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Russian military operations against terrorist groups in Syria continues, despite the ongoing armed mutiny by the Wagner Group in Russia.
On June 24, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a new wave of airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is controlled by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and several other terrorist groups.
The airstrikes targeted al-Khudor hill in the northern Lattakia countryside, as well as the outskirts of the town of Gassaniah in the western countryside of Idlib. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the airstrikes resulted in casualties, without providing any details.
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A day earlier, several Russian airstrikes hit positions of HTS and its allies in Gassaniah and the town of Sharorah in the northern Lattakia countryside.
Sputnik reported, citing a Syrian military source, that the positions were used to launch three drone attacks against government-held areas around Greater Idlib over the past two days. The attacks, which were blamed on HTS, claimed the lives of four civilians and wounded at least four others.
The new series of airstrikes confirm that just like in Ukraine, Russian military operations in Syria were not affected by Wagner’s armed mutiny.
The privet military group was once very active in Syria. Nevertheless, in recent years it slowly ceased its activities in the war-torn country.
HTS and its allies in Greater Idlib will likely attempt to take advantage of the current situation in Russia and launch larger attacks against nearby government-held areas. This could lead to the collapse of the ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey more than three years ago.
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