Russian Federation: Joint Syria operation with France developing

He said earlier that Russian warplanes were focusing their strikes on the IS’ oil production and refining facilities as well as oil trucks.

Several coordinated gun and suicide bombing attacks on the French capital by Islamists killed 129 people on November 13.

Russian Federation stepped into Syria recently fighting its own battle against the Islamic State, independent of the coalition led by the United States.

Russian Federation has vowed to escalate its military campaign against IS in Syria after it confirmed the Metrojet airliner that crashed in the Sinai, killing 224 passengers, was brought down by a bomb. Shoigu said the strikes this week inflicted significant casualties on IS, including more than 600 militants killed in just one strike in the province of Deir el-Zour. Russian state TV on Friday showed Russian air force ground crew writing “For Ours!” and “For Paris!” on bombs being attached to Russian warplanes.

In at least 50 bombing raids, towns across Deir al-Zor province, including near the Iraqi border, were hit and dozens of vehicles and fuel oil tankers were destroyed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Putin praised the Russian operation in Syria – its largest foreign intervention outside the former Soviet Union since it occupied Afghanistan in 1979 – but said it was “still not sufficient” to wipe out the jihadists in the country.

The resolution, which does not provide a legal basis for military action, urges those countries which can to “take all necessary measures, in compliance with global law… on the territory under the control of ISIL…in Syria and Iraq”. He said this deprived IS of $1.5 million in daily income from oil sales.