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If ISIS are responsible for the Turkey bombing then the Turks will end them...
Harryflashman
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Wasn't there a similar , less deadly, suicide attack by IS earlier this year ?
Im not sure, but it looks like someone is pushing the Turks to get them to deal with ISIS, to save us having too...
Turkey is in severe trouble, they have the Kurdish separatists on one side and ISIS on the other. A few more incidents and their tourist industry will collapse. They can't put ground troops in to defeat ISIS with everyone bombing them. If Turkey were to move against ISIS what would Russia do, defeating ISIS would free up the anti Bashir elements to focus on him. It would also free up those Kurdish forces to look at Turkey and maybe start a military campaign for an independent state.
The whole region is in a state of flux, this is one area that needs to be handled very carefully, the powers involved need to have a plan for what the eventual outcome will be. They haven't managed that before but maybe this time.
The whole region is in a state of flux, this is one area that needs to be handled very carefully, the powers involved need to have a plan for what the eventual outcome will be. They haven't managed that before but maybe this time.
scratchnsurf
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Interesting interview with a German journalist on the radio last week. He managed to get permission from the Caliph to enter IS territory and interview fighters etc. One of the most surprising things he said was that the Kurds were complicit in helping IS sell oil.
rascal
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That'll never happen. The Turkish PM is a psychopath.
"Israel has imported as much as three-quarters of its oil from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish north in recent months, providing a vital source of funds to the cash-strapped region as it fights militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
The sales are a sign of Iraqi Kurdistan’s growing assertiveness and the further fraying of ties between Erbil and Baghdad, which has long harboured fears that the Kurds’ ultimate objective is full-scale independence from Iraq".
bol-uk
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I once sold some fuel rate meters (like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ex-Army-R...ith-Counter-/331669981445?hash=item4d39124905) to some chaps who sad they were working with the PKK and siphoning fuel from the iraqi oil lines to their own wells. They were a terrifying bunch of lads but totally sound.
I was waiting for an interview for a job in Kurdistan when this all kicked off 2-3 years a go... Phew!
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I was looking at this, thinkin ' thats defo photoshopped' - didn't even notice Banner there.
dandydan
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Somewhat topical and amusing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=iiPBr5OQECI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=iiPBr5OQECI
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Islamist terrorists are going to prove very troublesome in the future for Putin :
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0S917R20151015
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0S917R20151015
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Afghanistan : The Return.
Russia, ex-Soviet states to jointly defend borders in crisis
Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:23am BST
By Denis Dyomkin
BURABAI, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - The leaders of ex-Soviet states, led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, responded to growing instability in Afghanistan on Friday by agreeing to create a joint task force to defend their bloc's external borders if a crisis arises.
The move could mean that Russian troops, as part of collective forces, will be deployed to Afghanistan's borders as the U.S.-led coalition gradually withdraws from the country, leaving behind a power vacuum.
If Russian troops do move in, it would be a fresh sign of Putin's new military assertiveness, after his intervention in Syria. The Kremlin says Russia wants to stop the spread of Islamist militancy, but Western governments also see it as Russia trying to re-assert itself as a global power.
The leaders of ex-Soviet grouping the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) met at the Burabai resort near the Kazakh capital, Astana.
They agreed on the creation of what is described in a summit document as a "grouping of border (forces) and other institutions from CIS member states designed to resolve crisis situations on the external borders".
There were no details on the composition of the force or on where it would be deployed.
But Sergei Lebedev, the CIS executive secretary, mentioned Tajikistan, which has a border with Afghanistan, as the possible location for the deployment of joint forces.
"Apart from Russia, there are collective forces aimed at supporting Tajikistan against those threats from the south," he told reporters. "Whether or not Russia is going to return there (to patrol the border) is a matter that will be resolved through bilateral agreements."
Russian border troops were responsible for security on the Tajik-Afghan border until 2005, when an agreement with the Tajik government lapsed and they pulled out.
Impoverished Tajikistan has the longest border with Afghanistan among the ex-Soviet nations and remains volatile since a 1992-97 civil war between its Moscow-backed secular government and Islamist guerrillas.
On the other side of the border, Taliban insurgents have made advances, including briefly taking over the city of Kunduz late last month.
It remained unclear whether the two other Central Asian nations which border Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, would also host the new joint task force.
Turkmenistan's foreign ministry said on Friday it had registered no incidents on its border with Afghanistan.
Russia, ex-Soviet states to jointly defend borders in crisis
Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:23am BST
By Denis Dyomkin
BURABAI, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - The leaders of ex-Soviet states, led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, responded to growing instability in Afghanistan on Friday by agreeing to create a joint task force to defend their bloc's external borders if a crisis arises.
The move could mean that Russian troops, as part of collective forces, will be deployed to Afghanistan's borders as the U.S.-led coalition gradually withdraws from the country, leaving behind a power vacuum.
If Russian troops do move in, it would be a fresh sign of Putin's new military assertiveness, after his intervention in Syria. The Kremlin says Russia wants to stop the spread of Islamist militancy, but Western governments also see it as Russia trying to re-assert itself as a global power.
The leaders of ex-Soviet grouping the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) met at the Burabai resort near the Kazakh capital, Astana.
They agreed on the creation of what is described in a summit document as a "grouping of border (forces) and other institutions from CIS member states designed to resolve crisis situations on the external borders".
There were no details on the composition of the force or on where it would be deployed.
But Sergei Lebedev, the CIS executive secretary, mentioned Tajikistan, which has a border with Afghanistan, as the possible location for the deployment of joint forces.
"Apart from Russia, there are collective forces aimed at supporting Tajikistan against those threats from the south," he told reporters. "Whether or not Russia is going to return there (to patrol the border) is a matter that will be resolved through bilateral agreements."
Russian border troops were responsible for security on the Tajik-Afghan border until 2005, when an agreement with the Tajik government lapsed and they pulled out.
Impoverished Tajikistan has the longest border with Afghanistan among the ex-Soviet nations and remains volatile since a 1992-97 civil war between its Moscow-backed secular government and Islamist guerrillas.
On the other side of the border, Taliban insurgents have made advances, including briefly taking over the city of Kunduz late last month.
It remained unclear whether the two other Central Asian nations which border Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, would also host the new joint task force.
Turkmenistan's foreign ministry said on Friday it had registered no incidents on its border with Afghanistan.
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