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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian Air Force launches large-scale attack in Idlib
2019-12-08
[AlMasdar] The Russian Air Force launched a massive attack over the Idlib Governorate on Saturday, as their warplanes targeted several areas under the control of 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) and the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
 (NLF).

According to reports from Idlib, the Russian Air Force primarily concentrated their strikes on the southern and southwestern countrysides of the governorate, with several attacks reported on the town of al-Barah, Hass, and Ahsim.

The Russian Air Force attack on al-Barah was reportedly the most intense, with over ten Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s hitting the town on Saturday.

A couple airstrikes were also reported over the Jabal al-Zawiya region, which is where several Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops are currently deployed at in southwestern Idlib.

Following these airstrikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) accused the Russian Air Force of killing four people in al-Barah.

Saturday’s attack by the Russian Air Force came just a day after their aircraft were grounded due to poor weather.
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