Go to mediabankRussian military in Syria. Archival photoMOSCOW, Oct 16 The Russian and Syrian military carried out a special operation to eliminate IS militants* involved in blowing up a bus in the province of Damascus, said Deputy Head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Arab Republic, Major General Oleg Yegorov .
"The Russian group, in cooperation with the state security units and the armed forces of the SAR in the village of Jasim, Daraa province in the south of the Syrian Arab Republic, carried out a special operation to eliminate IS militants * involved in the October 13 terrorist attack — blowing up a bus with military personnel of the 4th Panzer Division of the SAR Armed Forces in the village of Sabur, Damascus province, as a result of which 19 people were killed and 22 people were injured", Yegorov said at a briefing.
He specified that during the special operation, the assault detachments of the armed forces The SAR, with the support of army aviation, killed 20 militants, including the organizers of the terrorist attack Abu Abdrakhman Al l-Iraqi (the leader of the «sleeping» cells operating in the southern provinces of the SAR), Muhammad Samir Qaddaha (former commander of the IS* gangs in the province of Daraa), Faisal Yahimi Al-Khaki (the commander of the IS gang* in the village of Jassim) and Ayub Faddel Al -Jebrawi (former commander of IS* gangs in the province of Raqqa).* Terrorist organization banned in Russia. «* in Syria