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1/31/18

The Temporary Protective Statue for 6,900 Syrians was extended for another 18 months.


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Originally Posted by Judy

Beezer, there's no more Syrian refugees. Travel ban in place. They're building the safe zones in Syria. Syria is safe now. Trump solved that whole mess in Syria, ran ISIS out, and got Russia to establish peace and order. It's all good now in Syria, they're rebuilding and celebrating Christmas.

Not true. Trump didn't get Russia to do anything they didn't plan on doing anyway. Furthermore, there still isn't complete "peace and order" in Syria. Last, but no least, no there has been no serious rebuilding because nobody want to pay for it! I don't think many Syrian's are actually celebrating Christmas. Nope, not all is hunky-dory in Syria.

Oh, and didn't Trump promise during his campaign to send all the Syrian refugees residing here back home?

UK and US accuse Syrian regime of staging chemical attack in Aleppo

The US and the UK said the regime staged the November 24 attack. CREDIT: GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

• Raf Sanchez, middle east correspondent

8 DECEMBER 2018 • 12:41PM
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Britain and the US have accused the Syrian regime and its Russian allies of staging a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo and blaming it on Syrian rebels.

In coordinated statements, the US and UK said it believed Russia and the Assad regime had carried out the attack against civilians in Aleppo on November 24.

The regime claimed at the time that the attack had injured 100 people and had been carried by rebel fighters in Idlib, the last opposition held province in Syria.

“The United States strongly refutes this narrative and has credible information that pro-regime forces likely used teargas against civilians in Aleppo on November 24,” the US State Department said in a statement.
“The United States has information indicating Russian and Syrian personnel were involved in the teargas incident, and believes that both countries are using it as an opportunity to undermine confidence in the ceasefire in Idlib.”

The Foreign Office said the November 24 attack was likely either “either a staged incident intended to frame the opposition, or an operation which went wrong and from which Russia and the regime sought to take advantage”.

Around 100 people were reportedly treated in the attack

Both countries urged the regime to allow inspectors from the OPCW, the chemical weapons watchdog, to investigate the site.

“We caution Russia and the regime against tampering with the suspected attack site and urge them to secure the safety of impartial, independent inspectors so that those responsible can be held accountable,” the US said.

The Russian embassy in Washington hit back at the claims in a Facebook post.

“The Russian Defense Ministry does not rule out that the US Department of State's allegations about the recent toxic chemicals attack in Syria's Aleppo are aimed at distracting the public attention from the crimes of the US aviation in the east of the Middle Eastern country,” it said.

The statement appeared to be referencing reports that civilians in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor had been killed by recent airstrikes from the US-led coalition.

The US and UK are both concerned that the regime is biding its time before launching an assault on Idlib, where around three million civilians from across Syria are taking shelter.

The Syrian regime appeared on the verge of launching an assault in September but last-minute diplomacy by Turkey averted an attack.
However, Turkey and Western countries are concerned it may only be a matter of time before the regime moves ahead with its attack.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...attack-aleppo/


One Year After Losing Iraq, ISIS Holds On In Syria

Tom O'Connor
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One year after the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) was declared defeated by Iraq, the jihadis remain entrenched across the border in an eastern pocket of neighboring Syria.

The Iraqi government declared Monday a national holiday in recognition of its one-year anniversary of victory over ISIS, which once claimed half of both Iraq and Syria at its height of power in 2014. The group was largely defeated in Iraq by a mix of local military forces, Kurdish militias, Iran-backed Shiite Muslim militias and a U.S.-led international coalition.

"Today, the world, the whole world witnesses that, in Iraq, terrorism and extremism were defeated," Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul al-Mahdi said, addressing a gathering at the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad one year after his recent predecessor, Haider al-Abadi, announced that the country had come out on top. "And that we recorded the first and greatest victory against the might of terrorism and ISIS evil, and that we waged the fiercest and most difficult battle with it and that we won with honor."
ISIS has lost control over all of its major cities in both Iraq and Syria and no longer controls any significant stretches of land in Iraq, leading even President Donald Trump to declare the group "defeated" in October. In Syria, however, a final jihadi outpost in eastern Syria has put up a deadly resistance against two rival campaigns waged by the Syrian government, a majority-Kurdish group of fighters and their respective international allies.

© AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty ImagesISIS emerged out of a Sunni Muslim insurgency led by Al-Qaeda in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, with the jihadis adopting the new name as they took advantage of an ongoing civil war in Syria to spread there in 2013. The group rapidly expanded, bolstered by weapons recovered from Iraqi and Syria military positions, as well as the various rebel and jihadi groups battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a 2011 uprising supported by the U.S. and regional allies.

Iran began to mobilize Shiite Muslim militias, including the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah, to combat the jihadis in Iraq and Syria and, in 2014, a number of these Iraqi groups joined together to form the Popular Mobilization Forces. That same year, the U.S. established a coalition and began bombing ISIS in both countries. In 2015, Russia entered the fight on behalf of Assad and his allies in Syria and the U.S.-led coalition officially sided with a mostly Kurdish group known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, having grown wary of the insurgents it previously backed.

ISIS's control then began to wane and, in 2016 and 2017, it faced major U.S.-led offensives against its largest city of Mosul in Iraq and its de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. These two cities witnessed some of the most intense, deadliest urban warfare of the 21st century. ISIS would fall first in Mosul in July, followed by Raqqa in October of last year. Meanwhile, the Syrian armed forces—assisted by Russia and pro-government militias—staged a successful cross-country offensive to retake Deir Ezzor, winning the besieged, eastern city in November.

Syria would declare victory over ISIS that same month and Iraq followed suit last December. While Iraq continues to face sporadic attacks launched by ISIS cells, a full-fledged battleground remains active in eastern Syria, where the Syrian Democratic Forces have recently suffered heavy casualties in an attempt to wipe out the last major ISIS bastion in the world.

International rivalries and regional tensions have often hindered efforts to wipe out ISIS in Syria. The U.S-led campaign has at leasttwice been suspended during critical points this year as Kurdish fighters left their frontlines against ISIS to face a separate offensive launched by Turkey and Syrian rebel allies. Since launching a final push in September, about 512 Syrian Democratic Forces fighters have been killed, while ISIS has lost about 854, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights—a U.K.-based monitor supportive of the Syrian opposition—reported Monday.

© DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images A fighter from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces attends the funeral a fellow fighter killed in the town of Hajin during battles against ISIS, in the Kurdish-controlled city of Al-Qamishli in northeastern Syria, December 3, 2018. On the other opposite, western banks of the Euphrates river, the Syrian military and pro-government militias are also fighting ISIS in a separate campaign supported by Russia and Iran.Pressed for answers as to why the battle was taking so long as it did, the U.S.-led coalition has maintained that ISIS was employing increasingly aggressive tactics the closer incoming forces got to the Syrian cities of Hajin, Al-Shafaa, Al-Soussa and the few others remaining under jihadi control. In a statement Tuesday, Army Major General Patrick B. Roberson said: "As we degrade their capabilities and push them into an ever smaller box, ISIS continues to employ more and more desperate measures. These tactics won’t succeed."

The U.S. has also grown increasingly focused on countering another perceived threat in Syria, the growing influence of Iran and its local partners. The Pentagon's official mission in Syria—where the government considers U.S. military presence illegal—remained limited to defeating ISIS, but a number of Washington officials have said troops would not leave until all forces said to be under Iranian command were first withdrawn and an irreversible political process to oust Assad were to begin.

Assad was also countering ISIS in Syria's east, where Syrian soldiers and allied militias were deployed to the west of the Euphrates river, the dividing line between their offensive and that of the U.S.-led coalition. The Syrian military recently succeeded in taking out a pocket of ISIS control that emerged deep within government territory in the volcanic fields of Tulul al-Safa in the south, but has devoted much of its resources toward the northwest province of Idlib, the last area under the control of the Islamist-led insurgency against the government and protected only by a fragile ceasefire between Russia and Turkey.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ria/ar-BBQLJ3k

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

1/31/18


US to renew TPS for 6,900 Syrians

You left off part of title of the headline.

The headline is "US to renew TPS for 6,900 Syrians but exclude new applicants". The US has not been accepting Syrian refugees since January of 2018, almost a year now.

The Temporary Protective Statue for 6,900 Syrians was extended for another 18 months.

President Trump Pushes for More Foreign Guest Workers, H2-Bs, Migrant Farm Workers

Farmers need to automate.

Trump should push them to automate and write off the equipment!


We do not want more cheap labor while WE foot the bill for their anchor babies, healthcare, welfare, food stamps and crime!

They do not pay into our Social Security or Medicare. We do not want their entire family here! They cannot afford to live here.