Russian military jets carried out airstrikes in Syria for the first time on Wednesday, targeting what Moscow said were ISIS positions.
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“These military actions constitute a further escalation and will only fuel more extremism and radicalisation”, seven countries including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United States said in a statement.
Each video clip shows the senator discussing Russia’s aggression in the Middle East. The Russian economy is in shambles and Russia is isolated, Obama said.
French President Francois Holland said that air strikes in Syria should be aimed at Islamic State extremists and not other groups.
Vladimir Putin’s government on Wednesday “led to civilian casualties and did not target Da’esh”, according to a statement issued by the government in Ankara that employed a phrase commonly used to refer to Islamic State militants.
Idlib province is controlled by a coalition of rebel groups – including the Nusra Front, a terror group linked to al Qaeda.
Russian Federation said its aircraft had hit IS command centres and arms depots.
“The residents are very afraid, especially if the Russians are going to operate like regime planes by targeting civilians”, said activist Abu Mohammad from Raqqa.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking alongside Hollande after a summit in Paris on the Ukraine conflict that Putin also attended, said: “Both of us insisted on the fact that IS is the enemy that we should be fighting”.
Cameron has said he sees a strong case for conducting British air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, but he wants to make sure he has enough support in parliament to gain approval.
The third day of Russian airstrikes in Syria prompted an angry response by the US-led coalition that has been arrayed against ISIS for more than a year, but without any great success.
Russian jets appeared to be primarily bombing central and northwestern Syria, strategic regions that are the gateway to Assad’s strongholds in the capital of Damascus and the coast. The Syrian civil war, which has intensified as of late, is spilling over to global and regional levels, with several countries divided on the actions they are taking with each side.
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On the ground, at least 12 members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Russia’s first air strikes on the jihadist faction’s main Syrian bastion, a monitoring group said.
