After The Paris Attacks, Is The West Looking At Putin For Leadership?

Daily Mail: Putin comes in from the cold: Desperate world leaders cosy up to Russian President to get him to join the fight against ISIS

* Barack Obama seen sharing a joke with the Russian President at G20
* David Cameron meets Vladimir Putin one-on-one for the first time in a year
* British PM strikes a conciliatory tone in a bid to win backing of Russia
* Putin accused of using airstrikes to target opponents of Asad and not ISIS
* Deal agreed to cut off terrorist financing and tackle extremist ideologies

Desperate world leaders today lined up to try to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin to back global efforts to defeat ISIS.

For more than a year after relations with Moscow have been in the deep freeze over Russian incursions in Ukraine.

But now Mr Putin is seen as holding the key to resolving the bloody civil war in Syria which has given rise to ISIS fanatics.

It has led to the spectacle of US President Barack Obama, British PM David Cameron and Saudia Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud posing for photos with the Russian President.

Update: Putin Goes From G-20 Pariah to Player at Obama Turkey Talk -- Bloomberg

WNU Editor: I am speechless. From pariah to .... he is now our "hope" against the Islamic State. This is a testament to how weak Western leaders have become .... and it only took one major terror attack to expose it.