Putin Teaches Obama How to Fight ISIS
A year-long air campaign by Western and Arab air forces in Syria and Iraq had been counterproductive helping terrorism spread and win new recruits, but a coalition of Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq could achieve real results.
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.
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.
Elsewhere in Syria, Russian jets struck near Raqqa, the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State fighters, a Syrian military source said, as well as the western towns of Maarat al-Numaan and Jisr al-Shughour, where rival insurgents are more prominent.
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