At least eleven terrorists killed after an airstrike by the Syrian Army and Russian forces in Idlib, Syria

June 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least eleven terrorists have been killed after an airstrike carried out by the Syrian Army in collaboration with Russian forces against a rebel headquarters located in the province of Idlib, located in northwestern Syria.

The attack came “in response to repeated daily attacks” on civilians in residential areas of Hama. The Army has bombed a barracks where suspected terrorists kept weapons, drones and other military equipment, according to the SANA news agency.

This comes after an alleged Russian shelling on June 25 against a vegetable and fruit market in the Syrian town of Jisr al Shughur, west of Idlib, left at least nine civilians dead and more than 30 injured.

Barely two days after that attack, another bombardment killed eight suspected members of the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), a terrorist organization inherited from the Al Nusra Front (once a subsidiary of Al Qaeda in Syria) that controls Idlib, in northwest Syria, and that it is the last rebel stronghold in the country.

Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s main international backers, and its military intervention in 2015 allowed government forces to repel rebel advances and once again seize the initiative on the battlefield.