Syrian troops repulsed another attack of militants of the Islamic State in Aleppo province. Islamists again tried to capture the airfield voennue Kuveyris, raspolojennoi in the Eastern province.
Not becoming to come up with anything new to cause any damage to Syrian forces, the militants sent a suicide bomber on a moped to their CAT. However, as before, their idea has not produced results. For a few hundred metres from government outposts extremist was eliminated.
After an unsuccessful attempt to commit a terrorist attack, the terrorists stormed the airport, but three hours of fierce fighting they could not have advanced a single step, as the Russians came to the aid of the Syrians.
As reported by military intelligence sources, the Israeli portal Debka, which is closely associated with Israeli intelligence, at the most critical moment of the battle, to help the Syrian army came the Russian Marines. They are in armored personnel carriers, hit the flank of the advancing militants broke into their battle formations. The Israeli source reports that “Russian rastrelivali fighters like birds (game)”, fighters lost over 20 of its own – fled.
Among our Marines and no casualties.
Most interesting is that a year ago, the Russian Marines from the brigade No. 810, together with the units of “Hezbollah”, entered the first land battle in Syria against the is militants when they liberated the airfield Kuveyris.
In September 2015, the portal Debka reported that the Russian Marines attacked the militants on the runway of the airfield, Quares to the South-West of Halab (Aleppo).
IG forces that protect the air base, then, consisted mainly of Chechen fighters led by Abu Omar al-Shishani, one of the leading field commanders of IG in the last two years.
Omar al-Shishani previously fought in the Chechen division in the Pankisi gorge in Georgia, from which many of the Chechen fighters moved to Syria (since 2012), to fight for the Islamic state.
The aim of the offensive of the joint forces of the Russian army and Hizbullah is the liberation of Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria, under the control of militants.
