Russian soldiers ‘seen fighting with pro-Assad troops’ against Syrian rebels

The Russian Foreign Minister touched upon the issues of economic cooperation, and said that despite the global situation these relationships are developing and noted the importance of activities of the Intergovernmental State Commission on economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. The USA considers that the support for Syrian President Bashar Assad is “destabilising and counterproductive”, he added. However, the video shown by SANA, if confirmed to be genuine, would be the first time Russian forces have been seen taking part in actual combat operations. Washington is closely monitoring media reports that Russian Federation has allegedly deployed its contingent to Syria, White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said, APA reports quoting TASS. In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to establish an worldwide framework to create a coalition on fighting regional terrorism.

“There are more Russian officials who came to Slunfeh in recent weeks”.

We will update you as soon as more details confirming or refuting the deployment emerge. “Azerbaijan and Russia are strategic partners in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea basin, and in general, we have very close positions on all important and acute problems of global relations”, the Russian foreign minister said. Many Syrian army officers have been trained in Moscow and Russian Federation leases a naval facility at the Mediterranean port of Tartus.

Images of what appears to be Russian planes and drones flying over Idlib in north western Syria were also tweeted out by an account linked to Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria.

Russian military advisers are thought to have been in Syria for months.

Moscow insists that the resolution of the Syrian crisis should include all forces capable of resisting the IS. Last month, President Obama said that Russian Federation and Iran, the Damascus regime’s other key supporter, recognize “the trend lines are not good for Assad”.