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In Syria, with the participation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, dozens of terrorists were eliminated
2023-06-26
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] During the joint air strikes of the Syrian army and the Russian Aerospace Forces in the province of Idlib, dozens of terrorists were eliminated, the Ministry of Defense of the Arab Republic confirmed.

In an official statement, the agency said that the operation was carried out in response to recent attacks by armed terrorist groups on the provinces of Hama and Latakia, which claimed the lives of several civilians. They also caused great material damage to the property of the population.

The strikes targeted terrorist headquarters and warehouses in Idlib and drone launch sites, the ministry added.

As reported by IA Regnum , Russian Konstantin Basharov was kidnapped by terrorists of the Islamic State (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Syria. The man has not contacted his relatives since May 7. His wife found out about the kidnapping on June 10, when she saw a video with her husband.

In a video message, he said that since 2017 he has been working in Syria as an oil and gas production operator. Basharov's relatives appealed to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the country's embassy in Damascus, the FSB and the presidential administration with a request to save the man from captivity.

In April, the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria reported that the militants were going to carry out provocative shelling in Idlib with the help of attack drones.
Rudaw quantifies:
Russian Arclight airstrikes on Syria’s rebel-held northwest killed at least 13 people, including four civilians, a war monitor reported on Sunday.

At least six civilians and three rebel fighters were killed in Jisr al-Shughur in the strikes according to UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). At least 40 other civilians were maimed in the rebel-held area of Idlib province, the report added.

The observatory later added that the corpse count had risen to 13 in the attack which struck a fruit and vegetable market.

Another three civilians, including two children, and one fighter were killed in a strike outside Idlib city.

Russian forces were responding to dronezaps over the past week that they blame on rebel forces, the monitor said.

SOHR had reported numerous dronezaps on Latakia province, including in Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
’s hometown of the town of Qardaha. The drone attacks have resulted in an unconfirmed number of civilian casualties.

Half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces, are the last rebel-held bastions in the country after Assad seized back swathes of territory over the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011.

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) is the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda and is the prominent force among dozens of different rebel factions operating in the area. It has been internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.
Shafaq News has other numbers:
An Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
allegedly conducted by Russian forces has claimed the lives of five and maimed at least 25 persons in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the opposition's Civil Defense reported on Sunday.

A statement by the Civil Defense said that "an initial toll of five non-combatants were killed, and over 20 others were maimed."

The casualties resulted from what was described as a "massacre perpetrated by Russian warplanes targeting a vegetable and fruit market on the outskirts of Jisr al-Shughur, west of Idlib."

Al-Jazeera
...an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
, citing sources within the opposition, stated that "the Russian bombardment on Jisr al-Shughur and its environs in northern Syria resulted in the death of nine individuals."
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Konstantin Basharov: 2023-06-15 ISIS terrorists in Syria kidnapped Russian Basharov
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Jisr al-Shughur: 2023-06-25 Russian warplanes hit opposition-held areas in Latakia, Idlib
Jisr al-Shughur: 2023-06-09 Turkish military movements in NW Syria spark speculation
Jisr al-Shughur: 2023-05-24 HTS arrests 4 women on charge of ‘incitement’ in Syria’s Idlib
Related:
Idlib city: 2023-06-12 HTS hands over Saudi jihadist to Turkish intelligence
Idlib city: 2023-06-04 HTS foreign fighter assassinated in Syria's Idlib
Idlib city: 2023-06-02 Good Morning
Related:
Qardaha: 2021-06-28 Opposition groups targeted the countryside of al-Qardaha town
Qardaha: 2020-10-11 New fires in Syria's coast countryside
Qardaha: 2017-01-03 Lack of security shaped Assad's heartland city in 2016
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Aleppo: 2023-06-24 Idlib stumbling block. How to reconcile Syria and Turkey
Aleppo: 2023-06-20 Government sends reinforcements to NW Syria ahead of Astana talks
Aleppo: 2023-06-18 Medical staff condemns Turkish bombing of Tel Rifaat Hospital
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