Russia sends fighter jets to Syria to bolster Assad’s defenses

The situation in Syria continues to get complicated with every passing day because Russia has apparently sent at least four fighter jets to Syria in order to bolster the embattled forces of Bashar al Assad. Moscow has already dispatched troops and military hardware and these include helicopter gunships, tanks and nearly 500 Russian marines. These have been sent to an airfield near the Syrian port city of Latakia.
This has been reported in news.fox.com dated 19 September 2015.

The build-up has coincided with Syrian government planes launching a second round of airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Palmyra and killing at least 26 people.
US Secretary of State John Kerry after talks in London with Foreign Minister Philip Hammond has indicated that the build-up is disturbing. In the opinion of John Kerry, the presence of aircraft with air-to-air combat capacity and surface-to-air missiles in the region raises serious questions.
While one US official has revealed that four tactical Russian fighter jets have now been sent to Syria, another US official has confirmed the presence of multiple jets, but has not put a number on how many.
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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has made a startling revelation that would0be British jihadists who want to join ISIS fighting in Syria are taking a detour via Canada in order to avoid detection.
He has said that these tactics are used by radicalized extremists to escape being caught by police and their actions were becoming 'increasingly sophisticated'. As a result, it becomes difficult for the security services to keep tabs on those who are determined to travel to the region.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 10 June 2015.

On a rough estimate, nearly 700 British citizens are believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq and there are growing fears that they would return to the UK to plot terror attacks here. Incidentally, airlines operating in the UK have been asked to check all teenagers who are boarding flights to Turkey.
This action was taken following the case of three south London schoolgirls who had flown out of Britain to join ISIS. Philip Hammond had attended a summit in Paris with 20 countries to discuss how to tackle the rise of ISIS where Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had claimed that the dramatic advance of ISIS is a combined failure of the world community. He went on to add that there is 'a lot of talk' about supporting his country but 'very little on the ground'.
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The US is, therefore, trying to form a sort of "core coalition" to battle Islamic State militants in Iraq. To achieve this, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have called for support as they held talks with officials from 10 nations on the sidelines of the NATO summit to build a strategy to defeat IS.
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British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has added that there has to be a comprehensive response to the ISIL challenge.
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