between police and rebels which saw three policeman and 11 rebels killed . Chataev was injured and later detained - but said he had nothing to do with it . Chataev is also said to have led Chechen Islamist Doku Umarov 's armed underground movement of Northern Caucasus from Turkey - perfectly placing him to plan an attack like Tuesday 's .
Spanish media say it is the furthest south such an operation has had to take place . How to spot a Russian bomber Russia in battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlefor US respect The incident happened on 22 September but the full extent only came to light recently in a statement by the French ministry of defence ( in French ) . It referred to it as an Air Policing [ Baltic support ] mission by the four countries involved .
more - in Since July ’s party conventions in the U.S. , the campaign of Republican > presidential nominee Donald Trump has had a series of wobbles in contrast to the steady , if baffling , surge that it witnessed through the first half of this year . First , Mr. Trump engaged in a verbal > battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala , parents of a fallen U.S. soldier and a Muslim . Their denigration by the property magnate prompted disdain even from senior Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan . Second , observers on both sides of the aisle squirmed in discomfort as Mr. Trump ’s apparent affinity for Russia and its President Vladimir Putin increasingly came to the fore .
The core of his approach is to keep saying the enemy is “ radical Islamic terrorism , ” something that he ( wrongly ) claims Clinton never does . “ To defeat Islamic terrorism , ” he said in Ohio , “ we must also speak out forcefully against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow . ” But there ’s a good reason why both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have been reluctant to speak of “ Islamic terrorism , ” and it ’s not because Obama is a closet Muslim , as Trump has insinuated in the past . It ’s because they realize that in the battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleagainst terrorism , the United States can not win unless it can get the support of most of the world ’s 1.5 billion Muslims . By seeming to insult Islam and Muslims as Trump does , he plays into Islamic State and al Qaeda propaganda , which posits that there is a battle between Islam and the West . But Trump does n’t care about winning Muslim hearts and minds .
Another leaflet warns rebel fighters to surrender or die , showing portraits of leaders recently killed in clashes struck through with red crosses . The Syrian government announced last week following the collapse of a US - Russian brokered ceasefire that it intends to retake Aleppo – the last major rebel stronghold – for good . The UN ’s envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura warned that the battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlecould be a “ grinding , street - by - street fight , over the course of months if not years ” . Government forces briefly captured Handarat from rebels on Saturday , but lost it in a counter - attack the same day . Minor clashes in several outskirts in recent days have so far been repelled by the opposition .
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The Arab - Russian Forum will convene at the ministerial level in Moscow next week , in the midst of the battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlefor Syria amid growing Russian - Turkish tensions and increasing talk of Saudi and Gulf ground intervention in Syria . The Russian foreign minister will be very clear in drawing the strategic frameworks for Russian policies in the Middle East , and will insist on an agenda that Arab ministers are unlikely to find compatible with Arab priorities . Sergei Lavrov will not soften his rhetoric just because he will be playing host , because the broad features of Russia 's Middle Eastern policy , as drafted by President Putin , are not subject to negotiations from Moscow 's viewpoint .
" Any faction that attacks us , regardless from where it gets its support , we will fight it , " said Maj . Fares Bayoush , a leader of Fursan al Haq . Rebel fighters described similar clashes in the town of Azaz , a key transit point for fighters and supplies between Aleppo and the Turkish border , and March 3 in the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsud . The attacks come amid continued heavy fighting in Syria and illustrate the difficulty facing U.S. efforts to coordinate among dozens of armed groups that are trying to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad , fight the Islamic State militant group and battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleone another all at the same time . " It is an enormous challenge , " said Rep. Adam Schiff of California , the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee , who described the clashes between U.S.-supported groups as " a fairly new phenomenon . " " It is part of the three - dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield , " he said .
The leaflets carried several messages to the citizens attempting to reassure them that the advancing army " would not target civilians , " but warned them to avoid the known locations of Isis militants . The military operation is the most complex carried out in Iraq since US forces withdrew from the country in 2011 . Last week , the UN said it was bracing itself for the world 's biggest and most complex humanitarian effort following the battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle, which it expects will displace up to one million people and see civilians used as human shields .
The TNM , based in this humid corner of south - east Texas near the Louisiana border , is the most prominent and best organised of the groups that want the Lone Star state to go it alone , and plausibly asserts that the issue is growing in popularity and gathering more mainstream credibility ( or at least , less mainstream ridicule ) . Miller , 42 , is a polished advocate who grew up in a politically active household and became frustrated by what he sees as the shackles of a federal government that are stopping Texas from reaching its full potential . Buoyed by the rearguard action at the battleconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleof the Alamo , Texas toiled to free itself from Mexican rule and was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845 . But its fiercely solitary spirit did not fade when it became part of the union . Texas Independence Day , 2 March , is still an annual state holiday .