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BEIRUT (Reuters) -As Wagner mercenaries advanced on Moscow in an attempted mutiny in late June, authorities in Syria and Russian military commanders there took a series of swift measures against ...
On 24 June, two civilians were killed by Russian airstrikes near the village of Basbat, west of Jisr ash-Shughur. [86] While a civilians was killed by an HTS drone attack in the town of Deir Shamil. [87] On 25 June, the Russian Air Force conducted the most intense air strikes in the Idlib province since the onset of the clashes.
The same day, Russian news agency Interfax reported that, as part of a surge in Russian military activity due to the intensification of the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia deployed MiG-31K fighter jets with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and long-range Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bombers to its Hmeimim air base on Syria'a Mediterranean coast.
The 2020 Kafr Takharim airstrike occurred on 26 October 2020 when the Russian Air Force targeted a training camp run by Faylaq al-Sham, a major Islamist Syrian rebel group backed by Turkey, near the town of Kafr Takharim located around 10 kilometers from the Turkish border. [ 4] At the time of the attack, the camp contained more than 180 rebels ...
A Russian fighter jet flew "dangerously close" to a U.S. hunter-killer drone over Syria on Sunday and released a flare causing severe damage to the drone's propeller, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.
On 30 September 2015, Russia launched a military intervention in Syria after a request by the government of Bashar al-Assad for military support in its fight against the Syrian opposition and Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian civil war. [ 155 ][ 156 ] The intervention was kick-started by extensive air strikes across Syria, focused on attacking ...
v. t. e. Russia has supported the administration of incumbent President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and (since September 2015) with direct military involvement. The 2015 deployment to Syria marked the first time since the end of the Cold War in 1991 that Russia ...
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Russia in Kursk: ‘We laughed on enemy soil’ Eastern Ukrainian town under siege - footage. 10:15, Tom Watling. A video published online has shown the ...