Damascus shelling of Russian Federation embassy an ‘act of terror’: Lavrov

The United States is willing “to forge an alliance with the devil”, he said.

Noting that there were a couple of reasons for that, he said, “the first is, that we would welcome Russia’s constructive contribution to the broader worldwide coalition that’s been formed, to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL”. The audio message also confirmed the death of Abu Mutaz Qurashi, which the SITE monitoring service said was a reference to a senior Islamic State official killed in an airstrike in Iraq in August and referred to then as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali.

He pledged that Moscow’s air war, which began on September 30, would have dire consequences.

A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed.

Jolani urged armed opposition groups to shelve their differences until both air campaigns had been defeated. Hezbollah’s al-Manar television channel said the Syrian army was carrying out a land offensive in northern Homs province.

Moscow vehemently denied Western claims that Russian Federation is seeking to prop-up embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

“Whatever we are want, they are giving it to us”, Saoud said, adding that his group’s situation in terms of ammunition and weapons “is fantastic”.

“How long must Muslims delay their rights and shed their blood for a man who loves his power?”

The official did not elaborate any further on the exact timing other than to say it would happen “soon”.

“It is a clear act of terror meant to scare supporters of fighting terrorism”, Lavrov told reporters in Moscow, after two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound.

Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed Washington for refusing to cooperate on Syria, saying “some of our partners simply have mush for brains”.

The missiles have been widely seen as important to rebel advances earlier this year that had put Assad under pressure.

The centre has been operational for about a week, and it provided intelligence for air strikes on a gathering of middle-level ISIS figures, revealed Hakim al Zamili, the head of parliament’s defence and security committee. Troops captured the villages of Lahaya and Mansoura in the central province of Hama, the SANA news agency reported. While the stance from Kremlin is that the airstrikes are being used to target IS and other jihadists’ strongholds, the USA says that even other rebel groups opposed to Assad’s regime are being targeted.