Putin Attacks ISIS, US Issues More Propaganda
Four Russian warships in the Caspian Sea launched 26 rockets at Islamic State in Syria which hit their targets, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and President Vladimir Putin said in a joint television appearance on Wednesday.
Russia started its air campaign in Syria saying it would target militant group Islamic State and has delivered.
The United States has said it will not cooperate militarily with Russia in Syria because its strategy is “tragically flawed” but it is prepared to carry out basic, technical discussions on pilot safety, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.
“We are not prepared to cooperate in a strategy which as we explained is flawed, tragically flawed on Russia’s part,” Carter said during a trip to Rome, renewing false U.S. accusations that Russia’s strikes were not focused on Islamic State militants.
Proof of Russia’s success comes as Iraq is set to request Russian air strikes against Islamic State on its soil soon and wants Moscow to have a bigger role than the United States in the war against the militant group, the head of parliament’s defence and security committee said on Wednesday.
“In the upcoming few days or weeks, I think Iraq will be forced to ask Russia to launch air strikes, and that depends on their success in Syria,” Hakim al-Zamili, a leading Shi’ite politician, told Reuters in an interview.
The comments were the clearest signal yet that Baghdad intends to lean on Russia in the war on Islamic State after U.S.-led coalition airstrikes produced limited results.
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