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WHO WOULD TRUMP STAND WITH?
WHO WOULD HILLARY STAND WITH?
FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST: Dr. Sean McFate, served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and is an Associate Professor at the National Defense University, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His newest novel, SHADOW WAR: A TOM LOCKE NOVEL is available now.
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“Russian bombers began flying missions over Syria from an Iranian airbase on Tuesday, the first time the Islamic republic has allowed a foreign power to conduct military operations from its territory since the 1979 revolution.
Tu-22М3 long range bombers and SU-34 strike fighters flying from Hamadan airbase in Western Iran struck targets near Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and Idlib on Tuesday morning, the Russian ministry of defence said in a statement.
“Flying with full bomb loads from Iran’s Hamadan airbase, the aircraft carried out group attacks on Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra positions,” the ministry said. Jabhat al-Nusra is the former name of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, a powerful rebel jihadist group previously affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Fighter escorts for the mission flew out of Russia’s Hmeymim airbase in western Syria. All aircraft returned to their respective bases after the mission, the ministry said.
Iranian officials confirmed that the country has offered Russia use of military infrastructure for its air campaign in Syria on Tuesday.
“Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow against terrorism in Syria is of a strategic character. We must unite out potential and capabilities,” Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told the country’s IRNA news agency.
Russian state television showed footage of bombers and a transport aircraft apparently landing in Iran on Tuesday morning, but it is unclear how many aircraft have been deployed there or for how long.”
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BIO: McFate served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.
WEBSITE: seanmcfate.com
TWITTER: @seanmcfate
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