turkish official denied France’s claims, accusing French forces of attempting to search a Turkish ship in international waters. The official said Ankara expects allies to show “understanding and sensitivity towards the Turkish Navy and its presence.”
Turkey shipped large quantities of heavy weapons to the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya over the recent few months violating a UN-imposed arms embargo. Ankara also deployed 14,000 Syrian fighters in the country.
France is not apparently pleased with Turkey’s ever growing influence in the region because it limits prospects of France-linked oil companies operating there. This is an example of the current division within the NATO over the situation in Libya, that was wrecked by the pact’s intervention in 2011.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Putin Has Three ‘Disinfection Tunnels’ To Shield Him From COVID

Russian President Vladimir Putin has three disinfection tunnels , one at Novo-Ogaryov , his official residence , located in a Moscow suburb , and two others at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow , reported Russian news agency Ria Novosti .
Reuters published a video showing how the tunnel sprays a “ fine water mist ” covering the clothes and exposed areas of the occupant who steps through with a disinfectant solution .
It was noted by Ria Novosti , that anyone who visits Putin will have to step through the tunnel .
The report made no mention of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in two past reports , we noted the solution could be “ a fine mist of water and nitrogen ” or electrified tap water that produces a hypochlorous acid ( which is an environmentally friendly disinfectant that kills bacteria and viruses ) .
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The three were installed in April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the country .
Dmitry Peskov , Putin ’ s spokesman , said the tunnels were installed at the height of the pandemic — he noted , lockdown restrictions are being eased as cases and deaths decrease .
At some point , these tunnels are coming to America — could be seen at stadium entrances .

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has three disinfection tunnels, one at Novo-Ogaryov, his official residence, located in a Moscow suburb, and two others at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, reported Russian news agency Ria Novosti.
Reuters published a video showing how the tunnel sprays a “fine water mist” covering the clothes and exposed areas of the occupant who steps through with a disinfectant solution. It was noted by Ria Novosti, that anyone who visits Putin will have to step through the tunnel.
The report made no mention of the type of disinfectant solution used. However, in two past reports, we noted the solution could be “a fine mist of water and nitrogen” or electrified tap water that produces a hypochlorous acid (which is an environmentally friendly disinfectant that kills bacteria and viruses).
Putin’s tunnels were designed and built by a firm in western Russia. The three were installed in April as confirmed virus cases and deaths exploded across the country.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Russia
COVID-19 number of deaths in Russia
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said the tunnels were installed at the height of the pandemic — he noted, lockdown restrictions are being eased as cases and deaths decrease.
At some point, these tunnels are coming to America — could be seen at stadium entrances.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Russian Forces Break Through U.S. Block In Northeast Syria (Videos)

The Russian Military Police faced a new attempt of U.S. forces to block their movement in the northeastern al-Hasakah countryside @ @ @ @ @ on June 17 when a convoy of the Russian Military Police was heading to al-Malikiyah @ @ @ @ @ U.S. military blocked the main road to the town .
However , Russian vehicles went @ @ @ @ @ forces .
A U.S. vehicle attempted to ram a Russian BTR-80 armored personnel carrier .
@ @ @ @ @ , was able to avoid the hit .
Earlier this month , a similar incident @ @ @ @ @ .
Russian forces were also able to break through the U.S. road block .
These @ @ @ @ @ in northeast Syria have been becoming more hostile towards the Russian Military Police .
The @ @ @ @ @ restrict the movement of Russian forces in oil-rich areas in al-Hasakah .
Russia has been @ @ @ @ @ far .
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The Russian Military Police faced a new attempt of U.S. forces to block their movement in the northeastern al-Hasakah countryside.
The incident took place on June 17 when a convoy of the Russian Military Police was heading to al-Malikiyah. Armored vehicles of the U.S. military blocked the main road to the town. However, Russian vehicles went off the road bypassing U.S. forces.
A U.S. vehicle attempted to ram a Russian BTR-80 armored personnel carrier. The Russian vehicle, however, was able to avoid the hit.
Haseke’nin Malikiye bölgesinde ABD ve Rus devriyesi arasında yol kesme olayı devam ediyor. Bizim burada bunlar için bir söz söylenir de yazmayayım şimdi… pic.twitter.com/tq9wPPj1Nf — Hüseyin Bozan (@huseyinbozan) June 18, 2020
Earlier this month, a similar incident took place in northern al-Hasakah. Russian forces were also able to break through the U.S. road block.
These incidents show that U.S. forces in northeast Syria have been becoming more hostile towards the Russian Military Police. The U.S. military is trying to restrict the movement of Russian forces in oil-rich areas in al-Hasakah. Russia has been patient about these provocations so far.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Iraq’s Usbat al-Tha’ireen Claims Responsibility For Recent Attacks On U.S. Forces In New Video

Usbat al-Tha ’ ireen ( UT ) , a newly-formed Iraqi armed group , has claimed responsibility for three recent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq .
On June 18 , the group released a video titled “ With Patience Comes Victory ” showing footage of the following attacks : • The June 8 rocket attack on Camp Taji , which damaged a C-130 military transport aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition .
• The June 11 rocket attack on U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad .
• The June 16 rocket on the military section of Baghdad International @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out with rockets of the 107 mm caliber .
UT claims that the coalition is hiding the results of the attacks .
UT revealed its existence on March 15 .
Back then , the Iraqi group claimed responsibility for the March 11 Camp Taji rocket attack , which killed three U.S.-led coalition service members .
The group is one of several pro-Iran factions , which emerged in Iraq after the assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis , Deputy-Commander of the Popular Mobilization Units , and Iran ’ s Quds Force Commander , Maj. Gen. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year .
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Usbat al-Tha’ireen (UT), a newly-formed Iraqi armed group, has claimed responsibility for three recent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
On June 18, the group released a video titled “With Patience Comes Victory” showing footage of the following attacks:
The June 8 rocket attack on Camp Taji, which damaged a C-130 military transport aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition.
The June 11 rocket attack on U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The June 16 rocket on the military section of Baghdad International Airport.
All three attacks were carried out with rockets of the 107 mm caliber. UT claims that the coalition is hiding the results of the attacks.
“These operations have the major effect of terrorizing occupation forces and their tails [proxies],” the group says in the video.
UT revealed its existence on March 15. Back then, the Iraqi group claimed responsibility for the March 11 Camp Taji rocket attack, which killed three U.S.-led coalition service members.
The group is one of several pro-Iran factions, which emerged in Iraq after the assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy-Commander of the Popular Mobilization Units, and Iran’s Quds Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, by the U.S. earlier this year.
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southfront--2020-06-18--Military Situation In Iraq On June 18, 2020 (Map Update)

Click to see the full-size image A brief overview of the recent developments in Iraq : • Turkish commandos have @ @ @ @ @ the PKK in Haftanin district of Dohuk as part of Operation “ Claw-Tiger ” ; @ @ @ @ @ announced that artillery , rocket launchers and warplanes hit over 500 PKK targets during the @ @ @ @ @ “ Claw-Tiger ” ; • The Iranian Army and IRGC artillery struck the PKK and @ @ @ @ @ Omaran area ; • PM of Iraq al-Kadhimi met with Iranian Central Bank governor in @ @ @ @ @ launched rocket on Baghdad Green Zone from the Al-Rashid area ; • Usbat Al-Thaireen released @ @ @ @ @ attacks on Camp Taji and other US facilities in Iraq .
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A brief overview of the recent developments in Iraq:
Turkish commandos have been developing their advance against the PKK in Haftanin district of Dohuk as part of Operation “Claw-Tiger”;
Turkish warplanes conducted airstrikes on Sidekan district in Bashur;
The Turkish Defense Ministry announced that artillery, rocket launchers and warplanes hit over 500 PKK targets during the first 36 hours of Operation “Claw-Tiger”;
The Iranian Army and IRGC artillery struck the PKK and PJAK positions in the Haji Omaran area;
PM of Iraq al-Kadhimi met with Iranian Central Bank governor in Baghdad;
Unknown gunmen launched rocket on Baghdad Green Zone from the Al-Rashid area;
Usbat Al-Thaireen released a video showcasing its recent attacks on Camp Taji and other US facilities in Iraq.
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southfront--2020-06-19--ALF Kills Eight Militants In Complex Afrin Operation, Turkish Forces Respond With Artillery Fire (Vi

ALF Kills Eight Militants In Complex Afrin Operation, Turkish Forces Respond With Artillery Fire (Video)

On June 19 , the Afrin Liberation Forces ( ALF ) killed eight Turkish-backed militants in a successful complex operation in the Turkish-occupied area of Afrin in northern Aleppo .
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) , ALF fighters raided a position of the Sham Legion near the town of Bosoufane in southern Afrin .
Four militants were killed in the raid .
The dead bodies of the slain militants were booby-trapped by ALF fighters .
As a result , four other militants of the Sham Legion were killed while trying to recover the bodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military artillery pounded the Kurdish-held towns of Herbel , Sheikh Issa and Oqbiyah south of Afrin .
The artillery strikes , which burned the locals ’ crops , were likely a response to the attack .
Kurdish sources confirmed that the ALF was behind the successful operation .
Nevertheless , the guerilla group is yet to comment on the matter .
The complexity of the operation in Bosoufane indicates that the ALF is developing its tactics .
The Kurdish group poses a serious threat to Turkish-backed groups in northern Aleppo , especially in @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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On June 19, the Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) killed eight Turkish-backed militants in a successful complex operation in the Turkish-occupied area of Afrin in northern Aleppo.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), ALF fighters raided a position of the Sham Legion near the town of Bosoufane in southern Afrin. Four militants were killed in the raid.
The dead bodies of the slain militants were booby-trapped by ALF fighters. As a result, four other militants of the Sham Legion were killed while they were trying to recover the bodies.
After the attack, the Turkish military artillery pounded the Kurdish-held towns of Herbel, Sheikh Issa and Oqbiyah south of Afrin. The artillery strikes, which burned the locals’ crops, were likely a response to the attack.
#Turkish occupation forces shelled villages belonging to the city of #Afrin and Tal Rifaat, since early morning, with heavy artillery on the villages of Akeba and Soghnakah in the #Sherawa countryside.
Resulting in the burning of agricultural crops for the people of Sherawa pic.twitter.com/enPvGOkrvw — Yekîneyên Servanên Efrînê (@Servanenefrine) June 19, 2020
Kurdish sources confirmed that the ALF was behind the successful operation. Nevertheless, the guerilla group is yet to comment on the matter.
The complexity of the operation in Bosoufane indicates that the ALF is developing its tactics. The Kurdish group poses a serious threat to Turkish-backed groups in northern Aleppo, especially in Afrin.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Ansar Al-Din Slams Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham For Arresting Abu Salah Al-Uzbeki

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Din has slammed Hay ’ at Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ) for arresting Abu Salah al-Uzbeki , one of its top commanders .
In a statement released on June 18 , Ansar al-Din hinted that al-Uzbeki , whose real name is Sirajuddin Mukhtarov , was arrested by HTS ’ security forces in a humiliating manner .
The group called to resolve the issue through a joint Shari ’ a [ Islamic ] committee .
HTS arrested al-Uzbeki and two of his guards near Idlib city on June 17 .
According to opposition sources , the terrorist was lured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Al-Uzbeki was leading HTS ’ Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad .
Earlier this year , he was sacked from his post by the group ’ s leader , Abu Mohamad al-Julani .
The terrorist later joined Ansar al-Din , which formed a new operations room in Greater Idlib with other al-Qaeda factions earlier this month .
The prominent terrorist is wanted by the Interpol for his role in the 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing and other attacks .
Available information suggests that al-Uzbeki was arrested because he owed money to HTS .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ever gowning influence in Greater Idlib .
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Al-Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Din has slammed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) for arresting Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, one of its top commanders.
In a statement released on June 18, Ansar al-Din hinted that al-Uzbeki, whose real name is Sirajuddin Mukhtarov, was arrested by HTS’ security forces in a humiliating manner. The group called to resolve the issue through a joint Shari’a [Islamic] committee.
“We call on them [HTS] … to hold a joint Shari’a committee to look into their accusations,” the statement reads.
HTS arrested al-Uzbeki and two of his guards near Idlib city on June 17. According to opposition sources, the terrorist was lured by the group’s security forces.
Al-Uzbeki was leading HTS’ Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad. Earlier this year, he was sacked from his post by the group’s leader, Abu Mohamad al-Julani. The terrorist later joined Ansar al-Din, which formed a new operations room in Greater Idlib with other al-Qaeda factions earlier this month.
The prominent terrorist is wanted by the Interpol for his role in the 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing and other attacks.
Available information suggests that al-Uzbeki was arrested because he owed money to HTS. His arrest demonstrates the terrorist group’s ever gowning influence in Greater Idlib.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Indian Security Forces Kill 8 Militants In Two Operations In Kashmir

Indian security forces neutralized 8 militants in 2 separate raids in Kashmir , on June 18th-19th .
The first incident took place in the Pampore area .
An intelligence report was received , which claimed of militant presence in the area .
One militant was killed in a firefight , two more retreated and hid inside a nearby mosque .
According to police , tear gas was used to eject the militants from the building .
Both of them were killed , and there was no damage to the mosque .
The local imam thanked security forces for their efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Shopian area , where 5 militants were neutralized after a 20-hour operation .
Weapons and ammunition were seized , and the investigation continued .
Initially one militant was killed , and later 4 more .
On June 16th , three other unidentified militants were killed in the Shopian area .
More than two dozen militants have been killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the two weeks leading up to June 19th .
All of these are locals .
Overall , in 2020 alone , Indian authorities announced that 94 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ focus falls on North Kashmir .
Indian authorities regularly publish videos and photographs of their operations against militants in Kashmir .
A recent one shows a standoff in Nipora Kulgam , where the militants were given an opportunity to surrender .
They didn ’ t surrender , so two unidentified militants were killed .
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Indian security forces neutralized 8 militants in 2 separate raids in Kashmir, on June 18th-19th.
The first incident took place in the Pampore area. An intelligence report was received, which claimed of militant presence in the area.
One militant was killed in a firefight, two more retreated and hid inside a nearby mosque.
According to police, tear gas was used to eject the militants from the building. Both of them were killed, and there was no damage to the mosque.
The local imam thanked security forces for their efforts.
The other incident took place in the Shopian area, where 5 militants were neutralized after a 20-hour operation.
Weapons and ammunition were seized, and the investigation continued.
Initially one militant was killed, and later 4 more.
On June 16th, three other unidentified militants were killed in the Shopian area.
More than two dozen militants have been killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the two weeks leading up to June 19th. All of these are locals.
Overall, in 2020 alone, Indian authorities announced that 94 militants had been killed, and the focus falls on North Kashmir.
94 terrorists have been killed in the year 2020. Our focus now will be on north Kashmir: IG Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar#JammuAndKashmir pic.twitter.com/0XvbviQnyu — ANI (@ANI) June 16, 2020
Indian authorities regularly publish videos and photographs of their operations against militants in Kashmir.
A recent one shows a standoff in Nipora Kulgam, where the militants were given an opportunity to surrender.
They didn’t surrender, so two unidentified militants were killed.
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southfront--2020-06-19--A Critical Look At Politico-Ideological Training Of Low-Ranking Officers Of Russian Armed Forces

On June 17 , the Russian Military Police withdrew its temporary obserevation post from the village of Deir Ghusun in the northeastern al-Hasakah countryside after protests of locals affilated with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces ( a Kurdish-dominated group that controls a part of northeastern Syria ) .
The Syrian Democratic Forces and protestsers also sabotaged the delivery of humantiarain aid to civilians there .
So , the Russians were forced to just leave it in the village .
The situation in Deir Ghusun happened amid the slowly but steadily growing tensions between Russian and US-led forces in northeastern Syria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syrian Army entered the SDF-controlled area in order to stop the Turkish Army operation ( Operation Peace Spring October 9-22 , 2019 ) against the Kurdish-led group and establish the ceasefire there .
This move in fact rescued the SDF from a full military defeat .
At the same time , the US , as it often does , just abandoned its ‘ SDF partners ’ in the face of the Turkish military .
However , just a few month later , the US-led coalition returned to active actions in order to limit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influence in northeastern Syria with the help from the SDF .
The SDF military and political leadership ‘ accidentally ’ forgot what really happened in 2019 and sold its loyalty for US dollars once again .
So , SDF units and SDF-affiliated ‘ activists ’ are happily assisting the US-led coalition in its occupation of a part of Syria .
The complicated position in which Russia found itself in northeastern Syria and issues in the Russian ‘ soft power ’ strategy in the region often become a source of fierce discussions among various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Military experts from Russian Telegram channel Rybar write the following : We regularly joke over the situation , lose and suddenly develop a conscience and then spitefully turn to the Ministry of Defense .
Of course , the lion ’ s share of readers have no idea why that ’ s happening .
Igor Dimitriev said the following : “ Of course , it is needed to work with personnel .
Prepare abstracts for officers to communicate with the local population and answers to the most important questions .
Courses of military-political training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public relations officer .
In the modern warfare , this could more important than even some military branches.
” We ’ ll tell you a little secret : in the specialized bodies that deal with , let ’ s say , military-ideological questions of junior officers , have absolutely no motivation to create anything , do anything and overcome anything .
Crazy work schedules , breakdowns of vacations and tasks that are not amenable to logic , set according to the principle “ We do not care that we said something else yesterday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” For those of the staff who need to draw up press releases , they spread messages about US captain A. Krow , but nobody would ever take the time to explain , at all , the causal connection of the events .
There will be no elaboration why this is necessary and not entirely useless .
Yesterday ’ s graduate – today ’ s lieutenant , receiving a salary of ~40,000 rubles in Moscow , working in one of the elite centers of informational warfare .
This individual must know how to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of messages distributed , be able to calculate the potential audience of coverage and quickly click on the “ Send ” button .
What is inside should not excite him .
And he shouldn ’ t ask questions – there are older and smarter comrades for whom Jabhat al-Nusra and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham exist in a singular time continuum , and the Taliban are the way to Xinjiang .
Today ’ s graduates don ’ t know how the militants of one ideology differ from another , they don ’ t study the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are ready , like idiots , to say : “ It ’ s all the United States ’ fault !
When you meet them , you look at a graduate fresh out of the “ forge for personnel of Armed Forces ” , who will leave it 10-15 years later , similarly to you , and you realize that somewhere , something has rotted in the “ Danish kingdom ” .
” This is an example of the press release mentioned by Rybar .
The text refers to Hayat Tahrir al-Sgam and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In fact , Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra are brands used by the same group during the different stages of the Syrian conflict .
MORE ABOUT THIS HERE The screenshot below shows the text of an article from hardcore pro-Russian website “ Rusvesna ” .
The article claims that the US deployed a special infromational warfare unit ( 40 personnel ) led by A. Krow to discredit Russia in northeastern Syria .
According to it , members of the SDF security unit Asayish cooperate with this mythical “ A .
Krow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These people , who today hold the lowest officer posts in the specialized centers , can not find the Golan Heights on the map , although they write about Syria , they don ’ t know what Hezbollah is , and they heard about Qassem Soleimani only in the January news report of VGTRK ( SF comment : a Russian state-run TV channel ) , while eating up Olivier salad and drinking warm champagne .
The Taliban , the Uyghurs , the Iraqi Kurds – for them they are all the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which ruined the Soviet statehood , which with such aspiration and almost erotic excitement are recalled by big “ bright ” heads on Frunzenskaya Embankment ( SF comment : a street with defense ministry buildings in Moscow ) .
As for great men with large epaulettes , the situation here is even worse : no one needs to delve into the ongoing processes , the ranks of executive blanks have long been replenished , and their have brains became as square-perpendicular as snowdrifts in military towns during the winter .
Frantic , zealously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Those whose ideological attitudes are so strong that they believe that releasing a story about repairing a sewage system in Aleppo in Syria is more important than covering an offensive operation in Idlib that no one should know about .
They believe that any stone in the garden of the armed forces is a result of the machinations of the State Department , which paid everyone and bought everyone .
They listen to state-owned media and vehemently believe in the words that everything has rotted there , and much more importance should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television , all of which are filled throughout with fanfare , of how foodstuffs are distributed in Syria .
Several years will pass and the first – still young and full of initiative – will join the ranks of the second .
This kind of frustration regarding the current ‘ effectiveness ’ of the Russian soft power in the Middle East and around the world is nothing new for Russian military experts and media organizations that have secured at least some independence .
The remarks by Rybar are the most recent , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Since the military operation in Syria in 2015 , Russian forces have demonstrated their high effectiveness on the battlefield turning the tide of the war .
The Syrians with help from Russia and Iran have achieved several important breakthroughs including the liberation of Aleppo , Palmyra and breaking the ISIS siege of Deir Ezzor .
The Syrian Army and the Russian Military Police entered areas of northeastern Syria , which were captured by the US-backed SDF .
Nonetheless , many Russian experts are concerned that results of all these advances on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ soft power ’ policy and some third parties could exploit these military victories to promote their own interests , which often goes contrary with those of the Russian state .
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On June 17, the Russian Military Police withdrew its temporary obserevation post from the village of Deir Ghusun in the northeastern al-Hasakah countryside after protests of locals affilated with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (a Kurdish-dominated group that controls a part of northeastern Syria).
The Syrian Democratic Forces and protestsers also sabotaged the delivery of humantiarain aid to civilians there. So, the Russians were forced to just leave it in the village.
#الخابور #الحسكةرفض أهالي دير غصن بريف #المالكية قبول مساعدات غذائية من الشرطة الروسية احتجاجاً على إقامتها قاعدة عسكرية داخل القرية Posted by الخابور on Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The situation in Deir Ghusun happened amid the slowly but steadily growing tensions between Russian and US-led forces in northeastern Syria. The Russian Military Police and the Syrian Army entered the SDF-controlled area in order to stop the Turkish Army operation (Operation Peace Spring October 9-22, 2019) against the Kurdish-led group and establish the ceasefire there. This move in fact rescued the SDF from a full military defeat. At the same time, the US, as it often does, just abandoned its ‘SDF partners’ in the face of the Turkish military.
This old lady telling the Russians to leave. Saying this is a Kurdish land, land of martyrs mothers and children of Kurdistan. We don’t trust you. You sold Afrin and Sarekaniye. Leave…. pic.twitter.com/efz3O5F7lm — akram salih (@akramsalih7) June 17, 2020
However, just a few month later, the US-led coalition returned to active actions in order to limit the Russian Military Police and Syrian Army influence in northeastern Syria with the help from the SDF. The SDF military and political leadership ‘accidentally’ forgot what really happened in 2019 and sold its loyalty for US dollars once again. So, SDF units and SDF-affiliated ‘activists’ are happily assisting the US-led coalition in its occupation of a part of Syria.
The complicated position in which Russia found itself in northeastern Syria and issues in the Russian ‘soft power’ strategy in the region often become a source of fierce discussions among various experts in the Russian-speaking social media.
Military experts from Russian Telegram channel Rybar write the following:
We regularly joke over the situation, lose and suddenly develop a conscience and then spitefully turn to the Ministry of Defense. Of course, the lion’s share of readers have no idea why that’s happening. Igor Dimitriev said the following: “Of course, it is needed to work with personnel. Prepare abstracts for officers to communicate with the local population and answers to the most important questions. Courses of military-political training. Or there should be a dedicated public relations officer. In the modern warfare, this could more important than even some military branches.” And who will do it? We’ll tell you a little secret: in the specialized bodies that deal with, let’s say, military-ideological questions of junior officers, have absolutely no motivation to create anything, do anything and overcome anything. Crazy work schedules, breakdowns of vacations and tasks that are not amenable to logic, set according to the principle “We do not care that we said something else yesterday. Forget it, just waltz! ” For those of the staff who need to draw up press releases, they spread messages about US captain A. Krow, but nobody would ever take the time to explain, at all, the causal connection of the events. There will be no elaboration why this is necessary and not entirely useless. And why is it? Yesterday’s graduate – today’s lieutenant, receiving a salary of ~40,000 rubles in Moscow, working in one of the elite centers of informational warfare. This individual must know how to compile a formalized report on the number of messages distributed, be able to calculate the potential audience of coverage and quickly click on the “Send” button. What is inside should not excite him. And he shouldn’t ask questions – there are older and smarter comrades for whom Jabhat al-Nusra and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham exist in a singular time continuum, and the Taliban are the way to Xinjiang. Today’s graduates don’t know how the militants of one ideology differ from another, they don’t study the formation of various bandit groups, but they are ready, like idiots, to say: “It’s all the United States’ fault! When you meet them, you look at a graduate fresh out of the “forge for personnel of Armed Forces”, who will leave it 10-15 years later, similarly to you, and you realize that somewhere, something has rotted in the “Danish kingdom”.”
This is an example of the press release mentioned by Rybar. The text refers to Hayat Tahrir al-Sgam and Jabhat al-Nusra as two seprate terrorist entities. In fact, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra are brands used by the same group during the different stages of the Syrian conflict. MORE ABOUT THIS HERE (this video analysis was released by SouthFront in January 2018):
The screenshot below shows the text of an article from hardcore pro-Russian website “Rusvesna”. The article claims that the US deployed a special infromational warfare unit (40 personnel) led by A. Krow to discredit Russia in northeastern Syria. According to it, members of the SDF security unit Asayish cooperate with this mythical “A. Krow” posing as civilians and staging provocations.
Rybar continues:
These people, who today hold the lowest officer posts in the specialized centers, cannot find the Golan Heights on the map, although they write about Syria, they don’t know what Hezbollah is, and they heard about Qassem Soleimani only in the January news report of VGTRK (SF comment: a Russian state-run TV channel), while eating up Olivier salad and drinking warm champagne. The Taliban, the Uyghurs, the Iraqi Kurds – for them they are all the same proteges of the treacherous State Department, which ruined the Soviet statehood, which with such aspiration and almost erotic excitement are recalled by big “bright” heads on Frunzenskaya Embankment (SF comment: a street with defense ministry buildings in Moscow). As for great men with large epaulettes, the situation here is even worse: no one needs to delve into the ongoing processes, the ranks of executive blanks have long been replenished, and their have brains became as square-perpendicular as snowdrifts in military towns during the winter. But there are others. Frantic, zealously trying to gain favor and serve properly. Those whose ideological attitudes are so strong that they believe that releasing a story about repairing a sewage system in Aleppo in Syria is more important than covering an offensive operation in Idlib that no one should know about. They believe that any stone in the garden of the armed forces is a result of the machinations of the State Department, which paid everyone and bought everyone. They listen to state-owned media and vehemently believe in the words that everything has rotted there, and much more importance should be attributed to the footage on federal television, all of which are filled throughout with fanfare, of how foodstuffs are distributed in Syria. Several years will pass and the first – still young and full of initiative – will join the ranks of the second.
This kind of frustration regarding the current ‘effectiveness’ of the Russian soft power in the Middle East and around the world is nothing new for Russian military experts and media organizations that have secured at least some independence. The remarks by Rybar are the most recent, but not the only example of such reactions.
Since the military operation in Syria in 2015, Russian forces have demonstrated their high effectiveness on the battlefield turning the tide of the war. The Syrians with help from Russia and Iran have achieved several important breakthroughs including the liberation of Aleppo, Palmyra and breaking the ISIS siege of Deir Ezzor. The Syrian Army and the Russian Military Police entered areas of northeastern Syria, which were captured by the US-backed SDF. Nonetheless, many Russian experts are concerned that results of all these advances on the ground may be undermined by the unarticulated ‘soft power’ policy and some third parties could exploit these military victories to promote their own interests, which often goes contrary with those of the Russian state.
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southfront--2020-06-19--China Releases 10 Captured Indian Soldiers, As Border Tensions Appear To Be Subsiding

On June 18th , China released 10 Indian soldiers captured during the border clash on June 15th-16th .
The close-combat melee , in which no weapons were discharged left 20 Indian soldiers dead , and an undisclosed number of Chinese also dead .
The Indian military said 18 troops were still being treated for serious injuries .
Indian media claimed that as many as 43 Chinese troops had died in the large-scale fistfight .
Beijing admitted that there were casualties on both sides but did not disclose the number of Chinese troops killed or wounded in the confrontation .
Regarding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Indian government made no comment , but the army released a statement saying : “ It is clarified that there are no Indian troops missing in action ” after the fighting in the Galwan Valley area of Ladakh .
The release of the 10 soldiers followed three rounds of talks between Indian and Chinese delegations , led by major generals , near Patrol Point 14 in Galway Valley .
Maj Gen Abhijit Bapat , commander of Karu-based headquarters 3 Infantry Division , and his Chinese counterpart met for the third time on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boycott of Chinese goods , thousands attended funerals for the 20 Indian soldiers killed in the clash .
Chinese flags and posters of China ’ s President Xi Jinping were burned in at least two cities .
India should “ not underestimate China ’ s firm will to safeguard its territorial sovereignty , ” China said after talks between its foreign minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar .
Jaishankar said in turn that China had launched a “ pre-meditated ” attack which would have a “ serious impact ” on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most populous countries .
Before this release of captured soldiers , the Indian military claimed that none of its troops were missing in action .
Asked about the specific issue of the status of Indian soldiers after the clashes , external affairs ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said : The last time the Chinese military had captured Indian soldiers was during the border war between the two countries in 1962 .
Monday night ’ s seven-hour brutal clash involving more than 500 rival troops also marked the first time India suffered combat fatalities in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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On June 18th, China released 10 Indian soldiers captured during the border clash on June 15th-16th.
The close-combat melee, in which no weapons were discharged left 20 Indian soldiers dead, and an undisclosed number of Chinese also dead. The Indian military said 18 troops were still being treated for serious injuries.
Indian media claimed that as many as 43 Chinese troops had died in the large-scale fistfight.
Beijing admitted that there were casualties on both sides but did not disclose the number of Chinese troops killed or wounded in the confrontation.
Regarding the release of the captured soldiers, the Indian government made no comment, but the army released a statement saying: “It is clarified that there are no Indian troops missing in action” after the fighting in the Galwan Valley area of Ladakh.
The release of the 10 soldiers followed three rounds of talks between Indian and Chinese delegations, led by major generals, near Patrol Point 14 in Galway Valley. Maj Gen Abhijit Bapat, commander of Karu-based headquarters 3 Infantry Division, and his Chinese counterpart met for the third time on June 18th.
Amidst calls for a boycott of Chinese goods, thousands attended funerals for the 20 Indian soldiers killed in the clash. Chinese flags and posters of China’s President Xi Jinping were burned in at least two cities.
India should “not underestimate China’s firm will to safeguard its territorial sovereignty,” China said after talks between its foreign minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
Jaishankar said in turn that China had launched a “pre-meditated” attack which would have a “serious impact” on relations between the world’s two most populous countries.
Before this release of captured soldiers, the Indian military claimed that none of its troops were missing in action.
“It is clarified that there are no Indian troops missing in action,” the army said in a statement.
Asked about the specific issue of the status of Indian soldiers after the clashes, external affairs ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said:
“This has been clarified by the army earlier today afternoon that there are no Indian troops missing in action.”
The last time the Chinese military had captured Indian soldiers was during the border war between the two countries in 1962. Monday night’s seven-hour brutal clash involving more than 500 rival troops also marked the first time India suffered combat fatalities in an incident involving Chinese troops since 1975.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Turkey Abuses Migrants And Blames It On Greece

On June 19th , Turkey rescued 56 illegal migrants off Turkey ’ s Aegean coast , the state-run Anadolu agency reported .
Turkish teams rescued the migrants in a rubber boat near the Dikili district of Turkey ’ s western province of Izmir , the agency said .
Turkey accused Greece coast guard of pushing the back to Turkey .
In 2020 so far , a total of 11,076 migrants attempted to reach Greece via Turkey ’ s seas , slightly down from 11,710 over the same period in 2019 , according to the latest figures released by the Turkish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anadolu Agency also published alleged photographs showing asylum seekers stranded on the streets of Athens .
They were expelled from the Moria Camp on Lesbos Island in Greece after being granted asylum .
The group seeking shelter at Victoria Square , a public park in the capital , comprises of 66 people , including four pregnant women and children .
“ They told us we have to leave Moria Camp .
They said : ‘ Go to Athens , finish your paper work and go wherever you want after that ’ , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t get that .
We are refugees .
They officially left us here .
Imagine that you came to Afghanistan and did not speak the language .
And nobody guides you .
How would you feel ?
” said another refugee who spent the night in the street .
A very emotion-filled video was also published of drone footage of migrants flocking the Turkey-Greece border .
Meanwhile , several videos were published online showing how Turkey actually treats the migrants .
The video below shows Turkish border guards beat a group of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Greece .
This second video shows Turkish Coast Guard boats squeeze refugee boats towards the Greek island of Lesbos , where , by order of the Turks , migrants will flood their boats in anticipation of the Greek border guards ’ rescue .
According to Greek border guards , Turkish Coast Guard ships escort boats with migrants to Greek territorial waters .
At the same time , on their territory , the Turkish authorities treat the migrants quite poorly and aggressively Concentrated in Turkey , migrants have long become the “ weapons ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threaten Europe , and particularly Greece .
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On June 19th, Turkey rescued 56 illegal migrants off Turkey’s Aegean coast, the state-run Anadolu agency reported.
Turkish teams rescued the migrants in a rubber boat near the Dikili district of Turkey’s western province of Izmir, the agency said.
Turkey accused Greece coast guard of pushing the back to Turkey.
In 2020 so far, a total of 11,076 migrants attempted to reach Greece via Turkey’s seas, slightly down from 11,710 over the same period in 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Turkish coast guard.
Alongside these accusations, Anadolu Agency also published alleged photographs showing asylum seekers stranded on the streets of Athens.
They were expelled from the Moria Camp on Lesbos Island in Greece after being granted asylum.
The group seeking shelter at Victoria Square, a public park in the capital, comprises of 66 people, including four pregnant women and children.
“They told us we have to leave Moria Camp. They said: ‘Go to Athens, finish your paper work and go wherever you want after that’,” a refugee said. “I don’t get that. We are refugees. They officially left us here. Imagine that you came to Afghanistan and did not speak the language. And nobody guides you. How would you feel?” said another refugee who spent the night in the street.
A very emotion-filled video was also published of drone footage of migrants flocking the Turkey-Greece border.
Meanwhile, several videos were published online showing how Turkey actually treats the migrants.
The video below shows Turkish border guards beat a group of refugees, demanding them to sail to Greece.
This second video shows Turkish Coast Guard boats squeeze refugee boats towards the Greek island of Lesbos, where, by order of the Turks, migrants will flood their boats in anticipation of the Greek border guards’ rescue.
According to Greek border guards, Turkish Coast Guard ships escort boats with migrants to Greek territorial waters.
At the same time, on their territory, the Turkish authorities treat the migrants quite poorly and aggressively
Concentrated in Turkey, migrants have long become the “weapons” of Ankara, which it uses to threaten Europe, and particularly Greece.
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