Sentences with phrase «russian air strikes»

Fallon also described Syria as a client state of Russia as he spoke out against Russian air strikes which are not solely targeted at Islamic State militants in Syria.

The Syrian army can now safely redeploy part of their forces to the front with ISIS, they are now fighting in Palmyra, helped by Russian air strikes.

The video does not include any details of how the plane might have been brought down, but expressly describes the apparent terror attack as retaliation for Russian air strikes in Syria.

Not exact matches

Russia has threatened to use its air defenses against US missile strikes, and Russian officials have threatened to counterattack if US missiles fly over Syria, potentially by attacking US Navy ships or submarines.

Ryan Bohl, a Middle East analyst at the geopolitical consulting firm Stratfor, told Business Insider that though Syria's chemical weapons facilities lay under the umbrella of Russia's air defenses, they were not actually close enough that a strike on the facilities would endanger Russian troops.

Based on intelligence gathered by Syrian and Russian air defense crews from the U.S. strike exactly a year and a week ago on Shayrat Airbase in Syria, air defense crews were likely well - drilled and prepared to meet a U.S. - led attack on their claimed chemical weapons facilities.

The Russian military, whose forces are supporting Assad's government, said two Israeli F - 15 warplanes had struck the T - 4 air base, the Interfax news agency reported.

The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F - 15 warplanes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported.

The NATO foreign ministers meeting follows the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian agent in Britain, and Western air strikes against Russia - allied Syria, which the United States accused of a chemical attack in Douma on April 7.

In response to these US Air Force allegations, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major - General Igor Konashenkov told Russian media on Saturday that «most close - midair encounters between Russian and US jets in the area around the Euphrates River have been linked to the attempts of US aircraft to get in the way [of the Russian warplanes] striking against Islamic State terrorists.»

«The F - 22 launched decoy flares and used airbrakes while constantly maneuvering [near the Russian strike jets], imitating an air fight» before it was chased away, Konashenkov said.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign ministry decided to suspend air safety agreements with the U.S., claiming that strikes were prepared before the alleged chemical attack in Idlib.

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 15 that for the first time in the history of the Russian navy, its fleet air arm was involved in striking real targets.

The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.

The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).

«Russian warplanes have since last night been carrying out heavy air strikes on the Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman regions» in the north of the province, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.