Russian long-range bombers and navy ships have launched 101 cruise missiles in four days, including 18 fired Friday by Russian navy ships from the Caspian Sea.
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Russian forces have executed a number of military air strikes in Syria since last week.
An investigation by British newspaper The Financial Times last month estimated the jihadists reap some $1.5 million a day from oil, based on the price of $45 a barrel.
It has previously targeted oil installations under the control of Islamic State and said it aimed to cut the group’s main revenue stream. On September 30, more than fifty Russian aircraft – including Su-24M, Su-25 and Su-34 warplanes – commenced precision airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“Over the past 48 days, the Russian air grouping has performed 2,289 sorties and delivered 4,111 missile and bomb strikes against major infrastructure facilities and the concentrations of the militants’ armor and personnel”, he said.
He added that a strike with multiple cruise missiles in the province of Deir ez-Zor had killed more than 600 militants.
However, the situation was complicated when a Russian airliner was brought down over Egypt by an Islamic State bomb late last month, killing all 224 people on board.
Russian warships have been ordered to work with France, which has also stepped up its air campaign in Syria and Iraq in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris on 13 November.
A total of 500 oil tankers, smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq, were also destroyed according to the Ahlul Bayt News Agency.
“But for now that is not enough to cleanse Syria of rebels and terrorists and to protect Russians from possible terrorist attacks”.
The Russians and the French are now coordinating attacks on ISIS stronghold.
Turkey called for an immediate end to the Russian military operation, which is near the Turkish border, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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The video and pictures come after photos emerged of U.S. Hellfire bombs being prepared for the same use, with the words “From Paris, with love” scrawled on them.
