Old allies Sergei Karpukhin / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin has received permission from the upper house of Parliament to use military force, paving the way for airstrikes in Syria. The vote at the Federation Council, which Putin sought after a formal request from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for Russian help, was 162-0. Sergei Ivanov, the Kremlin’s chief of staff, said the approval was purely in the “national interests of the Russian Federation. He added the action would not be open-ended. “The operations of the Russian air force cannot of course go on indefinitely and will be subject to clearly prescribed …read more
Source: The Atlantic
