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Middle East Current Events Update, Sept. 13, 2018.

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Amir's update on the military operation in Idlib, Syria, the outcome of the Turkish-Iranian-Russian summit in Tehran last week, the historic steps the US administration is taking regarding the Palestinian “refugees” deception and update on upcoming ministry events.
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Syria: Israel Launched Missile Attack On Damascus Airport

September 16, 2018

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on September 15, 2018, reportedly shows Syrian air defense batteries responding to what the Syrian state media said were Israeli missiles targeting Damascus international airport.
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on September 15, 2018, reportedly shows Syrian air defense batteries responding to what the Syrian state media said were Israeli missiles targeting Damascus international airport.
 
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) —

Israel attacked Damascus International Airport with missiles Saturday night, Syrian state media said, adding that air defenses shot down some of them.

A war monitoring group said the attack targeted an arms depot for Iranian forces or Lebanon's Hezbollah group. Explosions during the attack were heard across Damascus.

The state news agency SANA posted pictures showing what appeared to be air defenses firing into the air. State media quoted an unidentified military official as reporting the attack but gave no further details.

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the attack targeted an arms depot near the airport where new weapons recently arrived for the Iranians or Lebanon's Hezbollah group.

The monitoring group had no immediate word on casualties, saying the strike did cause material damage.

Israel rarely acknowledges attacks inside Syria, but has said it would use military action to prevent weapons transfers to its enemies.

Earlier this month, an Israeli military official said the Jewish state has struck over 200 Iranian targets in Syria over the past 18 months.

Israel is widely believed to have been behind a series of airstrikes mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria that have joined the country's war fighting alongside the government. It rarely confirms the attacks.

An Israeli official said earlier this month that the targets were connected to Iran's elite Al-Quds force and included air force components, support infrastructure, and weapons storage and manufacturing facilities.

U.S. and Israeli officials have said that Iran and Hezbollah should end their armed presence in Syria. Israel says it is alarmed by the expansion of operations by Iran and Hezbollah in Syria.

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/29492342.html

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Putin, Erdogan To Meet On Monday To Discuss Syria’s Idlib

September 16, 2018

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, greets each other in Tehran, Iran, prior to their talks as part of Russia-Iran-Turkey summit to discuss Syria, Friday Sept. 7, 2018.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, greets each other in Tehran, Iran, prior to their talks as part of Russia-Iran-Turkey summit to discuss Syria, Friday Sept. 7, 2018.
 

(AFP) - The presidents of Russia and Turkey, which are backing different sides in the Syrian conflict, were due to meet in the Russian Black sea resort city of Sochi on September 17 for talks on an expected Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the country's northwest.

The meeting comes 10 days after a summit between Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and their Iranian counterpart, President Hassan Rohani, failed to produce a compromise in a bid to avert an assault in Idlib Province which the Turkish president has warned would ignite a "bloodbath."

Moscow and Tehran have given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's crucial support throughout the war, which began with a government crackdown on protesters in March 2011.

Speaking in Berlin on September 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will keep bombing militant targets in Idlib if need be, but would also open humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee.

Turkey is backing rebel groups and has troops in Syria's north. It fears that a large-scale assault on Idlib, which lies on its southern border, could trigger a massive flow of refugees onto its soil. The country is already home to more than 3 million Syrians who have fled the war.

While backing separate sides, Turkey, Russia, and Iran have launched a negotiations process last year in the Kazakh capital, Astana, mainly dealing with battlefield issues, such as cease-fires and de-escalation zones.

A separate UN-led round of talks addressing political issues has taken place in Geneva.

A possible compromise from the ongoing negotiations could take the form of a "limited military operation or surgical strikes" targeting the Al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which is believed to be the dominant force among rebels in Idlib Province, Abdul Wahab Assi, an analyst at the Syria-based Jusoor Studies Center, told the AFP news agency.

Assi said the sides could also agree to modify the borders of the de-escalation zones to keep armed rebels from certain sectors. Moscow may be open to such a plan as long as it would secure the Aleppo-Damascus highway and put an end to drone attacks launched from Idlib against Russia's Hmeimim air base in the neighboring province of Latakia, the analyst said.

Turkish military analyst Metin Gurcan said the lack of an agreement with Ankara could push Moscow and the Syrian regime to stage an operation that will last “months" rather than a full-fledged attack.

The United Nations expects up to 900,000 people to flee if Syrian government forces launch a large-scale offensive on Idlib, home to some 3 million people. The 7 1/2-year war has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced millions.

With reporting by AFP

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/putin-erdogan-meeting-sochi-on-syria-idlib/29492832.html

 

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Israeli delegation heads to Moscow after downing of Russian plane – but denies responsibility

 

Officials will also detail Iran’s ongoing activities in Syria  

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday ( REUTERS )

Israel dispatched a high-powered military delegation to Moscow on Thursday to patch up relations after the deadly downing of a Russian reconnaissance plane Monday the Kremlin had pinned on Israeli armed forces.

Syrian anti-aircraft missiles downed the Russian Il-20M turbo-prop plane, killing all 15 crew members off the coast of the port city of Lattakia.

But Moscow blamed Israeli jets launching an airstrike on Syrianpositions for the mishap, accusing them of triggering the S-200 anti-aircraft system by flying in too close in an attempt to destroy a facility allegedly used by Iranians to facilitate the transfer of weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Israel air force commander Maj Gen Amikam Norkin will head the delegation that includes other Israeli Defense Forces and military intelligence brass, according to Israeli media.

To make its case, Israel will argue that the mishap was purely the fault of the Syrian government, said a former official.

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“From what we understand it’s a huge mistake which was done by the Syrians,” retired Israeli Maj Gen Yaakov Amidror, a former National Security Advisor, told reporters in a conference call Thursday morning.

“They shot down a Russian plane that does not have any kind of (similarity) to any Israeli airplane -- the approach of the airplane, the blip of the plane on the radar.”

In addition, Maj Gen Amirdor said, the Israeli F-16 fighter jets were no longer in Syria when the Russian plane was downed.

“Our airplanes were above Israel when they killed the Russian airplane,” he said, attributing the incident to Syrian “stupidity.”

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Israeli media said the military delegation will also detail Iran’s ongoing activities in Syria to the Russians.

Israel covets its relations with Moscow, and has built on generally amicable relations between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gain unfettered access to Syrian airspace to curtail Iranian ambitions.

“For us it’s a very high-priority mission to prevent the Syrians and the Iranians to move game changing weapons systems into the hands of Hezbollah and to prevent Iran from building an independent war machine inside Syria,” said Maj Gen Amidror. “It will not be easy if there will be some limitations from the Russians.”

The downing of the plane has raised tensions across the region, where Russia, Turkey, the US, Iran, and Israel are vying for position in a Syria shattered by seven years of war.

Kremlin admits that Syria shot down Russian military reconnaissance plane

Even the plane was shot down by the Syrian regime, Israeli authorities have come under some heat for the incident.

“A military operation, no matter how sophisticated, that ends with a superfluous diplomatic crisis with a world power cannot be considered a success,” wrote Alex Fishman in the mass circulation Yediot Aharonot news outlet.

“Even if the military objectives had been achieved, this is a failure because in the Middle East there are no free lunches.” he continued.

“Israel will still pay for the fact that the Russians lost an electronic reconnaissance plane carrying 15 expert intelligence officers and an aircrew.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russian-plane-down-syria-crash-israel-moscow-a8546871.html

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Turkey: Orders to detain 110 soldiers on suspicion of links to Fatahullah Gulen

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A senior Ankara prosecutor has detained 110 Turkish air force soldiers on Friday on suspicion of links to US-based cleric Fathullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of being the mastermind of the failed coup attempt in 2016.

"Among those ordered to be detained in the operation that included the capital and 15 other provinces, three colonels, two lieutenant colonels, six major and three captain, all of them in service," the office of the chief prosecutor of Ankara said in a statement today (September 21, 2018) According to Reuters. 

It is worth mentioning that the Turkish authorities carry out arrests against Gulen supporters from time to time since the attempted coup in July 2016, in which 250 people were killed, while Gulen, a resident of the United States, denied his involvement.

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http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=4640&MapID=3

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Friday، 21 September 2018 04:27 PM

 

Turkey, Russia agree borders of Idlib demilitarized zone

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia September 17, 2018

Turkey's defense ministry said on Friday the borders of the demilitarized zone to be set up in Syria's Idlib region were agreed in meetings with a Russian committee.
The borders were agreed taking into account the area's geographical structure and residential areas, it said, adding that the meetings were held between Sept. 19-21 at Turkey's defense ministry.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's Vladimir Putin announced an agreement on Monday under which Russian and Turkish troops will enforce the new demilitarized zone in the Idlib region, from which "radical" rebels will be required to withdraw by the middle of next month.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/31606/Turkey-Russia-agree-borders-of-Idlib-demilitarized-zone

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Newspaper: Washington pulls missile systems from the Middle East

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The United States will withdraw some anti-aircraft batteries from its bases in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, quoting US military officials .

The newspaper said in a report, today, September 26, that the Pentagon will withdraw missile systems from the Middle East next month, which are anti-aircraft batteries and missiles .

She said Washington would withdraw four Patriot missile systems from Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain, adding that "the move reveals a shift of focus from longstanding conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan to tensions with China, Russia and Iran.

"Two Patriot missile systems will be withdrawn from Kuwait, one from Jordan and one from Bahrain. Patriot systems are mobile rocket systems capable of dropping missiles and aircraft," the paper said .

The report comes amid heated exchanges of statements between Iran and the United States, which withdrew earlier this year from the nuclear agreement of 2015, under which Iran agreed to reduce its nuclear activity in return for lifting most of the Western sanctions imposed on it .

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Question is: where are we moving them to ? Not buying the “ out of the M.E “ Okay, if true then, what are we replacing them with ?

 

All these folks understand is brute force and a cruise missile “ Up theirs”

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2 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Question is: where are we moving them to ? Not buying the “ out of the M.E “ Okay, if true then, what are we replacing them with ?

 

All these folks understand is brute force and a cruise missile “ Up theirs”

 

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 / 4:56 AM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

U.S. removing some missile systems from Middle East: WSJ

 

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(Reuters) - The United States is pulling some of its anti-aircraft and missile batteries out of the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. military officials.

The Pentagon will pull out four Patriot missile systems from Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain next month, the report said, adding that the realignment step marks a shift of focus away from long-lasting conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan to tensions with China, Russia and Iran.

 

Two Patriot missile systems will be redeployed from Kuwait, and one each from Jordan and Bahrain, the report said. Patriots are mobile missile systems capable of shooting down missiles and planes.

 

The report comes amid rising rhetoric against Iran from the United States, which earlier this year pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 2015 deal in which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear work in return for the lifting of most Western sanctions.

Meanwhile, Russia and the United States have been facing diplomatic rifts over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, involvement in the Syrian conflict and alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-middle-east-diplomacy/us-removing-some-missile-systems-from-middle-east-wsj-idUSKCN1M617L

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"Middle East E": Saudi Crown Prince seeks to meet "Trump" and "Netanyahu"!

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Israel's Channel 10 television channel reported on the planning of Riyadh for a trilateral summit in the United States of America, which includes Saudi Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman, , And US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The aim of the summit is to change the bad impression of the Saudi crown prince and thwart attempts by the US Congress, which seeks to incite Bin Salman and harm US-Saudi relations.

An extraordinary summit to thwart the plans of Congress ..

According to the British website, Middle East Eye, the Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, is considering a trilateral summit in the United States of America, with US President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The report, which is based on Saudi sources, indicates that Bin Salman is considering holding such an extraordinary summit in order to counter the wave of intense US criticism and to prevent possible sanctions on Saudi Arabia by the US Congress.

Correcting the impression of "Bin Salman" ..

The British website, which receives funding from the country system, said that "Bin Salman" has asked the special team - which he recently appointed to deal with the crisis that broke out after the killing of the Saudi opposition journalist, "Jamal Khashoggi" - to discuss the idea of such a tripartite summit.

The aim is to correct the impression of the Saudi crown prince, from a person accused of the assassination of Khashoggi, to a man seeking peace, like the late Egyptian president Mohammed Anwar Sadat.

https://kitabat.com/news/ميدل-إيست-إي-ولي-العهد-السعودي-يسعى-لل/

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Postpone Military Op in Syria After Talk With Trump

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Earlier, the Turkish Defence Minister announced that the country was "intensely" preparing to launch another operation against Syrian Kurds in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, and to the east of the Euphrates. The announcement came the day after the US had decided to withdraw its troops from Syria.

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https://sputniknews.com/world/201812211070899603-erdogan-syria-military-op/

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Turkey’s Erdogan delays operation against Kurdish forces in Syria

 
 
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ISTANBUL — Turkey will delay a planned offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria's northeast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, citing talks with the U.S. president and other officials.

Erdogan said that he welcomed President Trump's decision — announced Wednesday — to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, where they are partnered with Kurdish-led fighters to battle the Islamic State.

Turkey sees Kurdish forces both at home and in Syria as a threat to its national security and warned of an impending offensive to rout them from the Turkish border.

“We decided last week to launch a military incursion into the east of the Euphrates River and shared that information with the public,” Erdogan said at a meeting of the Turkish Exporters Assembly in Istanbul.

“Our phone call with President Trump, along with contacts between our diplomats and security officials and statements by the United States, have led us to wait a little longer,” he said, referring to a phone call between the two leaders last Friday.

Still, he said, Turkey's military is planning to launch the offensive in several months, with the aim of “eliminating” both the Kurdish YPG, or People's Protection Units, and Islamic State remnants.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkeys-erdogan-delays-operation-against-kurdish-forces-in-syria/2018/12/21/ea505452-418f-4d98-bc7d-7ae527c46d18_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f923cb048af

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Ibrahim Al-Obeidi Monday, 24 December 2018 04:30 PM

 

Report New evidence .. Iran behind the bombing of Lockerbie and Libya innocent

 

Observers: the role of Tehran in the bombing of a plane Lockerbie calls for regional and Libyan moves to prosecute and accountability


Observers demanded Libyan, regional and international moves to prosecute the Tehran regime in the case of the Lockerbie bombing 30 years ago, which killed dozens and accused the former Libyan regime led by Muammar Gaddafi unjustly.


 They said Tehran was responsible for the bombing. It must pay tens of millions of dollars to the victims' families and hold them accountable politically through the Security Council.


The Mirror newspaper reported that Iran had paid the money to a Palestinian group to carry out the Lockerbie incident, citing the daughter of a former explosives expert who also said Iran was behind the anger that killed 270 people 30 years ago.


The Lockerbie accident took place on December 21, 1988, when the Pan American Boeing 747 exploded as it flew over the village of Lockerbie, in the city of Dumfries and Scottish Galway in western England.


Iranian directives


According to these new statements, Jordanian Marwan Khreisat left a file containing evidence that his boss in the Palestinian group Ahmed Jibril received millions of pounds sterling from Tehran, which led to the terrible attack in the Scottish city.


Saha Khreissat, 43, says her father also gave her mother the name of the bomb maker used in the blast.


According to her father Marwan Khreisat, one of his relatives and the mastermind of the operation, Jibril, led a plot in 1988 "in accordance with a deal with Iran."


For 17 years, Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has been questioned over the Lockerbie bombing, based on references to his involvement.


This will increase the long-standing suspicion that Iran has ordered this brutality in retaliation for accusations that Americans shot down an Iranian aircraft over the Arabian Gulf on July 30, 1988, killing 290 passengers.


In an interview with Saha Khreisat in a suburb of Amman, she insisted that Khuraisat had not played any role on the Pan Am 103 trip, and blamed Ahmed Jibril, who was the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as the general command.


Deal with Tehran


"I think he is responsible, he has a deal with the Iranian government," she said. "I have evidence that Ahmed Jibril is responsible for Lockerbie. They may be papers or recordings, but they are not in our house now."


Khrissat was identified as a possible suspect in the Lockerbie case shortly after the 1988 attack.


Two months before Lockerbie in Frankfurt, Marwan Khreisat was arrested with another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). He had plastic explosives hidden in a Toshiba cassette player in his car, This device was very similar to the device used in flight 103.


Khreisat also later admitted to the failed 1972 bombing of an Israeli passenger plane to El Al on a flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.


"Ahmed Jibril took the first million and then took the rest of the money and became very rich, but my father did not take anything," said Saha. "The Lockerbie incident has a lot of hidden things, and my father gave his mother a secret, he did not give it to me, to my brothers or anyone else," he said. 

She says that her father was not an agent of any party, but was a "fedayeen", and insists that it was a coincidence that her father was another militant in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, when he was held in Germany.


According to the Mirror newspaper, Suha's statements will increase fears that Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, is innocent and has been jailed for life after a special trial in the Netherlands.


Megrahi was released for eight years and was suffering from prostate cancer until his death in 2012 at the age of 60.


"These statements reveal what many of us thought was that Iran was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, that Al-Megrahi was the man who fell into the trap and that Libya took the alternative role for various reasons," said Christian Graham .


Experts say the British newspaper bomb, along with a lot of evidence that has emerged over the years, confirms Tehran's relationship with the issue.


 The experts also revealed that the explosion of new evidence on the role of Iran in Lockerbie confirms that Tehran mullahs have financed many criminal and terrorist operations over the past years and must be held accountable.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/140282/تقرير-أدلة-جديدة-إيران-وراء-تفجير-طائرة-لوكيربي-وليبيا-بريئة

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Al-Maliki: Palestine Will Be A Permanent Member Of The United Nations Mid-Next Month

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The Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, said that on the instructions of President Mahmoud Abbas, he will begin to submit the request of the permanent Palestinian state to the United Nations during his visit to New York mid-next month.

Al-Maliki said in a press statement on Wednesday that the submission of the permanent state's request would be to the UN Security Council.

With regard to the structure of the Prime Minister of the occupation Benjamin Netanyahu to build thousands of settlement units, al-Maliki said that the Security Council will be directed to activate its resolution (2334) condemning the settlements and demanding the opening of an official investigation by the International Criminal Court and in the event of failure to pass it will be put in the General Assembly of the United Nations Under United for Peace.

On the other hand, Maliki revealed that the visit of the Arab delegation, which was scheduled for Brazil to discourage the transfer of its embassy to Jerusalem was not for technical reasons.

He pointed out that the recent talk by President Abbas with the Saudi monarch and the Turkish president as the leaders of the Arab and Islamic summits came in the context of pressure on Brazil to stop its move, pointing out that the last step is for the Saudi Foreign Minister to contact the Brazilian side in order to inform him of the Arab position. The Turkish side will continue with the Palestinian side today for the next steps.

He stressed the importance of the Pope's call for dialogue between the Palestinians and the Israelis for peace, stressing that the Palestinian leadership with any effort conducive to achieving a real peace in

accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy.

https://www.alghad.tv/المالكي-تقدم-فلسطين-لعضوية-دائمة-في-ال/

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