There was no immediate report any casualties.
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Later, De Mistura plans to fly to Washington for talks there as well. “To the contrary, they are arguing that, in fact, that strategy will not work”.
Lavrov was about as impressed by the United States’ actions as the country was by Russia’s strikes.
The audio message comes almost two weeks after Russian Federation began air strikes in the country.
Since the start of Russia’s sorties in Syria, Warren said that Russian aircraft had carried out 80 strikes-including a salvo of cruise missiles that were launched from Russian missile ships in the Caspian Sea.
Government forces battled rebels in a strategic area in the central province of Hama, hoping to regain the Sahl al-Ghab plain.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rockets were fired from the eastern edges of the capital, where Islamist rebels are entrenched.
Russian planes flew 88 sorties, hitting 86 Islamic State targets, in the past 24 hours in Raqqa, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo provinces in Syria, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Twitter.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a joint press conference in Moscow with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier on Monday, October 12, 2015.
Warren would not give further details about the groups or their locations in Syria due to “operational security”. A USA official told CNN that the ammunition was recovered by rebel forces. The move came days after the United States ended its failed program to train and equip rebels.
In the recording, he described U.S. President Barack Obama as “an idiot” and a failure.
The first drone to be used by the Iraqi Air Force, loaded with ordnance, prepares to take-off to raid Islamic State group positions at an airbase in Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, October 10, 2015.
Russian authorities have said that about 2,400 Russians have joined the ISIS militants and voiced concern that they may pose a threat when they return home. “We are all here to thank Russian Federation and President Putin”, said Osama Salal, an 18-year-old student.
Al-Golani also called on Muslims in the former Soviet Union to attack Russian civilians if Russians target civilians in Syria.
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From the perspective of combating terrorism in the region, Russia’s involvement, at the invitation of Assad, could make up for the ineffectiveness of the worldwide coalition in the fight against IS extremists. A general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Hossein Hamedani, was killed in Aleppo province while advising the Syrian army on their battle against Islamic State in the area, the guards said on Friday.
