Viser, Matt (18 de diciembre de 2016). «Kerry leaves a legacy of hope in role at State». Boston Globe. Consultado el 29 de diciembre de 2016. «More recently, he has clashed inside the administration with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Kerry negotiated an agreement with Russia to share joint military operations, but it fell apart. "Unfortunately we had divisions within our own ranks that made the implementation of that extremely hard to accomplish,” Kerry said. “But I believe in it, I think it can work, could have worked." "It’s late now obviously because of what’s happened to Aleppo," he said. “But the fact is we had an agreement in which Russia gave us a veto over their flights and over what they were doing in the area, had we set up a joint cooperative effort." "Now we had people in our government who were bitterly opposed to doing that," he said. "I regret that. I think that was a mistake. I think you’d have a different situation there conceivably now if we’d been able to do that."».
«Источник рассказал о плане США перебросить боевиков ИГ из Мосула в Сирию». RIA. 12 de octubre de 2016. «"Более девяти тысяч боевиков ИГИЛ из Мосула будут переброшены в восточные районы Сирии для последующего проведения крупной наступательной операции, которая предусматривает захват Дейр-эз-Зора и Пальмиры", — добавил источник.»
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«Putin: West responsible for Middle East instability and terrorism in Europe». Russia Today. 12 de octubre de 2016. Consultado el 13 de octubre de 2016. «Putin also detailed his version of the breakdown of the long-negotiated joint operation between Washington and Moscow in Syria, claiming the key turning point was the September 16 US-led coalition strike on a Syrian army unit, which the Pentagon maintains was accident. "Our American colleagues told us that this airstrike was made in error. This error cost the lives of 80 people and, also just coincidence, perhaps, ISIS took the offensive immediately afterwards. At the same time, lower down the ranks, at the operations level, one of the American military service personnel said quite frankly that they spent several days preparing this strike. How could they make an error if they were several days in preparation?" said Putin. "This is how our ceasefire agreement ended up broken. Who broke the agreement? Was it us? No." Several western powers have since blamed Russia for what they claim was a retaliatory strike on a UN convoy on September 20.»
