title: george w bushs ethics lawyer files complaint against fbi director james comey
text: syria this october   photo provided by norwegian armed forces shows a plane taking off from russian aircraft carrier admiral kuznetsov r with helicopters escorting nuclearpowered battle cruiser pyotr veliky l southwest of the city of trondheim in international waters on its way to the mediterranean 
  a fleet of russian warships has entered the eastern mediterranean off the coast of syria amid speculations that moscow and damascus are about to launch a massive operation against terrorists in the northern syrian city of aleppo 
  the commander of russian aircraft carrier admiral kuznetsov told stateowned russia television network on saturday that the military vessels were positioned in the designated zone in the eastern mediterranean and are now jointly carrying out tasks maneuvering to the west of the syrian coast 
  captain st rank sergei artamonov added that fighter jets have already started taking off from the carriers deck to survey the conflict zone 
  flights are being carried out from the deck they are working on coordination with the shore port the flights have been going on practically every day for the last four days the highranking russian naval commander pointed out 
  the remarks came a day after russias interfax news agency reported that russian mig and sukhoi warplanes routinely fly from the kuznetsov aircraft carrier into the syrian airspace to determine combat missions 
  meanwhile the commander of the pyotr veliky nuclearpowered battle cruiser captain st rank vladislav malakhovsky said on saturday that no foreign aircraft dared to come closer than  kilometers away from the russian fleet this file photo shows russian frigate admiral grigorovich on its way to the mediterranean photo by reuters 
  on november  russian frigate admiral grigorovich passed through the bosphorus strait in northwestern turkey and arrived off the syrian coast 
  grigorovich is reportedly capable of launching landattack kalibr cruise missiles which are equivalent to us tomahawk ones and equipped with the latest high precision guidance systems 
  russia has been bombing daesh and jabhat fateh alsham formerly known as the alnusra front terror groups in syria since september   at the official request of president bashar alassad 
  backed by russias aerial campaign the syrian troops have retaken several militantheld areas in the arab country 
  syria has been gripped by foreignbacked militancy since march  united nations special envoy for syria staffan de mistura estimates that over  people have been killed in the conflict loading