Russian Federation eases Syria air strikes as militants regroup

Russian Federation says it has asked Washington to discuss coordination of military efforts, but Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States had declined to send a military delegation to Moscow for discussions.

The offensive, which both officials said would begin soon, would expand on a ground attack by the same alliance last week that is targeting rebels in Hama province farther west. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said thousands of Iranian troops had arrived to take part in the offensives in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The US said that at least four of those missiles went astray, crashing in the Iranian countryside, but Russia’s Ministry of Defense has denied this.

State TV said troops killed several militants in the village of Teir Maalah near the city of Homs, Syria’s third largest.

Lebanese boys depict Syrian boys who were killed by Russian… Jamil Saleh, the leader of Tajammu Alezzah, a CIA-backed Free Syrian Army faction, told The Associated Press. “The situation in terms of ammunition and weapons with the Syrian opposition is excellent”. “That is unclear”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. The missiles have been widely seen as important to rebel advances earlier this year that had put Assad under pressure. “This military escalation risks prolonging the conflict, undermining a political process, aggravating the humanitarian situation and increasing radicalisation”, they said. “An eye for an eye”, al-Jolani said.

One more IS field post was destroyed near the city of al-Bab in Aleppo Province.

It is unclear whether the TOWs will be able to change the course of the war, as did the Stinger antiaircraft missiles introduced in the 1980s by the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan, where they were used by the mujahideen to shoot down Russian helicopters and paralyze the Soviet army. FILE – In this file photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official website on Friday, October 9, 2015, a bomb is released from Russian Su-34 strike fighter in Syria.

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The shells that landed near the Russian Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday came as a group of supporters carried out a rally in solidarity with the Russian airstrikes.

“Russian combat aircraft are in Syrian airspace on completely legal grounds at the request of the official authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic”, Konashenkov said.

He further referred to the US-led coalition purportedly formed to fight terrorists in Syria, saying the so-called alliance failed and now a new field has been opened in Syria, which will have positive effects for the Arab country.