The most prominent of this week’s incidents was an attack carried out by the Somali army and local militias supporting it against the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab Organization. The downtrend in ISIS’s activity around the globe continues. In Syria fighting between the Syrian army and HTS intensified in the Idlib region. In the Daraa region, fighting continued between local militias and ISIS’s local cells. In Afghanistan ISIS claimed responsibility for activating an IED against a minibus carrying Taliban government officials in Kabul.
Damascus, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) At least a hundred terrorists were killed or wounded in air strikes conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the province of Aleppo, Syria, some 400 kilometers north of the capital.
Damascus, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) A Russian-Syrian joint task force eliminated the extremists responsible for the attack against a bus on October 13th, which claimed the lives of 19 soldiers.
Moscow, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) At least 45 jihadists, including two ringleaders, were neutralized in airstrikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the northern Syrian province of Idlib.