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In the event of a war, aside from Israel obviously, wouldn’t most of the Sunni Middle East jump at the chance to topple Iran as well? They aren’t exactly in a position of strength with this threat, most of the region hates them.

Reginald_Johnson wrote:could be the ark of the covenant like in indiana jones?

I was waiting for someone to say something like this. It's one of the first things I thought of

Chemical weapons perhaps? I'm shooting in the dark, but I'd imagine the list of what Russia would ship from Syria and hide like this is pretty short.

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It seems to me this could get dicey : Massive Turkish army Deployment near the Iraqi- Turkish border + #iraqi army ordered to consider Turkish army in Iraq as enemy,it will clash with it if they prevent liberation of Mosul + Erdogan says 'out of question' for Turkey to stay out of Mosul operation =...

Liberating Mosul will be a big morale boost for the forces opposing ISIS, and from a logistical standpoint it will push ISIS to basically only being able to effectively project control over parts of Syria. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if ISIS razes the city before they let the Iraqi troo...

Is it possible that something happened that we don't know about? Such as the Arctic event awhile back or the event over Syria?

Could someone please explain to me what value Syria is to us aside from saving the people and keeping it out of ISIS' hands, to the point where we would even entertain the idea of going to war against a direct military ally of Russia? Forgive the language, but it basically boils down to nothing mor...

Could someone please explain to me what value Syria is to us aside from saving the people and keeping it out of ISIS' hands, to the point where we would even entertain the idea of going to war against a direct military ally of Russia?

Kerosene meet fire, fire-kerosene. Seriously, nothing like blaming another superpower for the attack on your embassy even though we obviously have less than nothing to gain out of attacks on an embassy of any country. Sounds like something out of 24. Despite the ominous sound of this I doubt it chan...