IS releases picture of bomb it says downed Russian plane

Putin’s meeting at the Kremlin was held immediately upon his return from Monday’s summit with President Barack Obama and other world leaders in Turkey, where they vowed to work together to combat the Islamic State group following Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.

Putin vows punishment after Russia says its jet was bombedMOSCOW: Vladimir Putin said Russia would intensify its air strikes on Islamist militants in Syria and launch a global manhunt after the Kremlin concluded that terrorists had placed a bomb on a Russian passenger jet which broke up over Egypt last month. Intensified Russian airstrikes Tuesday hit the Islamic State group’s stronghold in Syria that also is being pounded by the French military.

“Russia is shifting because today Russian cruise missiles hit Raqqa”.

IS claimed responsibility for downing the plane.

On Tuesday evening, France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that 10 French fighter jets carried out raids against Takfiri targets in Syria.

The Kremlin said Putin and French President Francois Hollande had agreed to “ensure closer contact and coordination” in their airstrikes.

“The barbaric Islamic State plots must be prevented”.

Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy thinks the answer is no.

Bortnikov said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside Russian Federation, but he gave no other details.

“It seems to me there are no longer any doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any pre-conditions for joining forces in the fight against terror”, Lavrov told reporters.

“(President Obama’s) position is, as he has stated publicly, you could send 50,000 Marines to Syria and they will be able to retake Raqqa and Mosul, of course, in Iraq, and they could achieve that success but what happens after that?” “Of course it begs the question, ‘What ground force is going to go into eastern Syria anytime soon and root out ISIS?’ And for the life of me, I can’t find one”, he said.

Stunned residents continued to flock to shrines of candles and flowers, while photographs of smiling young victims have been pasted at attack sites or outside their places of work.

Earlier Tuesday Russia announced that the Airbus A321 carrying 224 people, a lot of them Russian tourists, was knocked out of sky by a bomb and pledged vengeance.

The two countries which have been at loggerheads over Russia’s role in the Ukraine conflict, as well as the role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in finding peace in Syria, have become odd bedfellows as both nations have been struck by IS attacks.

“That’s not how they’ve been operating over the last several weeks”.

Obama called Russian Federation a “constructive” partner in talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war, though he said differences remain on Assad’s departure, which the USA and its European and Arab allies say is necessary at a few point.

On Tuesday morning, Echo of Moscow radio conducted a survey asking listeners whether Russian Federation should continue bombing Syria in response to the terrorist attacks on the plane and in Paris.