In at least 50 bombing raids, towns across Deir al-Zor province, including near the Iraqi border, were hit and dozens of vehicles and fuel oil tankers were destroyed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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At least 130 people were killed amid several coordinated attacks last week at the Bataclan concert theatre, a restaurant, and a soccer stadium in Paris.
The U.S. was pushing to keep Syria’s peace process alive on Thursday, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s future will be decided in the coming weeks, after the embattled leader rejected an ambitious timetable to cede power.
Shoigu said the strikes this week inflicted significant casualties on ISIS, including more than 600 militants killed in just one strike in the province of Deir el-Zour.
Unverified images circulated on the Internet of Syria-bound USA missiles bearing the handwritten inscription “From Paris with love”.
Russian Federation has been conducting a bombing campaign in Syria since September 30, the countrys largest foreign intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.
Officials at the airport in the Lebanese capital of Beirut said the airport will close for three days as of Friday midnight due to Russian military drills in the Mediterranean Sea.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that there are no discussions about a possible ground operation by the Russian military in Syria.
The Russians and the French are now coordinating attacks on ISIS stronghold.
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The resolution, which does not provide a legal basis for military action, urges those countries which can to “take all necessary measures, in compliance with global law… on the territory under the control of ISIL…in Syria and Iraq”. He said this deprived ISIS of United States dollars 1.5 million in daily income from oil sales.
