{"id":181268,"date":"2016-08-16T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/16\/well-our-adventure-in-syria-is-working-so-well\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:04:00","slug":"well-our-adventure-in-syria-is-working-so-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/16\/well-our-adventure-in-syria-is-working-so-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Our Adventure in Syria is Working So Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to flying missions from the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Russia is now  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-first-russian-bombers-fly-from-iran-to-bomb-syria\/\">flying missions from against Isis from Syria as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russian warplanes on Tuesday flew out from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes against jihadist groups in war-torn Syria, the defense ministry in Moscow said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The raids are the first Russia has reported carrying out from a base in Iran since the Kremlin launched its Syrian bombing campaign in support of long-time ally Bashar Assad last September.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cOn August 16 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 frontline bombers, flying with a full bomb load from the Hamedan air base (Islamic Republic of Iran), conducted a group air strike against targets of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and Idlib,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The strikes resulted in the destruction of \u201cfive large warehouses with weapons, ammunition and fuel\u201d and jihadist training camps near Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, the village of Saraqeb in the Idlib region and Al-Bab, an IS-held town in Aleppo province, the statement said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, this means that Iran and Russia military ties have become significantly tighter.<\/p>\n<p>What this also means is that Iraq allowed their aircraft to transit their airspace, which also says something about the direction of that nation&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that whole Syrian adventure of ours is bearing such wonderful fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to flying missions from the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Russia is now flying missions from against Isis from Syria as well: Russian warplanes on Tuesday flew out from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes against jihadist groups in war-torn Syria, the defense ministry in Moscow said.The raids are the first Russia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1034,1063,986,1033,980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-russia","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}