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Syria has liberated 85% of its territory from terrorists: Russian military
 [Iran Press TV] The Russian military says the Syrian government has managed to liberate 85 percent of the country from the grips of terrorist groups, some two years after Moscow began a counterterrorism campaign in Syria at the official request of Damascus.Lieutenant General Aleksandr Lapin, the Russian chief of staff in Syria, announced the news in a presser held at Hmeymim Air Base in Syria’s western province of Latakia on Tuesday. He added that Syrian forces must now clear the remaining 15 percent of the country, which amounts to 27,000 square kilometers, of terrorists. Lapin said Syrian troops continued the operation to free the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr from ISIS Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group, after they managed to break an almost three-year siege on the embattled city earlier this month. "Currently the operation to free the city is ongoing. The Syrian military will soon finish off" ISIS terrorists, who "used to occupy the city’s neighborhoods," he added. Lapin stated that Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from the Black Sea escort vessel, Admiral Essen, had destroyed ISIS’s command posts and communication networks; an effective move that disrupted control of the terror group’s units in Dayr al-Zawr province. "Over 450 terrorists, five tanks and 42 pickups, with heavy machine guns, were liquidated during the operation," he said. In a bid to aid the war-torn Arab nation in its war against foreign-sponsored terrorism, in September 2015, Russia started a campaign in Syria at an official request made by Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... Russian warplanes, based in Hmeymim, have so far significantly aided the government troops in ridding Syria of the widespread militancy. One of the biggest breakthroughs in anti-terror offensives was made in December last year, when Syrian troops, backed by Russian air force, managed to gain full control of the city of Aleppo. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-13 |
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