ISIS Withdraws From Syria's Palmyra After Russian Strikes

[TomSea]

ISIS Withdraws From Syria's Palmyra After Russian Strikes
Posted 2016-12-11 18:40 GMT

(AFP) -- Russian war planes carried out over 60 strikes overnight on Syria's Palmyra after Islamic State jihadists re-entered the famed ancient city, halting the offensive, Russia's defence ministry said Sunday.

"Russian air force planes carried out 64 air strikes against the positions, convoys and advancing reserves of militants," a defence ministry statement said.

"Over the past night, Syrian government troops with active support of the Russian air force thwarted all terrorist attacks on Palmyra," it said.

"The attacking militants actively used car bombs with suicide bombers, armoured vehicles and rocket artillery," it said, adding that the strikes killed more than 300 militants and destroyed 11 tanks and 31 vehicles.

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64 air strikes, quite a bit.

[TomSea]

Palmyra has fallen again per almost all stories. ISIS is there.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/12/12/syrian-army-evacuates-palmyra-after-isla?videoId=370697502&videoChannel=1

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/middleeast/palmyra-syria-isis-russia/index.html

[FurriesRock]

What's sad about this whole thing is Russia and Syria are actually fighting and killing terrorists, while America is training the terrorists and supplying them with weapons.

Hopefully Trump will change that, side with Russia and Syria in killing Isis and the other insurgents.  It would be awesome to see America, Russia, and Syria fighting side by side to kill those scum.

[TomSea]

Bush administration almost expanded the war into Syria because Jihadis were operating from Syria, it's also well accepted that Syria helped in the bombing of the Beirut Marine Barracks during the Reagan admin.