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CBS News correspondent Holly Williams says the circumstances have led to an extremely risky situation, with the USA and Russian Federation conducting airstrikes at the same time in Syria, but backing different sides in the country’s complicated civil war.

Putin’s comments on Sunday come as the world’s leaders meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Moscow insists the strikes it began in Syria on Wednesday are targeting Islamic State and other militant groups, including the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, and may last as long as four months, a Russian politician has said. Either a clear policy from the United States to...

US, Russian defense officials exchanged ideas during a video conference on deconfliction efforts earlier on Thursday, a day after Moscow launched its first airstrikes on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria, Russia-based Sputnik News reported. “I...

An official repatriation ceremony is slated to be held on Saturday morning at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and a number of high-ranking officials attending the service.

But U.S. officials acknowledged that this is one of the questions being asked as they debate the administration’s response to what White House press secretary Josh Earnest described as Russia’s “indiscriminate military operations against the Syrian...

Yet it’s not clear the hardliners who ousted Boehner and view McCarthy with suspicion would flock to Chaffetz instead.

Mr Cameron said: “It’s absolutely clear that Russian Federation is not discriminating between Isil and the legitimate Syrian opposition groups and, as a result, they are actually backing the butcher Assad and helping him and really making the situation worse”.

In a joint statement with the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Gulf Arab allies, Turkey said Russia’s actions constituted a “further escalation” of the conflict and would only fuel more extremism.

Russia carried out a third day of air strikes Friday in Syria, saying it targeted Islamic State jihadists, as Russian President Vladimir Putin faced increased worldwide criticism over his military campaign.

Russian news agencies cited Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.

Hollande said this meeting “is being held in a different format” from the previous one, referring to the ceasefire in Donbas.

In a joint statement with the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Gulf Arab allies, Turkey said Russia’s actions constituted a “further escalation” of the conflict and would only fuel more extremism.

But as news spread this week that the Russians had started bombing in Syria, the FSA and the “moderates” were disinterred in order to suggest that it was they and not Isis who were the targets of Russian air strikes. Repeated stories of the failures of the United...

Reports indicate that many of Russia’s airstrikes, launched on Wednesday, have been focused on insurgent groups fighting the Syrian army instead of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), the BBC says.