Where Obama stands on the Syria, Russian Federation conflict

Russia’s cease fire was thought to have attack both Syrian opposition and civilians.

Cameron said Russian forces were “making the situation worse” as they pressed a bombing campaign in the IS stronghold for a fourth day.

On the ground, at least 12 members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Russia’s first air strikes on the jihadist faction’s main Syrian bastion, a monitoring group said. We are going to fight ISIL (IS) and other terrorist groups.

“Surgical strikes carried out by Su-34 fighter bombers near the town of Raqqa destroyed a command post of the IS gangs”, it said.

Erdogan said that Moscow had informed Ankara through a letter to its embassy that there would be an anti-IS Russian operation in Syria.

The airstrikes were launched late Friday and early Saturday.

“Six strikes were conducted on targets of the ISIS terrorist group in 14 flights by Sukhoi Su-34, Sukhoi Su-24M and Sukhoi Su-25 jets”, the defence ministry said in a statement.

‘We’re analysing where the strikes are going every morning, ‘ he told the paper.

However, other Syrian militant groups have suggested that they are bearing the brunt of Russian attacks.

“I reminded President Putin that the strikes should be aimed at Daesh [ISIS] and only Daesh”, Hollande said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

“Russia has always been involved in Syria”.

“They talk about the rebels and the free Syria, but this has happened to us over the years”, he said.

“It does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not [Daesh] forces, and that is precisely one of the problems with this whole approach”, Carter said during an afternoon press conference at the Pentagon.

The USA wants Assad to yield power in Syria, a position Russian Federation opposes. He also says Assad must be ready for compromise with the opposition.

Russia’s military intervention in Syria is propping up Bashar Assad rather than tackling Islamic State (IS), Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has claimed.

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It comes at a low point in Russia’s relations with the West, a year after the United States and European Union imposed financial sanctions on Moscow for annexing territory from Ukraine.

It also gives fuel to domestic critics of Obama who say his unwillingness to act on Syria has allowed Moscow to stage its biggest show of force in the Middle East in decades. President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia’s military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region.