Shells Hit Russian Embassy Grounds in Damascus

And if they kill our soldiers, then kill their soldiers.

On September 21, just nine days before it began its air war in Syria, Moscow demanded “concrete action” after a shell hit the embassy’s compound in Damascus.

“Indeed, the war in [Syria] will make Russian Federation forget the horrors it faced in Afghanistan”, promised Jolani in a 21-minute video widely disseminated on social media on Monday.

Putin took issue with the arms drop, saying the weapons could end up in the wrong hands.

“The Russian intervention came to declare a new eastern Crusader war after the western Crusader war failed in Syria”, al-Golani said, in an apparent reference to airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition that began past year.

“When a division of worldwide terrorists stands near the capital, then there is probably little desire for the Syrian government to negotiate, most likely feeling itself under siege in its own capital”, Putin said in an interview with Russian state television Rossiya One TV Sunday.

The Nusra Front leader known as Abu Muhammed al-Golani called on Syrian militant and rebel groups to unite and intensify shelling of villages inhabited by members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect.

Two rockets slammed into the complex as the demonstrators waved Russian flags and pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Two rockets hit embassy territory at 10:15 am”.

There was widespread panic, but it was not immediately clear if anyone had been wounded or killed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow it was an “act of terror”.

In this October 12, 2011 file photo, supporters of the Syrian government hold a pro-Russian banner as they show their support for Syrian President Bashar Assad and to thank Russia and China for blocking a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown, during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria.

It also said Hezbollah fighters arrived in the strategic Sahl al-Ghab plain to reinforce the regime’s offensive there.

And Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front called on jihadists from the Caucasus to perpetrate attacks in Russian Federation in response to the air strikes.

The Observatory said thousands of Iranian fighters and supplies had reached Hmeimim airport in Latakia province, where all civilian flights have ceased and which is now used for military operations.