[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out airstrikes against terrorist targets in Syria. This was announced by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Arab Republic (CPVS), Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit .
Russian aviation carried out three strikes against terrorists involved in armed provocations.
“Three underground shelters of illegal armed groups in Idlib province have been hit,” Kulit told reporters during a briefing.
According to the officer, the so-called international “coalition” led by the United States in Syria violated deconfliction protocols once within 24 hours.
Also in the Al-Tanf area, 13 violations were recorded during the day by four pairs of F-15 fighters, two pairs of F-16 fighters and a multi-role drone.
| Americans, presumably, rather than Israelis, who are only interested in Iran and its local partner organizations. |
On October 22, Russian military aviation carried out three airstrikes against targets of illegal armed groups in the Syrian province of Idlib. During the flight, an ammunition depot and a militant training camp, as well as their stronghold, were destroyed.
| As Rudaw reports: |
At least six non-combatants were killed on Tuesday when Russian
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s targeted a displacement camp near rebel-held Idlib in northwest Syria, a war monitor reported.
"Six civilians, including a woman and two of her children, were killed and eight others were maimed due to two airstrikes carried out by the Russian warplanes targeting a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of al-Hamamah village in Jesr al-Shughour [Jisr al-Shughour] countryside west of Idlib," said the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), adding that a third airstrike hit Ain Shib village in the west of Idlib city.
The White Helmets (Syria Civil Defense) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the camp targeted by the Russian airstrikes was the Ahl Saraqeb displacement camp.
Half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia, are the last rebel-held bastions in Syria after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Supressor of the Damascenes...
, with Russian and Iranian support, seized back swathes of territory over the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011.
A ceasefire brokered by Russia and
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has been in place in northwest Syria since March 2020 but the area has witnessed a recent flare-up in violence.
Russia has been Assad’s strongest ally throughout the brutal civil war that initially began as an uprising.
Since June 24, Russian airstrikes killed 60 people and injured 103 more in northwest Syria, according to SOHR, 26 of which were civilians including two women and two children. 34 members of jihadist groups including 17 fighters from the former Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), Syria's former al-Qaeda branch, were also killed in the strikes.
On Monday, Russian warplanes carried out five different airstrikes on a mountainous area in northwest Syria’s Latakia, according to SOHR. No casualties were reported.
In August, Russian warplanes targeted a military base on the outskirts of Idlib, killing at least eight HTS fighters.