Syrian soldiers wounded in Latakia and Aleppo – Russian Reconciliation Center 

IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Syrian soldiers were wounded in different attacks lunched by militants in Aleppo and Latakia, northwestern Syria, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria announced on Saturday.

“One Syrian soldier was wounded in an artillery shelling carried out by terrorists [Turkish-backed Syrian opposition militants] from Assos area west of Aleppo on government forces’ positions in Kafr Halab in southwest of Aleppo,” Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, announced yesterday.

“Two other soldiers were wounded in machine-gun attacks carried out by “terrorists” from Tadil village on Ajel area west of Aleppo, as well as the terrorists stationed in Makbis area targeted Bala area,” Zhuravlev added. 

The Russian official indicated that, during the past day, the “terrorist” group Jabhat al-Nusra targeted the de-escalation zone in Idlib with five shells, four of which fell in Aleppo governorate, and one in Latakia.

Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.  

Reporting by Fansa Temmo