DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – A terrorist commander in Syria says its group has received foreign-supplied surface-to-surface Grad rockets amid the escalation of fighting in the embattled northwestern city of Aleppo.
Fares al-Bayoush, the terrorist commander, told Reuters that the new type of the rockets, which have a range of 22 and 40 kilometers, were supplied in "excellent quantities" and would be used in battlefronts in Aleppo, Hama and the coastal region.
The terrorists had already received Grad missiles with a 20-kilometer range, but Bayoush stressed that the latest dispatch was the first time the terrorists got this particular type of rockets.
Each salvo contains 40 rockets, he said without elaborating.
Bayoush further complained that the terrorists had not received anti-aircraft missiles they had demanded.
A video posted on YouTube showed members of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) terrorist group firing Grad missiles at government positions near Aleppo.
Commenting on the footage, Bayoush confirmed the weapons shown in the video were newly supplied.
Aleppo has been divided over the past four years between government forces in the west and foreign-backed terrorists in the east, making it a frontline battleground.
Syrian government forces have managed to cut major terrorist supply routes from Turkey, which has long severed as the main gateway for the transfer of new terrorist recruits and weapons into the Arab country.
The United States, along with its allies, has long been supporting what it calls "moderate” terrorists fighting to topple the Damascus government. Some of such terrorist groups have also received military training overseen by the CIA in Syria’s neighboring countries.
The Pentagon has on several occasions airdropped weapons for terrorists. Some of the weapons have ended up in the hands of Daesh terrorists.