Russian Federation Blocked Israeli Overflight of Syria, Lebanon

Activists say Russian airstrikes have killed dozens of people in a Syrian coastal province. The activists say the airstrikes, which began Monday afternoon and lasted several hours, also wounded scores.

In a live televised interview, Davutoglu said the drone may have belonged to the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Kurdish PYD militia, or other forces. On Sunday, the regime captured one additional village and U.S.-backed rebels destroyed two regime tanks using American-supplied weapons as they tried to stem the regime’s progress.

The delegation handed a statement to the Russian ambassador in which they expressed their true thanks and gratitude for the Russian leadership, army and people due to their support for Syria. “The groups of Islamic State militants are suffering a dire shortage of munitions and are abandoning their positions en masse”, Konashenkov said.

Russia has stepped up its air strikes, conducting nearly 90 bombing raids in one 24-hour period. “The Russian bombers carried out 39 combat sorties and performed 60 strikes on 51 objects in Hama, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo provinces from the Hmeymim airbase”.

Although Russia’s involvement was received with much fanfare, “changes on the ground are rather minimal”, said Karim Bitar of the Paris-based Institute for worldwide and Strategic Relations.

Russia and Iran, has said there is no military solution”. The military initiativein Syria is appropriate, and in fact have strictly been required in order to put a stop to the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens forcefully displace and turned into refugees by the millions, fleeing to neighboring countries and to Europe.

Abu Abbas, a survivor, said the majority of the casualties were children.

The regime’s ground offensives over the past two weeks have been led by fighters and military advisers from Iran and forces from Hezbollah, supplemented by Syrian security forces.

“We must wait until the fighting groups get weaker to talk about speedier progress”.

A big part of Israel’s loud objection to Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War was concern that Israel could no longer launch airstrikes against Syrian territory with impunity.