Friday, October 02, 2015

Syrian Foreign Minister Al-Moallem Meets Iranian Counterpart, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York
2 October، 2015

New York, SANA- Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem discussed with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif the situation in the region, particularly in Syria.

The meeting came on the sidelines of the UN’s 70th General Assembly in New York.

Zarif hailed the steadfastness of the Syrian leadership and people, affirming the necessity of providing all support to enhance Syria’s steadfastness in facing the terrorist onslaught waged by regional and Western countries against Syria.

He said his country welcomes the Russian efforts in Syria, stressing that Iran will continue to support it.

For his part, Minister al-Moallem reviewed the victories achieved by the Syrian Arab Army against terrorism and expressed his confidence that Iranian’s support for Syria will contribute to defeating terrorists and put an end to the practices of countries conspiring against Syria.


Terrorist confesses to Hamas’s involvement in terror activities in Syria

2 October، 2015

Damascus, SANA – A Palestinian-Jordanian terrorist affiliated to the “Muslim Brotherhood” admitted to involvement in terror acts and training terrorists in the Palestinian refugee camps and other areas in Syria.

Bishr Yousef Ali al-Janoudi stressed that the Palestinian movement Hamas was involved in the terror activities, in confessions aired by the Syrian Television on Thursday night.

Hamas, he said, had a project to build a brotherhood base in Syria.

Al-Janoudi, born in Kuwait in 1970, said he holds a Jordanian passport and that he pledged allegiance to the “Muslim Brotherhood” in 1989, where after he travelled to Pakistan and studied at the Islamic University until 1996, before he returned to Jordan to work there at the Muslim Brotherhood center in Amman.

He added that he later worked for the “Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas”, where he came to work directly under its leader Khaled Meshaal in Jordan until Hamas’ offices were closed by the Jordanian authorities and its leadership members were sent away to Qatar.

The terrorist said in his confessions that he moved to Syria by an official within Khaled Meshaal’s personal protection team, who is named Abu Bilal Mesaad, by early 2001.

Recounting the details of his and Hamas’s involvement in the events in Syria, al-Janoudi said a secret tow–day meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood was held in a farm in Sahnaya in July 2011, which was attended by Brotherhood leaderships from the Islamic and Arab world, including Meshaal.

The meeting, he added, came out with some decisions focused on supporting that so-called “Syrian revolution” and the departure of Hamas’ leaders from Syria and opening contact channels with Sheikhs and scholars in Syria whose ideology is close to that of the Brotherhood.

Al-Janoudi said he was tasked with training Palestinians in the Syrian camps within a “fighter preparing program”. The training activities, assigned by Hamas members, started with training a Syrian from the “Free Army” and his 7-member group inside a farm in Drousha area.

Other activities followed, including qualifying and training the so-called “Al-Sahaba Battalions” in Daraya, the terrorist groups of “Ahrar al-Sham”, “Liwa al-Tawhid, “Suqour Idleb” and Failaq al-Sham” in Sarmada in the countryside of Idleb in 2012, according to al-Janoudi.

The terrorist admitted to participating in training “Shabab al-Huda Battalions” in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside, where later a “training academy” named “Aknaf Bait al-Maqdes Academy” was established.

“Fighter training” activities were also held in the southern region, particularly in Daraa province and Houran area. Courses were given to the terrorist groups of “Mashrou’ Ummah”, “Ibn Taymiyeh” and “Al-Ajnad”, said al-Janoudi, adding that groups of “Al-Ansar Battalion” positioned in Old Homs were sent to Akkar to undertake training before being brought back to the old city.

Al-Janoudi confessed that he proposed establishing a “rapid intervention group” from Hamas cadres in al-Yarmouk Camp, near Damascus, which was indeed set up, facilitating the entry of the “Free Army” into the Camp whose fighters committed looting and robbery acts.

The terrorist admitted that he led the operations of setting up fortifications and digging tunnels in eastern al-Yarmouk Camp.

Reem/H.Said


ISIS hard hit by Russian and Syrian airstrikes, more terrorists killed in various areas

2 October، 2015

Provinces, SANA – With the Russian Air Force involved in the fight against terrorism, the terrorist organizations, mainly ISIS that is being hard hit, are suffering heavy losses in personnel and equipment.

Syrian and Russian airstrikes target ISIS positions

A military source told SANA on Friday that the Russian Air Force, in cooperation with the Syrian Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS positions in various provinces.

A command headquarters and a signal center in Daret Ezza in the countryside of Aleppo were destroyed in the airstrikes, according to the source.

Airstrikes in Idleb, it said, resulted in destroying ammunition, weapons and fuel depots for a field camp and weapons and fuel depots in Maaret al-Nouman and an ammunition depot in al-Hbeit in the countryside of the province.

Dozens of vehicles and a fortified command headquarters were destroyed in Kafr Zita in the countryside of Hama province, the source added.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday in a statement published by Russia Today website that its warplanes conducted in the past 24 hours 18 airstrikes against 12 sites for terrorists in Raqq, Hama and Idleb.

The ministry said the Russian airplanes struck an ISIS training camp near Raqq city. The raids also struck an ISIS command post, a training camp and dozens of vehicles equipped with machineguns in central Hama province.

A Su-25 aircraft struck an ISIS camp in Maaret al-Numan and destroyed it completely.

Russia Today website quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov as affirming in a statement that Russian Su-34s have carried out precise strikes against targets from an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, pointing out that the on-board target navigation systems of these aircraft can allow for the strike of ground targets with absolute preciseness.

Konashenkov noted that the Russian air force aims to destroy the infrastructure of ISIS represented by the command, communications and surveillance centers, the weapons and ammunition depots, and the bomb and car bomb factories.

He reiterated affirmation that the Syrian armed forces are carrying out ground operations without participation by the Russian forces.

Konashenkov said that some international media outlets had quoted what he called “provocative untrue information about the Russian Air Force operations in Syria,” adding that some reports had been published before the Russian operations started.

The Russian President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the targets of the Russian air strikes in Syria are defined in coordination with the Syrian army, calling for ascertaining any information about the Russia Air Force’s involvement in fighting the terrorist organizations in Syria in light of the emergence of much false and fabricated information concerning this issue.

On Thursday, the Russian Air Force carried out more air strikes on 12 ISIS positions in Homs, Hama and Idleb as part of the agreement between Syria and Russia to eliminate ISIS.

Aleppo

The army’s air force destroyed two convoys of armored vehicles for terrorist organizations in Aleppo on the road between the villages of Maraset al-Khan and al-Madyouna in al-Bab area, which is a supply route for terrorists across Turkey.

The airstrikes left a number of terrorists dead or injured, mostly from Jabhat al-Nusra, in addition to destroying their vehicles, some of which equipped with heavy machineguns.

In the southeastern countryside of the province, army units killed a number of terrorists as they targeted their positions in al-Salehiyeh, Tal Naam, Treidem, Jeb al-Safa, Hweijineh, Qseir al-Ward, Kabbara, Ein al-Hanash, Tal Faour and Talet al-Shawaya, 25 km away from Aleppo city.

Terrorists’ hideouts in the eastern countryside of Aleppo were targeted, particularly in the vicinity of al-Nairab airport and in Ein al-Jamajmeh, Hmeimeh al-Saghira, Rasm al-Abboud, Deir Hafer, al-Breij, Tal Istabl, Jaboul and al-Sheikh Ahmad.

The army units defending the Air Force Academy killed a number of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their arms and vehicles as they targeted their movements and positions in the vicinity of the academy.

Army units destroyed Jabhat al-Nusra positions in several neighborhoods in Aleppo city, including in al-Ramouseh, Salah-Eddin, al-Lairamoun, Bani Zaid, Karm al-Jabal and al-Zibdiyeh, while a number of terrorists were killed and their arms were destroyed in Kafr Hamra and Jib Ghabsha to the northwest of the city.

Homs

Army units carried out accurate operations against ISIS’ dens and gatherings in Tadmour city (Palmyra) and its countryside in Homs.

The operations resulted in destroying a number of vehicles and a rocket launcher in the area surrounding Mathlath Tadmour and a den along with all terrorists inside it.

In the northern countryside, army units killed and injured all members of a terrorist group in Hwash al-Zabadi in addition to destroying a vehicle with all the terrorists inside it during army’s operations against Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations.

Quneitra

Army units, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, carried out operations against Jabhat al-Nusra positions in the northern countryside of the southern Quneitra province.

A number of terrorists were killed as their hideouts were destroyed in al-Hamediyeh and Ufania villages.

Gatherings of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were targeted in Abu Shatta village to the south of Jbata al-Khashab town, which is a main fortification for Jabhat al-Nusra.


More Russian air raids against ISIS Thursday, landing ships in Mediterranean to engage in operation

1 October، 2015

Moscow, SANA –The Russian Air Force carried out more air strikes on 12 ISIS positions in Homs, Hama and Idleb as part of the agreement between Syria and Russia to eliminate ISIS.

The Russian air operation in Syria started on Wednesday after Russia’s Federation Council gave permission to President Vladimir Putin to use Air Force against terrorists in Syria upon President Bashar al-Assad’s request.

Russia Today website quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Maj. Igor Konashenkov as saying in a statement that “a terrorist HQ and an ammunition depot were destroyed near Idleb, as were a fortified three-level command center near Hama.”

“A direct bomb hit also completely destroyed a workshop north of Homs that produced explosives and ammunition,” he added, saying that at this workshop terrorists were stuffing vehicles with explosives, which were then used to carry out terrorist attacks.

The Russian warplanes continued targeting ISIS infrastructure and carried out 8 more sorties on 5 ISIS positions, where a training camp and an ammunition depot were destroyed in Maaret al-Nouman city in Idleb.

20 air strikes targeted 8 ISIS positions in Syria on Wednesday, according to the Ministry. Those included ammunition depots and command and control centers.

The Russian Sputnik news agency also quoted Konashenkov as saying that more than 50 airplanes take part in the Russian military operation against ISIS terrorists in Syria, adding that a group of Russian marines are guarding the Hmaimim Airbase in Syria where the Russian Air Force is temporarily deployed.

“A battalion tactical group of marines is involved in securing and defending the base,” Konashenkov explained.

The Press Office of the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that “Targets selected for airstrikes by Russian aviation are strictly outside populated areas, and are based on confirmed intelligence information.”

In a relevant context, the Ministry announced that the Russian landing ships in the Mediterranean and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet forces will take part in the Russian air operation against terrorist organizations in Syria to protect the Russian military facilities in Tartous and Lattakia.

Qabas/H. Said

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