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Russian Strikes in Syria Kill more than 1,300, Says Monitor
2015-11-21
[AnNahar] More than 1,300 people, around two-thirds of them combatants, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria since Moscow's aerial campaign began on September 30, a monitor said Friday.

The figure supplied by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is more that double the overall toll it gave in its last report on the Russian campaign three weeks ago.

The Britannia-based Observatory said it had documented 1,331 deaths in Russian air strikes, most of them of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group jihadists or other fighters..

It said 381 IS fighters had been killed, along with 547 gunnies from Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces.

The strikes also killed 403 civilians, including 97 children, according to the monitor.

The Observatory's last toll for the campaign, on October 29, put the number of killed at nearly 600.

Russia says its aerial campaign targets IS and other "terrorists" but rebel forces and their backers accuse Moscow of focusing on moderate and Islamist fighters over jihadists.

Several medical groups have also accused Russia of strikes that have hit field clinics and hospitals in Syria.

Russia's intervention in Syria follows that of a US-led coalition that has been carrying out strikes against IS in the country since September 2014.

The U.S.-led coalition does not coordinate with Damascus however.

According to the Observatory, the U.S.-led strikes have killed at least 3,649 people since they began, around six percent of them civilians.

The monitor said in late October that U.S.-led raids had killed 3,276 IS fighters, 147 members of Al-Nusra or Islamist groups and 226 civilians.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble. That would create a great propaganda victory for the West vs. Daesh, and make the "Caliph" look powerless and much less consequential.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-11-21 15:03  

#7  Or ship in a couple of Chetra T-40s.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-11-21 14:58  

#6  If they really want to level Raqqa they'll need to fly the Bear bombers on sorties. Nothing else in their inventory has the payload capacity.
Posted by: Steve White   2015-11-21 14:34  

#5  May it in truth be so, 3dc. Thank you for keeping an eye on Debka.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-11-21 13:44  

#4  From the same Debka article:
As for casualties, the published figure of 600 jihadists killed in one day is probably far below the real figure. Our sources report that the Islamist terrorists’ death toll most probably runs into thousands with many more injured.
Posted by: 3dc   2015-11-21 11:47  

#3  Debka Massive Russian blanket air bombardment is flattening Raqqa

Russia has launched a merciless blanket air campaign, backed by Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas, for the object of wiping the Islamic State’s Syrian center of Raqqa off the map, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.
Western and Middle East sources tracking the campaign since Friday, Nov. 20, report that at least 75 air sorties have been conducted and are systematically razing the town of 200,000 inhabitants 160km east of Aleppo, district by district, irrespective of civilian town dwellers.
Moscow wants the entire Middle East and Muslim world to see the price exacted for launching a terrorist attack on Russia after the downing of the Metrojet airliner that killed 224 people over Egyptian Sinai on Oct. 31. Russian bombers and cruise missiles rained death and destruction on the ISIS administration center after the jihadists claimed responsibility for that disaster and published photos of a soft drink can claimed to have been rigged as a bomb for blowing the plane up.
When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble.
Posted by: 3dc   2015-11-21 11:43  

#2  All targets divide by 100 for accurate figures.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2015-11-21 11:03  

#1  Murderous, slant eyed Scythians.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-11-21 04:21  

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