A video grab made on September 30, 2015, shows an image taken footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry's official website, purporting to show an airstrike in Syria. Russia launched air strikes in war-torn Syria, its first military engagement outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. Russian warplanes carried out strikes in three Syrian provinces along with regime aircraft as Putin seeks to steal US President Barack Obama's thunder by pushing a rival plan to defeat Islamic State militants in Syria
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