French President Francois Hollande told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that world powers must build a "grand coalition" to combat IS, Reuters reports.
"Our enemy is Daesh, Islamic State, it has territory, an army and resources, so we must create this large coalition to hit these terrorists," Hollande said in televised remarks at the start of bilateral talks with Putin in Moscow this evening.
Russia's Defense Ministry tweets that the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces has told Russia's military attache that it cannot hand over "any materials relating to the attack on the Su-24 by the Turkish F-16."
This from the BBC about French President Hollande's meeting with his Russian counterpart Putin in Moscow this evening.
Russia has denied reports that it bombed a humanitarian aid convoy near the Syrian border town of Azaz yesterday, pro-Kremlin media is reporting.
A video posted on YouTube by local activists showed aid trucks on fire at the Bab al-Salam border crossing but it was not clear to which group the trucks belonged.
A spokesman for Russia's Defense Ministry said that the reports were "stovepiping" -- a term used to mean presenting raw information without context.
"The reports appearing in the foreign media are stovepiping, about the alleged destruction of a humanitarian convoy of trucks from Turkey by Russian planes near the Bab al-Salam crossing. Ultimately, there are no remains of any munitions. Therefore we recommend that the next time a truck convoy with munitions for militants operating in northern Aleppo catches fire, it isn't passed off as humanitarian aid," the spokesman said.
The spokesman added that Turkey had not given any information about any aid convoy passing through that area.
More comments from Turkish President Erdogan today amid soaring tensions between his country and Russia. Erdogan told France 24 that he had telephoned Russian President Putin after the downing of the jet -- but Putin did not answer.
Russia's Defense Ministry published this video of the guided missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, which also arrived at Latakia, Syria today.
Russia's Defense Ministry says Turkey told Russia's military attache that it did not distribute in the media the audio recording of the radio transmissions of the F-16 fighter crew with the Su-24 pilots, pro-Kremlin RIA Novosti is reporting.
More on the Russian Defense Ministry's claim that the armed rebels in the area where the navigator from the downed Su-24 jet was rescued yesterday have been "destroyed."
The announcement was made by the Defense Ministry's spokesman, Gen. Maj. Igor Konashenkov, Russian media says.
"As soon as our pilot was safe, the area was hit with massive strikes from Russian bombers and rocket artillery fire from Syrian government forces over a long period. The terrorists and other secret groups operating in that area have been destroyed," Konashenkov said.