Russian Federation launches third massive air strike upon Syria

But beneath the surface, major rifts remain. “But we know that Assad is the problem, not the solution”. “The Daily Caller&txt=The research survey”>ORB global and IIACSS poll from September, 47 percent of Syrians believe Assad has had a net positive influence on the country, while about half said he had a negative influence.

Last week’s Paris attacks added urgency to the work of USA diplomats. “But there’s little, if anything, that’s been agreed on Syria”.

Specifically, Hollande knows that for his proposed coalition to bear fruit, he needs to convince two of the most active players in Syria – the United States and Russian Federation – to put aside their strategic differences and increase their practical cooperation.

Russia, he says, has so badly mangled its intervention in Syria that it may have little choice but to favor settling the conflict.

Russian Federation blames the West for the persistent deadlock. An worldwide coalition led by the United States has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.

“There has been no discussion about a ground operation and there is still no discussion (about it)”, Peskov told reporters.

A key issue for a ceasefire will be determining which groups fighting Assad will be branded moderate opposition fighters deserving of a seat at the negotiating table and which will be labelled terrorists. That task has been assigned to Jordan.

Although the US has sent a few special forces to counter the insurgencies in the war-torn country, the horrific Paris attacks that eclipsed the Syria peace talks in Vienna has given the world leaders the impetus to crush the extreme Islamic State.

Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said on Friday that more Russian bombs were now targeting Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS and ISIL.

Despite holding diametrically opposed views on the fate of Assad, Russian Federation and France are set to begin coordinating military and security efforts in the anti-IS fight. Russian Federation and Iran insist that Assad should be allowed to run in future elections, while Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar insist that he be barred.

He also said that due to the Russian aerial attacks, the number of militants entering Syria in order to join or train with ISIS – terrorists who could return to Europe and other areas to carry out attacks similar to those that struck Paris last week – has been reduced.

“I can tell you Daesh doesn’t have the natural incubator, social incubator, within Syria”, Assad said in a television interview with the outlet, using an Arabic acronym for the terrorist group.