Russian embassy hit in Damascus

BEIRUT: Moscow said on Tuesday it had carried out its most intense day of air raids yet in Syria, as jihadists called for revenge attacks and rockets hit the Russian embassy in Damascus.
With Russia’s involvement having an increasingly dramatic effect on Syria’s conflict, President Vladimir Putin slammed Washington for refusing to cooperate with Moscow.
The defence ministry in Moscow said Russia’s air force had hit 86 "terrorist" targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, in the highest one-day tally since it launched its bombing campaign on September 30.
The ministry said it had hit several positions of the Islamic State group, which Russia insists it is targeting in the air campaign.
Washington and its allies -- who are carrying out their own air war against IS in Syria and Iraq -- have accused Moscow of targeting Western-backed moderate rebels and seeking to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime Russian ally.
Putin hit back at the West, criticising Washington for refusing to share intelligence with Russia on Syria and accusing it of muddled thinking.