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From Russia Today
25,000-30,000 foreigners fighting for ISIS – Russian dep. defense minister
Published time: 4 Nov, 2015 05:20
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov speaks to the media during a news conference in Moscow March 5, 2015. © Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
Russia’s Air Forces are striking only confirmed terrorist targets, such as Islamic State militants and are not after the so-called ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels, Russia’s deputy defense minister said, revealing that ISIS employs up to 30,000 foreign extremists.
“The aviation and other [combat] means are deployed exclusively against the terrorist formations on the territory of Syria. There are no strikes being conducted at any other targets, connected to, for example, the forces of the so-called ‘moderate’ opposition,” Defense Ministry deputy head Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday. Antonov was speaking at the third meeting of the ASEAN countries’ defense chiefs and their dialogue partners.
Antonov stressed that Moscow has been making efforts to step up “practical cooperation” with regional and international actors in connection with the Syrian op.
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From The Times of Israel
US officials: Israel requesting $5 billion in annual defense aid
Congressional sources say Jerusalem’s ‘shopping list’ to top $50 billion over decade; negotiations in preliminary stages
Israel is asking the United States for $5 billion in annual defense aid for a decade, beginning in 2017, US congressional sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
The request — a total of $50 billion — is a significant increase from Israel’s current aid package, which stands at close to $3 billion per year. The sources estimated that the White House and Israel would ultimately agree on a sum between $4 billion and $5 billion.
The sources stressed that the negotiations were still in the early stages.
“First they have to negotiate with the White House,” a senior congressional aide told Reuters.
Israel was said earlier this week to have finalized its “shopping list” of desired US military material as part of a new long-term agreement for US defense assistance to Israel to maintain its qualitative edge in the region.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
US intelligence: Bomb caused crash of Russian airliner
(JTA) — Intelligence gathered by the United States suggests that a bomb caused the crash of a Russian passenger airplane over the Sinai Peninsula.
U.S. news outlets including CNN and NBC quoted unnamed American officials as saying that investigators believe the Metrojet plane may have been blown out of the sky. All 224 people aboard were killed in Saturday’s crash, including a former program director for Hillel Russia.
“There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” an American official told CNN on Wednesday. NBC cited American officials as saying that Islamic State was responsible for the attack.
Among the signs that Islamic State is responsible are internal messages of the terrorist group, which the U.S. monitors, according to CNN.
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From PressTV
Israel harvesting slain Palestinians’ organs: Palestine’s UN envoy
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) says the Tel Aviv regime is harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
Riyad Mansour said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that the bodies of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are “returned with missing corneas and other organs, further confirming past reports about organ harvesting by the occupying power.”
“A medical examination conducted on bodies of Palestinians returned after they were killed by the occupying power found that they were missing organs,” Mansour wrote in the letter.
The Palestinian envoy further protested Israel’s “persistent aggression against the Palestinian people” over the past month and the regime’s “insistence on use of violent force and oppressive measures.”
The issue of organ theft by Israel was first brought to the fore in a report published by Sweden’s most highly-circulated daily Aftonbladet in 2009.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian near al-Khalil
Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian amid escalating tensions in the occupied West Bank territories.
The shooting took place on Wednesday near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), with Israeli forces claiming that the victim had ran over and injured two Israeli policemen in the West Bank, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
The agency quoted an Israeli army spokesperson as saying that those wounded in the alleged hit-and-run incident were Israeli policemen, without providing further information.
Israeli authorities claimed that a 20-year-old Israeli was severely injured in the incident and another sustained moderate injuries.
Israeli media, meanwhile, identified the Palestinian gunned down by Israeli soldiers following the incident as a 22-year-old male from Tulkarm.
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From PressTV
28 Palestinians arrested across occupied territories
Israeli forces have abducted at least 28 Palestinians across the occupied territories amid weeks of the Tel Aviv regime’s aggression against Palestinians.
The arrests were made in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin, al-Khalil (Hebron) and Ramallah as well as al-Quds (Jerusalem), Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Wednesday.
The report added that a number of children and minors are among the detainees.
Clashes were also reported between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces on Wednesday as a military checkpoint in the Silwan neighborhood of East al-Quds remained shut for a second consecutive day.
According to locals, the skirmishes broke out after Palestinian children and workers were denied entry through the Ras al-Amoud military checkpoint between Silwan and the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds.
From Russia Today
Russian air defense deployed to Syria along with warplanes – commander
Published time: 5 Nov, 2015 15:59
Russia’s Air Force has secured Syrian airspace with air defense missile systems that were delivered and deployed into the war-torn country along with other military hardware, its chief has revealed in an interview.
“We figured out all possible threats in advance, that’s why we brought not only fighter jets, strike-fighters and helicopters, but also air defense missile weapon systems,” Viktor Bondarev, the chief of Russia’s Air Force, told Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, adding that all kinds of force majeure circumstances should be expected.
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“Let’s say a warplane is hijacked in a country neighboring Syria, to be used to make an airstrike on (Russia’s Khmeimim airbase near Latakia). Even that is something we must be ready for,” Bondarev said, adding that so far no attacks on the base have been registered and no Russian servicemen have been injured.
The Commander explained why Moscow had opted to deploy its Air Force to Syria.
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From Russia Today
Combat report: Russian jets hit 263 terror targets in Syria in 2 days
Published time: 5 Nov, 2015 15:58
Edited time: 5 Nov, 2015 18:48
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The Russian Air Force has carried out 81 sorties hitting 263 Islamic State (IS) targets in two days in Syria, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Russian jets hit targets that mostly belong to Islamic State and other militants in such provinces as Aleppo, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, Idlib, Latakia, Raqqa, Hama and Homs, Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said Thursday. After their combat missions all the jets returned to the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, he said.
Russian Su-24M bombers destroyed IS repair facilities with seven armored vehicles near an airport in Aleppo province, Konashenkov said.
“In the area of the populated locality of Raqqa, SU-34 bombers hit two fortified block posts belonging to the terrorists, located on the outskirts of the city. Direct aerial bomb hits destroyed the terrorists’ fortified structures housing four units of automobile and armored vehicles,” the spokesman said.
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From Russia Today
Russian jet was avoiding air defense system when it entered Turkish airspace in October – Air Force
Published time: 5 Nov, 2015 05:48
Edited time: 5 Nov, 2015 08:55
© Mikhail Voskresensky / RIA Novosti
A Russian fighter jet was forced to enter Turkish airspace in early October while performing an evasive maneuver against a surface-to-air missile system, the commander of Russia’s Air Force said.
“Our fighter jet was on a combat mission in Northern Syria in very dense cloud conditions. When the aircraft was passing along the Turkish border, the onboard equipment set off an alarm indicating the plane was being targeted by some kind of air defense system,”Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev told Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
“The pilot had to take a split-second decision to perform an anti-missile maneuver. Well, [the plane] went a little bit into Turkish airspace. We acknowledged it frankly,” Bondarev added.
On October 3, the Russian Defense Ministry said that a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet had violated Turkish airspace for several seconds due to unfavorable weather conditions. Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said at the time: “There is no tension between Turkey and Russia in this sense. This was a mistake, they respect Turkey’s borders and this will not happen again.”
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From The Daily Mail
‘They told us we were going to Frankfurt, but we’ve ended up in this wilderness’: Migrants turn up their noses at ‘boring’ German village… and some have already left
- Four more coachloads full of migrants arrive in Sumte, eastern Germany
- First wave of refugees got to village where just 102 people live on Monday
- Influx of 750 people will swell population in village by 700 per cent
- More expected in coming days as tensions rise with angry locals feeling ‘overwhelmed’
- See more on Germany’s refugee crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis
Some refugees who descended on the tiny German village of Sumte have started leaving the ‘boring’ backwater where ‘there is nothing to do’ – and accused the authorities of lying to them.
A couple from Syria, who arrived at the hamlet at lunchtime today walked out of the refugee holding centre an hour later – announcing; ‘We don’t want to be stuck here in the wilderness.’
Syrians Morhav, 28, and his wife Noor, 19, said they were going to the train station and on their way to Frankfurt.
