The military base that was hit by the car bomb is considered one of the most important military centers of the Russian forces on the Syrian coast, located some 15 kilometers from Latakia.
Dozens of Russian generals at a military base near the eastern Syrian city of Latakia were killed Sunday afternoon in a deadly car bomb attack committed by two opposition factions, Ahrar al-Sham and Bayan movement, Syrian opposition groups reported on Wednesday.
According to the media office of Ahrar al-Sham, the two factions, in coordination with local jihadists who were located at the Russian military base, decided to bomb the car after they observed a gathering of senior Russian generals at the military base.
Ahrar al-Sham claims that dozens of Russian generals were killed and injured in the explosion. According to the movement, the announcement of the terror attack was delayed until Wednesday to ensure that the jihadists who committed the attack returned safely to opposition territories.
The military base that was hit by the car bomb is considered one of the most important military centers of the Russian forces on the Syrian coast, located some 15 kilometers from Latakia.
The belated announcement of the car bombing came shortly before the Syrian truce was scheduled to start on Saturday. Russia and the US have already announced that the ceasefire will not apply to ISIS and al-Nusra Front, but in light of this terror attack, Russia might demand the exclusion of Ahrar al-Sham as well.
Ouch!! This will not have been dozens of generals. Maybe dozens of soldiers. Play with fire though you are bound to get burned!
There will not be a cease-fire.
It is hard enough to have a cease-fire when they are two chains of command in a war. Yet alone a dozen or so!
Yeah…dozens must be at least 3 dozen which would be a minimum of 36 Generals, like a couple dozen would be 24 but this is DOZENS! maybe even…Fourscore!.
honeybee Said:
They are not on the same level, This is not Romeo and Juliet, this is “I am legend”.
Average IQ of Syrians is 80, of Iranians is 85… I kid you not.
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http://aranews.net/2016/02/18537/ says a dozen soldiers were killed.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-russian-generals-killed-by-massive-car-bomb-latakia-military-base-1545814 repeated the JPOST story.
“Dozens?” I’m hearing nothing about this in the Russian news, (RT, TASS, Sputnik) Even if they were trying to cover it up, you would hear something. I hear no other reports anywhere else either.
Dozens of generals is a lot of generals anywhere. I’d like to hear other sources before I believe this one.
@ Max:
A curse on both their houses. They should destroy one another and leave Israel to prosper without them.
honeybee Said:
Not so, after understanding Russia’s troubles with Islam I’m sympathetic to the Ruskies. Lesser of two evils so to speak..at least the Ruskies are humans. That’s a big plus in the Islamo-Zombie apocalypse.
AT last good news from Syria.