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Before Russian bombs, CIA rebels had Syrian gains
A monitoring group said on Friday Aleppo had seen intensified fighting as Islamic State seized villages close to the city from rival insurgents.
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Konashenkov said one of the targets hit near Aleppo was a concealed base for military vehicles, which he said had received a direct hit from an Su-24M bomber.
The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher in Washington says the Americans are rattled by the addition of cruise missiles to the air war over Syria, where the United States and its allies are also operating.
On October 9, the NGO Human Rights Watch said at least 17 civilians were killed in the Homs area by Russian air strikes earlier this month and called for an investigation.
Yesterday Moscow claimed four of its warships slammed 26 rockets into Islamic State targets across Syria in a devastating salvo. Halaby said the Russians have not carried out attacks against ISIL in Aleppo, which is split between government forces and various rebel groups. The Observatory and Lebanon-based TV channel al-Mayadeen said a senior Hezbollah fighter had also been killed in clashes.
The Observatory reported a new wave of Russian air strikes on Friday morning in Hama and Idlib, apparently in support of a ground offensive launched this week by Syrian troops and allied militia against rebels.
The SOHR head also told Fox News he agrees with the State Department assertion this week that only 10 percent of the targeting by Russian Federation in Syria have been against ISIS, while the rest have been against anti-Assad forces.
The move came a day after the Syrian regime, emboldened by the critical support of Russian Federation, announced it had “launched a wide-scale offensive” aimed at “eliminating the terrorist groups and liberating the areas and towns that have suffered from terrorism and its crime”, according to Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, the Syrian army chief of staff.
Syria has been in brutal civil war since 2011 when nationwide protests were held against Assad’s government.
The fighting is concentrated in Hama and the northern Idlib provinces, where a consortium of mainstream rebels as well as al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, are operating.
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In May 2014, Hossein Hamedani, a top general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, made a statement at a council meeting in Hamedan, the western Iranian province.