by Chine Labbe and Crispian Balmer
A Russian Su-24M aircraft makes a raid in Syria. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry Press Service
Paris: France and Russia (click here) bombed Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday, punishing the group for attacks in Paris and against a Russian airliner that together killed 353 people, and made tentative steps towards a possible military alliance.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a co-ordinated onslaught in Paris on Friday and the downing of a Russian charter jet over Sinai on October 31, saying they were in retaliation for French and Russian air raids in Iraq and Syria....
