Government forces use suicide drones in NW Syria causing casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – The semi-official al-Watan Newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Syrian government forces had used one-way attack drones in areas in northwest Syria.
It added that the drones had proved “effectiveness”, as they killed dozens of “terrorists.”
The newspaper said that the government forces intensified military operations using suicide drones in northwest Syria, killing dozens of “terrorists”, notably militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS – formerly al-Nusra Front).
On the same day, opposition media outlets said that the government forces targeted the town of Darat Izza, west of Aleppo, with drones, injuring five civilians.
The Syrian government have never confessed the use of drones in its attacks on northwest Syria despite using them. However, the newspaper revealed that the government forces have a number of drones.
It indicated that the government forces targeted, with one-way attack drones, areas in the governorates of Idlib, Hama, Latakia, and Aleppo killing and injuring over 20 “terrorists”, most of them are affiliated with Turkistan Islamic Party.
The Islamic Party is a jihadist group where its jihadists came to Syria from their homeland in China with their families in 2013 and settled in the coastal mountains and the western countryside of Idlib.
In February and March, the government forces launched more than 55 attacks, using one-way attack drones under Russian supervision on posts of the HTS and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), in the countryside of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo.