Russian Federation says it intensifies strikes against IS oil facilities in Syria

He says initial military operations by Russian Federation did not add to efforts to deter IS, and in some ways, strengthened it.

French President Francois Hollande this week possesses more power than anyone else in the world, because he will be the key decision-maker shaping the future world-order when he meets separately on Tuesday and Thursday privately with the two men – American President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin – who stand on opposite sides in the great decades-long subterranean war that the US aristocracy have been waging to win control over Russia and its vast natural resources such as oil, gas, timber, and crucial rare-earth minerals.

“The most powerful tool we have for fighting ISIS is to say we’re not afraid, to not elevate it, to (not) buy into their fantasy that they are doing something important”, Obama said.

Obama commented Sunday at the close of a summit in Malaysia.

It already takes between 18 and 24 months for someone to be approved, he noted. According to the Observatory, Russia’s strikes have killed more than 1,300 people since they began. People, he said, must reject fear of terrorism.

Obama’s stronger language on ISIS came after days of criticism for his response to the tragedy in Paris but did not signal a policy shift by the administration. “The military campaign has not achieved enough and a next phase is needed”.

The Violations Documentation Center in Syria, an independent, non-profit NGO that tracks Syria’s dead, wounded and missing persons, reported higher civilian casualty totals of 526 – including 71 women and 137 children – since Russian Federation launched its Syrian air campaign, The Associated Press reported. USA officials have said Russian Federation has started focusing some airstrikes against IS. “What I do know is my expectation – which is the highest fidelity to facts, data, the truth”. “I mean, do they want me or not?”

“It is worth us remembering when we look at the statistics that there are lovely, wonderful lives behind the bad death tolls we see in these places”, he said.

Obama’s insistence that Americans not be terrorized carried echoes of the weeks and months after the September 11 attacks, which brought significant changes to USA air travel, civil liberties law and views about Muslims in the U.S. Then, as in now, leaders asked Americans not to “let the terrorists win”.

Moscow claimed to have killed more than 600 fighters after hitting seven targets in Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo provinces, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.