Russia carries out airstrikes in Syria – targets CIA-backed rebels instead of ISIS

It is a fact that Russia has carried out airstrikes in Syria – but, instead of targeting the ISIS, the Russia targets appear to have areas that are held by rebels who are receiving arms, funding, and training from the CIA. Dozens of civilians have died in the Russian airstrikes.
The Syrian National Council is a group opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and they have revealed that at least 36 people had been killed by airstrikes in the western city of Homs – five of them were children.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 1 October 2015.

Moreover, as per the SNC's leader, none of the four areas targeted by Russian planes had any ISIS fighters. Hence, Moscow's claim that it was helping the U.S.-led coalition defeat the terror group was ‘baseless.’
According to a senior U.S. defense official, the Russian strikes had targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a "couple" of Russian bombers.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the Russian Air Forces are cooperating with the Syrian pro-government military to target "exclusively" Islamic State (ISIS) targets.
To this, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has indicated that Washington was prepared to welcome Russian military action in Syria as long as it is directed against ISIS and other Al Qaeda affiliates. However, if strikes were conducted against other groups, the matter would be grave.
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