CNN says officials don’t know exactly where the missiles landed or whether there were any casualties.
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A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry of the missile launches also included an animation detailing the trajectory the missiles took flying over northwestern Iran and northern Iraq en route to their targets in Syria.
In Moscow, Russia’s defence ministry said Saturday that its forces had hit 55 Islamic State targets in the past 24 hours.
Syrian government forces captured a village from rebels in the central province of Hama today as they pushed a ground operation backed by Russian air support.
The USA has indications that four Russian cruise missiles crashed in Iran rather than Syria, suggesting there were malfunctions, Defense Secretary Ash Carter confirmed Friday.
Russian Federation began air strikes in support of ally President Bashar al-Assad 10 days ago.
“They have seized most of the hilly region of Jeb al-Ahmar”, which overlooks the strategic Sahl al-Ghab plain to the east and Assad’s coastal stronghold of Latakia to the west, the source said. He said the Russian jets had been identified by members of his group who once served as Syrian Air Force pilots.
In January, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria that also killed six Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.
Ex MI6 head Sawers said Russia’s heavy militarisation of Syria could lead to armed confrontation between it and western armies unless the two sides agree to co-operate.
The White House declined to comment and State Department spokesman John Kirby said he could not confirm the missiles had crashed, while adding that the report pointed towards the need for procedures to prevent clashes with US planes targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria.
But the USA and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation also will be collecting this valuable information as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to flex his country’s military might in Ukraine and other parts of the world.
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Russia’s cruise missile ability to strike targets 1,500 kilometers away came as a very unpleasant surprise to Washington proving the uselessness of the billions of dollars the United States pumps into the construction of giant aircraft carriers, Rostislav Ishchenko, a Moscow-based political analyst, told Vesti FM radio on Friday.
