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Russian cruise missiles hit Syrian rebels as warplanes back up Assad regime ground offensive

Russian warships launched cruise missile strikes against insurgent targets in Syria, as Vladimir Putin's warplanes went into action again in support of a major ground offensive launched by regime troops.

Mr Putin and his defence minister Sergei Shoigu said 26 missiles, launched from four warships in the Caspian Sea, hit 11 Islamic State targets inside Syria.

In another major development, Russia also coordinated air strikes with a Syrian army ground offensive in Syria's west, taking on rebels who have threatened Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's home province of Latakia.

Russian efforts "will be synchronised with the actions of the Syrian army on the ground and the actions of our air force will effectively support the offensive operation of the Syrian army", Mr Putin said at a televised meeting with Mr Shoigu in Sochi.
The missiles were
launched by warships in the Caspian Sea, and Russia said they passed over Iran and Iraq to reach their targets, covering what Mr Shoigu described as a distance of almost 1,500 km.
The terrain-hugging Kalibr cruise missiles, known by NATO by the codename Sizzler, fly at an altitude of 50 metres and are accurate to within three metres, the Russian defence ministry said.
The missiles also crossed through the region used by US and Australian jets bombing Islamic State targets.
Meanwhile videos posted on social media sites, said to be shot in Syria's west, recorded a devastating series of air strikes.

Crucially, for the first time, these were coordinated with Syrian army rocket attacks and a ground assault.
The combined attacks focused on an area in Hama and neighbouring Idlib province, held by a rebel alliance branding itself the Army of Conquest.
It includes the Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusrah and a slew of other Islamist factions, but Islamic State is not in the area.
The Army of Conquest has sought to expand into Hama from Idlib and seize high ground to target the neighbouring regime stronghold of Latakia province.
In one video a defiant militant, said to be from a US-trained rebel group, claimed a Russian airstrike had destroyed its weapons depot.
"We were able to escape safely," he said.
"We
are not scared of Russia, or anyone who supports it. Thank God, we will continue to fight you Bashar, without ammunition, or bullets."
A Syrian military source told the AFP news agency government troops had begun a broad ground operation on Wednesday near the village of Latmeen in Hama province, aided by Russian air cover.
The Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "many raids, believed to be from Russian warplanes, killed six people" including two children in Maraat al-Numan in Idlib.
The head of the observatory, Rami Abdulrahman, said ground attacks by Syrian government forces and their militia allies using heavy surface-to-surface missile bombardments hit at least four insurgent positions and there were heavy clashes.