Lattakia, SANA- Chief of the General Staff of the Army and Armed Forces, Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub said.. Following the Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other terrorist organizations, which have reduced the fighting capacity of the terrorists, the Syrian armed forces has kept the reins of military initiative through forming human forces equipped with arms and equipment, mainly the ‘4th Corps Storming’.
Gen. Ayoub added in a statement on Thursday.. “Today the Syrian armed forces started a wide- scale attack aiming at uprooting terrorists’ gatherings and liberating the areas and towns which have been suffering of the woes and crimes of terrorism”.
Russian Air Force started,30th September, carrying out airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria.