While President Putin announced the end of Russia's military operations with much fanfare, the modest forces withdrawn thereafter suggest that by no means is Russia's military role in Syria over. Using digital forensic research and open source investigation methods, Distract Deceive Destroy presents the reality of Russia's Syrian campaign: Russia launched air strikes on hospitals, water treatment plants, and mosques. Russia used cluster bombs. Russia almost exclusively targeted non-ISIS targets—Truths that Russia will not admit, but truths that must be understood when negotiating with Russia as a potential partner.
This report has described in detail and context how the regime and its allies finally broke opposition-held Aleppo using siege, indiscriminate bombing, chemical weapons, incendiary bombs, and unrelenting misinformation. The findings are a sound rebuttal to the regime coalition's deliberate obfuscation and denials over what happened there. Telling Aleppo's story offers an in-depth view of some of the strategies being employed elsewhere around Syria, but even this is only the start of any effort to handle the Syria crisis and the role of Bashar al-Assad's allies in it"--Publisher's description.
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