Syrian president: Syria situation improves after Russia’s air strikes against

The Defense Ministry has published a video showing Russian servicemen at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria writing “For our people” and “For Paris” on bombs that were later dropped on the terrorists.

Russian long-range bombers and navy ships have launched 101 cruise missiles in four days, including 18 fired on Friday by Russian navy ships from the Caspian Sea.

Russian Federation says its intervention is aimed at helping the Syrian government defeat the Islamic State group, but local activists and USA officials say the strikes have also targeted Western-backed rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.

Shoigu reported directly to President Vladimir Putin Friday, announcing that the air strikes destroyed 15 oil refining and storage facilities in Syria, as well as 525 trucks carrying oil in this week’s bombings.

Iraq’s civil aviation authority said in a statement the flight suspensions were “to protect travellers and because of the crossing of cruise missiles and bombers in the northern part of Iraq launched from the Caspian Sea”.

The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, convened on September 30 to approve President Putin’s request for the use of the country’s armed forces in Syria against the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groupings.

Russian Federation is pounding the jihadists in Syria with bombs emblazoned with the words “For our People” and “For Paris” after Moscow vowed vengeance following the bombing of a plane over Sinai.

Russia’s air force flew 141 sorties and hit 472 terrorist targets in Syria over the weekend, the RIA news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Monday.

An investigation by British newspaper The Financial Times last month estimated the militants reap some $1.5 million a day from oil, based on the price of $45 a barrel. Also on Tuesday, Putin spoke with France’s President Francois Hollande by phone to discuss how the two nations will fight the islamist threat they face.

Washington actually wants the Islamic State to stick around, Lavrov charged, in order to “weaken Assad” while at the same time trying to keep the militant group from taking control of the country.