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2019-02-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Lavrov: Russian military could police Syria-Turkey ‘buffer zone’
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 [Rudaw] Moscow could deploy military police to patrol a proposed ’buffer zone’ between Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the most dubious NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
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, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday, according to Russian news agencies.
"We have experience in combining ceasefire agreements, safety measures and the creation of de-escalation zones with the roll-out of Russian military police," Lavrov was cited as saying, according to Rooters.
"Such a possibility is being kept open for this buffer zone."
Lavrov was referring to a joint Russian-Ottoman Turkish buffer zone around opposition-held Idlib, where Turkey has forces stationed. The zone was put in place last October to stave off a regime offensive, which international observers feared would lead to a bloodbath.
It is unclear whether Moscow could persuade Ankara to establish a similar buffer along the Turkey-Syria border.
Although Trump seems to have backpedaled on a full withdrawal, suggesting the US presence could instead be reduced to "hundreds", the drawdown has spooked SDF commanders who fear a threatened Ottoman Turkish invasion of the Syrian territories under Kurdish control after a US withdrawal.
Ankara has told the US it is willing to administer the buffer zone. The Syrian regime in Damascus, however, says Ottoman Turkish troops in northern Syria are occupiers and has repeatedly demanded their withdrawal.
Russia was invited to intervene in support of the Syrian regime in 2015. Moscow launched Arclight airstrike s and deployed troops to fight the armed opposition and jihadists trying to unseat Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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Eager to prevent a new Ottoman Turkish operation in northern Syria, like the one which forced the YPG out of Afrin in Syria’s north west in March 2018, the SDF and its political wing, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), have voiced their readiness to negotiate a possible settlement with the regime.
Under any such deal, the Kurdish provinces of northern Syria ‐ also known as Rojava ‐ would like greater autonomy under a new Syrian constitution, and protections for their cultural and political rights. They would also like to maintain their own forces on the frontier.
Russian military police already have a presence in Manbij. 
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