Russian Air Force Intensifies Campaign, Destroys 237 Terrorist Targets

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The Russian Air Force, in cooperation with the Syrian Air Force, carried out 131 sorties destroying 237 terrorist targets during the past 48 hours, as Moscow pressed on with its bombing campaign in Syria.

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Russian warplanes pounded sites belonging to ISIL and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front "terrorist groups" in the Homs, Hama, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo and Raqa provinces, Moscow said in a statement.

A military source told SANA the airstrikes targeted terrorist sites in the provinces of Hama, Lattakia, Homs, Aleppo, Raqqa, and Damascus Countryside, and that they resulted in destroying 17 command centers for terrorists, 7 assorted munitions depots, 22 artillery positions and training camps, and 189 fortified sites and shelters.

The source elaborated by saying that the sorties resulted in destroying fortified bases, shelters, and a heavy machinegun nest used by ISIL in the surroundings of Palmyra in Homs countryside, in addition to destroying a weapons depot for ISIL near Harasta al-Qantara and a workshops for manufacturing explosive devices and munitions south of Douma in Damascus Countryside.

"Su-25 jets hit a fortified ISIS position in the Tadmur area of Homs province," Moscow's defense ministry said in a statement, using the Arabic name for Palmyra. "As a result of a direct strike, a fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed."

In Aleppo province, Moscow said it hit a training camp for foreign fighters and an improvised explosive device production plant, and said in the Hama province it destroyed two armored vehicles.

Russia's military said it also took out a key Al-Nusra Front command post on a strategic hill in the coastal Latakia region.