Posted on 09/08/2017 12:27:11 PM PDT by Innovative
A Russian airstrike has killed around 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Russia’s defense ministry said Friday.
The strike, carried out by Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-35 fighters, came after an intelligence report Sept. 5 showed that top Islamic State commanders were meeting at a secret underground command post in the vicinity of Deir al-Zor, the ministry said on its Facebook page.
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I wonder where they got this intel from?...........hmmmm?............
Well done, Mr. Putin.
Apparently the secret command post wasn’t so secret.
Hopefully...
Always the chiefs. Never the peons.
SIGH. This is the same Russia that told us that ISIS leader Abu Al-Baghdadi is dead.
The Russians are very insecure and like to trot out supposed successes.
Nowadays, to be an ISIS commander there are only two qualifications, to be warm and breathing.
And Obama cried...
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