Greater than 400 terrorists have been killed in a wave of airstrikes, a Russian colonel has stated
Syrian and Russian forces have killed greater than 400 jihadists in a sequence of airstrikes close to the cities of Aleppo and Idlib, the Russian army has introduced. The terrorists had launched a shock counteroffensive towards authorities troops on Wednesday.
The physique rely was introduced on Friday by Colonel Oleg Ignatiuk, the deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Heart for Syria. Ignatiuk’s announcement got here after Syrian media claimed that Russian and Syrian warplanes had bombed terrorist targets in dozens of areas all through Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
The Syrian Arab Military claimed that these strikes inflicted devastating losses on the jihadists.
The Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group – previously referred to as Jabhat al-Nusra – and a group of allied militias attacked government-controlled territory in northern Syria on Wednesday, breaking a fragile truce established by Russia and Türkiye in 2020.
Not directly armed by the US and allegedly backed by Türkiye, Jabhat al-Nusra was one of many foremost factions opposing Bashar Assad’s authorities in the course of the Syrian Civil Conflict. Russia intervened within the battle in 2015, serving to Assad to retake a lot of the nation from Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS), and dozens of US-supported armed teams thought of “average rebels” by Washington.
The jihadists declare to have seized some 400 sq. kilometers of territory, reaching the outskirts of town of Aleppo on Thursday, the Turkish information company Anadolu reported on Friday. Additionally they declare to have captured heavy weaponry and different army {hardware} from the Syrian Military.
As information of the airstrikes broke, the Beirut-based TV channel Al Mayadeen reported that the Syrian army had compelled the jihadists to retreat in some areas.
Talking to reporters on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Moscow considers the terrorist offensive “an assault on Syria’s sovereignty within the area,” and desires the “Syrian authorities to revive order there as quickly as attainable.”
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