Russia, which insists its attacks on “terrorists” include IS targets, has important military facilities in Syria and has backed Assad and his father before him against all rivals for decades.
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“Two mines fell on the territory of the Russian embassy in the morning, no one was injured”, Kurbanov said.
It was not clear if the attack had targeted the rally.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow it was an “act of terror”.
Russian Federation s air strikes in Syria began at the end of September, with Moscow saying it was targeting IS and other “terrorists”.
Authorities did not say how many people were detained but said “between six and 11 people” frequented the apartment.
“We call upon all holy warriors who are besieged in Hama to ignite all the fronts and then merge with Muslims who are approaching”, read a statement.
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russian Federation is not striving for leadership over Syria, adding that existing cooperation with Western countries over the Syrian conflict was not enough.
“Some of our partners simply have mush for brains”, Putin said, pointing out that Washington has refused to share intelligence with Russian Federation in Syria.
“All the West stood against us”.
This unimaginative response reveals the extent of how desperate the USA is to publicly react to what Russian Federation had done.
He also dismissed the notion that Russian Federation is trying to wipe out Syrian dissidents who oppose al-Assad.
The Syrian ground offensive continued for a seventh day Tuesday in central and northwestern regions, killing dozens of insurgents, according to Syrian state media.
A bomb squad found a device with 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of explosives in a Moscow apartment as well as scales for weighing the explosive contents, mobile communications equipment and an instruction manual for making improvised explosive devices, Tass reported.
The aim is to stop government forces advancing north from Morek to rebel-held Khan Shaykhoun, both towns on a north-south highway linking the city of Hama to Aleppo and Idlib. The ministry said it could not yet confirm details about the strikes.
Moscow says it targets only banned terrorist groups in Syria, primarily IS. In the recording, he described U.S. President Barack Obama as “an idiot” and a failure. In videos, US guided missiles weave across fields, their red contrails blazing, chasing Russian-made vehicles used by Syrian forces and blowing them up.
Putin criticized the US program to help Syrian rebels, which Carter admitted this summer trained only a handful of the thousands the United States had hoped to prepare.
The Nusra Front leader, known as Abu Muhammed al-Golani, called on Syrian militant and rebel groups to unite and intensify shellingof villages inhabited by members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect.
The al Qaeda affiliate in Syria is calling on jihadists to kill all Russians over the air attacks in the Middle Eastern country that began two weeks ago. “And nobody wants another Libya”, said one European Union diplomat involved in the discussions, referring to Libya’s collapse after its veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi was ousted. Obeid had replaced Hassan Hussein al-Haj, who was killed in Idlib last week.
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“Coalition forces conducted an airdrop Sunday in northern Syria to resupply local counter-ISIL ground forces as they conduct operations against ISIL”, US Central Command spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said, using an alternative acronym for IS. The report did not elaborate.
