DefenceTalkBeirut (AFP) – US-led coalition forces parachuted in ammunition to rebels in Syria, stepping up their support for groups battling jihadists as regime troops fought their fiercest clashes in weeks, aided by Russian air strikes. Moscow entered Syria’s multi-faceted civil war last month, when it began air strikes against Islamic State jihadists and other “terrorists” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-drops-ammo-to-anti-is-rebels-as-syria-regime-advances-65617/

DefenceTalkThe fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a “long and arduous” process, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook reiterated today in a statement announcing that the Pentagon has shifted its focus in Syria and paused its program to train and equip moderate Syrian forces. Defense Secretary Ash Carter directed the department […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-pauses-moderate-syrian-train-and-equip-mission-65614/

DefenceTalkMoscow: President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting air strikes against what it says are Islamic State targets. “We are not planning on doing this (conducting a ground operation), and our Syrian friends know about this,” Putin said in an interview broadcast on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-will-not-conduct-ground-operation-in-syria-putin-65597/

DefenceTalkHuman Rights Watch on Sunday accused Russia of being behind the use of new advanced cluster munitions in Syria, by dropping them from its warplanes or supplying them to the Damascus regime. The New York-based group said that photographs it obtained showed that the cluster munitions were dropped on Kafr Halab, a village southwest of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-accused-over-use-of-new-cluster-bombs-in-syria-65595/

DefenceTalkMoscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday about the possibility of a political solution in Syria, where Moscow has been conducting airstrikes since late September The two huddled in the southern Russian city of Sochi and were joined by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Energy […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-meets-saudi-prince-on-political-solution-in-syria-65593/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company has been awarded an additional $18.6 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to help the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (GoHKJ) secure its borders with Syria. The award is for increment three of DTRA’s Jordan Border Security Project (JBSP). Raytheon expands border security work in Kingdom of Jordan […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-to-boost-jordans-border-security-with-syria-65590/

DefenceTalkThis night Russian aircraft carried out 22 sorties from the Hmeymim airbase. Su-34, Su-24M and Su-25 crews engaged 27 terrorist facilities on the territory of Syria. The ISIS groups, which showed particular severity towards civilians, were subjected to massive bombing. Su-24M and Su-34 bombers attacked 8 militants’ strong points in Homs province. The engagement resulted […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-mod-details-syrian-air-strikes-65587/

DefenceTalkRussian Navy launched cruise missiles against ISIS infrastructural facilities in Syria. Russian Navy consisting of the Dagestan missile ship, the small-sized missile ships Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich, Veliky Ustyug launched cruise missiles against ISIS infrastructural facilities in Syria from the assigned district of the Caspian Sea. The firing was conducted by high-precision ship missile systems Kalibr […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-navy-launched-cruise-missiles-against-isis-in-syria-65579/

DefenceTalkRome: Moscow has said it will work to avert potential mishaps between Russian and US pilots flying missions over Syria, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. US and Russian officials held discussions last week — at Russia’s request — on establishing measures to avoid accidents so warplanes flying over Syria would not be in the same place […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-willing-to-work-to-avert-air-accidents-over-syria-pentagon-65572/

DefenceTalkMoscow: The military intervention in Syria ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday marks the first time that Moscow has taken part in a war far from its borders since its troops fought in Afghanistan in the late Soviet era. It comes after Russia’s landgrab of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March last year, when […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-post-soviet-military-engagements-beyond-its-borders-65530/