France and Russian Federation agree to ‘coordinate’ strikes against Islamic State

The latest developments regarding the war in Syria.

The United States and France today made a decision to intensify airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and support those fighting against it on the ground.

“I will ask President Putin, as I’ve done before… that the strikes must be against Daesh (Islamic State), against terrorism”, Hollande said. They called on Russian Federation to join the worldwide efforts, but only if Moscow ends its support for Syria’s embattled president.

Russian Federation has also accused Turkey of buying cheap oil from ISIS and there is a heated argument now developing on this subject. Russian Federation and France have agreed to coordinate their military strikes and share some intelligence information.

Lavrov said the visa-free travel will be suspended starting from January 1.

After the Paris attacks, Obama said, “our hearts broke too”.

Merkel, a former environment minister, said this week that the world’s success or failure to tackle climate change will be felt by future generations. “The region is sensitive”.

Russia has its own motivation to work with the global community after IS claimed responsibility for downing a Russian passenger plane over Egypt in October.

Putin labeled the incident “a stab in the back” and pledged “serious consequences” against Turkey. “We could sit and talk there”.

Speaking during a visit to Azerbaijan, Mevlut Cavusoglu urged Russian Federation to help deflate tensions through “level headed statements and acts”, the Anadolu news agency reported. His words were carried by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency. We believe we can overcome this problem through diplomacy.

The two men will meet again at the United Nations climate conference in Paris on Monday.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had requested a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Paris on Nov 30. The Free Beacon reported the following: The Islamic State has likely radicalized thousands of people in the United States, according to a new report, raising concerns that supporters of the terrorist group could be plotting… Russian Federation will protect its warplanes from now on with long-range S-400 air defense missiles deployed at its air base in Syria, as well as escort fighters and electronic countermeasures, he said. “It is also a matter of urgency to close the border between Turkey and Syria and prevent terrorists from crossing the border and coming to Europe or other places and undertake such bad attacks”, he said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 12, including the five children.

France invoked a clause requiring European Union member states to provide military assistance after the November 13 attacks in Paris, when 130 people lost their lives in a wave of killings by suicide bombers and gunmen claimed by ISIL.

The strikes came as France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared that destroying the IS headquarters and “neutralizing and eradicating” the extremist group is the main objective of the worldwide campaign.

They also said they feared that U.S.-Russian military cooperation would strain U.S. ties with moderate rebel groups, some of whom Washington is backing militarily.

Shortly after their meeting, a French official in Washington said French warplanes had struck an Islamic State command center located west of the Iraqi city of Mosul.