Who You Gonna Call?

Earlier on Wednesday President Vladimir Putin requested permission from the Russian parliament's upper house to use Russian Armed Forces abroad.

On Wednesday, Russia began to provide air support to the Syrian government forces in their fight against the Islamic State. According to Sergei Ivanov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, "the president of the Syrian Arab Republic turned to the leadership of our country with a request to provide military assistance, so we may say that terrorism needs to be fought, efforts need to be combined, but it is still necessary to observe the norms of international law.”