Syria Conflict: Russia Pounds ISIS Targets

“However the majority of Russian air strikes are still against moderate Syrian opposition forces, which is clearly concerning, and those strikes are in support of the Syrian regime”.

Russian Federation has conducted an air campaign in Syria since September 30, and the airstrikes have sharply intensified in recent days.

The coalition has been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria for more than a year separately from the Russian campaign.

The group says it planted the bomb as a response to actions by the Russian air force and predicted more attacks on Russia.

In this photo made from video made available from Russian Defense…

A fleet of Russian warships in the Caspian sea separately launched 18 cruise missiles on “terrorist positions” in Syria earlier today.

There were separate reports of a pair of Russian cruise missiles flying low over the Aleppo Province in the direction of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa.

Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said on Friday that more Russian bombs were now targeting Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS and ISIL.

Mr Shoigu said that Russian warplanes had targeted 15 oil storage and refinery facilities and 525 oil trucks belonging to terrorists over the past week. He said this deprived ISIS of Dollars 1.5 million in daily income from oil sales. The bombs had messages on the side, one of them read “That’s for Paris” and the other “For our guys” referencing to the attacks against Paris and the Russian Airplane.

After the carnage in Paris which declared the lives of 130 people at the hands of ISIS, Putin and French Head of state Francois Hollande consented to ensure closer contact and control of their countries’ operations in Syria.

Speaking on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November 22, 2015, the president said the current Syrian leadership will not help in stopping the civil war and the global fight against the Islamic State.

US and French planes have also struck at oil targets in Deir el-Zour and elsewhere.

Lebanon said Friday it was preparing to re-route flights from Beirut airport after Russian Federation requested they avoid an area over the eastern Mediterranean because of three days of military manoeuvres.