Russia joins combat in Syria

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Russian jets have performed 14 combats flights, conducting six pinpoint airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.
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“During the day, the Russian aviation group continued conducting pinpoint airstrikes against the infrastructure of the IS group in Syria,” Defense Ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said.

“Su-34, Su-24-M and Su-25 planes performed 14 flights from Hmaimim air base, during which six airstrikes against IS targets were conducted,” he added.

In the town of Maarrat Al-Nuuman in Idlib province, an Su-25 attack aircraft completely brought down a large terrorist workshop, which was producing bombs and improvised explosive devices.

A nearby IS base, hosting weaponry and military vehicles was also targeted, with ten pieces of military hardware, including several APCs, was eliminated, the ministry said.

A terrorist command center was destroyed by Su-24-M and Su-25 attack aircrafts near the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province.

In the Al-Latamna district of Hama Governorate, guided air bombs delivered from Su-34 bombers blew up a militant’s underground HQ, the Defense Ministry said.

Su-25 aircraft also targeted two bunkers in the same area which had been hosting Islamic State command centers and arm depots. According to the ministry, munitions at one of the depots detonated and caused a total destruction of the bunkers.

“The targeting accuracy of the Russian air grouping in Syria was achieved by the usage of aircraft within the reconnaissance-strike complex,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

On Thursday, the Defense Ministry had to address concerns sounded by the Western politicians and media that Russian bombardment actually targeted democratic Syrian opposition forces, instead of IS, and led to civilian casualties.

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The ministry stressed that it’s after IS in Syria, adding that all airstrikes are based on accurate intelligence data and take place away from residential areas.

Russian aviation has been carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State and other terrorist groups in Syria since Wednesday.

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The operation performed at the request of Syrian President, Bashar Assad, is designed to provide air support to the government troops, which is struggling to contain the spread of jihadist militants in the war-torn country.

As he was explaining Moscow’s decision to get involved in Syria, Vladimir Putin said that radicals from many countries, including Russia, have flocked to Iraq and Syria to join the terrorist group. They must be defeated so that they do not return home with battle experience and ideology adopted in the war zone, the Russian president stressed.

6 Russian air strikes destroy ISIS bomb factory, command centers – Defense Ministry — RT News

as you can read and see fr yourself Russia bombing are doing well against terrorist

 

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Great!

GO go go, Russia!

 

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yup every time i read a article i get excited

 

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If I were to believe everything google search showed me....Believe me you, I wouldnt be called sane!

Google search is based on algorithm and you get what you type!

2ndly, today's world lives off making Saudi the boogey man and Muslims the sheep....I rather the finger pointing stopped! It has reached a new disturbing level! Where Non Muslims dont point as often as Muslims do! New stage of shamelessness?

Is BBC an unbias enough source?

Guide to the Syrian rebels - BBC News

 

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Is BBC an unbias enough source?

Guide to the Syrian rebels - BBC News

I dont know what is biased on not...In todays world it is not just the reporting gone bad even some cases/ numbers are made up to serve some agenda!

Right now I support none...BUT I also dont support the EXTREMELY loud crying over what a certain party (Russia) did which another party (America and its allies) have been doing for decades in a different form but no one cried about it!

 

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At least 39 civilians, 14 fighters killed since start of Russian air strikes: monitor| Reuters

Men stand along a crater caused by what activists said was a Russian air strike in Latamneh city on Wednesday, in the northern countryside of Hama, Syria October 2, 2015.
Reuters/Ammar Abdullah

At least 39 civilians, including eight children and eight women, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria in the past four days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

It said 14 fighters had been killed - 12 from the Islamic State militant group around the eastern city of Raqqa, and two from the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman said the figures only included those which had been verified.

Russia says Air Force made over 20 flights in Syria in past 24 hours| Reuters

Russia's Air Force has made over 20 flights in Syria in the past 24 hours and targeted nine Islamic State objects, Russian news agencies cited a Defence Ministry official as saying on Saturday.

The Defence Ministry official, Igor Konashenkov, said Su-34 and Su-24M aircraft took part in the strikes.

Russia earlier this week announced its decision to launch strikes on Syria, in a dramatic escalation of foreign involvement in a more than four-year-old civil war.

Konashenkov said a Su-34 airplane had destroyed a terrorist command post and underground bunker with explosives and weapons around Raqqa, RIA reported.

He also said a Russian Air Force bomber had struck an Islamic State camp and destroyed with a KAB-500 bomb seven pieces of heavy military equipment, a weapons store as well as a terrorist fortification.

"These and other highly exact means of attack in recent days have been used to target objects of Islamic State terrorists: command posts, stores of weapons and oil products, workshops where weapons of suicide bombers are made," he said.

(Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Toby Chopra)

 

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At least 39 civilians, 14 fighters killed since start of Russian air strikes: monitor| Reuters

Men stand along a crater caused by what activists said was a Russian air strike in Latamneh city on Wednesday, in the northern countryside of Hama, Syria October 2, 2015.
Reuters/Ammar Abdullah

At least 39 civilians, including eight children and eight women, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria in the past four days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

It said 14 fighters had been killed - 12 from the Islamic State militant group around the eastern city of Raqqa, and two from the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman said the figures only included those which had been verified.

Oh, "the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday."

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Ночью российская авиация нанесла удары по 4 объектам «Исламского государства» на территории Сирии - YouTube

 

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Moscow says 600 militants flee Syria, vows to ramp up bombing | Zee News
Last Updated: Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 23:40

Moscow: Russian air strikes on Saturday targeting the Islamic State group in Syria have sown "panic", forcing some 600 "militants" to abandon their positions and head to Europe, Moscow claimed.

Summing up the results of Russia's first three days of strikes, a senior official with the General Staff said Russian jets had made more than 60 sorties over 50 IS targets and added that Russia would ramp up its aerial campaign.

"Our intelligence shows that militants are leaving areas under their control. Panic and desertion have started in their ranks," Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, a senior Russian General Staff official, said in a statement.

"Some 600 mercenaries have abandoned their positions and are trying to find their way into Europe," Kartapolov said.

"Over the past three days we have managed to undermine material and technical resources of the terrorists and significantly reduce their combat potential," he added. "We will not only continue the strikes by our air force but also will increase their intensity."

He said Russia had managed to destroy IS command posts, warehouses storing ammunition and explosives, communication hubs, training camps as well as "mini-factories that made weapons for suicide bombers".

The United States and its allies have slammed Moscow's intervention, accusing the Kremlin of seeking to buttress Syria's embattled leader Bashar al-Assad and targeting moderate rebels.

Kartapolov said Russian officials had contacted their foreign counterparts and recommended that they pull their personnel from the region.

Russia also recommended that Washington pull out "those valuable employees who were trained at the expense of American taxpayers," Kartapolov said with heavy irony.

US Senator John McCain had earlier claimed that Russian jets killed rebel soldiers trained and funded by the CIA.

"By the way, during these contacts Americans informed us that no one but terrorists are present in this region," the Russian official added.

He also said that a task force Russia is setting up with Iraq, Iran and Syria had begun its work in Baghdad but expressed regret that the West had not moved to share intelligence.

"We have to admit openly that as of today we are receiving such data only from our colleagues at the centre," Kartapolov said.

"We are still open for dialogue with all interested parties."

Washington has accused Russia of making little distinction between IS militants and other factions.

AFP

 

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U.S.-backed Syrian rebels appeal for antiaircraft missiles - The Washington Post : UNIAN news


U.S.-backed rebels in Syria appealed to the Obama administration on Friday for anti-aircraft missiles to defend their positions against relentless Russian airstrikes that have so far mostly targeted the moderate opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule, according to The Washington Post.

REUTERS
"We need one of two things. Either a clear policy from the United States to prevent Russia and the regime from bombing Syrians, or otherwise they should send us anti-aircraft missiles so that we can confront the Russian planes," said Hassan Haj Ali, the commander of Suqour al-Jabal, U.S.-backed group targeted by Russian strikes on Thursday, the report says.

"If they don't help us, people will lose trust in our supporters, and this will increase extremism," he added.

One of the groups that have received weapons and training under the program said its positions in the Hama town of Latamneh were hit by 15 bombs on Friday, the third and heaviest consecutive day of strikes against the town. Although Russian officials have insisted that their attacks are only targeting the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra or "other" terrorist organizations, no other military group is present in the town, according to Capt. Mustafa Moarati, a spokesman for the Tajamu al-Izza rebel brigade.

A U.S military official said the request was under consideration. Repeated requests by U.S.-backed rebels to be supplied with anti-aircraft missiles to be used against Syrian aircraft have been repeatedly refused in the past.

"It's a complicated question and an even more complicated answer," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter freely. "Any decisions that we make, there are going to be ramifications," not just for the United States but also for Washington's partners in the military coalition against the Islamic State, he said.

 

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Assad says Russian air campaign vital to save Middle East| Reuters
Sun Oct 4, 2015 11:46am EDT
Related: World, Russia, Syria


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 air forces in Syria and Iraq had been counterproductive, Assad said, helping terrorism spread and win new recruits, but a coalition of Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq could achieve real results.

"It must succeed, otherwise we face the destruction of the entire region and not only one or two states," he said in an interview with Iranian television broadcast on Sunday.

Assad was speaking days after Russian jets based in western Syria launched air strikes against targets Moscow has identified as Islamic State bases, but which Assad's opponents say disproportionately hit rival, foreign-backed insurgents.

The United States, France and Britain say Russia's intervention is aimed at propping up Assad after recent rebel advances. "They are backing the butcher Assad, which is a terrible mistake, for them and the world," British Prime Minister David Cameron said.

Russia said on Sunday its planes flew 20 sorties in Syria and struck 10 Islamic State targets in the previous 24 hours, including a training camp and a suicide-belt factory.

"We have managed to disrupt their control system, the terrorist organization's supply lines, and also caused significant damage to the infrastructure used to prepare acts of terror," Russia's defense ministry said.

Residents in the Syria province of Homs reported air strikes on Sunday they believed were carried out by Russian jets, in an area controlled by factions fighting under the umbrella of the rebel Free Syrian Army, not Islamic State.

"So far there are seven or six raids in the town," said Abdul Ghafar al Dweik, a volunteer rescue worker in the town of Talbiseh, adding that the air strikes were different to previous attacks by Syrian warplanes. "With the Syrian planes, we would get a warning but now all of a sudden we see it over our heads," he said.

At least five bodies were recovered in the western part of Talbiseh, he said. Ambulances rushed wounded people to hospital.

Syrian state media quoted a military source saying Russian jets struck near Raqqa, the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State fighters, as well as the western towns of Maarat al-Numaan and Jisr al-Shughour, where rival insurgents are more prominent.

"TERRORISM HAS SPREAD"

Assad said air strikes by Syrian jets, now joined by Russia, had been far more significant than anything achieved by the year-long air campaign by the United States and its Western and Arab allies, who Assad accused of hypocrisy because of their support for insurgents fighting in Syria.

"Countries which support terrorism cannot battle terrorism," he said. "That's the truth of the coalition that we see... That's why after a year and several months we see no results."

"We see the opposite... terrorism has spread geographically and won more volunteers and recruits".

Syria's conflict grew out of protests against Assad's rule in early 2011, which were put down by force and then turned violent, drawing in regional opponents and supporters of the Syrian leader.

Efforts to find a political solution to the civil war have so far proven fruitless, with most rebel fighters demanding Assad's departure as a precondition for talks. Western states also say Assad must step aside, though most have softened their stance to say he could play some role in a transition period.

"In regard to their recent statements about a transitional period and other issues, I say clearly that it's not up to any foreign official to decide Syria's future," Assad said.

"The future political system, and which individuals govern Syria, this is a decision for the Syrian people. That's why these statements don't concern us."

(Additional reporting by Polina Devitt in Moscow, Sami Aboudi and Babak Dehghanpisheh; editing by Ros Russell and Susan Thomas)

 

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Oh, "the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday."

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yeah i already poseted the thread how fake is that SOHR

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels appeal for antiaircraft missiles - The Washington Post : UNIAN news


U.S.-backed rebels in Syria appealed to the Obama administration on Friday for anti-aircraft missiles to defend their positions against relentless Russian airstrikes that have so far mostly targeted the moderate opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule, according to The Washington Post.

REUTERS
"We need one of two things. Either a clear policy from the United States to prevent Russia and the regime from bombing Syrians, or otherwise they should send us anti-aircraft missiles so that we can confront the Russian planes," said Hassan Haj Ali, the commander of Suqour al-Jabal, U.S.-backed group targeted by Russian strikes on Thursday, the report says.

"If they don't help us, people will lose trust in our supporters, and this will increase extremism," he added.

One of the groups that have received weapons and training under the program said its positions in the Hama town of Latamneh were hit by 15 bombs on Friday, the third and heaviest consecutive day of strikes against the town. Although Russian officials have insisted that their attacks are only targeting the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra or "other" terrorist organizations, no other military group is present in the town, according to Capt. Mustafa Moarati, a spokesman for the Tajamu al-Izza rebel brigade.

A U.S military official said the request was under consideration. Repeated requests by U.S.-backed rebels to be supplied with anti-aircraft missiles to be used against Syrian aircraft have been repeatedly refused in the past.

"It's a complicated question and an even more complicated answer," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter freely. "Any decisions that we make, there are going to be ramifications," not just for the United States but also for Washington's partners in the military coalition against the Islamic State, he said.

wish USA give them the anti aircraft SAM so Russian will roast them up

 

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