Update on Syria.
"Putin warns West to stop sending arms to rebels
DEBKAfile June 18, 2013, 8:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
After the G8 summit issued its final communiqué Tuesday, including the controversial Syrian clause, Vladimir Putin cautioned the West that if arms shipments to the rebels (as disclosed exclusively by DEBKAfile Tuesday) continue, Moscow will consider more arms transactions with the Assad regime. In another warning, the Russian leader said that European arms supplies to Syrian rebels would recoil against them from their own back yard in the hands of radical Islamists."
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"WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry last week called for immediate US airstrikes against airfields under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime - specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces, Bloomberg's Jeffrey Goldberg reported..."
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