The Russian three-star general arrived at the door of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Sept. 30 with a stern warning: Moscow would be launching warplanes to attack targets in Syria in an hour–stay away. In response, the U.S. directed its own aircraft, which have been bombing ISIS targets inside Syria since September 2014, to steer clear of the Russian jets. With the skies wide open, Moscow’s air force has been focusing most of its firepower not on ISIS but on the CIA-backed rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime Russian ally–and someone President Obama has repeatedly …read more
Source: Time
