‘It’s a Whole New War Now’: Western Powers to Have Strategy Shift in Syria
SputnikNes.com
04.10.2015
Russia’s participation in the fight against ISIL in Syria could bring some major changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, Semyon Bagdasarov, the director of the Center for the Middle East and Central Asian Studies, told Radio Sputnik.
On Wednesday, Russia launched airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria following a request from President Bashar Assad. The Syrian government is fighting a number of opposition forces and radical Islamist militant organizations.
Bagdasarov thinks the ongoing airstrike campaign against ISIL has so far been successful.
“The results of first airstrikes enable the Syrian army to move further into the line of contact with terrorist groups and take control, from what I understand, of the highway between Homs and Damascus. That’s why airstrikes are good help to the Syrian army and quite an effective operation,” Bagdasarov told Sputnik.
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