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Russian Air Assault Kills 21 ISIS Militants in Syria

Russian Su-30 jets are parked at an airbase in Syria, on Oct. 22, 2015, as a Mi 24 helicopter gunship flies overhead. AP
Russian Su-30 jets are parked at an airbase in Syria, on Oct. 22, 2015, as a Mi 24 helicopter gunship flies overhead. AP
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Russian Air Assault Kills 21 ISIS Militants in Syria

Russian Su-30 jets are parked at an airbase in Syria, on Oct. 22, 2015, as a Mi 24 helicopter gunship flies overhead. AP
Russian Su-30 jets are parked at an airbase in Syria, on Oct. 22, 2015, as a Mi 24 helicopter gunship flies overhead. AP

A wave of Russian airstrikes killed at least 21 ISIS extremists in the Syrian desert over the past 24 hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

The 21 were killed in at least 130 airstrikes "carried out over the past 24 hours by the Russian air force targeting the ISIS group in an area on the edge of the provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Raqqa", the Observatory said.

The raids, which continued into Saturday, follow a series of ISIS attacks Friday on regime and allied forces that killed at least eight members of a pro-Damascus militia, the monitor said.

In recent months, the vast desert, know in Arabic as the Badia, has been the scene of increasingly frequent fighting between the extremists and regime forces backed by Russian air power.

The extremists continue to launch attacks, mostly in the Badia desert which stretches from the central province of Homs to the border with Iraq.

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Hezbollah Says Fired Missiles at Base Near South Israel's Ashdod

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system operates to intercept incoming projectiles, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Nahariya, Israel, November 21, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system operates to intercept incoming projectiles, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Nahariya, Israel, November 21, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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Hezbollah Says Fired Missiles at Base Near South Israel's Ashdod

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system operates to intercept incoming projectiles, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Nahariya, Israel, November 21, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system operates to intercept incoming projectiles, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Nahariya, Israel, November 21, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Hezbollah said its fighters on Thursday fired missiles at a military base near south Israel’s Ashdod, the first time it has targeted so deep inside Israel in more than a year of hostilities.

Hezbollah fighters "targeted... for the first time, the Hatzor air base" east of the southern city, around 150 kilometers from Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, "with a missile salvo," the Iran-backed group said in a statement.

A rocket fired from Lebanon killed a man and wounded two others in northern Israel on Thursday, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.
The service said paramedics found the body of the man in his 30s near a playground in the town of Nahariya, near the border with Lebanon, after a rocket attack on Thursday.
Israel meanwhile struck targets in southern Lebanon and several buildings south of Beirut, the Lebanese capital.

Israel has launched airstrikes against Lebanon after Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the day after Hamas' attack on Israel last October. A full-blown war erupted in September after nearly a year of lower-level conflict.
More than 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the country’s Health Ministry, and over 1 million people have been displaced. It is not known how many of those killed were Hezbollah fighters and how many were civilians.
On the Israeli side, Hezbollah’s aerial attacks have killed more than 70 people and driven some 60,000 from their homes.