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ISIS to Join Forces with US Backed Al-Nusra – Russian military
Oct 21, 2015 16:42:51   #
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ISIS to Join Forces with US Backed Al-Nusra – Russian military
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Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber © Dmitriy Vinogradov
Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber © Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday its intelligence had overheard Islamic State commanders talking to Al-Nusra Front about uniting forces against the Syrian Army.

MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group is in talks with other terrorist groups on unification against the Syrian government forces, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Wednesday.

“The communications reconnaissance data suggest that the commanders of several large units of the Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorist group have started negotiations with the Islamic State commanders on the unification of forces for containing the advancing Syrian government troops,” Konashenkov said.

It was also reported that an air strike was carried out by Russian warplanes against the site of gathering of leaders the terrorist groups operating in the area of the town of Sarmin in Syria’s Idlib province.

According to the spokesman, “on October 19, intercepted radio exchanges provided information about the planned gathering of the leaders of armed groups” operating in the area of Sarmin. Konashenkov noted that “after additional verification of this information through other channels, identifying the time and place of the meeting, a decision was made to carry out a strike on the site of gathering of terrorist leaders.”

The Russian Air Force eliminated 83 militant targets in 46 sorties in the last 24 hours, bombing terrorist groups in five Syrian provinces, destroying camps, warehouses, vehicles and workshops, the MoD’s spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said in a briefing on Wednesday.

The airstrikes hit targets of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Nusra Front in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Deir al-Zor, Hama, Idlib and Latakia.

“An airstrike by a Sukhoi Su-25SM ground-support fighter jet group eliminated a large compound of Al-Nusra Front [Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria] near the city of Khan-Shaykhun, together with all infrastructure, arms depots and vehicles,” he said.

The spokesman said that another Al-Nusra Front installation, a workshop producing radio-controlled improvised explosive devices and explosives storage site, was destroyed near the city of Aleppo......

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