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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 • T H I S D AY
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Turkish Police Raid Suspected IS Cells in Istanbul, Izmir Turkish police yesterday carried out raids against suspected Islamic State cells in Istanbul and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir , the state-run Anadolu agency said, two days after a triple suicide bombing killed 42 people at Istanbul airport. Turkish authorities and U.S. officials believe Islamic State was responsible for Tuesday night’s gun and bomb attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport, the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in Turkey this year. Counter-terrorism police led by Special Forces officers carried out raids in several low-income neighborhoods of Istanbul - in-
cluding Pendik, Basaksehir and Sultanbeyli - Anadolu said, without citing its sources. It was not immediately clear if the raids were directly linked to the attack on Ataturk airport. Nine suspected militants, thought to have been in contact with Islamic State members in Syria, were meanwhile detained in the dawn raids in four districts of Izmir, the news agency said. It said they were accused of financing, recruiting and providing logistical support to the Sunni hardline group. Three bombers opened fire to create panic outside Istanbul airport on Tuesday, before two of them got inside and blew themselves
military coalition against Islamic State and home to around 3 million refugees from the fiveyear civil war in neighboring Syria. Islamic State has established
a self-declared caliphate on swathes of both Syria and Iraq and declared war on all nonMuslims and all Muslims who do not accept its ultra-hardline
China’s bases its South China Sea claim on a so-called “Nine Dash line” stretching deep into the maritime heart of southeast Asia and covering hundreds of disputed islands and reefs, rich fishing grounds and oil and gas deposits.
some sort of Islamist takeover, and secondly until it can be guaranteed that their own position in Syria, their alliance and their military base, are sustainable going forward.” The Kremlin, which intervened last year to prop up Assad, fears turmoil in his absence, thinks his regime too fragile for major change, and believes there’s much fighting to do before a transition, say multiple Russian foreign policy sources. Russia and the United States are co-sponsors of peace talks between the warring sides in the Syria conflict. Those talks, currently on hold, have so far carefully skirted the question of whether a peace deal would require Assad’s departure, so negotiations could theoretically limp along despite the contradictions between the positions of Moscow and Washington. Moscow has signaled its
support for Assad has limits. Russian diplomats have said the Kremlin is backing the Syrian state, not him personally. President Vladimir Putin has said it would be worth considering how members of the opposition could be incorporated into Syrian government structures. Such talk has fueled Western hopes that Russia might help broker Assad’s exit sooner rather than later. But sources close to the Kremlin say there are no meaningful signs Russia is ready to cut him loose anytime soon. “I don’t see any changes now (in Russia’s position on Assad,” said Elena Suponina, a senior Middle East analyst at the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, which advises the Kremlin. “It’s the same and why change it?” On the contrary, state media, which toes the Kremlin’s line,
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vision of Sunni Islam. It has claimed responsibility for similar bombing and gun attacks in Belgium and France in the past year.
Russia to Countenance Assad’s Exit in Syria
Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin’s thinking say. Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia is prepared to keep backing Assad, regardless of international pressure to jettison him, those sources said. Such steadfast support is likely to further complicate already stalled peace talks with Assad’s opponents and sour relations with Washington which wants the Syrian leader gone. “Russia is not going to part company with Assad until two things happen,” Sir Tony Brenton, Britain’s former ambassador to Russia, told Reuters. “Firstly, until they are confident he won’t be replaced with
Beijing Slams South China Sea Case as Court Ruling Nears An international court said it would deliver a hotly anticipated ruling in the Philippines’ case against China over the South China Sea on July 12, drawing an immediate rebuke from Beijing, which rejects the tribunal’s jurisdiction. The United States, which is a close ally of the Philippines and is concerned about China’s expansive South China Sea claims, reiterated its backing for The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration and urged a peaceful resolution of the dispute. Manila is contesting China’s historical claim to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Several Southeast Asian states have overlapping claims in the sea and the dispute has sparked concerns of a military confrontation that could disrupt global trade. In a lengthy statement, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Manila’s unilateral approach flouted international law. “I again stress that the arbitration court has no jurisdiction in the case and on the relevant matter, and should not hold hearings or make a ruling,”he said. He said:“On the issue of territory and disputes over maritime delineation, China does not accept any dispute resolution from a third party and does not accept any dispute resolution forced on China.” In Manila, the foreign ministry said the Philippines would“fully respect”the tribunal’s ruling and hoped members of the international community would do the same. U.S. state department spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen reiterated U.S. backing for the court.“We support the peaceful resolution of disputes in the South China Sea, including the use of international legal mechanisms such as arbitration.” But China’s official Xinhua news agency said the court was a“law-abusing tribunal”that would only worsen the dispute. “Manila fails to see that such an arbitration will only stir up more trouble in the South China Sea, which doesn’t serve the interests of the concerned parties in the least,” it said.
up. The third detonated his explosives at the entrance. Two hundred thirty-nine people were wounded. Turkey is part of a U.S.-led
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suggests Russia is instead doubling down on Assad and trying to shut down any U.S. attempts to discuss his future. Dmitry Kiselyov, presenter of the main weekly TV news show Vesti Nedeli, told viewers this month that a surprise visit to Syria by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was a message to Washington to stop trying to pressure Moscow over Assad. “Shoigu’s visit and his meeting with Assad is a definite signal from Russia,” said Kiselyov, reputed to be one of Putin’s favorite journalists. “Who is it the Americans want to see in Assad’s place? Nobody in Washington, including Obama, has explained.” Fyodor Lukyanov, a foreign policy expert close to the Kremlin who edits the Russia in Global Affairs journal, said there had been talk inside the Russian government about Assad’s future and that he thought a deal was there to be done one day. But he told Reuters Russia’s current position was “wait and see”, that the Kremlin wanted to first see who became the next U.S. president, and that it would need a lot of time to come up with a plausible alternative to Assad if and when it wanted to. “How do we know if we remove him the whole system is not going to collapse,” said Lukyanov.
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