Francois Hollande and Vladimir Putin join forces

“Russia may view France’s accelerating air campaign in Syria as an opportunity both to draw a major US ally into its proposed alternative counterterrorism coalition and to degrade North Atlantic Treaty Organisation”.

French President Francois Hollande is visiting Moscow Thursday to push for a stronger coalition against Islamic State militants in Syria.

Cameron’s comments came as Hollande met with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, ahead of a meeting later Thursday night with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

‘France was struck to the bone by the horrific attacks by the IS but we know that this inhumane rage can hit us or other societies at any time too, ‘ Von der Leyen said. He added that Russian Federation was ready to cooperate with other groups ready to fight IS.

A Hezbollah TV station says a joint operation by the Lebanese militant group and Syrian security agents killed an Islamic State figure suspected of involvement in Beirut’s deadly bombing earlier this month. The U.S. has also insisted that a political transition in Syria must lead to Assad’s departure.

Russian Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukaev at an identical session said that economic sanctions would impact Turkstream, the planned gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey declared by Putin last December, and the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, which it signed an agreement with Russia to construct in May 2010.

Otte said that “the IS can only be defeated militarily, therefore no idea must be ruled out as we engage in the fight against Islamist terrorism”.

“We reached the conclusion that we had to work with Putin”, said a senior French diplomat.

In an interview with Al-Hurra TV in Baghdad this week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia’s intervention in Syria was aimed at helping al-Assad. But his office acknowledges that “coordination” sounds like a far more realistic goal. Syrian government forces and allied Shiite militiamen from Iraq have been trying to progress on a few of the last opposition holdouts in the province, said Ouaineh, close to where the Russian jet was shot down.

Hollande’s alignment with Obama was notable, given that he was expected to urge the US president to put aside some of his differences with Russian Federation to build a new coalition to fight the extremists.

Putin denounced the Turkish action, saying it “thoughtlessly and rudely” destroyed friendly ties between the two countries.

Mr Putin’s steadfast support for the Syrian regime, despite its record of war crimes and human rights abuses, has been a key barrier to Russian Federation being welcomed into the US-led coalition against Isis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin branded the incident a “stab in the back” and warned Russians against travelling to Turkey, a hugely popular tourist destination.

“That drives us to join our forces in fighting terrorists”.

There is only one aircraft carrier at the site, which belongs to France. The satellite surveillance could provide important information on IS and also help protect civilians with precise information.

She announced on Wednesday Germany would send 650 soldiers to Mali to provide some relief to French forces fighting jihadists there. “But of course incidents like the destruction of our aircraft and the deaths of our servicemen… are absolutely unacceptable”, Putin said at a news conference, standing alongside Hollande. In Washington, the House has passed legislation tightening vetting for refugees from Syria and Iraq, though the White House contends the additional restrictions would effectively block people from those countries from coming to the U.S. But authorities lowered the threat level in Brussels to the second-highest level.