Abadi, asked by France 24 television whether he had discussed air strikes with Russian Federation in his country, said: “Not yet”.
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Konashenkov said Russian Su-25M and Su-25 jets have made 20 sorties.
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Abadi said Baghdad had also been getting “massive” and “very useful” information on ISIL from the Syrian government. “In actual fact, I would welcome it”. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country “will continue to respond forcefully to any attacks against it from Syria”. ‘We were not invited, we were not asked, and we are polite people, as you know.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Federation Council gave its consent to using force in Syria. That suggests the rebels were not there to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State, as the Obama administration had said they would do, Instead, they were battling the Assad regime. In addition to using guided weapons, the U.S.-led coalition relies heavily on drones and other surveillance aircraft to observe potential targets before approval is given to strike. “I have not yet seen anything militarily to indicate that the Russians are close to striking anything in Iraq,” he said during a teleconference with reporters at the Pentagon.
ISIL and Daesh are both acronyms for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, which has set up a caliphate across a swathe of eastern Syria and northern Iraq. Rather than eroding the strength, reach and lethality of the ISIS cancer, the introduction of Russian forces into the region, and US acquiescence to a now active military and intelligence alliance between Iraq, Iran, Russia and Syria, will only serve as fuel to a raging fire of hatred put forth by ISIS leaders.
‘They are sharing, it is useful. USA officials were largely silent on what damage the Russians had done, with a few privately saying they suspected the Russians had attacked the fighters in part to embarrass the United States.
“The Iraqi minister of defense assured us that our information will be appropriately protected”, Warren said. “They don’t have soldiers or boots on the ground”, Abadi said.
Many of those who died in Wednesday’s air strikes were inside the post office building which is being used to distribute bread to the population, activists say.
“The fact of the matter is the air operations that the US are conducting in Syria are not robust”, said Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
Ali Khedery, who was a special assistant to five USA ambassadors in Iraq, called the situation “an American national security horror show”.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says airstrikes in the central province of Hama on Thursday have hit locations of the U.S-backed rebel group, Tajamu Alezzah.
