280 Russian raids target Syrian Badia for 3 days consecutively 

Over the past three days, Russian fighters have targeted the areas of ISIS spread in the Syrian Badia with about 280 air strikes, killing 43 mercenaries, in an attempt to reduce the intense ISIS activity in the areas under the control of the government.

280 Russian raids target Syrian Badia for 3 days consecutively 
11 March, 2021   08:57
NEWS DESK

4 Russian fighters took turns targeting separate areas of the Syrian Badia, within the Aleppo - Hama - Raqqa triangle, with intense raids, as about 25 air strikes launched where ISIS exist, on Thursday morning, according to what was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Russian aircraft continue to carry out air strikes, within the area of ​​the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle targeting sites and caves that mercenaries take as their shelters, specifically in the Atheria and al-Rahjan desert in addition to the Raqqa desert and at the administrative borders between Deir-ez-Zor and al-Raqqa.

mercenaries, and this brings the death toll to 43, as a result of more than 280 Russian air strikes during the past 96 hours, according to the observatory.

The Russian escalation against ISIS comes as a result of the latter's implementation of ambush operations and attacks on the sites of the Damascus government forces, as the areas under its control are witnessing increased activity by ISIS sleeper cells.

In addition, the death toll from March 24, 2019, to the present day, has reached 1,354 government forces (including at least two Russians, in addition to 145 pro-Iranian groups), all of whom were killed during attacks, bombings and ambushes of ISIS. West of the Euphrates, the desert of Deir-ez-Zor, al-Raqqa, Homs and As-Suwayda, while 841 ISIS mercenaries were killed during the same period.

In addition, 4 civilians working in the gas fields and 11 shepherds, in addition to a female citizen, a girl and two men were killed in ISIS attacks on the area.

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ANHA