Just to make sure the ISIS terrorists on the ground got the message, Russian airmen on one mission inscribed the side of their bombs with the slogan “That’s for Paris”.
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Sulaimaniyah airport director Tahir Abdullah said the decision was taken “because of the intensification of Russian missile attacks on Daesh strongholds in Syria“.
Iraq’s civil aviation authority said in a statement the decision was made “to protect travellers and because of the crossing of cruise missiles and bombers in the northern part of Iraq launched from the Caspian Sea”.
On Sunday, US defense officials said warplanes destroyed 116 oil-hauling trucks in eastern Syria, the biggest strikes on the oil trade since the US-led air campaign began more than a year and a half ago.
The Russian military has destroyed numerous oil facilities and tankers controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria, sharply cutting its income, Russia’s defense minister said Friday. The bombers flew from a base on the Kola Peninsula over the Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic and the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean to launch distant cruise missiles on targets in Syria.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the tragedy.
It was the second time that warships have been used since the start of the bombing campaign on September 30.
A doctor inspects the damage inside a hospital, after what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in the city of Nawa, in Deraa province, Syria November 20, 2015.
President Putin this week pledged to hunt down and “punish” those behind a bombing that brought down a passenger jet in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board in an attack claimed by IS.
These are a few in a string of videos released by the Russian Foreign Ministry in recent days showing Moscow’s continued military action in Syria.
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“The task of delivering Kalibr long-distance cruise missile strikes at Islamic State targets in Syria has been accomplished”, said Sergey Yekimov, a deputy commander of the Caspian Fleet.
