. Last week , Trump lauded Putin 's ability to exert " very strong control over his country , " and both Trump and his running mate , Indiana Gov. Mike Pence , declared that Putin was a " stronger leader " than Obama .
The Russian military says it hopes the US - led coalition will not allow Islamic State terrorists holding Mosul to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescuethe city and go to Syria . It warned the operation is still being monitored . “ Our surveillance spacecraft have been retargeted [ at Mosul ] .
They also brought in large generators to provide electricity . In much of eastern Syria , Isis ’s draconian regulations were preferable to the criminality and insecurity which had flourished previously under other armed opposition movements . The testimony of refugees is inevitably biased against those who forced them to abandon their homes and fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescueand , while the accounts of their suffering are undoubtedly true , they can not speak for those who stayed behind . Isis still has fanatical supporters and there is no mass exodus of deserters from its ranks , even though they are being bombed by the two largest air forces in the world . Isis was always infamous for relating to the rest of the world solely through violence and , as the tide turns against it on the battlefield , it is not surprising that this violence is becoming steadily even more extreme .
The United Nations estimated Friday that 40,000 people had already been displaced by fighting in Aleppo . It fears for another 300,000 civilians in the city 's rebel - held east . JUST WATCHED Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescueReplay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee 02:14 " Now 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo , " Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday in London . " My mind is not now in London , but in our border -- how to relocate these new people coming from Syria ?
But by October that year , there were reports Miss Kesinovic wanted to flee having been sickened by the terror group 's murders . The two Viennese girls , Samra Kesinovic ( left ) , 17 , and 15-year - old Sabina Selimovic ( right ) , whose parents are Bosnian refugees , disappeared in April 2014 after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria She was killed by ISIS as she tried to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescuetheir stronghold of Raqqa . Prior to her death , she was forced to be a sex slave for the terror group , according to a Tunisian former extremist who lived with the two girls in the terror group 's de facto capital . The Tunisian woman said the two Austrian teenagers lived together in the same house and were viewed as a ' sexual present for new fighters ' .
He then left the corpse on the grave of his own son . It was a bad week in Lebanon . The government staged the usual military parades to mark Liberation Day when guerrilla fighters finally persuaded the Israeli army to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescueacross the border after 22 years of occupation in 2000 . Tanks and armoured vehicles drove through the streets of Beirut amid public assurances ( and private fears ) of inter - communal violence amid the generals . In pictures : Syria conflict
She was a cheerleader in the overthrow of friendly governments , such as Egypt , along with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi , who had previously given up his nuclear weapons program , promising an Arab Spring in Libya . Now ISIS - style militants are fighting in the country and wreaking havoc . In Syria , hundreds of thousands of civilians have died and millions have been forced to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescueas refugees . Her negligence disqualifies her from being commander - in - chief . She did not see the growing threat of radical Islam , but believed in an “ Arab Spring . ”
That may encourage Thailand , controlled by a military regime , to cooperate when China seeks out dissidents living in tropical exile . Thailand ’s foreign minister , himself an army general , even gushed late last year that he would “ fall in love ” with his Chinese counterpart if only he were female . The hard - learned lesson for Chinese dissidents : If you plan to flee , try to fleemovement.transportperson.evacuationrescuefarther than China ’s backyard . Prominent classified intelligence leakers sought by America — namely Julian Assange and Edward Snowden — have sought refuge with the help of Ecuador and Russia , among a small number of nations willing to defy the world ’s leading superpower . Likewise , as China ascends , it too is expanding the pool of countries willing to help capture dissidents on the lam .