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Breaking! Russia Tells U.S. "Get Out of Airspace" Launches Strikes in Syria! Actual Footage!

30 Sep 15

Russia begins airstrikes in Syria areas 'belonging to terrorists'?? There is SO MUCH going on with Russia, STAY TUNED!

Russian airstrikes in Syria: Pentagon says strategy 'doomed to failure' – as it happened

Russia launched its first round of air strikes in Syria, hitting eight sites that it claimed were Islamic State targets only hours after president Vladimir Putin’s request to use military force wasunanimously approved by parliament.
The Pentagon disputed Russia’s claim that it targeted only jihadi groups, with secretary of defense Ash Carter saying that evidence suggested strikes “were in areas where there probably were not Isis forces”. Carter said the Kremlin’s current strategy is “doomed to failure” and American air strikes will continue “unimpeded”.
Syrian activists, civilians and rebels asserted that Russian strikeshad targeted moderate forces who were opposed to the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, a Kremlin ally. The president of an opposition group said that at least 36 civilians, including women and children, were killed in strikes in Homs.
The White House and secretary of state John Kerry said the US would be open to working with Russia to resolve the Syrian crisis – but only under amenable terms. “Russia will not succeed in imposing a military solution any more than the United States was successful in imposing a military solution in Iraq,” spokesperson Josh Earnest said. SOURCE & MORE

Russia launches airstrikes in northern Syria, senior military official says

Russian warplanes began bombarding Syrian opposition targets in the war-torn nation's north Wednesday, following a terse meeting at which a Russian general asked Pentagon officials to clear out of Syrian air space and was rebuffed, Fox News has learned.

A U.S. official said Russian airstrikes targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a "couple" of Russian bombers. The strikes hit targets in Homs and Hama, but there is no presence of ISIS in those areas, a senior U.S. defense official said. These planes are hitting areas where Free Syrian Army and other anti-Assad groups are located, the official said.

Activists and a rebel commander on the ground said the Russian airstrikes have mostly hit moderate rebel positions and civilians. In a video released by the U.S.-backed rebel group Tajamu Alezzah, jets are seen hitting a building claimed to be a location of the group in the town of Latamna in the central Hama province.

The group commander Jameel al-Saleh told a local Syrian news website that the group's location was hit by Russian jets but didn't specify the damage.

A group of local activists in the town of Talbiseh in Homs province recorded at least 16 civilians killed, including two children.

According to a U.S. senior official, Presidents Obama and Putin agreed on a process to "deconflict" military operations. The Russians on Wednesday "bypassed that process," the official said. MORE