The Syrian Army and its Russian allies launched this Monday airstrikes against insurgent groups on the outskirts of the town of Al Safirasoutheast of the city of Aleppo, currently controlled by Islamist factions, to repel the military sources have reported.
“Syrian and Russian warplanes successively bomb terrorist concentrations and its axes of movement on the outskirts of the town of Al Safira, in the eastern rural area of Aleppo,” said a military source from the Syrian Army, who has not been identified, as reproduced by the official Syrian news agency, SANA. .
These attacks, according to the informant, have caused “dozens of dead and wounded” among the ranks of the insurgentsin addition to the “destruction of several vehicles that were in their possession.” The White Helmets rescue group has stated that at least 11 people have died, including five children and two womeny More than a dozen have been injured.
Until now, the military coalition led by the Levant Liberation Organization (Hayat Tahrir al Sham or HTS, in Arabic)a Turkish-backed group whose members were former Al Qaeda militants in Syria, has not reacted to this information.
At least 50 civilians have died
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom and which has a wide network of collaborators on the ground, both in opposition and government areas, More than 400 people have died, including around 50 civilianssince the start of the offensive last Wednesday.
The insurgents They launched their offensive last Wednesday and in record time entered the city of Aleppothe second in the country, after the Syrian Army withdrew without hardly any fighting.
Islamist factions continue to advance, especially in the province of Aleppo, where they also maintain fighting with the Syrian Kurdish militias and in the direction of the city of Hama.
The Syrian Army loyal to Damascus indicated that it is preparing for a “counteroffensive” with military help from Iran and Russia, as well as Iraqi Shiite militias.
