Posted on 09/18/2015 11:07:38 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Top US and Russian defence officials have held their first talks in more than a year to discuss the Syrian war, the Pentagon says.
Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter discussed with Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu how their two sides can avoid accidentally clashing on the ground, a statement said.
Russia said the talks proved the sides had common ground, state media said.
The US and Russia have disagreed sharply on Syria's bloody civil war.
While Moscow has backed the Syrian government, the US sees the removal of President Bashar al-Assad as essential to resolving the conflict.
The US has also been alarmed about reports of a Russian military build-up in Syria, at a time when the Assad government has been losing ground to rebels.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
US official: 4 Russian jets are at an airfield near Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar Assad
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/syria-uprising/
Tough to sort out what is really going on in Syria, with all of the Muzzie Propaganda Tweeters, but there are rumors the airport base that the Russians are setting up at Latakia was hit by a Grad Attack within the last couple of hours.
There are also report that Syrian Gov forces retreated from another town toda, after an ISI attack with Nine suicide truck bombs.
I’m sure we’re meeting to be nosy....and no other reason.
To make things even more interesting, the Red Alert AP for rocket attacks on Israel went off a few minutes ago.
We were told to keep our 5 trained moderate fighters out of harms way.
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