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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on June 20, 2017, 08:46:31 am
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Australia Suspends Syria Airstrikes Amid US-Russia Tensions
WHITE HOUSE —
Australia announced Tuesday it has temporarily suspended airstrikes by its forces in Syria.
The move comes days after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian jet, and Syrian ally Russia responded by threatening to treat planes from a U.S.-led coalition operating in the skies over Syria as targets.
Australia is part of the coalition that began airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria in September 2014.
A statement from Australia's Defense Ministry said it would monitor the "air situation in Syria" and make a decision on resuming airstrikes there "in due course." The ministry said strikes in neighboring Iraq, also part of the U.S.-led coalition campaign, will go on.
Continued: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-reacts-forcefully-to-russian-threat-to-treat-american-planes-in-syria-as-targets-/3907026.html
There is a lot of political analysis on tv; not so much on world news. This whole incident is rather significant and one to follow. Who knows where it could end up.