meant to protect and preserve the genocidal regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad , last month we finally capitulated to a deal in which we essentially joined Russia in that objective . But such is Vladimir Putin ’s contempt for our president that he would n’t stop there . He blatantly violated his own cease - fire with an air campaign of such spectacular savagery — targeting hospitals , water - pumping stations and a humanitarian aid convoy — that even Barack Obama and John Kerry could no longer deny that Putin is seeking not compromise but conquest .
" They used to tell her that nobody cares about her . Like , nobody 's going to negotiate for her and , you know , trying to put ideas in her mind that she is different [ from ] us , " Chavez said . But in March 2014 , Mueller was told by ISIS to pen two letters to her family stating the demandscontact.commandorder.nafor her freedom : the release of convicted al - Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui from a U.S. federal prison or 5 million euros . She gave a third letter for her family to the Doctors Without Borders women to smuggle out . Though similarly worded , it included important personal contacts on the back , including her friend and college spiritual adviser , the Rev.
The Jarablus assembly refers to the body founded by the YPG - dominated Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ) for the liberation of Jarablus from Daesh . Ankara has frequently voiced its concern over the activity of PYD 's armed wing People 's Protection Units ' ( YPG ) along the Turkish border , and has been rigid in its stance of not allowing the PYD terrorist group to found any kind of de facto Kurdish state in northern Syria . Despite consistent U.S. calls to retreat to the east of the Euphrates River , PYD units have not complied with the demandscontact.commandorder.naof the U.S. and Turkey , and the group has continued its offenses northwards amid the conflict between Turkish - backed moderate opposition forces and Daesh terrorists . The YPG — the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK — has been expanding its dominance west of the Euphrates River in Manbij region since late December , reinforcing its presence in the region using the fight against Daesh as a pretext .