Aleppo Districts Hit by “Al-Nusra Front” Fire – Russian Military

MOSCOW- Terrorists of “Al-Nusra Front” heavily shelled the northern parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing and wounding civilians and destroying buildings, Russian military said Monday.

According to Sputnik news, the terrorists fired mortar rounds and rockets at the Burayj ar Rih neighborhood in northern Aleppo, killing and wounding civilians, Russia’s Syrian reconciliation center said early Monday.

 “Nusra Front Militants fired mortars and multiple rocket launchers at the Burayj ar Rih district north of Aleppo,” a member of the Russian Defense Ministry’s center in Hmeimim said.

“The shells fired by terrorist groups against residential quarters destroyed a shopping mall, homes and administrative buildings, private buildings, killing and wounding civilians,” the military official said.

Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar ash-Sham Shell Syrian Army in Aleppo – Russian MoD

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that “al-Nusra Front” terrorists and Ahrar ash-Sham armed group have shelled Syrian government forces in Aleppo.

“Militants from al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham armed group conducted a mortar attack against the positions of [Syrian] government forces in the district of Ansari in Aleppo’s southwest,” a spokesman of the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation at the Hmeimim airbase said.

The attack with the use of mortars and multiple launch rocket systems was conducted from the Rashidin neighborhood in Aleppo, according to Russian military.

Earlier in the day, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation reported that al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham continue to shell the Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo.

Earlier this month, Washington asked Moscow to direct its airstrikes solely at al-Nusra Front and refrain from targeting so-called “moderate” rebels, working with al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria.

On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the US to convince those armed groups which they support in Syria to leave areas where al-Nusra Front terrorists are present.

Source: Sputnik

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