The plane carrying the body of Oleg Peshkov, the Russian pilot killed after his Su-24 jet was downed near the Syrian border has landed in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
The plane carrying Peshkov's remains landed at Chkalovsky airport, a military airport base 31 kilometers northeast of Moscow. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met the plane and Peshkov was given military honors, according to the report.
CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller has tweeted more details of U.S. President Obama's meeting today with Russia's President Putin on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit.
More from CNN on the report that French intelligence services now believe Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is in Syria.
That information comes from a source close to the investigation and a counterterrorism source.
The source close to the investigation also told CNN that police now believe that Abdeslam bought detonators in France before the November 13 attacks. Le Parisien reported that Abdeslam had bought detonators from a fireworks shop in Saint-Ouen l'Aumone, just north of Paris.
If Abdeslam has indeed managed to flee to Syria, he will not be the first European terror suspect to do so. In January, Hayat Boumeddiene, who went on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman, crossed into Syria on January 8. On January 9, Boumeddiene's husband Coulibaly went on to take shoppers hostage in a Paris kosher supermarket, killing four people.
The United Arab Emirates has said it is ready to commit ground troops against extremists in Syria and has said that Russian airstrikes in the country are attacks on a "common enemy," AFP reports, citing the official WAM news agency.
Emirati State Minister for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said the UAE would "participate in any international effort demanding a ground intervention to fight terrorism".
"Regional countries must bear part of the burden" of such an intervention, he said.
Russian Su-34 warplanes have flown for the first time in Syria carrying short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles as well as bombs, according to a spokesman for the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel Igor Klimov.
The aircraft had been equipped with the air-to-air missiles for "defense," Klimov said.
He added that the missiles were equipped with homing devices and were capable of hitting targets at up to 60 kilometers.
Komsomolskaya Pravda's Dmitry Smirmov shared this photo of Putin and Obama shaking hands after their meeting today on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit.
The Russian media has more details of Putin's meeting with U.S. President Obama on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Obama had "expressed regret over the incident with the Russian plane that was downed by the Turkish air force in Syria."
The two leaders also discussed Syria, with both agreeing on the need for a political settlement to the conflict, Peskov said.
"Putin and Obama spoke in favor of moving toward the start of a political settlement," Peskov said, adding that the meeting between the two leaders had been agreed this morning, lasted around half an hour, and was "quite intense."
The German government is planning to send up to 1,200 troops to help in the fight against IS, AP reports:
Defense Ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said Monday that the figure would be an "upper limit" for the number of troops needed to provide support for and operate reconnaissance aircraft, tanker planes and a warship.
The Cabinet is due to agree the mission's mandate Tuesday and put it to Parliament for approval. German troops won't actively engage in combat.
Officials rejected any suggestion that Germany might cooperate with troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in the fight against IS.
But Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said that "if the Syrian regime says it's fighting terrorists on its own territory, then it should do so, please."
The United States and NATO had nothing to do with Turkey's decision to down the Russian Su-24M jet near the Syrian border, Douglas Lute, the U.S. Permanent Represenatitive to NATO has told Russia's TASS news agency.
"It was a sovereign decision of Turkey," TASS quoted Lute as saying.
Lute added that Turkey had been in contact wuth NATO regarding Russian violations of Turkish air space since the start of October.
"In this sense, there is contact with Turkey. But regarding this specific incident, there was no coordination here," Lute said, according to TASS.
Lute also said that there could not be any single coalition in Syria that includes Russia because Russia has different goals to the U.S.-led anti-IS coalition,
"Our goals are to defeat IS, Russia's goals are to support the Syrian regime against the opposition...Russia has to do much more in the fight against IS, right now combating this group is a secondary goal for Russia," Lute was quoted as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. President Obama during the lunch break at the Paris climate conference, says Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter Dmitry Smirnov.