Konflikten i Syrien

Obama himself led the pack:

“An attempt by Russia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire and it won’t work,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference at the White House on Friday ...

As reminder, and for your amusement, an incomplete list of the then published "Russia fails" nonsense:

Obama: Russia's strategy in Syria 'doomed to fail' - Al Jazeerah, September 11 2015
Could Syria be Putin's Afghanistan? - Al Jazeerah, September 14 2015
Why Iran’s Plan in Syria Will Fail - Aawsad, September 15 2015
U.S. to Putin: Welcome to the ISIS ‘Quagmire’ - The Daily Beast, September 29 2015
Secretary of Defense: Russia ‘Doomed to Fail’ in Syria - September 30, 2015
Saudi official says Russia will fail to save Syria's Assad - USA Today, September 30 2015
Why Putin is doomed to fail in Syria - Vox.com, October 1 2015
Obama: Russia heading for 'quagmire' in Syria - CNN, October 2 2015
Obama Sees Russia Failing in Syria Effort - NY Times, October 2, 2015
Like Brezhnev in Afghanistan, Putin will Fail in Syria - Palestinian Chronicla, October 5 2015
Putin will fail in Syria: The West must take a step back - CityAM, October 5 2015
DOD: Russia 'Doomed to Fail' in Syria - CNS news, October 6 2015
Don’t Chase Putin Out of Syria — Let Him Fail On His Own - GMF-US, October 9 2015
Echoes of Afghanistan in Syria - National Interest, October 9 2015
Russian army in Syria: A failure foretold - Ynet News, October 10 2015
Russia's ‘quagmire’ destroys all hope of defeating ISIS - The Hill, October 16 2015
Russians support airstrikes in Syria, despite haunting memories of quagmire in Afghanistan - Foxnew, October 20 2015
Russia risks Syrian quagmire -U.S. deputy secretary of state - Reuters, October 31 2015
The Syrian quagmire - Daily Times (Pakistan), November 3 2015
Putin is in a quagmire in Syria — and Russians deserve better - Chicago Tribune, November 11 2015
Is Russia’s Syria Intervention Doomed to Fail? - RUSI, November 20 2015
Russia's Failed Adventure in Syria - Gatestone Institute, December 1 2015
Putin risks a new Afghanistan, Obama warns - Politico, December 1 2015
Putin's Quagmire in Syria Proves Obama Prescient - Bloomberg, December 9 2015
Putin bogging down in Syria - December 10, 2015
Putin's Middle East Misadventures - U.S. News, December 11 2015
Is Syria Already A Quagmire For Putin? - Outside the Beltway, December 12 2015
The Danger of Putin Losing in Syria - The Atlantic, January 11 2016
Russia will 'fail to save' Syria's Assad: Saudi Foreign Minister - Daily Mail, February 14 2016
Putin is making a mistake in Syria — and Russia will pay the price - WaPo, September 26 2016
The Latest: Tillerson says Russia has ‘failed’ in Syria - Fox, April 6 2017
Russia is at a dead-end in Syria - Al Jazeerah, June 25 2015
Putin is drowning in Syria - Israel National News, June 28 2017

Putin called, Saudi Arabia, US, Qatar, Egypt, Israel and will talk with Turkey and Iran face to face ... a military meeting between Iranian and Russian officers was set in Sochi in the same time ... clearly a major deal is being cooked in Sochi

US Army Conducts Heliborne Operation to Take ISIL's Foreign Commanders Away from Deir Ezzur

TEHRAN (FNA)- Military helicopters of the US-led coalition carried out another heliborne operation in Eastern Deir Ezzur to evacuate several senior non-Syrian commanders of the ISIL terrorist group from the region, militant-affiliated websites released on Tuesday.

The websites reported that three US helicopters carried out heliborne operation in al-Layez neighborhood of the town of Qaranij in Eastern Deir Ezzur on Friday.

The websites further said that the US troops on the helicopters took ISIL's foreign commanders away, but killed eight militants who were mostly Syrians.

Rouhani: Syria’s future will not be in hands of foreign powers

22 November، 2017
Tehran, SANA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani asserted that the future of Syria will not be in the hands of foreign powers, reiterating that the US-Zionist interference in the region’s affairs will not succeed.

In a statement before heading for Sochi to participate in the tripartite Russian-Iranian-Turkish summit, Rouhani said “Sochi meeting will come up with a statement which we hope will be the basis of a better future for Syria.”

Rouhani added that Iran has always shouldered its responsibilities towards the situations in the region, taking into consideration that the schemes of the Western powers which target it come in the framework of the so-called “Greater Middle East” project which the US has been trying to implement for years backed by the Zionist entity.