Russian jets bomb terrorist positions in Syria’s Idlib region

The Russian Defense Ministry says the country’s fighter jets have carried out a series of airstrikes on positions of the Takfiri Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist outfit in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, after the terrorists shelled residential neighborhoods in the area.

Deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Major General Oleg Yegorov said the air attacks destroyed a camp of the terrorists involved in the recent rocket attacks against Khan Shaykhun town and the city of Saraqib.

He added that the communications center, operations room and an ammunition depot of the militants were destroyed as a result.

The development came less than a week after the center announced that it had received information that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorists together with representatives of the pseudo-humanitarian organization White Helmets were preparing to record a staged video in Ariha town and Jisr ash-Shughur city of Idlib province to accuse the Russian Aerospace Forces and Syrian troops of indiscriminate strikes on civilian infrastructure and residential areas.

Yegorov said last Friday that the Takfiri terrorist group, previously known as Jabhat al-Nusra, had carried out five counts of shelling in the past 24 hours, of which one was recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone. Areas in the same Syrian province as well as the western coastal province of Latakia were also shelled on four different occasions.

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