Russian report: United States policies strengthened ISIL

Still, he said there’s a difference between vigilance and surrendering to fears “that lead us to abandon our values, to abandon how we live”. “And we don’t know that yet”.

Mr Assad told French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Nov 12 that the “Constitution will bring the president and the Constitution will make him leave, through the Parliament, through elections, through a referendum, and so on”. While in contrast to that, only a month of the Russian air operation forced many terrorists to retreat and flee Syria for Turkey, Europe, Yemen and elsewhere.

A Tu-160 and its escort during Friday’s long-range cruise missile strike mission.

AFP reports that flights to and from Erbil and Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan were temporarily suspended beginning Monday due to Russian cruise missiles crossing the airspace. The unprecedented (for Russia) strike mission, which required mid-air refueling, was a few 16,000 kilometers long and took more than 16 hours.

In the last two days, Russian warplanes launched 141 attacks, which have hit 474 targets, including oil refineries, storage facilities and trains carrying fuel tanks, said the ministry in a statement.

“He needs to go after the people who killed Russian citizens”, he said of Putin. “I can say that the army now is advancing nearly on every front”, Assad said in the interview, which was also carried by Syrian state media. But the Vienna agreement leaves key issues hanging, including which of hundreds of opposition groups will be included in the political process.

Russia’s initial intervention in Syria was created to give it a say over the country’s future.

Administration officials later said Assad did not have to step down on “Day One” of a political transition. “I don’t think you’re going to find a resolution to Assad until you figure out how you’re going to deal with ISIS”.

The French aircraft carrier, and flagship of the French Navy, Charles de Gaulle, arrived off the Syrian coast on Sunday. Mark Hensch of The Hill wrote, “ISIS has claimed responsibility for a string of terrorist attacks across Paris that killed 130 people and wounded more than 300 others”.

In addition to protecting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the Russian attacks have reportedly been directed in particular at Chechen fighters who are seen in Moscow as posing a threat after their return to the Caucasus.

After meeting Tuesday with Obama, Hollande is scheduled for talks with Putin later in the week.

Khamenei accused the United States and its allies of trying “to achieve through diplomacy and at the negotiating table the goals they could not achieve by military means in Syria”.

If Hollande decides to continue France’s alliance with the USA and their participation in America’s anti-Russia military club North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, then the European Union still might break up, but the likelihood of continued expansion of the U.S.-Russian war and of its surging millions of refugees could then force a few other European Union member nations to leave the European Union; and, so, other European Union leaders will then come to the fore, as being the key decision-makers in this ongoing crisis.