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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.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) spotted the powerful TOS-1 Buratino multiple rocket launcher in Luhansk.

The sudden military build-up in support of Mr Al Assad and a refugee crisis that has spilled into Europe have lent new urgency to resolving the Syria war.

Emphasising the importance of the visit, Netanyahu took along with him the chief of Israel’s armed forces and the general in charge of Israeli military intelligence.

“Our presidents will be meeting tomorrow”, he told reporters, referring to talks between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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

Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reports an unnamed government source as saying Cameron would accept Assad remaining as interim leader, while a unity government is formed in Syria. A Labour Party aide said Assad could not be part of a peace plan.

Putin’s chief of staff Sergei B. Ivanov told the upper house that the measure was meant to authorize actions by Moscow’s air force in Syria.

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

The US “provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern worldwide law and the United Nations charter”, Putin said.

Its repeated vetoes, mainly on intervention in Syria or calling for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, have led to criticism that the Kremlin is undermining the council.

A Syrian refugee carries his child at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast, September 19, 2015. From the start, the military had trouble recruiting and vetting Syrians who were interested in fighting against the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that while Syria’s government needs reform, the country will fall to the Islamic States if the worldwide community makes getting rid of Assad its top goal.

In an interview with CBS television, Mr Putin said the Syrian president’s troops were “the only legitimate conventional army there”.

Washington has demanded that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad step down, but Putin’s rival alliance with Shiite-led states will instead shore up the beleaguered government in Damascus.