Russia is reportedly building a military base in Syria!

NEW YORK (PNN) - September 5, 2015 - Russia is building a military base in Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s heartland, according to Amerikan intelligence officials, in the clearest indication yet of deepening Russian support for the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The anonymous officials say Russia has set up an air traffic control tower and transported prefabricated housing units for up to 1,000 personnel to an airfield serving the Syrian port city of Latakia.

Russia has also requested the rights to fly over neighboring countries with military cargo aircraft during September, according to the reports.

The claims, which will raise fears that Russia is planning to expand its role in the country’s civil war, will ratchet up tensions between Moscow and Washington over the future of Syria.

Fascist Police States of Amerika illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama on Friday met King Salman of Saudi Arabia to repeat their demand that any lasting settlement in Syria would require an end to the Assad regime.

It leaves the FPSA and Russia implacably opposed in their visions for Syria.

John Kerry, FPSA Secretary of State, telephoned his Russian counterpart to express FPSA concerns on Saturday.

"The Secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows, and risk confrontation with the anti-ISIL coalition operating in Syria," the department said.

The new FPSA details came in the week that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his strongest admission yet that Russia was already providing some military and logistical support to Syria.

“We are already giving Syria quite serious help with equipment and training soldiers, with our weapons,” he said during an economic forum in Vladivostok on Friday, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.

Until now, Russia's backing has included financial support, intelligence, advisers, weapons and spare parts. Putin insisted it was premature to talk of a direct intervention.

However, images emerged last week that appeared to show an advanced Russian-built armored personnel carrier, the BTR-82a, in combat. Videos also began circulating in which troops shouted orders to one another in Russian.

Last week the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth cited unnamed Western diplomatic sources saying that Russia was on the verge of deploying thousands of troops to Syria to establish an airbase from which the Russian air force would fly combat sorties against ISIL.

Those details appear to be backed by satellite images of a Russian base under construction near Latakia, according to anonymous intelligence officials quoted by several Amerikan newspapers.

Moscow increasingly justifies its support for the Assad regime by pointing to the rise of violent jihadists in Syria.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has captured a swath of territory since Arab Spring protests in 2011 provoked a heavy-handed regime crackdown.

The conflict is one of the key drivers for the wave of refugees arriving in Europe. It was from Kobane that Aylan Kurdi and his family set out for Europe. The discovery of a three-year-old's body on a Turkish beach this week has provoked a change of attitudes towards migrants.

4 years later, the costs of the Syria war are spilling into the developed world. If anything forces the world to pay attention, that would be it.