...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean.
"The targets were two large terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa," Shoigu told 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...in a televised meeting, adding that the Calibre missiles had been fired from the submarine Rostov-on-Don.
"We can say with complete confidence that fairly serious damage was done to weapons stores and a factory for preparing mines and, naturally, oil infrastructure."
Shoigu said Russia had informed Israel and the United States in advance of its plan to launch missiles from a submarine.
He said that, over the previous three days, Russia's air force had flown more than 300 sorties over Syria and struck more than 600 targets of various types.
Russian bombers flying over Syria were being accompanied by fighter jets, as Putin had ordered, he added.
Russia began intervening directly in Syria's civil war at the end of September with air strikes in support of its ally,
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
But the intervention has had unintended consequences, notably when
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
shot down a Russian fighter jet that it said had strayed into Turkish airspace, an allegation that Russia denies.
Putin told Shoigu that Russian Sherlocks should open the flight recorder of the Russian plane only in the presence of international experts, "to carefully document everything."