22m Russian Foreign Ministry says it would consider any request from Iraq to conduct air strikes against Islamic State on Iraqi soil - RIA via @Reuters
First I've heard of that escalation.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. KGB Vlad is reconstituting the USSR. Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, soon to be Cuba, Iraq, Syria and all his ally and vassal states.
And God help us, with the community-organizer-in-chief in the center seat. Russia just been WAITIN on this opportunity!!