The strikes had hit a terrorist training camp, including a suicide belt factory
A grab taken from a video released by the Homs Media Center on September 30, 2015 shows smoke billowing from buildings and a minaret in Talbisseh in Homs province. (Photo: AFP)
Moscow: Russia on Sunday prepared to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria as Moscow challenged the West’ s distinction between jihadist and other Islamist rebel groups. Russian bombing raids against what Moscow says are Islamic State targets went into their fifth day despite criticism from Washington and its allies that the military action may be strengthening the jihadists.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said that Russia’s Western partners had failed to explain the term “moderate opposition” as monitors claimed that Russian jets had bombed two Syrian villages, killing one person.
Putin, who met the leaders of France and Germany in Paris on Friday, had “expressed a lively interest in the subject and asked what the difference between the moderate opposition and the immoderate opposition is,” Dmitry Peskov said.
“So far, no one really has managed to explain what the moderate opposition is.” Washington accuses Russia of seeking to buttress Bashar al-Assad blamed for unleashing a conflict that killed more than 2,40,000 people over the past four years and making little distinction between Western-backed moderate opposition and IS fighters.
( Source : reuters )
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