Russian Airstrikes in Syria: September 30, 2015 - October 14, 2015
October 15, 2015 - Genevieve Casagrande![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/Russian%20Airstrikes%2014%20OCT-01_0_6.png?itok=Af0Sahdi)
Russia’s involvement in Syria is facilitating ISIS’s territorial gains, while also strengthening Assad. Russia is supporting the Syrian regime’s offensives in Latakia, the al-Ghab Plain, and northern Hama. Russia also intensified strikes on rebel-held northwestern Aleppo, likely to set conditions for an imminent Russian-Iranian-Syrian regime offensive in the area.