Russia and France wreak revenge

Russia and France wreak revenge on ISIS: Putin orders his warships in Med to work with French Navy as jihadists in Syria are pummelled from the air 

• Russia launches cruise missile strikes over Raqqa, which is seen as Islamic State's capital city in Syria
• The strikes come after it was revealed French jets had pounded targets in the terrorists' Syrian stronghold
• Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered his warships to work with France as 'allies' in their fight
• Their forces carried out 34 cruise missile strikes over Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo just days after the Paris terror attacks
• Meanwhile, France's defense minister says 10 French fighter jets are carrying out new airstrikes on Islamic State
• Russia are also reportedly transporting paramilitary forces across Syria to fight ISIS in the Christian town of Sadad
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  As Russia's campaign in Syria intensifies, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticised the United States for pursuing what he said was a contradictory and confusing policy in Syria.
  In remarks in a Russian TV documentary, which was broadcast tonight, Lavrov said that analysis of U.S. attacks on Islamic State militants in Syria over the past year indicates that the attacks are sparing the ISIS units that would pose the most threat to the Syrian army and Assad. 
  The U.S. wants to see Assad removed from power, but Lavrov said this means that Washington is effectively 'sitting on two chairs'.
  American military generals are also criticizing the country, saying the US has been slow to act and is holding back. 
  'Our air campaign in Syria and Iraq has never been what it should be,' former US Army vice chief of staff Gen. Jack Keane told Fox News. 
  Keane criticized the US 'rules of engagements', which he claimed has let enemies escape because it takes too long to get approval for targets under the restrictions.
  The currently imposed rules of engagements, which provide authorization and restrictions on the military's use of force, are no civilian deaths and to limit collateral damage, according to retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, who called them 'unrealistic'. 
  'Obama believes in this illusion that you can somehow wage clean war,' he said. 'But you can't have a standard of no civilian casualties and expect to win like that. It never has and it never will.'