Russian Federation gave United States advance notice of Syria strikes several times since Paris

The black and white footage shows the enormous procession of trucks being destroyed by bombs dropped by Russian planes.

In other words: The United States demands Russia’s assurance that Assad will be removed from power, or else the USA will provide whatever assistance is necessary to bring to power in Syria whatever jihadists can do the job of removing him, because his non-sectarian and decidedly secular government is “pouring gasoline on the fire” there, and because it is “backwards”, not forward-looking, like a Syrian government controlled by U.S-approved jihadists would be.

Paris launched air strikes against the Islamist group’s Syrian stronghold in Raqqa this week following attacks that killed 130 people in Paris on November 13.

“If [the French and the Russians] are going to cooperate together, they’ll presumably have to coordinate their targeting”, Parsons says.

The warship also left one day after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered his navy to work with the French force as allies.

Strategic bombers flying over Russian territory unleashed 12 cruise missiles at Islamic State group targets including warehouses and command posts in the Idlib and Aleppo provinces as they launched their “third massive air strike”, the defence ministry said in a statement.

“Life indeed moves on, often very quickly, and teaches us lessons”, Putin said, as the Two-Way reported.

However, Col. Warren said at the Pentagon briefing that communications between the US military and Russia were minimal and he scoffed at the Russians’ “antiquated tactics” that he said took no regard for civilian casualties.

“Right now, we have no plans”.

The United States was pushing to keep Syria’s peace process alive on Thursday, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s future will be decided in the coming weeks, after the embattled leader rejected an ambitious timetable to cede power. “So that’s something that’s being worked at a higher level”, he said. Their history has been both reckless and irresponsible. France has since conducted two other large airstrikes. We don’t even use those types of tactics anymore.