{"id":121946,"date":"2015-09-23T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=121946"},"modified":"2015-09-26T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T08:11:43","slug":"fighter-jets-are-seen-in-satellite-image-as-assads-regime-steps-up-its-attacks-on-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=121946","title":{"rendered":"Fighter jets are seen in satellite image as Assad’s regime steps up its attacks on ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sara Malm — Daily Mail Sept 23, 2015<\/h1>\n

A new satellite image has provided solid evidence that Russia has sent more than a dozen attack planes to Syria<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The picture shows 16 warplanes lined-up on a runway at a government airbase near the coastal city of Latakia, backing claims of Moscow <\/a><\/strong><\/span>support made by the Syrian military earlier on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Damascus recently received a fresh batch of arms from Russia, including at least five fighter planes, which they have deployed against ISIS fighters, a Syrian military official said today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This satellite image shows 16 warplanes at a government airbase near the coastal city of Latakia, backing claims of Moscow support made by the Syrian military officials<\/p><\/div>\n

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The satellite image shows\u00a0at least 12 Su-25 Frogfoot attack lined up next to the four Russian Air Force Su-30SM multirole combat planes, The Aviationist <\/a><\/strong><\/span>reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deliveries came amid a rapid Russian military build-up in Syria, with US officials saying Moscow had deployed 28 combat planes and begun drone flights in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Damascus had also received ‘sophisticated military equipment to fight IS,’ including targeting equipment and precision-guided missiles, according to the military official.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new weapons had already been deployed against IS in the cities of Deir Ezzor and Raqa, the jihadist group’s de facto capital in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Russian weapons are starting to have an effect in Syria,’ the official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said new Russian equipment has already been put into action, with at least 38 ISIS fighters killed Monday in air strikes in jihadist-held towns in central Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘The number of raids is growing and the strikes are more precise after the Syrian air force received arms and more efficient planes from Moscow,’ Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moscow has been an unwavering supporter of Assad during a conflict that has seen more than 240,000 killed since March 2011, insisting it would continue arms deliveries.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Russia’s intentions have been unclear in recent days as it deployed a range of new weaponry and troops to its airbase near Latakia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boost to President Bashar al-Assad’s military force by Russia is raising deep concerns in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, US officials said Moscow had deployed 12 SU-24 attack aircraft, 12 SU-25 ground attack aircraft and four Flanker fighter jets.<\/span><\/p>\n

They said there were also about 20 Russian combat and transport helicopters at the base and that Moscow was operating drone flights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘They are not going to sit around,’ said Jeffrey White of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘This kind of aircraft suggests that the Russians intend to exert their combat power outside of Latakia in an offensive role.’<\/span><\/p>\n

The deployments have raised fears of an inadvertent confrontation between Russian forces and the US-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria for more than a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

After an 18-month freeze in military relations triggered by NATO anger over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, US and Russian military officials held talks Friday aimed at avoiding unintended incidents in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deployments come as Russia pushes for the coalition of Western and regional powers fighting IS to join forces with Assad against the jihadists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western and Gulf powers have long resisted any role for Assad in the fight against ISIS, insisting he must be removed from his post in order for Syria to have any hope of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Efforts to find a negotiated solution to Syria’s war have repeatedly failed, despite the enormity of a crisis that has forced millions from their homes, many of them seeking refuge in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28 state-of-the-art Russian warplanes delivered to support the war against Islamic State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":121949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121950,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121946\/revisions\/121950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}