said that the russian airstrikes targeted a city in western syria, and there are no isis targets there. elise labott is here. you got all of this information. so what s going on here? well, clearly, carol, you know, the u.s. had said that they wanted to deconflict with the russians on the ground, to avoid any possible confrontation. but what the russians are trying to do is ground the u.s. they re not telling the u.s. where they re flying. they re not telling the u.s. what they re doing. they re just saying to the u.s., stop your flights. i mean, if you look at what they did today, for instance, in homz, u.s. officials are telling me this is not of strategic importance to go after isis. and if you look at some of the weapons that the russians have on the ground, some of this anti-aircraft equipment, this is not for isis because isis is not flying on the ground. so what u.s. officials are saying is this is kind of proof positive that this mission is
earlier today, russian president vladimir putin was given unanimous approval from his parliament to use the air force in syria. the request for military happy was for against isis according to the chief of kremlin staff came directly from bashar al assad. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us thousand with t now with the very latest. barbara. reporter: hi, john and kate. the u.s. military are looking to see if the russians are conducting additional airstrikes. the ones they know about in homz. this simply is not an area where isis is located no matter what the russians say. this is an area where anti-assad, anti-regime militias have been fighting the assad government. this, by all indications, is a military strike to prop up the assad regime. but that may be the least of it right now. one u.s. official is saying to me a short time ago this is not how militaries in this day and age conduct relations.
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