The Russian air force on Monday carried out about fifteen raids against positions of jihadist groups in the province of Idleb, in northwestern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
With our regional correspondent, Paul Khalifeh
Three Russian fighter-bombers fired several missiles against training camps of Hayat Tahrir al-Cham, the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says these positions had been deserted before the raids.
On August 1, Russian aircraft bombed areas held by jihadists, and on July 22 seven civilians, including children, were killed in Russian raids not far from the border with Turkey.
Always so many Russian activities
Despite its massive commitment in Ukraine, the Russian army maintains a high level of action on the Syrian ground. The Hmeimim air base in Latakia has not been stripped and Russian aircraft are carrying out regular strikes to support the Syrian army’s ground operations against the Islamic State group in the central desert.
Russian troops have recently reinforced their presence in the north and north-east, on the front lines where the Syrian army and the Kurdish militias face each other on one side, the Turkish army and its Syrian auxiliaries on the other. The Russian military deployment in Syria has not been lightened as the war effort in Ukraine would suggest. But supplying the troops has become longer and more expensive due to the closure of the Bosphorus Strait to warships.
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