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Russia strikes Islamic State weapons, oil in Syria
[IsraelTimes] Kremlin says it destroyed one of the main headquarters of the terrorist group

The Syrian military on Saturday published video footage of several Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Russian army against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 targets across the war-torn region, including the terror group's oil reserves.
Video of explosions can be seen at the link.
"We've attacked many terrorist bases, hits were identified on targets and much damage was caused to the terrorist infrastructure," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement following the release of the footage.

Channel 2 television reported that the targets struck by the Russian military included a training facility, a weapons storehouse, a massive oil refinery, and numerous oil tankers.

"We operated primarily against the illegal oil trade routes in Syria, and nearly 2,000 tankers that were in the hands of the snuffies were destroyed, a source in the Kremlin said, according to Channel 2.

The Kremlin said it had also hit "one of the main headquarters of the krazed killers" in an Arclight airstrike on some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.

The strikes came as Russia President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
 and US President Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
push rival plans on ways to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria and on the future role of the country's embattled leader Bashir al-Assad.

Putin is seeking to muscle his way back onto the world stage after months of Western isolation following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and support for a separatist insurgency in the east of the ex-Soviet country.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-27
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