Russia Vows to Annihilate ISIS Terrorist Group

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Alwaght- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says his country will continue to fight ISIS Takfiri terrorists until their complete annihilation.
ISIS and the Nusra Front terrorist group won’t be part of the proposed Syrian ceasefire as the fight against the terrorists will go on until their complete annihilation, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday after meeting his US counterpart, John Kerry in Zurich.
“The main thing is that we came to an unambiguous conclusion that the UN Security Council Resolution 2254 will remain the main basis for us to move forward,” Lavrov told journalists in Switzerland.
During the negotiations, the two diplomats “discussed practical steps to ensure the conditions for a ceasefire” in Syria in accordance with the UN resolution, the Russian foreign minister added.
The truce “wouldn’t apply to terrorist organizations Islamic State and the Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra),” he stressed.
"They can’t be subject to an agreement on a ceasefire as they remain our enemies. And we’ll continue to fight them until their complete annihilation,” Lavrov stressed.
Moscow and Washington insist that the peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition shouldn’t be postponed beyond January, Lavrov said.
“We are not even considering the postponement of talks from January to February... We are certain that these talks must start in the next few days,” he said.
The intra-Syrian talks are scheduled to take place in another Swiss city, Geneva, on January 25.
Lavrov was also asked whether Kerry and him had reached an agreement on the participation of the Ahrar ash-Sham and Jaish al-Islamin groups in the Syrian talks.
"We can say that there is no such agreement," the Russia's top diplomat replied.
Russia presented data on the terrorist nature of both groups to the US during the Zurich meeting, maintaining its stance that Ahrar ash-Sham and Jaish al-Islamin have no place at the negotiating table.
Ahrar ash-Sham “is known to have been repeatedly shelling residential quarters of Damascus and Russia's embassy. Ahrar ash-Sham is a child of Al-Qaeda," Lavrov explained.
Russia has been bombing ISIS and other terror groups in Syria since September 30, 2015, at the official request of President Bashar Assad.
The Syrian Air Force also released data on their operations, saying that it carried out 481 sorties against the terrorists since December 27.
"The Syrian Air Force destroyed 1,662 objects belonging to terrorist organizations in the areas of Damascus, Homs, Hama, Idlib, Aleppo, and Deir ez-Zor," the Syrian army command said in a statement.
The terrorists command centers, ammunition factories, warehouses and other infrastructure was targeted, the statement added.
The Syrian Air Force has been operating in close cooperation with the Russian aviation group, which even saw Syrian fighter jets escorting Russian bombers on combat missions.

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