The Russian Defence Ministry has published a video showing a building being bombed after saying it had struck an Islamic State base in Syria.

The ministry said in a statement that the Tupolev-95 bombers had taken off from Russia and flown over Iran and Iraq to get to Syria, where it said they had successfully targeted militant training camps and a command point in the city of Raqqa.

The aerial video, published by the military today, shows the long-range bombers lining up their target before striking the building.

The Russian Defence Ministry has published a video showing several cruise missiles striking an Islamic State base in Syria

The video shows a Tupolev-95 taking aim at a building before an explosion is seen

A huge explosion is then seen, followed by large clouds of smoke billowing out of the building.

Russia carried out a series of sustained attacks on Raqqa in late 2015, but has since focused its fire power around Aleppo and other rebel-held areas.

Earlier this week, the Russian military released a video showing a destroyed Roman amphitheatre after jihadists took over Palmyra, Syria.

The camera then pans in and showing clouds of smoke billowing out of the building

The video was published after the Russian military released a video showing a destroyed Roman amphitheatre

The black-and-white video, dated February 5, shows part of the amphitheatre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, reduced to rubble and the tetrapylon, a 16-columned structure that marked one end of the ancient city's colonnade, wiped out.

The tetrapylon, built during the rule of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd Century AD, consisted of four sets of four pillars each supporting massive stone cornices.

The monument had suffered considerable damage over the centuries and only one of the 16 pillars was still standing in its original Egyptian pink granite. The rest were cement replicas erected by the antiquities department in 1963.

The Roman amphitheatre dates back to the 1st Century AD and was used by IS for public executions during its occupation of the city between May 2015 and March last year.