Realizing Gravity of ISIL Threat, US Acquiesces to Russian Mission in Syria
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Commenting on the situation in Syria and its impact on Russian-US relations, Alexei Arbatov, a leading Russian scholar of international relations, believes that the US has quietly come to accept Russia's campaign of airstrikes, realizing that ISIL today is the main threat to world peace.