One official said the US wasn’t able to detect any casualties or damage from the errant strikes, suggesting they may have fallen harmlessly in Iran.
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“We would just ask the Russians to exercise extreme caution, and to not do anything rash or imprudent”, said Kenney.
In a further display of force, the Russian defence ministry said missiles fired from its ships in the Caspian Sea hit ISIS weapons factories, arms dumps, command centres and training camps.
It is unknown if any of these missiles belonged to Wednesday’s mission.
Ground forces targeted insurgent-held areas in the Ghab Plain with heavy barrages of surface-to-surface missiles as Russian jets bombed from above, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel fighting there said.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation will double the size of its emergency response force and may send ground troops to Turkey, its secretary general said yesterday.
“… has to be an end to the fighting, there has to be a political solution, a transition,” he said.
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told state television that the government did not recognize a distinction between the “Islamic State” and moderate Syrian rebels.
Damascus and Moscow launched their first major joint assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday elsewhere in Hama, with Russian warships firing missiles from the Caspian Sea into Syria.
“We are constantly assessing the situation also with the Turkish government”, Stoltenberg said, adding that he would be meeting later Thursday with Turkish Defence Minister Mehmet Vecdi Gonul.
Although justified as a fight against Isil, Russian air strikes have mostly hit the rebel groups that forced the regime to retrench its operations outside Damascus and its western stronghold.
Obama questioned whether Putin is defying US leadership in the Middle East with his air attacks on Syria, which he described as an attempt to support at all costs a tottering Bashar al-Assad regime after four years of civil war.
In a post on Facebook, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that they make all their missile strikes public in near real time.
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The Kremlin leader said in televised remarks that his French counterpart made the proposal in Paris on Friday during a summit to boost the peace process in Ukraine also attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko.
