“In my opinion there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists”.
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Epa05029936 A handout frame grab from video footage published on the official web site of the Russian Defence Ministry 17 November 2015 shows Russian TTu-95MS turboprop-powered strategic bomber releasing a missile against Islamic State targets in Syria. And even under the current rules of engagement, Syrians have reported numerous instances of civilian casualties from American airstrikes, including one in May in the town of Bir Mahli that killed at least 60 people.
Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that had departed from Los Angeles, landed safely in Salt Lake City where passengers and crew were escorted into the terminal, an FAA spokesman said.
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that British forces should attack the “head of the snake” and said he would make the case for bombing in Syria.
French President Francois Hollande had announced that “ISIS will face merciless war” after claiming its responsibility for Paris deadly attacks, during which at last 129 were killed and 300 more wounded.
Islamic State militants are barricading down for a possible assault on their de facto capital Raqqa, hiding among civilian homes and preventing anyone from fleeing, as global airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in the wake of the Paris attacks. But he also said, “we are still working through with Russian Federation and Iran the question of Assad and his role”.
Hollande, who has declared a state of emergency, met visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday to press his call for the US-led and Russian-led coalitions to join forces. “We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them”, Putin said of the plane bombers at a sombre Kremlin meeting broadcast on Tuesday.
“Russia is shifting because today Russian cruise missiles hit Raqqa”.
“We haven’t ruled that out, except that up to this point the Russian actions have been largely in support of the Assad regime, which we believe is counterproductive to the end result of trying to end the Syrian civil war”, Cook said.
A manhunt was continuing in France and Belgium on Tuesday for one of the eight attackers in the Paris assault. Until Tuesday, Russian Federation had played down assertions from Western countries that the Oct 31 crash was the work of terrorists, saying it was important to let the official investigation run its course. Despite its importance as an Islamic State operational center, Raqqa has remained much more intact than Syrian cities like Homs and Aleppo, where the Syrian government has focused its efforts to eliminate rebel groups.
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When asked if there was something Trump would do “here in the homeland” to protect against attacks like the one in Paris over the weekend that killed more than 100 people, he responded, “Well, you’re going to have to watch and study the mosques because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques”. Shadi and other Raqqa residents said that – aside from the moral objections – such a plan made little sense: Islamic State fighters in Raqqa seem more concerned about the ground offensive being prepared by Kurdish militias.
