In mid-November 2015 , in the wake of the Russian plane bombing over Sinai and the Paris attacks , both Russia and France significantly intensified their strikes in Syria , France closely coordinating with the U.S. military . On 17 November , Putin said he had issued orders for the cruiser '' Moskva '' that had been in eastern Mediterranean since the start of the Russian operations to " work as with an ally " , with the French naval group led by flagship '' Charles De Gaulle '' then on her way to the eastern Mediterranean . Shortly afterwards , a Russian foreign ministry official criticised France ′ s stridently anti-Assad stance as well as France ′ s air strikes at oil and gas installations in Syria as apparently designed to prevent those from returning under the Syrian Ba'athist government ′ s control ; the Russian official pointed out that such strikes by France could not be justified as they were carried out without the Syrian Ba'athist government ′ s consent . In his remarks to a French delegation that included French parliamentarians , on 14 November , President Bashar Assad sharply criticised France ′ s as well as other Western States ′ actions against the Syrian Ba'athist government suggesting that French support for Syrian opposition forces had led to the Islamic State-claimed attacks in Paris
Paris attacks
November 2015 Paris attacks
Timeline of the Syrian Civil War