Russia said it launched air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament’s unanimous backing to intervene to prop up the Kremlin’s closest Middle East ally.
Moscow gave Washington just an hour’s notice of the strikes, which set in train Russia’s biggest play in the region since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, a US official said. Targets in the Homs area appeared to have been struck, but not areas held by Islamic State, the US official said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said however that its attacks were directed at Islamic State military targets.
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Source: Daily News & Analysis
