{"id":3034,"date":"2015-10-09T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2015-10-09T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:24:29","slug":"russia-will-pay-price-for-airstrikes-in-syria-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-will-pay-price-for-airstrikes-in-syria-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia will pay price for airstrikes in Syria: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says Russia will soon start paying the price for launching airstrikes against terrorists in Syria in the form of reprisal attacks and casualties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carter made the remarks during a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday, a day after Russia fired 26 long-range cruise missiles from its warships in the Caspian Sea against Daesh (ISIS) positions in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 30, Russia launched an air campaign against foreign-sponsored terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carter said the Russian military campaign against ISIS &#8220;will have consequences for Russia itself, which is rightly fearful of attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the coming days, the Russians will begin to suffer from casualties,&#8221; the Pentagon chief claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carter accused Moscow of being reckless in its military commitment, risking clashes with US aircraft in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They have shot cruise missiles from a ship in the Caspian Sea without warning; they have come within just a few miles (kilometers) of one of our unmanned aerial vehicles,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov called Ashton\u2019s perdition &#8220;cynical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, three unnamed US military officials claimed that some cruise missiles fired from Russian ships at targets in Syria landed in Iran on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, the Russian Defense Ministry statement said that the new Kalibr-NK cruise missiles all struck within nine feet of their intended targets in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missiles landed in Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo provinces and they destroyed ISIS\u00a0positions, including training camps and ammunition depots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;No matter how unpleasant and unexpected it is for our colleagues in the Pentagon and Langley, our strike yesterday with precision-guided weapons at ISIS infrastructure in Syria hit its targets,&#8221; 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