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News ID: 57652
Publish Date : 23 September 2018 - 21:35

Syrian Army Shoots Down Terrorists’ Combat Drone


DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Syrian government forces have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle as it was flying in the skies over the western coastal province of Latakia, where Russia has an air base.
Informed sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria's pro-government and Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency that Syrian troops shoot down the armed drone using a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft auto-cannon.
The sources added that members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, terrorist group had launched the unmanned aerial vehicle from the neighboring terrorist-held Idlib province.
The development came only two days after a terrorist drone attack left eight Syrian soldiers injured in the northern part of Latakia province.
Russian fighter jets conduct airstrikes against Daesh terrorists and foreign-sponsored terrorists in the conflict-plagued Arab country from Latakia.
The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria said the assault was launched by a group of foreign-backed terrorists, based in the city of Jisr al-Shughur, against a group of Syrian troopers near the town of Qala'at Marza.
Army tightens noose on Daesh terrorists in Sweida’s al-Safa hills
Meanwhile, Syrian army forces, supported by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have dealt stinging blows to Daesh terrorists in the country’s southwestern province of Sweida.
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that Syrian soldiers and their allies fortified their positions in the al-Safa hills, and carried out a counter-terrorism operation in the area. Scores of Daesh extremists were killed and injured in the process.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed terrorism since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Zionist regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the country.

Syrian government forces guard a lookout post in the Bazo hilltop, north of Khan Tuman, on the outskirts of Aleppo, October 25, 2016, as they advance to retake the city’s eastern part from terrorists.