Russia joins combat in Syria

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Pro-government combatants Casualties
Syrian military and police 50,570–85,570 killed[2][29]
Shabiha and National Defense Force 33,839–47,839 killed[2][29]
Lebanese Hezbollah 903 killed[2]
Other non-Syrian militiamen 3,225 killed[2]

Would be a sad thing to see Russian boy added to that list so Putin can play Tzar

Take that with salt. Unless Syrian soldiers lie there waiting to get shot.

 

[Hindustani78]

Russia tells India it is starting air, rocket attacks in Syria | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 18:19
New Delhi: Russia on Wednesday conveyed to India that it is starting air and rocket attacks on terrorists locations in Syria following a request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for military assistance in fighting against ISIS and other terrorist groups.

The Russian Embassy here officially informed the External Affairs Ministry that in accordance with the request of the Syrian President for providing military assistance in fighting against ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria, Russia begins air and rocket attacks on terrorist locations on all territory of the Syria today, a release from the embassy said.

The release from the embassy came as Russian President Vladimir Putin today won permission from parliament to carry out air strikes in Syria, in what would be Russia's first engagement in a distant war operation since the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

PTI

 

[alimobin memon]

Putin comes to the rescue Nato dare not come to syria

 

[Hindustani78]

'Curious' Russian strikes in Syria not against Islamic State: France| Reuters

Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:34am EDT
France said it was "curious" that Russian air strikes in Syria on Wednesday had not targeted Islamic State militants and a diplomatic source added that Moscow's action appeared aimed at supporting President Bashar al-Assad against other opposition groups in the country's civil war.

The diplomatic source said it was in line with Russia's stance since 2012 that until there was a viable alternative to Assad, Moscow would not drop its support for him in the war that began in 2011 after a government crackdown on anti-Assad protests.

"Russian forces struck Syria and curiously didn't hit Islamic State," Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers.

A French diplomatic source said the strikes, which seemed to have been carried out near Homs, an area crucial to Assad's control of western Syria.

"It is not Daesh (Islamic State) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We shall see what they do with their other strikes," the source said.

(Reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey and Dominique Vidalon in Paris; writing by John Irish at the United Nations; editing by Louis Charbonneau and Grant McCool)

Putin comes to the rescue Nato dare not come to syria

Western-backed Syrian rebel group says hit by Russian air strikes| Reuters

Russian air strikes in northwest Syria which Moscow said targeted Islamic State fighters hit a rebel group supported by Western opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, wounding eight, the group's commander said.

He said the fighters were hit in the countryside of Hama province, where the group has a headquarters.

"The northern countryside of Hama has no presence of ISIS at all and is under the control of the Free Syrian Army," Major Jamil al-Saleh, who defected from the Syrian army in 2012, told Reuters via Skype.

Saleh said his group had been supplied with advanced anti-tank missiles by foreign powers opposed to Assad.

Russia's defense ministry said it launched air strikes against Islamic State in Syria after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament's unanimous backing to intervene to prop up Kremlin's closest Middle East ally.

Although a U.S. official said targets in Homs area appeared to have been struck by Russian warplanes, instead of areas held by Islamic State.

The Homs area is crucial to President Bashar al-Assad's control of western Syria. Insurgent control of that area would bisect the Assad-held west, separating Damascus from the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, where Russia operates a naval facility.

"In the early morning this aircraft conducted air strikes in Latamneh city. One targeted a civilian area, and the other targeted al-Izza," Saleh said, referring to his group which he said were set up around two years ago and has 1,500 fighters.

He declined to give further details on the exact location of the strike but said the bombs hit a cave which the group used as a headquarters and was near the front line with the regime in northern Hama countryside.

"Each strike had 8-10 missiles and there were two strikes so there is no way it was an accident," he added.

Moscow gave Washington an hour's notice of the strikes, which set in train Russia's biggest play in the region since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, a U.S. official said.

A U.S.-led coalition has already been bombing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but Putin derided U.S. efforts to end the Syria war at the United Nations on Monday, suggesting a broader and more coordinated coalition was needed to defeat the militants.

(Reporting by Dasha Afanasieva; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; editing by Dominic Evans)

 

[Hindustani78]

 

[Vassnti]

Putin comes to the rescue Nato dare not come to syria

The rescue of who?

"It is not Daesh (Islamic State) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We shall see what they do with their other strikes," the source said.

Simple solution Russia says its bombing daesh everyone else says they are bombing the FSA if we ship two containers of RBS 70's to the FSA Russia shouldnt mind after all they have said they arent bombing them.

 

[alimobin memon]

The rescue of who?



Simple solution Russia says its bombing daesh everyone else says they are bombing the FSA if we ship two containers of RBS 70's to the FSA Russia shouldnt mind after all they have said they arent bombing them.

Russian naval base and assaad

 

[bdslph]

well done Russia
hater are going to hate you guys more keep it up

there is no moderate or so called opposition any more all are terrorist in Syria
Russia and SAA has the right to eliminate them

 

[Beidou2020]

Wipe out FSA first, then wipe out ISIS.

Excellent strategy by Russia.

Go Russia!

 

[Hindustani78]

A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia's Defence Ministry September 30, 2015, shows precise airstrikes carried out by the country's air force on Wednesday, against Islamic State (IS) ground positions in a mountainous area in Syria. Russian air strikes in Syria are targeting a list of well-known militant organisations, not only Islamic State, the Kremlin said on Thursday, a day after the launch of its aerial campaign opened up a volatile new phase in the conflict.

Assad allies, including Iranians, prepare ground attack in Syria: sources - The Hindu


Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies in a major ground offensive backed by Russian air strikes, two Lebanese sources told Reuters.

"The [Russian] air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies," said one of the sources familiar with political and military developments in the conflict.

"It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused in the Idlib and Hama countryside," the source added.

The two sources said the operation would be aimed at recapturing territory lost by President Bashar al-Assad's government to rebels.

It points to an emerging military alliance between Russia and Mr. Assad's other main allies - Iran and Hezbollah - focused on recapturing areas of north-western Syria that were seized by insurgents in rapid advances earlier this year.

"The vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria: soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisors ... we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons. They will be followed by more," the second source said. Iraqis would also take part in the operation, the source said.

Thus far, direct Iranian military support for Mr. Assad has come mostly in the form of military advisors. Iran has also mobilised Shia militia fighters, including Iraqis and some Afghans, to fight alongside Syrian government forces.

Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, has been fighting alongside the Syrian army since early in the conflict.

The Russian air force began air strikes in Syria on Wednesday, targeting areas near the cities of Homs and Hama in the west of the country, where Mr. Assad's forces are fighting an array of insurgent groups, though not Islamic State, which is based mostly in the north and east.

An alliance of insurgent groups including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and powerful Ahrar al-Sham made rapid gains in Idlib province earlier this year, completely expelling the government from the area bordering Turkey.

Wipe out FSA first, then wipe out ISIS.

Excellent strategy by Russia.

Go Russia!

FSA was invited by Russia to Moscow and the Syria opposition did hold talks there.

Russian Federation is having its own interest in Syria and if i remember carefully one official from Kremlin hinted about the removal of President Assad some weeks back.

ISIS is consist of former Iraqi Baathist soldiers who are mainly operating from within Syria but FSA is consist of Syrians.

 

[Hyperion]

Can't believe I'd ever say this...... whatever, warm welcome to the Russian and it was about time that you people showed up. Bomb the hell out of all the Saudi financed and yankee approved terror groups.

 

[Hindustani78]

Can't believe I'd ever say this...... whatever, warm welcome to the Russian and it was about time that you people showed up. Bomb the hell out of all the Saudi financed and yankee approved terror groups.

Problem started in Syria because of corruption and distribution of the wealth.

Russia says it targets not just IS in Syria - The Hindu


Russian jets carried out a second day of strikes in Syria on Thursday, and some activists claimed that the targets included rebels backed by the United States.

Russian Defence Ministry Igor Konashenkov said in televised comments that Russian aircraft damaged or destroyed 12 targets in Syria belonging to the Islamic State group including a command centre and two ammunition depots. Officials acknowledged, however, that other unidentified groups were being targeted as well.

Mr. Konashenkov said Russian Su—25M and Su—25 jets made 20 sorties between Wednesday and Thursday morning, and he insisted that civilian areas were not targeted.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes in the central province of Hama on Thursday hit locations of the U.S.-backed rebel group, Tajamu Alezzah. The British group said Tajamu Alezzah was also targeted on Wednesday.

Russia’s air campaign in support of Syrian government forces began on Wednesday in what President Vladimir Putin called a pre-emptive strike against the militants.

Mr. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that Russia was going after IS militants as well as a “list” of other groups.

“These organisations are well known and the targets are chosen in coordination with the armed forces of Syria,” he said, without giving specific names.

On Wednesday, however, Sergei Ivanov, Mr. Putin’s chief of staff, said “the operation’s target is solely air support for the Syrian government forces in their fight against the ISIS.”

Speaking later in the day, Mr. Putin said Russia would be fighting “gangs of international terrorists” and then went on to talk about IS.

Asked on Thursday whether Mr. Putin was satisfied with the way the Russian campaign was going, Mr. Peskov said it was “too early” to say.

In Paris, Russian Ambassador Alexander Orlov insisted that Russian warplanes in Syria were hitting at the same extremists targeted by the United States and denied American claims that its military failed to coordinate the air strikes, describing the allegations as a “war of disinformation.”

Mr. Orlov said the targets were installations for Islamic State and the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, “two terrorist organizations recognized as such.”

The U.S. and Russia agree on the need to fight the Islamic State but not about what to do with President Bashar Assad. The Syrian civil war, which grew out of an uprising against Mr. Assad, has killed more than 250,000 people since March 2011 and sent millions of refugees fleeing to other countries in the Middle East and Europe.

With American and allied air strikes daily, and now Russian warplanes in the Syrian airspace, the war is taking on a dangerous new dimension.

Mr. Orlov said Russian officials warned the Americans “via confidential channels” of where they planned to strike. He also noted a coordination centre was being set up in Baghdad that would include Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians and Russians and any other country that wants to participate.

Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the U.N. that Russian air strikes in four areas, including Talbiseh, killed 36 civilians, with five children among the dead. The claim could not be independently verified.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it fully supports Russian air strikes against “terrorist groups” in Syria.

The ministry’s spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, said the “Islamic Republic of Iran considers military action by Russia against armed terrorist groups to be a step toward fighting terrorism and toward resolving the current crisis” in Syria.

 

[Hyperion]

Bullshit. Problem started because some sheek in Saudia thought, "hey, why aren't there any infidel-Shia's dying in the neighborhood nowadays?".... so basically it was the bloodthirsty Wahabis that started all this crap with the usual suspects and some unusual ones such as Israel (new lovers in arms)

Problem started in Syria because of corruption and distribution of the wealth.

 

[Dubious]

Bullshit. Problem started because some sheek in Saudia thought, "hey, why aren't there any infidel-Shia's dying in the neighborhood nowadays?".... so basically it was the bloodthirsty Wahabis that started all this crap with the usual suspects and some unusual ones such as Israel (new lovers in arms)

Are you ok?

 

[Hyperion]

Madam, you go ahead and enlighten me......... make it spazzy, as it was a dull day!

Are you ok?