With The UN Declaring That Syria Is Now In A State Of Civil War, Russia Is Sending Attack Helicopers To The Assad Regime

A satellite image of an airfield in Shayrat, Syria shot by a DigitalGlobe satellite and annotated and released to Reuters by the US Government on June 1 shows what US Government officials say are attack helicopters in an image taken over central Syria in May. DigitalGlobe via the US Government/Reuters

Syria Called Civil War As Russia Ships Attack Choppers -- Bloomberg Businessweek

A United Nations official said Syria is now in the throes of a civil war, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russia is shipping the Syrian regime additional attack helicopters that “will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.”

Clinton’s comments yesterday create a new source of tension between the U.S and Russia even as UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan works against a mid-July deadline for his diplomatic effort to rein in the violence and begin a political transition to remove Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Annan is seeking to draw Russia, Syria’s ally, into the peace effort for additional leverage on Assad.

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More News On Russia Sending Attack Helicopters To Syria

Clinton accuses Russia of selling attack helicopters to Syria -- Washington Post
Clinton accuses Russia of sending attack helicopters to Syria, escalating war -- Christian Science Monitor
Clinton accuses Russia of delivering attack helicopters to Syrian regime -- The Guardian
Syria: US accuses Russia of sending attack helicopters -- The Telegraph
US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters -- AP
Russia sending attack helicopters to Syria: US -- AFP

My Comment: With Russia now openly supporting Syria by shipping weapon systems .... expect other countries to follow suit in supplying both the Assad regime and the Syrian rebels.