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Russia Carries Out More Syria Strikes, To Consult With U.S.

October 01, 2015

by RFE/RL

Russian jets launched strikes in Syria for a second day on October 1, saying Islamic State (IS) militants had been targeted, but the areas hit appeared to be held by groups opposing the IS group and the Syrian government.

The continuing attacks have deepened U.S. and Western fears that Moscow’s actions in Syria are aimed at propping up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and could potentially target U.S.-backed rebels who have been fighting to oust Assad.

In Moscow, the Defense Ministry said Su-24Ms and Su-25s aircraft had hit more than 12 Islamic State positions since September 30.

It said overnight strikes targeted an ammunition depot near Idlib, a three-story IS command center near Hama, and a facility located in the north of Homs aimed at rigging cars with explosives for suicide attacks.

The airstrikes, along with weeks of military buildup around the Latakia airbase in western Syria, constitute Moscow’s largest intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the 1980s war in Afghanistan.

The ministry also said the warplanes had strictly avoided bombing populated areas. But the British-based Syrian Observatory For Human Rights said strikes in the province of Hama hit locations controlled by the U.S.-backed rebel group Tajamu Alezzah. It said the group was also targeted on September 30.

Hassan Haj Ali, the commander of the rebel group Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, which received military training from the CIA, said one of its training camps located in Idlib Province was hit.

And in an interview on CNN, U.S. Senator John McCain, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that Russia’s initial strikes targeted recruits of the Free Syrian Army rebel group backed by the United States.​

Idlib Province is controlled by an Islamist alliance known as the Army of Conquest, which includes Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, and the hard-line Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, and several more moderate Islamist groups. All have fought against the Islamic State group.

The risk of an accidental clash between Russian forces and the U.S.-led coalition has risen sharply after Russia launched its first strikes on September 30.

U.S. and Russian officials on October 1 were set to hold military-to-military talks that have been suspended for more than year following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at the United Nations on October 1 that Moscow shared the same approa               SOURCE