France hits back at Russian Federation over Syria bombing campaign

‘We must first eliminate this scourge and re-establish the presence of the state throughout the whole country, before beginning the countdown to elections.

A total of 500 oil tankers, smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq, were also destroyed according to the Ahlul Bayt News Agency.

And now those fears appear to have been well-founded in light of the revealing report released by the Syrian Observatory on Friday, which suggests that not only has Russia manipulated the Western anti-ISIS sentiment to its own advantage, but that Russian airstrikes have eliminated more Syrian civilians than terrorists in the last two months alone.

Britain should cooperate with Russia in any air strikes it carries out in Syria, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview broadcast on Saturday, underlining Moscow’s growing assertiveness in the region.

“After the events in Paris and over the skies of Sinai, the European Union and the US are showing greater willingness to support Russia’s idea of forming a common front to fight Islamic State”, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for US Central Command, said on Friday that more Russian bombs were now targeting ISIL.

Overall, there are 10 warships taking part in the operation, six of which are in the Mediterranean.

Meanwhile French President François Hollande is planning a pilgrimage to Moscow next week where he is to meet Putin and forge a common front against ISIS. Russian Federation has little to offer the U.S.-led coalition in military terms, even if it proved willing to focus its attacks on the Islamic State rather than rebels fighting the regime of Bashar Assad.

The combination of these long-range bombers from Russia and additional 37 aircraft in Syria will more than double the strike potential of the Russian military against Daesh. The United States has accused Russian Federation of reaching beyond ISIS targets and hitting other other moderate opposition groups that the U.S. supports. He has said a few times that he considers Islamic State a threat to Russian Federation. He said this deprived the IS of $1.5 million in daily income from oil sales.

U.S. and French planes have also struck at oil targets in Deir el-Zour and elsewhere.

Here’s how he frames it: “If indeed our partners believe Ukraine’s creditworthiness will grow and they would convince us of it, that means they believe it, and if they believe it, let them put up guarantees”. Kerry keeps plugging away at a diplomatic solution, and it should become apparent soon whether the Russians are giving up on Assad and pressuring him to accept a transitional government, and if the Paris attacks, and the downed airliner, have fundamentally changed Putin’s thinking. Russian Federation is ‘ready to develop with them such forms of coordination that of course would respect Syria’s sovereignty and the prerogatives of the Syrian leadership, ‘ Lavrov told state-run Radio of Russian Federation.