October 02, 2015, Global Research
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On Wednesday morning, the
Federation Council upper house of parliament granted permission to the Russian
president to use the country’s troops in Syria. Kremlin chief of staff Sergey
Ivanov said that Russia will use only its Air Force in Syria and it does this
on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s request.
On Wednesday
afternoon, the Russian Air Force began to conduct air raids against the
Islamist rebels of Jabhat Al-Nusra inside the Latakia and Hama Governorates in the western part
of Syria.
These
provinces would reportedly be the primary target for the Russian Air Force and
the Syrian Arab Army. According to scrappy reports, the Russian Air Force
targeted that areas of Al-Lataminah, Kafr Zita, the Jabal Al-Zaweed, Kassab,
and Deir Hanna. At the moment airstrikes are aimed on the Syrian brench of
Al-Qaeda. However, it’s clear that
the ISIS positions inside eastern Syria will
be targeted in the nearest future.
Meanwhile, the
Syrian Arab Army’s Special Forces division known as the “Tiger Forces” have
deployed their units to the east Aleppo front to help lift the ISIS’s siege of
the Kuweires Military Airport. Lifting the siege from the airport will open
additional opportunities of the Syrian Air Force’s usage in the conflict and
free forces and facilities which could be used to relieve the situation in the
sector.
It’s very
possible that Russia will use Iraq’s vast airspace in the nearest future. Iraq
is imperative to Russia’s fight against ISIS due to its geographical location.
In other cases, Russia’s airstrikes in eastern Syria would be limited because
of terrorists’ ability to use Iraq’s wide-open highways.
Earlier,
SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence reported that Russia, Iran, Iraq and
Syria have made an agreement to set in Bagdad a joint information center to
coordinate their operations against ISIS.
The positioning
of Russian aircraft in Syria gives the Kremlin an ability to shape and control
the battles pace in both Syria and Iraq out of all proportion to the size of
the Russian force. It could impact the U.S. to accept a combined coalition with
Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Lebanese Hezbollah in support of operations
against ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.
Separately,
the contemporary situation can probably lead to the establishment of a
permanent Russian air and naval base in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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