Using ground troops in Syria is out of the question, the Russian president said in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV. Russia’s air operation has been thoroughly prepared and is aimed merely at aiding the Syrian Army’s offensive, he said. “Whatever happens, we’re not going to do this [ground operation][…]
Syrian troops and militia backed by Russian warplanes mounted what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday and Moscow said its warships fired a barrage of missiles at them from the Caspian Sea, a sign of its new military reach. The combined operation hit[…]
The United States and NATO denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond, reporting two incursions in two days and raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the former Cold War adversaries. NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels of ambassadors from its 28 member[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have destroyed the nearly 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria’s head of antiquities and activists have said. The arch was one of the most recognisable sites in Palmyra, the central city affectionately known by Syrians as the[…]
President Bashar al-Assad said the success of a military campaign by Russia, Syria and its allies was vital to save the Middle East from destruction, a day after Moscow said it would step up air strikes against Islamic State targets across Syria. A year-long air campaign by Western and Arab[…]
Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the Islamic State fighters it said it was targeting. Washington, which is leading its own air campaign against Islamic State, says Moscow has been using its campaign as a pretext to[…]
Russia’s foreign minister has defended Russia’s military operations in Syria after it came under international criticism during a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York. Addressing the media on Thursday, Sergey Lavrov said the goal of the Russian military operation was in response to the request of President[…]
The Kremlin has said that Russian air strikes in Syria were targeting a list of “terrorist organisations” and that it was too early to say whether President Vladimir Putin was satisfied with the campaign so far. Speaking a day after Moscow launched a series of strikes against what it said[…]
Russia says it has carried out air strikes on positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, but the US, NATO and the Syrian opposition have expressed concern that the bombardment instead targeted Western-backed rebels. President Vladimir Putin called Wednesday’s operation a pre-emptive strike[…]
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