A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti
On June 28, the Syrian Ministry of Defense released footage of recent strikes that targeted a stronghold of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the northwestern region of Greater Idlib.
Syrian artillery and Russian warplanes attacked the stronghold, which is located near the town of Sharjah in the southern Idlib countryside, on June 27.
In a statement, the ministry said that the joint strikes were carried out in response to recent attacks on residential areas in Hama.
Armed drones, which were reportedly launched by HTS from Greater Idlib, bombarded the town of Salhab in the western Hama countryside and Jurin in the northwestern countryside of the governorate on June 26. In Salhab, an elderly man was wounded.
The Syrian MoD said that the retaliation strikes destroyed headquarters and depots within the stronghold, where the terrorist group was storing weapons, ammunition, intelligence gathering equipment, electronic warfare means as well as reconnaissance and armed drones.
The ministry listed the names of 11 militants who were killed in the joint Syrian-Russian strikes, including a field commander of HTS’s Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib Brigade. Meanwhile, Syrian media reports said that more than 50 militants were killed or wounded as a result of the strikes.
Last week, five civilians in government-held areas in Hama and Latakia were killed in drone attacks which were launched by HTS and its allies from Greater Idlib. The Syrian and Russian militaries responded with a series of airstrikes that targeted positions linked to the terrorist group’s drone program.
The last drone attacks were a blatant violation of the ceasefire in Greater Idlib, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey more than three years ago. Under the pretext of monitoring the ceasefire, the Turkish military maintains a large force in the region. However, it does not intervene with the operations of HTS and other terrorist groups there.
A complete Turkish withdrawal from Greater Idlib as well as from Syria’s northern and eastern regions is the main demand of Damascus, which is currently engaged in normalization talks with Ankara.
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abkhazians fought for their freedom against gaygrians.
they both fought an internecine war.
killing them before more get air lifted to ukraine, hypothetical of course.🦍
rename all these abu goatfckers now to: abu-im-now-50-feet-under.
the islamoterroristic stronghold idlib is still a undone job.
time for syria to mobilise its whole army and to wipe of whole idlib from the map, with air support by russia.
not happening sucker. russia will be defeated in both ukraine and syria. you’ll see what happens when they cross turkiye’s red line. even supplying ukraine will be enough payback. wagner has been deployed in belarus. this means putin expects trouble in belarus and sent in wagner to help lukashenko. it was a staged wagner mutiny, which is why the germans deployed forces in lithuania.
hts are extremist and fsa is gangsteric in nature. so they can’t do many things. russia will win both in ukraine and in syria. in syria, sufyani aka assad will win and he will attack kufa so?
against the weak, the russian army even seems strong and competent, massacring civilians with almost no weapons is easy, when it is serious, the story is different, they will be chased down to the last soldier in ukraine
may allah grant your wish regarding russia. i hate those brutes more than i hate the u.s.a. despite all its attrocities. if russia had america’s mliitary power, only god knows what the world would be like. thank god they are dumb and incompetent. i hope ukraine weakens the russian military to the point of collapse.
people look like ants
pounded to dust. it’s never a good day when karma comes calling.
russian military stretched to breaking points. it seems they expect a civil war in belarus, which is why they deployed wagner. the belarusian army refused to fight.
wagner, which supports lna/haftar and rsf/dagalo was kicked out from russia. now russia is training soldiers of djibouti.