Russia launches new airstrikes in Homs, Hama and Idleb
Syria's
President Assad meets and greets troops--Courtesy file photo by Syrian government
by Joseph
Earnest October 1, 2015
Newscast Media DAMASCUS,
Syria—The Russian Air Force carried out more airstrikes on 12 ISIL positions
in Homs, Hama and Idleb as part of the agreement between Syria and
Russia to eliminate the terrorists’ presence in Syria.
The Russian air operation in Syria started on Wednesday shortly after
the upper house of the Russian parliament gave President Vladimir Putin
the mandate to use military force in the Arab country upon President
Bashar al-Assad’s request.
Russia Today website quoted Russian
Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Maj. Igor Konashenkov as saying in a
statement that “a terrorist HQ and an ammunition depot were destroyed
near Idleb, as were a fortified three-level command center near Hama.”
“A
direct bomb hit also completely destroyed a workshop north of Homs that
produced explosives and ammunition,” he added, saying that at this
workshop terrorists were stuffing vehicles with explosives, which were
then used to carry out terrorist attacks.
Twenty airstrikes targeted
eight ISIL positions in Syria on Wednesday, according to the Ministry.
Those included ammunition warehouses and command and control centers.
Russia’s
Ministry of Defense has described the country’s first airstrikes
against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Syria as successful.
Eight
positions of the terrorist group were targeted successfully during the
raids, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on
Wednesday following the airstrikes.
“Ammunition depots, weapons,
fuel and lubricants, accumulation of military equipment have been struck
as a result of the airstrikes,” Konashenkov added.
He also said
the command and control posts of Daesh in the area had been “completely
destroyed,” emphasizing, however, that “the civilian infrastructure and
the nearby territory was not stricken.”
In a relevant context,
the Ministry announced that the Russian landing ships in the
Mediterranean and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet forces will take part in the
Russian air operation against terrorist organizations in Syria to
protect the Russian military facilities in Tartous and Lattakia.
In
the meantime, commander of a CIA-trained group told Reuters that two
Russian airstrikes in Syria Thursday hit a training camp operated by
militant groups that received military training organized by the US
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Hassan
Haj Ali, head of the Liwa Suqour al-Jabal terrorist group, said the
camp in Idleb province was struck by around 20 missiles in two separate
sorties. Add
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