Putin to send 150,000 troops to Syria to wipe out ISIS

Putin has pledged to send in 150,000 troops, many of the recent conscripts in order to wipe out ISIS. Russian airstrikes have destroyed several ISIS outposts. Al Qaeda have issued a statement warning Russia that Syria will become their Vietnam. It also complicated matters for France, who are unlikely to coordinate their own military campaign with Russia without US backing due to the fact that there is a risk of French troops being killed by Russian friendly fire, which would be an international disaster.

This has become a race to the city of Raqqa, which is vital to the Islamic state due to its adjacent oil fields which they are using to fuel and fund their so called Caliphate. Russia has pledged to scale up their airstrikes.

Following the recent attacks in Paris and Putin's involvement in Syria, the British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama have pledged to send in special forces and ramp up their drone and airstrikes.