“We call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its efforts on fighting Isil”.
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He said only Iran and Syrian President Bashar Assad are on Putin’s side, while the U.S.is leading a 60-nation global coalition against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
The Russian warplanes started Wednesday its airstrikes against the rebel positions in several Syrian areas, marking the first Russian military involvement in the war on the terrorist groups in Syria.
The U.S. and its allies are also carrying out airstrikes in Syria, targeting the Islamic State.
Russian air attacks also targeted the Army of Conquest, the most powerful Islamist coalition battling Syrian regime forces in the northwest, a security source on the ground said on Friday.
He said Ministry of Defence intelligence suggested that only one in 20 of the attacks so far hit Isis targets and that civilians and rebels battling both Islamists and the regime had been killed.
The statement from the Syrian presidency came after the Russian Air Force waged violent airstrikes in the countryside surrounding Homs and Hama.
US and Russian military officials held an hour-long videoconference call on October 1 to discuss how to keep their respective militaries apart in Syria as they carry out parallel air campaigns with competing objectives.
Tactical bombers destroyed various militant facilities, including ammunition and oil depots, and all-terrain vehicles, the defense ministry said in a statement.
– Putin says Moscow must act preemptively to destroy jihadists in Syria before they present a threat closer to home.
“There is always a risk of getting bogged down but in Moscow they’re talking about three to four months of operations”, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament, told France’s Europe 1 radio.
“The United States has been pretending to bombard Islamists for a year, but with no results”.
They are very much concerned of Russia’s real political goal in meddling into the Syrian war, to break down Assad’s enemies and that includes the Kurds in Syria.
Walid al-Muallem said that he understood the talks, proposed by United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura, are “mainly to exchange ideas” and are non-binding.
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Obama said, “Now, last point I just want to make about this because, you know, sometimes the conversation here in the beltway differs from the conversation internationally”.
