(AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman, File)Before the shelling, the demonstrators had gathered outside the embassy carrying posters of the Russian and Syrian presidents, Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad, and waved the two countries’ flags. Only Russian Federation backed us….
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Jolani criticised efforts to reach a political solution to the four-year war, which has killed more than 240,000 people. And if they kill our soldiers, then kill their soldiers.
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, head of Jabhat al-Nusra, launched a broadside attack on Russia’s entry into the Syrian war, offering a bounty of £2.2 million for the head of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian president. He told TASS the embassy had no information on whether the shelling targeted the rally.
The developments came a day after US-led coalition forces air-dropped ammunition to the Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC) battling jihadists near the Islamic State group’s northern stronghold of Raqa.
Putin took issue with the arms drop, saying the weapons could end up in the wrong hands. Jolani called on armed opposition groups to set aside their differences until both air wars had been defeated. “They are breaking the Russian-Iranian and Syrian army”, he said.
Jolani also offered “an amount of two million euros ($2.2 million) for whoever kills (Hezbollah head) Hassan Nasrallah, even if it is a member of his own family or sect”.
He added that Moscow would cooperate with Damascus authorities to find those responsible for the attack on the Russian Embassy in Syria.
Lebanon’s pro-Syrian daily Al-Akhbar and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said civilian flights have stopped at the Basel Assad global Airport in the coastal province of Latakia because of intense activities by Russian warplanes at a nearby military base.
“Two rockets hit embassy territory at 10:15 am”.
Activists however said supplies had been stepped up since the Russian air strikes began on September 30. Troops captured the villages of Lahaya and Mansoura in the central province of Hama, the SANA news agency reported.
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The Observatory also said Hezbollah fighters arrived in the strategic Sahl al-Ghab plain to reinforce a regime offensive there.
