During Astana round…terrorist groups increase in activity west of Syria: Russia

The Russian president's special envoy to Syria Alexander Laverntiev said, " the clashes have escalated lately in the northwest of Syria, and the radical groups - stationed there­ - have became more active," and that, " Russia observes certain limited activity for the sleeper cells of the terrorist ISIS in Syria."

Russia's envoy confirmed during opening the works of the Astana 15^th meeting, in Sochi resort Tuesday, that," Russia rule it completely out any agreement with the active terrorist groups in Syria, focusing on complete liquidizing of them."

According to Laverteiv, there is a need for doing all the effort to prevent new wave, that incite the armed conflict. As it will be disastrous not only on Syria, but it will have great negative aftermaths on the region as whole," he said.

To that, the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of the Defense, that it monitored 35 shelling operations by the mercenaries of the " Jabhat al-Nusrah", in a indication to the mercenaries of the , "Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham", in Idlib region, to stop the escalating in the west of Syria."

On Monday, the deputy director of the Russian Center, the Marine Brigade, Vyacheslav Sitnik, said that 19 bombing operations were monitored inside Idlib governorate, 12 in Lattakia, and two operations in each of the governorates of Aleppo and Hama.

Today, Tuesday, in the Russian city of Sochi, the work of the 15th round of "Astana" talks began, with the participation of the so-called guarantor countries (Russia, Iran, and Turkey), with the aim of discussing developments in the security, political and humanitarian situation in Syria.

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ANHA