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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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Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 31 in Lebanon

Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli strikes, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli strikes, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
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Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 31 in Lebanon

Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli strikes, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli strikes, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)

Massive explosions lit up Lebanon’s skies with flashes of orange, sending towering plumes of smoke into the air as Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs. The blasts damaged buildings and left shattered glass and debris scattered across nearby streets. No casualties were reported after many residents fled the targeted sites.

Some of the strikes landed close to central Beirut and near Christian neighborhoods and other targets where Israel had issued evacuation warnings, including in Tyre and Nabatiyeh province. Israeli airstrikes also hit the northeast Baalbek-Hermel region without warning.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that 26 people were killed in southern Lebanon, four in the eastern Baalbek-Hermel province and one in Choueifat, a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was not subjected to evacuation warnings on Monday.

The deaths brought the total toll to 3,768 killed in Lebanon throughout 13 months of war between Israel and Hezbollah and nearly two months since Israel launched its ground invasion. Many of those killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah have been civilians, and health officials said some of the recovered bodies were so severely damaged that DNA testing would be required to confirm their identities.

Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says the war has displaced 1.2 million people.