Major General Oleg Egorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said that US-controlled militants in Syria are using Syrians in the Rukban camp as human shields.
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.
Terrorist groups Nusra Front and the Islamic Party of Turkestan (both banned in Russia) are preparing an attack on the Hmeimim air base in Syria using unmanned aerial vehicles in strike equipment and kamikaze drones, Maj. Gen. Oleg Egorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, ..