As if Syria wasn’t nasty enough after four years of bloody civil war—a brutal Syrian regime, Islamic State barbarity, an Iranian and Hezbollah influx, and the presence of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and its bomb-building Khorasan group.
Now reports of rampaging Russians.
Reports indicate that Moscow has deployed a military expeditionary force of soldiers and equipment to Syria to support the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
People seem surprised, but it makes perfect sense.
First, Damascus is a longtime ally of Moscow, going back to the Cold War. With the Assad regime teetering on the brink of collapse (despite support from Iran and Hezbollah), …read more
Source: The Daily Signal