Putin said that positive developments on the military front in Syria would provide a basis for a long-term political...

  Around 15 army tanks and armored vehicles had been destroyed or immobilized by rebel missile strikes

  Russia's backing of Assad is "a terrible mistake, for them and the world," David Cameron said

  Sources said the operation would be aimed at recapturing territory lost by President Bashar al-Assad's government to rebels.

 

  Putin called for the creation of a broader international antiterrorist coalition with majority-Muslim countries as members

  In doing so, he was openly acknowledged their influence on Syria

 

  A new ceasefire went into effect on Sunday 

 

The source described the weapons as highly accurate and effective

  Assad said aerial bombing by a U.S.-led coalition had failed to stop Islamic State

  ... and "not because of the judgment of the United States, the U.N. Security Council, the Geneva Conference or the Geneva...

 

  But his spokesman said that “only the Syrian people can decide the fate of Syria, not some outside countries.”