(VOVworld) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia for the first time struck IS targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (C) attend a meeting on Russian air force's activity in Syria at the national defense control center in Moscow, Russia, November 17, 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

Shoigu said the targets were two large terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa, and that Russia had informed Israel and the US in advance of its plan to launch missiles from a submarine.

A reconnaissance jet Tornado of the German Air Force Luftwaffe is presented at the military airfeld in Jagel, northern Germany on Dec. 4, 2015. (Photo: CARSTEN REHDER/AFP/Getty Images)

The same day, German armed forces reported that Germany will deploy two Tornado reconnaissance jets and 40 troops to Turkey to back the fight against the IS in Syria. Berlin will soon send a frigate to help guard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean.

The Iraqi military on Tuesday recaptured a key district in the IS-held city of Ramadi. Officials in Baghdad said Iraqi security forces and Sunni militia attacked al-Tameen district in Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, killing at least 12 IS fighters.