Iraq shuts airspace for Russian Federation to strike Syria

Obama also said there was an “increasing awareness” by Russian President Vladimir Putin that IS is Moscow’s gravest threat in the Middle East. IS claimed responsibility for downing a Russian passenger jet in Egypt last month with 224 on board. The president spoke in Malaysia shortly before departing for Washington.

Moscow also uses bombers from Russian air bases to launch air strikes it says have been requested by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This “Pax Americana” has turned out to be instead an ever-escalating worldwide war of American global conquest, America the fascist international superpower, but merely changing Hitler’s “Deutschland über alles” into Obama’s “America the one indispensable nation”. “We can’t stop the fighting”. “Nearly five years of fighting between the Mr Assad government and rebels has created a vacuum that allowed the ISIS to thrive in both Syria and Iraq”.

French President Francois Hollande is due to meet with Obama at the White House on Tuesday to discuss ways to bolster the worldwide coalition fighting the Islamic State. The president and world leaders are set to gather in Paris next week for long-scheduled climate talks.

While Obama said its “understandable” such attacks can arouse fear, he stressed that the “viciousness of a handful of killers” who have “good social media” won’t stop the world from doing business. United States President Barack Obama and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev separately called on all countries to coordinate and thwart Islamic State after its recent devastating attack on a Russian plane and on multiple targets in Paris.

A USA official speaking on the condition of anonymity told Reuters that there will be increased cooperation between France and the United States and that next week’s talks between Hollande and Obama may encourage others in the anti-ISIS coalition to do more. The violence has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions, sparking a refugee crisis in Europe.

Obama was ending a nine-day trip to Turkey and Asia that has been clouded by the Paris terror attacks as well as credible threats that prompted Belgian authorities to deploy troops and impose a lockdown as they hunt suspects. Having secured a veto-proof majority in the House, supporters are now hoping for a repeat in the US Senate, while Obama works to shift the conversation to milder visa waiver changes that wouldn’t affect Syrian refugees. Still, he said there’s a difference between vigilance and surrendering to fears “that lead us to abandon our values, to abandon how we live”.

“Russia has not officially committed to the transition of Assad moving out”, Mr. Obama said in a news conference. Enacting restrictions that effectively prevent refugees from being admitted to the US isn’t a solution, he said.