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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar first in PM attends Saudi Embassy celebrations Russia launches Syria air strikes MOSCOW/WASHINGTON: Russia launched air Mena region strikes in Syria yesterday in the Kremlin’s biggest Middle East intervention in decades, but Moscow’s assertion that it had hit Islamic State was immediately disputed by the United States and rebels on the ground. The air strikes plunged the four-year-old civil war in in WEF index Syria into a volatile new phase as President Vladimir Putin moved forcefully to assert Russian influence in the unstable region. The attacks also raised the dangerous specter of Competitiveness up from 16 to 14 Washington and Moscow running air strikes concurrently and in the same region, but without coordination. DOHA: Qatar has moved two Zealand, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Russian defence ministry said it carried out about notches up, from 16 to 14, in the Australia and France are listed 20 flights over Syria, hitting eight Islamic State targets latest Global Competitiveness below Qatar. Switzerland tops and destroying an Islamic State command post and an Index (GCI) to emerge on top the Global Competitiveness operations centre in a mountainous area. among the countries in the Index for the seventh year in Syrians living in rebel-held areas of Homs province said Middle East and North Africa a row.