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The Navy said Wednesday that the vessel was stopped in worldwide waters last Friday, and that the crew said the vessel was bound for Somalia.

Carter’s comments come after news Russian Federation launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday.

He insisted Russian Federation won’t send troops to Syria.

A Syrian rebel commander, backed by the US, told CBS News the Russians will be treated as “occupiers”.

Iran has sent military advisers to Iraq and worked closely with Shiite militias battling the IS group.

The Russian minister of defense announced Wednesday that his country’s military jets have launched their first targeted airstrikes against the Islamic State.

The two leaders will meet in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

A statement issued by the Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group“, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

Russia’s air strikes were its first military engagement outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.

“The US-led coalition will continue to fly missions over Iraq and Syria as planned and in support of our global mission to degrade and destroy ISIL (Islamic State)”, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

Saudi Arabia says the Houthis, Shiites from north Yemen, are puppets of Iran and must be defeated to stop the Islamic Republic from gaining a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula, though Western diplomats have questioned the level of Iranian involvement.

The two leaders met following highly contentious and conflicting speeches at the UN General Assembly earlier in the day.

The strikes come hours after Vladimir Putin was given permission to use military force in Syria by his country’s parliament.

The Russian minister also expressed his conviction that all those fighting against terrorist groups such as ISIL and others ought to coordinate their efforts. The United States believes that their coalition doesn’t need this approval from the UN Security Council.

That military presence in Syria could remain in place even if Mr Assad is eventually supplanted by a new government since Russian Federation would be a part of any transition talks.