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But among the stars of the show were Barack Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

USA president Barack Obama has backed down before on Syria.

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.

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...

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.

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.

The Russians had told their American counterparts that their efforts would be directed against ISIS, and that, apparently, was good enough.