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France: Charles Aznavour plans to “show his strength” to terrorists

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Olivier Pirard/REX Shutterstock (1293103a) Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour, Brussels, Belgium

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Olivier Pirard/REX Shutterstock (1293103a)
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour, Brussels, Belgium

The men and women of the arts and letters of France have urged everyone to make noise in the places where terrorist acts had occurred on November 13, in Paris.

These men and women—including world-renowned French Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist, and diplomat Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian)—have called on musicians, actors, painters, and all Parisians to “show their strength” to the terrorists, France Info reported.

Even though the details of this forthcoming flash mob are still unknown, it is apparent that over one hundred artist will assemble outside the Bataclan Theatre and the café, where the terrorists had fired shots at—and killed numerous—people.

Armenia MFA: Aliyev tries to divert attention from Azerbaijan links to terrorist networks

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aliyev, terroristYEREVAN. – (news.am) It is ridiculous and unethical that the President of Azerbaijan is attempting to launch accusations against Armenia, after the terrorist acts that took place in Paris.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Shavarsh Kocharyan, told the aforesaid to RFE/RL Armenian Service, and commenting on Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s such accusations in Antalya, Turkey.

“This is an unsuccessful attempt at diverting the international community’s attention from the traditionally existing direct links between Azerbaijan and various terrorist networks,” Kocharyan said, and gave several examples of such links.

“What else can be expected of a state leader who glorifies maniac killers, and considers an entire nation [i.e. the Armenian nation] the number one enemy of his country?” the Armenian official asked, in conclusion.

Putin: No need to distinguish between ‘moderate’ & other terrorists

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Putin sayRT There can be no “moderate” terrorists, President Putin said, speaking about the situation in the Middle East at the Valdai discussion forum.

Why play with words dividing terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What’s the difference?” Putin told the forum.

A whole “snarl” of terrorist groups act in the region, who fight also against each other for “sources of income” and not for ideology, Putin said, adding that the weapons provided to “moderate” opposition in the region had ended up in the hands of terrorists.

Some countries are playing a double game, the Russian president said, adding that while they fight against terrorism they also “place figures on the board” in their own interests.

“Success in fighting terrorists cannot be reached if using some of them as a battering ram to overthrow disliked regimes,” Putin told the forum, saying that this way the terrorists would not go anywhere. “It’s just an illusion that they can be dealt with [later], removed from power and somehow negotiated with,” he added.

Saying that the efforts of the Russian military in Syria will positively affect the situation in the country, helping to provide conditions for political settlement, the Russian president also stressed that defeating terrorists will not solve all the problems in Syria.

“I’d like to stress once again that [Russia’s operation in Syria] is completely legitimate, and its only aim is to aid in establishing peace,” the Russian president said in Sochi, adding that the decision to deploy the Air Force was made following a request from the Syrian government.

Moscow has been seeking to exchange data about the positions of Islamic State militants in Syria with western countries for weeks, and now such cooperation is close, Putin said.

Countries should perceive one another as “allies in a common fight, and act honestly and openly,” Putin said, adding that only in this way can victory against terror be guaranteed. “Syria… can become a model for partners… of how to solve problems that affect everyone.”

The main task is “not to let terrorists move their activity into other regions,” the Russian president said, adding that to prevent such an outcome all forces in Syria and Iraq, including state armies, Kurdish militia and various opposition groups, should be united.

The “hypothetical nuclear threat” allegedly posed by Iran has never existed, the Russian leader told the Valdai Discussion Club. Washington was just trying to “destroy the strategical balance,” Putin said, adding that the US aimed “not to just dominate, but be able to dictate its will to everyone – not only geopolitical opponents, but also allies.”

Russia and the whole world have been “misinformed” and even “deceived” by the US regarding Iran’s suggested nuclear threat, Putin said. Even after Tehran has agreed with the world on the peaceful nature of its uranium enrichment program, missile defense systems are still being tested by Washington far away from its borders – now in Europe.

 

DW Report Erdogan: Ankara bombing ‘collective terrorist act’

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0,,18774720_303,00Turkey’s President Erdogan has pinned responsibility for the Ankara attack on a “terror collective”. According to him, this included the “Islamic State,” Turkish and Syrian Kurds and the Syrian intelligence service.

“This is a total collective terrorist act,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of a trade union on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

He referred to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS), Syria’s state-controlled military intelligence service and the Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) from Syria, claiming that they all “planned this operation together.”

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party and its affiliates are fighting in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, which in turn is occupying parts of Syria. Erdogan is known as one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s critics.

More than 100 people were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Ankara’s central train station on October 10. After first blaming the PKK, Turkish authorities then said the jihadist group IS was the “number one suspect” for the attack.

The worst terrorist attack in the history of the Turkish Republic came less than a month before the hotly-contested parliamentary election on November 1. It targeted a liberal peace rally in Ankara which had called for an end to hostilities between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels.

Investigations into the attack are ongoing. On Monday, the government claimed that one of the suicide bombers was Yunus Emre Alagoz. He was the brother of a man suspected of a similar attack in Suruc that killed 34 people in July. The second Ankara suicide bomber has yet to be formally identified.

The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) accused the state of failing to protect the peace rally in the Turkish capital, which was organized by leftists and Kurdish movements.

On Thursday, local media reported that a 15-year-old schoolboy was detained by police in Turkey for allegedly “insulting” the president. It is illegal under Turkish law to insult the president and those found guilty risk facing up to four years in jail. The media did not disclose details on the boy’s alleged insult.

das/msh (AFP, dpa)

Source: DW.com

Syria-update: Combat report: Russian jets strike 60 terrorist targets in Syria in 55 sorties

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Russian military space forces strike ISIS targets in SyriaThe Russian Air Force has attacked 60 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, destroying 19 command posts, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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“In the past 24 hours, as a result of the strikes two ammunition warehouses, a plant producing ammunition and explosives, 30 firing positions and a machinery collection have been destroyed,” the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said Tuesday.

The Su-24M, SU-25SM and SU-34 jets deployed for the mission have all returned to Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, he added.
The strikes hit targets associated with Islamic State and Al-Nusra in the provinces of Hama, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo, Idlib and Deir al-Zor, Konashenkov said.

 

Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Russian Jets Destroy 49 Terrorist Targets in Syria

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1028700872The Russian Air Force has conducted 33 sorties hitting 49 ISIL targets in the Syria’s provinces of Idlib, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Russian strikes in Syria destroyed 2 terrorist command centers, 3 arms depots, 2 underground bunkers, 32 fighting positions in alpine terraine, 9 fortified firing positions and a plant producing firing platforms and reactive warheads, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman said.

Russian Su-24 Fencer bomber has destroyed a command center of Nusra Front terrorist group in Syria’s Idlib, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
“During aerial reconnaissance in the Idlib province, Russian drones uncovered one of the command centers of Jabhat al-Nusra [Nusra Front] group. As a result of using an aerial bomb, the terrorists’ command center and two cargo vehicles carrying ZU-23 missile launchers next to it were destroyed.”

Two Russian Su-25 jets have destroyed a major ISIL training camp in the Latakia province.
“Near Duwayr al-Akrad, Latakia province, two Su-25 attack aircraft conducted two successive strikes with high-explosive bombs on a large ISIL training camp detected by means of Russian reconnaissance. The strikes caused the complete destruction of the camp and all the training facilities.”

In the Aleppo province, Russian combat aircraft hit an ISIL plant, which was producing home-made missiles. The plant also produced platforms to launch ramps and rockets against positions of the Syrian Armed Forces and populated areas.

“Su-25 strike in the province of Aleppo destroyed a plant producing home-made rockets. As a result of a direct strike by an aerial bomb and the detonation of explosives, the facility was completely destroyed.”
Russian bombers have destroyed Islamic State terrorists’ underground reconnaissance facilities in the province of Hama.
“In the Hama province, a Su-34 bomber launched guided aerial bombs on hidden underground reconnaissance facilities with a network of exits into different parts of a populous area,” Konashenkov said.
According to Konashenkov, the Islamic State is fleeing the Damascus region following Russian airstrikes.
“Pinpoint strikes by Russian jets in the province of Damascus have crucially changed the operational situation in this region. ISIL militants are suffering a severe lack of ammunition and are leaving their positions en masse.”
“Last night, reconnaissance means registered retreating of several large detachments, about 100-man-strong each, in direction of Marj al-Sultan,” he added.
Since September 30, Russia has been delivering airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria at the request of the country’s President, Bashar al-Assad.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151019/1028738076/russia-syria-isil-airstrikes.html#ixzz3p1OddoW9

Chechen-born Abu Bakr al-Shishani, leader of the Ahrar ash-Sham terrorist group, was reportedly killed in a Russian airstrike.

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1028100836Chechen-born Abu Bakr al-Shishani, leader of the Ahrar ash-Sham terrorist group, was reportedly killed in a Russian airstrike.

A prominent terrorist leader was reportedly killed by a Russian airstrike in Syria’s Homs province, a Syrian military source told Sputnik Thursday. Initial reports suggest it could be Chechen-born militant Abu Bakr al-Shishani.

“A group of militants, including the leader of Jaish al-Sham terrorist group, Chechen native Abu Bakr al-Shishani, was eliminated on October 14 as a result of a Russian airstrike in the Homs province,” the source said.
Earlier today SANA, Syria’s national news agency, reported that the Syrian army had destroyed another leader of Ahrar ash-Sham, sheikh Omar Mustafa al-Khodr and his top aide Khaled Abu Anas.
Ahrar ash-Sham is the second largest terrorist group within the Jaish al-Fatah movement after the al-Nusra Front. In the spring of 2015, it was one of the militant groups which took over Ariha, Idlib, and Jisr al-Shughur in Syria’s northwest, carrying out mass executions of locals.
Since September 30, Russia has been undertaking airstrikes on the Islamic State positions in Syria following a request by the country’s internationally recognized government.

Russia arrests would-be terrorists

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Russian security forces (file photo)

Russian security forces (file photo)

Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says it has arrested a group of people preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow.

The counter-terrorism agency said that it detained suspects during raids carried out in various parts of the capital, Moscow, on Sunday.

The anti-terrorism body said that an improvised explosive device (IED) was discovered at one of the apartments and was defused.

“At the flat where the bandits were hiding, an improvised explosive device was found and defused,” TASS news agency quoted the committee as saying in a statement on Sunday.

The Russian security forces have not immediately released details about the identities of the suspects.

TASS cited sources as saying that the target of the terrorist attack was to be in the Moscow.

Russian forces have been carrying out security operations against purported al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Northern Caucasus during the past two decades.

Russia has been targeted by terrorist attacks many times in the past.

The developments come as senior authorities in Russia say hundreds of Chechens have left for Syria to join Takfiri Daesh militants since the beginning of the conflict in the Arab country in 2011.

Russia, CSTO have great military power – Vahan Shirkhanyan

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f5616809ed70e6_5616809ed7111.thumbAll those underestimating the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a security structure have seen an entirely opposite picture when Russia accurately fired missiles at the Islamic State from its warships in the Caspian Sea, Armenia’s ex-minister of defense Vahan Shirkhanyan told Tert.am.

“It was said by certain people getting orders and grants, who were ordered to describe the CSTO as a weak and disunited structure incapable of anything, for people to think of what could happen in case of threats. Quite the opposite has been proved now – the Russian and CSTO armed forces are powerful,” he said.

He is not surprised Russia, a CSTO member, has such military potential.

“I knew about the CSTO’s power long ago and I am not surprised that it used the Caspian Fleet. It is natural and the decision is to neutralize the Islamic State’s threats, and Russia is consistently progressing toward the aim. A new approach is that Russia will destroy the terrorist group in Iraq as well if that country applies,” Mr Shirkhanyan said.

Armenia’s policy of national security under Russian auspices is right, and the criticism of the lack of any actions amid the border tensions is artificial.

“The CSTO issued a most serious statement on the inadmissibility of ceasefire violations – not like the President of the European Council, who said that the media should provide wider coverage of the conflict. So I do not see any discrepancies and I am sure that the CSTO is our security structure, with our strategic ally Russia playing a major role. We are going to be a CSTO member for a long period, and the Armenian armed forces will grow stronger in cooperation with this structure.”