The notices included one prior to Russian strikes on Syria on Tuesday, which a USA defense official has acknowledged.
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Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said on Friday that more Russian bombs were now targeting Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS and ISIL.
The directors of Arbil and Sulaimaniyah airports both confirmed that flights had been suspended, mentioning the danger of Russian missiles but not the bombers referred to in the Civil Aviation Authority’s statement.
Russia’s air force has delivered over 4,000 missile and bomb strikes against terrorist facilities since the start of its operation in Syria, Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on November 17.
In the United Nations, member states backed a motion calling for action against Islamic State a week after the Paris attacks, the worst on French soil also claimed by the jihadist group based in Syria and Iraq.
“The armed forces are conducting an aerial campaign of retribution”, the defense ministry said in a separate statement, adding the military had begun coordinating their operations with the French.
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke earlier by phone to discuss the need for joint efforts to combat ISIS In Syria.
President Barack Obama has called upon the embattled Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, to step down so as to end the fighting in the Middle East region.
Mr Shoigu said that Russian warplanes had targeted 15 oil storage and refinery facilities and 525 oil trucks belonging to terrorists over the past week.
Russian Federation began its air strikes against the group and other terrorists in Syria on September 30 at the request of the Damascus government.
“That portion of the video was very likely taken over Iranian airspace”, Zilberman told the Washington Free Beacon, pointing to the portion of the video showing Iranian fighter jets escorting the Russian bombers.
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“That photo was used as propaganda by the West”, he said, accusing backers of militant groups of driving Syrians overseas by sponsoring terrorism and levying sanctions on Syria.
