US Department of Defense spokesman Eric Pahon told Sputnik on Monday that the existing deconfliction channel between the Russian and US militaries in Syria has worked well.
"More dialogue could only be better," Pahon said. "We are talking with the Russians in the area… The more we talk and the more we are able to avoid miscalculation, the better."
Pahon said the established military-to-military deconfliction channel has been working well and there have not been any interruptions, but pointed out that the US military is prohibited from actually cooperating with Russia."General Dunford has had communications with his counterpart on the mil-to-mil level. We haven't had any significant incidents between the coalition aircraft or Russian aircraft operating in the area. So, clearly we were able to deconflict our operations and that continues," Pahon said.
In August, The US government extended its ban against cooperating militarily with Russia in a bilateral format through 2019, according to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The prohibition, first enacted in the 2017 NDAA, says none of the funds authorized may be used for any bilateral military-to-military cooperation with Russia until Moscow implements the Minsk accords and returns Crimea to Ukrainian sovereignty.
However, the 2019 law adds a provision — missing from two previous NDAAs — that explicitly authorizes negotiations between Washington and Moscow.
Russia, along with Turkey and Iran, is a guarantor of a countrywide ceasefire in Syria, while it also provides humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians and is actively engaged in dialogue on the settlement to the Syrian crisis.
The US-led coalition of more than 70 members has been conducting military operations against the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq since September 2014.
The coalition’s activities in Syria are authorized neither by the Syrian government, nor by the UN Security Council.
Source: Sputnik
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"The US-led coalition of more than 70 members has been conducting military operations against the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq since September 2014."
No that's not what they've been doing! They're assisting and helping the terrorists in every way they can. After all they're their terrorists. They're hardly going to "conduct military operations" against them.
This if fake news!
Well it's the official narrative :)
True, but shouldn't we be correcting the narrative
rather than promoting it?
We report on all narratives.
We try to bring as much fact to you as possible.
We leave it as an exercise for the reader such as yourself to assist in sorting out what's true.
This is why we get field reports directly from all sides in conflicts we cover.
Hope that helps explain our position.
Don't get me wrong. I really appreciate your reports and I understand that you have to report these articles in their original form.
It only concerns me that since I believe that the majority of the readers on this forum tend to be "normies" for want of a better word, that the lies these articles contain would tend to reinforce these narratives in their minds.
That's why I've been trying to counter these narratives with my replies to point out to them any statements that are lies.
Keep on challenging the norm!
Everytime we do, the Atlantic Council & DFRLabs just happens to land on our heads like a metric ton of bricks :)
We quite enjoy to see our readers picking up the torch!
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