Syrian rebels pour men and missiles into frontlines

He said the Russian involvement in Syria gave a clear message that “it’s impermissible to bring down the Syrian state or dividing the country or even interfering in its internal affairs”.

Before the shelling, the demonstrators had gathered outside the embassy carrying posters showing Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and waving the flags of both countries.

“If we don’t have somebody there now that is beholden to the United States”, he said, “then we’re going to have nobody in that post Assad game”.

The EASA has stepped in as Russian Federation intensified its air campaign against Islamic militants in Syria. According to the Kremlin, the strikes are aimed at supporting the Assad regime – an ally of Russia’s – against Daesh.

Russian news agency Interfax quoted an embassy official as saying the rockets hit “embassy territory” but that there were no casualties.

The government ground offensive began on October 7, a week after Russian Federation began its airstrikes.

Meanwhile, Russian Federation is expected to hold talks with the US on air safety in Syria.

Washington and its allies – engaged in their own air war against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq – accuse Moscow of targeting moderate Western-backed rebels and seeking to prop up president Bashar al-Assad, a longtime Russian ally.

In the recording Adnani also warned other rebel groups fighting the Syrian regime against confronting IS.

Thousands of fighters and supplies from Iran had also reached Hmeimim airport in Latakia province, the Observatory said.

There would be “no ideal outcome” for the U.S..

But al-Adnani also acknowledged the death of a senior IS official, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, who was killed in an August airstrike by the U.S.in Iraq.

Boroujerdi added the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition has failed to achieve results, opening the way for a more successful intervention.

After a heavy barrage of Russian airstrikes, the fighting was focused on the village of Kfar Nabudeh, which officials said had been seized by government troops.

Underlining Iran’s central role in support of Assad, whose territorial control of Syria is now estimated at a quarter or less, a team of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday on an official visit.

It said destruction it had examined was not caused by fighting, but was part of “a deliberate, coordinated campaign of collective punishment of civilians in villages previously captured by IS, or where a small minority were suspected of supporting the group”.

She said she believes the European Union, Russian Federation and the United States have common ground in Syria based on U.N. Security Council resolutions and a U.N. framework, but that their action must be coordinated. The Russian operations against the Islamic State raised the morale of the Syrian military and created conditions were created for offensive operations.