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War planes carried out 20 more air strikes in the past 24 hours hitting 9 isis targets. vladimir putin says he is helping syria wipe out terrorists. however, experts say russia and iran are merely propping up the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. the pentagon, meantime, confirmed at least some of rush whys military strikes have targeted over rebel groups, some trained and backed by the u.s. yesterday president obama publicly warned putin against getting too involved in syria saying he ...

Operations. but rather it is going after other rebel groups, opposition groups that really pose a direct threat to the regime of bashar al assad. >> whats the likelihood that russia is launching the air strikes in these areas in order for syrian group troops to move in and launch a ground offensive. is russia commenting on that? >> russia hasnt talked about ground operations specifically expect to say that its own ground forces will not be involved in syria itself. thats the only specific point ...

A top russian commander claiming war planes carried out 20 more air strikes in the past 24 hours hitting 9 isis targets. vladimir putin says he is helping syria wipe out terrorists. however, experts say russia and iran are merely propping up the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. the pentagon, meantime, confirmed at least some of rush whys military strikes have targeted over rebel groups, some trained and backed by the u.s. yesterday president obama publicly warned putin against getting...

That is a word, about what targets the russians are hitting. it said yesterday on day one of the campaign, it targeted eight specific isis targets, including fuel dumps and ammo dumps. that is conflicted by the united states and their intelligence work saying other rebel groups have also been in the firing line. it is also to some extent contradicted or questioned by the foreign minister. he had a meeting with the secretary of state last night and after that, he told reporters that we were invit...

And other rebel groups. there is a plethora of groups. the kremlin doesnt draw distention between them. it sees them all and describes them all as terrorists. from the kremlin point of view, the force is syrian government. bashar al assad is a long-time russian ally. russia has strong interests to make sure it does not fall and he is reestablish control over the whole of syria. thats what now is being played out and that may well bring russia and the united states into some kind of confrontation...

Conversation with the united states and russia to try to deescalate the situation in syria. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: complicated questions to answer. in terms of how they can stop shooting each other, the u.s. and russia, there will be military to military conversations taking place early today to make sure that they can deconflict, which is the word they use to describe not killing each other and also to get clarity on the targets that russia is hitting. publicly, russia is saying cat...

The concern is face enough to prompt a face-to-face meeting. this morning republican senator john mccain angrily disputed that. >> i can absolutely confirm to you that they were strikes against our free syrian army or groups that have been armed and trained by the cia because we have communications with people there. >> barbara starr tracking it from the pentagon. good morning. john mccain says, i can absolutely confirm to you because of, you know, our intelligence. is that what the pentagons sa...

Precisely one of the problems with the whole approach. by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, youre taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> taking out other rebel groups including the u.s. backed free syrian army could work in favor of the russian strategy in syria, setting up assad as the only alternative to a full isis takeover. emerging from a meeting this afternoon with his russian counterpart, secretary of state john kerry acknowled...

Target isis and targeting moderate groups which are a danger to assad. they think the world will then support assad and keep him in power. and for candidates to say well, let the russians fight isis it doesnt have any impact on us. they havent looked at the situation very clearly. because clearly russias interest is assad. not necessarily in destroying isis. >> let me ask you something about the military strategy. what you do as the coalition force when you have russia now carrying out two strai...

>> reporter: this is the aftermath of russias first air strike in syria, and its violent announcement of involvement in this brutal war. the kremlin says its targeting isis forces. but these chaotic images are from the province where other rebel groups hold sway. moscow draws little distinction from the enemies of the syrian government allies. it look russias parliament less than half an hour to rubber stamp the use of military force. russian officials justify it as legal under international law...