Russia has deployed antiaircraft missiles in Syria to protect its warplanes carrying out airstrikes against militants, the head of the Russian air force disclosed Thursday. The missiles were dispatched to territory under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government to protect against "all possible threats," Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said in an interview with the daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "We sent there not only fighter jets, attack aircraft, bomber aircraft, helicopters but also missile systems, as various force...
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