France, Russia join forces, strike Islamic State targets in Syria

From the Washington Times:

France and Russia engaged in unprecedented joint strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of diplomatic and military fallout from the deadly terrorist strikes in Paris last week. 

The joint operation began as Russian intelligence officials acknowledged that an Islamic State bomb brought down a Russian airliner this month over Egypt, killing all 224 aboard, and President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, currently in the Mediterranean, to start cooperating with the French in Syria.

You might remember, there used to be this great nation, America, who could always be counted on to kick in help when things got really bad.