Syria al-Nusra urges militants to kill Russians
The head of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terror group in Syria has urged Takfiri militants in Caucasus to launch attacks on Russia in retaliation for Moscow’s air raids in the Arab country.
"If the Russian army kills the people of Syria, then kill their people. And if they kill our soldiers, then kill their soldiers. An eye for an eye," Abu Mohamed al-Jolani said in an audio recording released late Monday.
Moscow’s air campaign kicked off on September 30 at the request of the Syrian government and has mainly targeted the positions of the Daesh Takfiri militants and other terrorists groups operating in the west-central province of Hama along with parts of the neighboring provinces of Latakia and Idlib.
Jolani, meanwhile, said that Russia’s military actions in Syria will have dire consequences for the country and pledged that Russians “will be shattered … on Syria's doorstep.”
On Tuesday, rockets hit Moscow's embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus while demonstrators had assembled to voice support for Moscow’s air campaign in Syria.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the rockets were fired from the eastern edges of Damascus, where Takfiri militants are stationed.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the attack as an "act of terror.”
Russia hits 86 terror targets
The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that the country's airstrikes have hit 86 "terrorist" targets in Syria since Monday.
"In the last 24 hours, Su-34, Su-24M and Su-25SM planes carried out 88 sorties against 86 terrorist infrastructure targets in the provinces of Raqa, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo," said ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
The Syrian army has also managed to gain more grounds against Takfiri militants with the help of Russian airstrikes over the past several days.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria flared in March 2011.
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