Russian Missiles Targeted at Syria Crashed in Iran

According to USA military and intelligence surveillance, at least four missiles crashed into each other as they flew over Iran.

“They don’t want Assad to fall right now, because they don’t want ISIS to take over everything”, said Mohammed Ghanem, a senior political adviser in Washington at the Syrian American Council, a grassroots organization based in Chicago.

However, it is likely the bombs hit a north-western region, as Russian Federation has sent missiles headed for Syria across the area and over Iraq.

Russian warplanes hit 27 terrorist targets in the course of 22 sorties carried out in Syria overnight, the Defense Ministry said Thursday, adding that terrorist strongpoints and training camps were destroyed.

“However unpleasant and “unexpected” it may be for our colleagues at the Pentagon and Langley (CIA’s Virginia headquarters) about yesterday’s attacks by high-accuracy weapons on the (Islamic State) infrastructure in Syria – all the same, all rockets fired from ships found their targets”, said a ministry spokesman, Maj.

Iranian state TV, IRINN, reported later Thursday that an unnamed Iranian official also denied the CNN report.

It’s the stuff of science fiction but it also expands the long-distance, unmanned nature of how warfare has evolved.

“From the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Pacific through South Asia, into the Caucasus and around to the Baltics, Russian Federation has continued to wrap itself in a shroud of isolation”, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said at a news conference in Brussels.

The Syrian ground push got a boost after Russian warships launched the cruise missiles into Syria on Wednesday, bringing a major new military might into the war on the heels of Russian airstrikes that began last week.

The Syrian forces on Saturday captured the village of Atshan from Takfiri militants, including Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, state television reported on Saturday.

It is not known whether the missiles detonated or whether there are any casualties. Russian Federation is fulfilling the policies advanced by the hawks, only instead of going after ISIS in the east, they’re applying them to the US-endorsed “moderate” groups in western Syria. But the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation also will be collecting this valuable information as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to flex his country’s military might in Ukraine and other parts of the world.

In a tense meeting with Mr Putin at the United Nations early last week, Mr Obama was not given any advance notice of Russia’s attack plans, aides said.

It’s the first public comment by a US official on the cruise missile failures. “They also talked about the importance of moving forward on tactical discussions and dialogue towards the goal of de-confliction, again to avoid mishaps and misunderstandings, particularly in the air”.

One source suggested that U.S. experts initially thought the Russian build-up might have been more for a military exercise or a temporary show of force than preparations for sustained, large-scale attacks on Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s enemies. However, the US assessment is that the second encounter was a deliberate attempt to shadow the unmanned aircraft.