Syria regime advances with Russian air support
A frame grab taken from footage released by Russias Defence Ministry October 9, 2015, shows a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber dropping a bomb in the air over Syria. Reuters Syrian government forces captured a village from rebels in the central province of Hama on Saturday as they pushed a ground operation backed by Russian air support. In Aleppo province to the north, rebels battled to reverse an advance by ISIS that brought the jihadists to within a few kilometres of Syria's second city. Washington said it would resume talks with Russia over ways to avoid military accidents in Syria's increasingly crowded airspace. In Hama, regime forces seized Atshan village from opposition fighters including Islamists and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, state television and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory, a Britain-based monitoring group, reported heavy fighting around the village as regime forces sought to push north west and take a neighbouring hilltop