Syrian regime forces edge into Aleppo

“Of course we are not fighting for specific leaders, we are defending our national interests, on the one hand”, Medvedev said. “You would expect another wave of refugees to try to head toward Turkey and eventually to Europe before the regime closes the border”, he said.

More than four years of fighting has displaced 7.5 million people within Syria and turned it into a country that exists only in name.

“We should not be diverted by the Russian Federation from tackling Isil harder”. “Numerous towns have suffered a great deal of damage”.

The Kremlin says Russian Federation wants to stop the spread of Islamist militancy.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television said the army had captured the village of Huwaija, on the way to Kweires. The activists said several villages in the rural areas north of Homs were pounded with airstrikes, including government helicopters dropping barrel bombs.

“A far more hard battle awaits all sides in Aleppo”, the group said in a report last week. He added that troops now control of all hills that overlook Harasta and the nearby suburb of Douma, a stronghold of Islam Army rebel group.

Russia’s military said it is continuing to use its drones over Syrian territory, despite suspicions that one of its drones was downed by Turkey the previous day.

“They have been killing Christians, they have been killing gays… they are a very direct threat to the peace in the Middle East and they are a very direct threat to us here in the UK”.

The front lines there and in the surrounding countryside have always been static.

Russian Federation began its air campaign September 30, and Syrian troops and allied militiamen launched a ground offensive in central Syria a week later. Shiite Iran has also helped the government with oil and credit and, along with the Russian Federation, sustained it militarily.

“This larger war of Sunnis versus Shiites is only at its beginning”, said Landis.