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19 civilians killed in raids on Syria’s rebel east Aleppo
“They activated that system, as we have in the past”.
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Russian heavy bombers took off from an Iranian air base and struck rebel targets in Syria in a dramatic sign of the growing military relations between the two countries that are the main backers of the Syrian government.
“We know that the chances of Daesh and other terrorist organizations obtaining anti-aircraft weapons are minimal, but nevertheless, using only one military base [Hmeymim, Syria] bears some limited risks for our Aerospace Forces”, Sen.
Russian Federation also gave advanced notice to the US -led coalition battling Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, complying with the terms of a safety agreement meant to avoid an accidental clash in the skies, the USA military said.
“This is an important development”, said Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Jamestown Foundation in Washington. The ministry clarified that the bombers had destroyed five major ammunition depots, three command posts and three training camps, which the terrorists had used for carrying out operations near Aleppo. They said the setup at the Iranian air base was established very quickly, perhaps overnight.
Last year, Russian Federation and Iran signed a military cooperation deal focused on training and fighting terrorism.
The spokesman also declined to say whether USA and coalition aircraft over Iraq and Syria had to alter their own flight plans to accommodate the Russians.
A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Tuesday includes a cockpit view of a Tu-22M3 bomber flying over Syria before dropping its munitions. An unnamed military source told Interfax news agency on Monday that Russian Federation had also sent requests to Iran and Iraq to fire cruise missiles across their airspace.
In a move underscoring Moscow’s increasingly close ties with Tehran, its defence ministry said that long-range Russian Tupolev-22M3 bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers took off from Hamadan to strike targets in Syria.
Russian Federation and Iran have been expanding their ties in the past months after most of the sanctions against Iran were lifted following the nuclear deal with world powers.
The Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday said its bombers carried out air strikes against terrorist targets in Syria from an Iranian air base for the first time. Asked about how much advance notice was given, Garver said that “it was not a lot of time, but it was enough” to maintain safety in the airspace over Iraq and Syria.
By using Iran to launch long-range bomber raids rather than a base in southern Russia, Moscow can boost its firepower, military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer told Agence France-Presse.
A Russian senator last week said Moscow was mulling plans to expand Hmeimim into a permanent military facility.
It is also apparently the first time since before the 1979 Iranian revolution that Tehran has allowed a foreign power to use its territory for military operations, Reuters reported. The US, meanwhile, has accused Russian Federation of purposefully targeting numerous “moderate” rebels seeking to oust Assad.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were carried out by either Russian or regime aircraft and that dozens of people were also wounded, some of them critically, in Tariq al-Bab and Al-Sakhur neighborhoods.