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On 12 October, Putin appealed to members of the American-led intervention in Syria to join the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, highlighting the legality of Russia's intervention at Syria's request and questioning whether the U.S. one was valid at all.
Oct 1, 2015 · Sure enough, on Wednesday, Russian jets began bombing targets in Syria. Russian military positions in Syria's civil war. ( Institute for the Study of War) Russia says that this is about...
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Formal permission is granted by Russia’s upper house for airstrikes in Syria. Assad asks Putin for military aid. Russian defence ministry reports first airstrikes – and from the off an ambiguity of strategy is clear. While Moscow says the strikes were against Isis targets, observers disagree, saying they mainly appeared to hit less extreme rebel gr...
Russia says airstrikes have targeted command and communications centres, weapons depots and training centres used by terrorists. Human Rights Watch calls for Russia to be investigated for possible violations of the laws of war, while allies in the US-led coalition against Isis call on Moscow to cease attacks on Syrian opposition.
Assad thanks Putin for his military support in the Syrian crisis, praising the Russian leader for intervening to fight “terrorism” in one of the most dramatic turning points of the four-and-a-half-year war.
Putin calls Turkey “accomplices of terrorists” and warns of “serious consequences”after a Turkish F-16 jet shot down a Russian warplane, the first time a Nato country and Moscow have been involved in direct fire over the crisis in Syria. Barack Obama says Turkey had a right to defend its territory and airspace.
First reports that Russia has started to deploy ground troops in battle in Syria. Subsequent reports suggest Russia has deployed its most advanced battlefield tank, the T-90.
Putin warns that Russia is ready to to scale up its military intervention in Syria, less than a day after Moscow signed off on an ambitious UN plan to end the war.
Backed by intense Russian airstrikes, troops loyal to the Assad regime retake strategic territorynear the stronghold of Latakia, scoring a key victory before possible peace talks in Geneva.
Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedevsays the world is slipping into a “new cold war”after European leaders condemned his country’s airstrikes on Syria and called on Putin to end them as a precursor for peace negotiations. US senator John McCain voices a widespread concern that Putin is seeking to weaponise the refugee crisis “to divide the transa...
Russian air strikes killed 4,408 people (including 1,733 civilians) between September 2015 and early March 2016, according to the UK-basedSyrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Putin declares that he is withdrawing the majority of Russian troops from Syria, saying the intervention has largely achieved its objective. The news, relayed to Assad personally in a telephone call, followed a meeting in the Kremlin with Putin’s defence and foreign ministers.
Sep 27, 2018 · The Russian state justified and framed its direct massive military intervention in Syria as a “war against terrorism,” particularly against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh), but Russia primarily sought to protect its ally, the Syrian state—both politically and militarily—and crush all forms of opposition. This was made clear in ...
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Oct 1, 2020 · 1 Oct 2020. On September 30, 2015, the Russian Federation formally entered the Syrian civil war as President Bashar al-Assad’s rule was increasingly under threat. Since 2011, intense fighting...
Oct 1, 2015 · Russian warplanes have carried out their first air strikes on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, adding a new dimension to the country's four-year civil war. What is going on?...
Sep 15, 2021 · Russia’s struggle to extricate itself from Syria is a problem. The Russian public’s increasing weariness with the Kremlin’s foreign adventures is a bigger one.
