Russia Questions US 'Surgical' Airstrikes Against ISIS

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said airstrikes by the US-led coalition on purported ISIS terrorists should not resemble cosmetic surgery, which only changes the appearance of the problem rather than solving it.

Maria Zakharova made the comments on her Facebook page on Tuesday in response to a statement made by President Obama the previous day. She wrote:

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“Obama has said about the need to conduct “surgical strikes” on ISIS. The important thing is that in the understanding of Washington, it’s not turns out of plastic surgery, which, instead of resolving the problem of only changing her appearance.”

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Press TV reports:

In an eight-minute statement after a national security council meeting at the Pentagon on Monday, Obama said the US-led strikes “have to be smart, targeting ISIL (Daesh) surgically, with precision.”

“This continues to be a difficult fight. ISIL is dug in, including in urban areas, and they hide behind civilians, using defenseless men, women and children as human shields,” Obama said.

Since September 2014, Washington along with some of its allies has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be positions of Daesh in Syria without any authorization from the government in Damascus or a UN mandate.

The campaign in Syria is an extension of the US-led airstrikes against similar positions in Iraq, which started in August 2014.

However, analysts say the US-led campaign has failed to dislodge the terrorists, who have seized parts of land in Iraq and Syria and are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.

Back in September, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that the territories held by Daesh had expanded while the number of militants had increased since the beginning of the US-led campaign in the Arab country.