(8.Juni) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration has taken a note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers.(…)
In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police.
(via https://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.de)

The President slammed those Western leaders for providing the political cover and support to the terrorist organizations in Syria.

Striking a relevant note, President al-Assad said the European parliamentarians could play a significant role to correct the wrong policies of their governments that have caused terrorism to spread and led to worsening the living conditions of the Syrian people due to the economic blockade they imposed on them, forcing many Syrians to leave their country and seek refuge in other states.

For their part, the European delegation members said their visit to Syria and the suffering of the Syrian people they have seen firsthand would make them put effort to the effect of correcting the policies of the European governments and pressuring them into lifting the sanctions.

„The problems Europe faces today of terrorism, extremism and waves of refugees are caused by some western leaders‘ adoption of policies which do not serve their people,“ Assad told a delegation of members of the European Parliament headed by Javier Couso, vice chairman of its foreign affairs committee.

Germany expects Britain to trigger article 50 of the European Union‘s Lisbon treaty to begin the formal process of leaving the bloc once it has picked a new prime minister, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

It should be noted that the mass media machine is seemingly losing its effect, as more and more prominent and senior figures (e.g Robert Fisk) are calling a spade a spade, or a „moderate“ a terrorist. It just goes to show that you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.

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On Saturday evening, rebels launched a counter-offensive, leading with two car bombs to open the vital Castello road to eastern Aleppo, according to activists. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which gathers information from a network of informants, said the cars were driven by two suicide bombers from al-Qaida’s Syria affiliate, the Nusra Front, which fights alongside rebel groups against government forces.

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„Die Crew bekam vom syrischen Kommando der Gruppierung die Bitte, die angreifenden Terroristen zu attackieren. Bordkommandant Chabibulin fasste den Entschluss, die Terroristen anzugreifen. Dank dem gekonnten Handeln der russischen Kampfpiloten wurde der Angriff der Terroristen vereitelt. Als sie Waffensatz verfeuerten und zum Rückflug umkehrten, wurde die Maschine von Terroristen abgeschossen. Der Hubschrauber stürzte auf dem von der Regierungsarmee Syriens kontrollierten Territorium ab. Die Besatzung kam dabei ums Leben.“

(18.6.2016) Briefing journalists after talks at the White House, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir repeated the kingdom‘s desire to arm Syria‘s „moderate opposition“ with ground-to-air missiles and repeated an offer to deploy Saudi special forces in any US-led operation.

Jubeir noted that from the start of the crisis, Riyadh had pushed for „a more robust policy, including air strikes, safe zones, a no-fly zone, a no-drive zone“.

(8.7.2016) Moskau hat bei den Verhandlungen mit Washington Vorschläge vorgebracht, wie man gefährliche Situationen auf See und in der Luft vereiteln kann, sagte russische NATO-Botschafter, Alexander Gruschko. Nun wartet der Kreml auf die Antwort der amerikanischen Seite.