...KABOOM!...
s on Tuesday on the southern countryside of Idlib Governorate, northwestern Syria, amid continued shelling between the conflicting parties.
Opposition military sources told North Press that Russian warplanes renewed their airstrikes on the outskirts of the town of Sarjah in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, using high-explosive vacuum missiles.
The Russian raids coincided with artillery and missile shelling by Syrian government forces on the outskirts of the targeted village, as well as the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Awid, Safouhan, Kensafra, and Fleifel, south of Idlib, and al-Ankawi and al-Surmaniyah in the al-Ghab plain, west of Hama Governorate, central west Syria.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
military sources in al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, a coalition of several armed factions including Hayat 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), reported that they targeted government forces’ positions in Mo’askar, and the towns of Jurin and Shathah in al-Ghab plain west of Hama, and Kafr Nabl in southern Idlib with heavy artillery shells and missiles.
The Russian military escalation against northwestern Syria is the first of its kind in about three years, as Russian warplanes have carried out more than 25 airstrikes on the area since mid-June, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.